Passport checks at Belarus-Russia border

Armed Russian border guards have been deployed to the areas at the border with Belarus to examine cars and check the documents and incoming cargo. An officer told Nasha Niva newspaper reporter his force was ordere to reveal Ukrainians heading for Russia from Belarus, one of them told Nasha Niva.

There is usually no border and customs controls at the Belarus-Russia border. The border control was only enhanced by Russia before the Olympic Games in Sochi.

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