Current events in Belarus could be leading to an outcome similar to that of the 2018 Velvet Revolution in Armenia rather than the 2013-14 Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine. However, the pathological relationship of Moscow’s imperialism towards Russia’s Eastern Slavic “brother nations” may mean that the future of Belarus will be more similar to Ukraine than Armenia.
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Andreas Umland: Which way will post-Lukashenko Belarus go?
A Belarusian tech entrepreneur George Kachanouski attends a rally against a self-proclaimed Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk on Aug. 24, 2020. Despite stressing out about the current political situation in Belarus, Kachanouski decided to stay because he wants to topple the regime of Lukashenko.