Moscow has had little or no success in mobilizing ethnic Russians as a whole in Belarus against the current government in Minsk: the local Russian community, in almost all cases, blends easily with the Belarusian majority. But there is one group within that community with which the Russian authorities appear to have had greater success—the small neo-Cossack groups in Belarus. And this effort deserves attention because these people might well be the surrogate “little green men” Moscow would deploy if it invades Belarus as it has Ukraine—a group that the Russian government would certainly claim was indigenous to Belarus but …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation