Russia is stoking tension with Ukraine and the EU

ALL IS DISQUIET on the Eastern front. On the border between Poland and Belarus, refugees from the Middle East are massing. They have been lured there by Alexander Lukashenko, the Kremlin-backed dictator of Belarus, with false promises of a new life in the West. On the Russian side of the Ukrainian border, it is soldiers that are gathering, in sufficient numbers to raise concern in America. And inside Russia, . The latest victim is Memorial, Russia’s most venerated human-rights organisation, set up in 1987 to document the crimes of the Soviet regime. It is now being threatened with closure.Ominous Russian troop manoeuvres have taken place before. But this time America is warning its European allies that it considers an invasion a genuine possibility. Although much is still unclear about Russia’s troop movements, many units on their way home from Belarus, which played host to in September, have set up camp near the Russian town of Yelnya, around 200km (125 miles) from Ukraine’s border.