Paul Goble: Kirillova says Moscow-created ‘illusory Maidan’ in Minsk to set stage for Russian intervention
Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) and his Belarus' counterpart Alexander Lukashenko walk as they attend a session of the Supreme State Council of the Union State at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 3, 2015.
Russia is currently seeking to raise the prospect of an "illusory" Maidan in Belarus to set the stage for Russia to intervene militarily in that country, depose Alyaksandr Lukashenka and install as Belarusian president a more pliant figure who would eventually agree to the absorption of Belarus by Russia, according to Kseniya Kirillova.
