Moscow Hopes To Avoid Having To Save Lukashenko’s Regime, And Especially Lukashenko – OpEd

By Mark Galeotti*

From Moscow’s point of view, the only option worse than intervening in Belarus would be ‘losing’ it to the West. From beleaguered dictator Alexander Lukashenko’s perspective, that may be the only thing that saves him from his own people – but he may find a grudging Kremlin intervening to protect his...