Belarus, Crimea and the Donbas: Belarusian attitudes to the post-maidan events in Ukraine
Journal: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe
Year: 2020

This essay discusses the attitudes in Belarus towards the incorporation of Crimea into the Russian Federation and the war in the Donbas region. In general, Belarusian authorities refused to recognize Crimea as a part of Russia, and continue to consider this peninsula to be de jure a part of Ukraine. The war in the Donbas is seen more as a civil war than as a “Russian aggression” although the involvement of Russia is not denied. At the same time, the general public in Belarus justifies the incorp