该计划是俄罗斯在西方制造分裂的更大战略的一部分，尽管与其他被归咎于克里姆林宫的近期行动相比，其手段更为隐蔽。这看似只是一起小型的破坏行为。
The scheme is part of Russia’s larger strategy for sowing discord in the West, if more subtle than other recent operations blamed on the Kremlin. It seemed a small act of vandalism.
今年八月，一名男子被监控摄像头拍到，他剪断了从白俄罗斯通往拉脱维亚的边境围栏，随后用一根杆子砸毁了另一台类似的摄像头，并逃回了他来的地方。
A man was caught on a surveillance camera in August cutting through a border fence from Belarus into Latvia, where he bashed another such camera with a pole before fleeing back to where he had come from.
拉脱维亚官员，包括外交部长贝伊巴·布拉热在内，在里加接受采访时表示，他的犯罪行为也象征着来自白俄罗斯及其紧密盟友俄罗斯的更广泛安全威胁。拉脱维亚官员称，俄罗斯和白俄罗斯的情报机构正在协助实施一个精心策划的方案，非法将来自中东和非洲的移民输送到拉脱维亚及其他北约和欧盟国家。
Yet his crime was also emblematic of a broader security threat emanating from Belarus and its close ally Russia, Latvian officials, including the foreign minister, Baiba Braže, said in interviews in Riga. The Russian and Belarusian intelligence services are facilitating an elaborate scheme to illegally funnel migrants from the Middle East and Africa across the border into Latvia and other NATO and European Union countries, Latvian officials said.
今年已有数千名移民涌向拉脱维亚，其中超过11,000人被拒之门外。对于这个人口不足两百万的波罗的海国家而言，这样的数字在几年前还闻所未闻。未知数量的人突破了该国的边境防御，在绵延的围栏上剪开缺口，最近甚至挖掘地道从围栏下方潜入。拉脱维亚官员将这种破坏描述为有针对性行动的一部分。
Thousands of migrants have streamed toward Latvia this year, and more than 11,000 were turned away, totals that were unheard-of just a few years ago in this Baltic country of less than two million people. An unknown number broke through the country’s border defenses, cutting gaps in an extensive fence and more recently burrowing under it. Latvian officials described the damage as part of a targeted campaign.
拉脱维亚官员称，犯罪团伙通过商业航班将移民诱骗至俄罗斯和白俄罗斯，然后在这些国家的支持下将他们送往边境。官员们表示，俄罗斯和白俄罗斯政府有时甚至为移民提供飞往莫斯科或明斯克的包机，并安排交通工具将他们送往与拉脱维亚、立陶宛、波兰等地接壤的森林地带边境。布拉热女士称，移民手机上的地理定位数据显示，其中一些人曾途经俄罗斯。
Criminal gangs lure immigrants to Russia and Belarus on commercial flights and then send them to the border, Latvian officials said, with the backing of those countries. Officials said that the Russian and Belarusian governments sometimes even offered chartered flights to Moscow or Minsk for migrants and then provided transport to the forested frontiers bordering Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and elsewhere. Geolocation data from the phones of immigrants showed that some had traveled through Russia, Ms. Braže said.
拉脱维亚官员称，在移民问题极具政治争议的拉脱维亚，俄罗斯的目标是在周六的议会选举前煽动紧张局势，并帮助推动更多亲俄的议员当选。
Russia’s goal in Latvia, where immigration is a contentious political issue, is to stir up tensions ahead of parliamentary elections on Saturday and to help usher in more Russia-friendly lawmakers, Latvian officials said.
“他们试图破坏现有的局势，以便让议会中那些对俄罗斯更为友好的政治人物上台。”拉脱维亚国家边防军司令贡蒂斯·普贾茨将军说道。
“They would destabilize the situation to get politicians in Parliament that are more friendly to Russia,” said Gen. Guntis Pujāts, chief of the Latvian State Border Guard.