Scenes in Belarus of protesters erecting crude barricades while fending off the attacks of heavily armored riot police have evoked memories of another uprising in the borderlands between Russia and the European Union: the 2014 Ukrainian revolution that erupted in Kyiv’s Maidan square, an uprising that drove out the country’s kleptocrat president and ushered in a new, if complicated, era in Ukraine.
Foreign Policy: Why Belarus is not Ukraine
A couple rides a scooter in front of riot police during a protest after polls closed in Belarus' presidential election, in Minsk on Aug. 9, 2020.
