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Rob Schmitz

At Latvia's border with Russia, the line grows long, and tempers short

Cars and trucks line up for hours at Latvia's Terehova border crossing into Russia on Aug. 3. (Rob Schmitz/NPR)

TEREHOVA, Latvia — The road carrying a mile-long stream of semi-trucks waiting to enter Russia from Latvia is lined with port-a-potties and dumpsters full of junk-food wrappers and empty caffeinated soda bottles. The wait to get through this border crossing takes around two days.

"You should have seen this line two months ago," recalls Belarusian trucker Dmitri, who sits in the cab of his truck passing the time watching Russian television. "There were more than a thousand trucks and it took at least seven days to cross into Russia."

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