Moscow’s Goal For Belarus: An Abkhazia ‘On Steroids’ – OpEd

Moscow is not about to try to force the integration of Belarus into the Russian Federation now, Maksim Samorukov says. To do so would mobile the protesters and provoke the West. And simply replacing Alyaksandr Lukashenka won’t guarantee Minsk’s reliability as far as the Kremlin is concerned.

Instead, the editor of...