Anna Herman, former adviser to the president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, said that Western politicians are preparing a coup in Belarus on the model of Ukrainian Euromaidan, while former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen stated the need to weaken the "Moscow-Minsk axis". These words should be heeded, since in recent years the local opposition has been making regular attempts to organize a "color revolution" in the republic,. In Western countries, they do not hide their desire to put a more "convenient" policy at the head of Belarus than Alexander Lukashenko.

European and North American organizations are developing in the country loyal to themselves political forces, investing in support of liberal funds, NGOs, the media. However, the Russian authorities are sure that the West does not shine in Minsk, reports the "Free Press". Attempts by the US and EU to cause a split between Belarus and Russia and to drag the Belarusians to their side for political scientists have long been not news. However, in recent times the West has changed tactics. "The West pursued a policy aimed at forming a strong opposition and bringing the situation in Belarus to - conditionally - the Maidan, for very long years. But just the last few years in the West, the voices of those experts who have said that this is the wrong way are getting more and more heard, the way is deadlocked, "said Oleg Nemensky, a leading researcher at the Russian Union of Strategic Studies. At the moment, the West wants to make friends with the current leadership of the country. "In the way of cooperation, establishing a dialogue with the current Belarusian authorities, the West has finally had its first successes. And clearly, that there it was appreciated. Therefore, completely to rip off everything that has been done in recent years in this direction, no one in the West will want, "believes Nemensky. The support of the Belarusian opposition from abroad continues, because in the future the West does not mind changing the power to a more loyal one, since Lukashenka does not fulfill all the requirements set by him, "but at the moment this is an irrelevant prospect," the expert believes.. "Now the West has the main method of working with Belarus - it is the normalization of relations in order to somewhat distance Belarus from Russia already through the current official leadership of this country," the expert concludes. The preconditions for this are: the Minsk diplomats clearly state the multi-vector nature of their foreign policy. At the same time, with the help of social programs, they continue to make efforts to introduce anti-Russian sentiments into the youth environment. But even if something like Maidan happens in Minsk in the future, "it is unlikely that Belarus will become a certain anti-Russia like Ukraine," because these countries have different ideologies. "If Ukrainian nationalism is radically anti-Russian, anti-Russian. That Belarusian nationalism is rather a local concretization of Russianness, and not a rigidly anti-Russian phenomenon. So the project of turning Belarus into something like Bandera Ukraine, is a project of a hundred years ahead. And while it is too early to talk about its successful implementation, "the political scientist is convinced. In his opinion, in order to counter Western forces, the Russian Federation must actively pursue its humanitarian policy towards the Belarusian population. Member of the Board of Analytical Portal "Eurasia". Expert "Peter Petrovsky, in turn, believes that the West is not interested in a violent change of power in Belarus.

"The destabilization of the situation in Belarus will be for them (the countries of the West) to designate the elimination of the last negotiating platform not only in relation to Kiev. It must be understood that this is also a negotiation platform and a corridor of communication between the actual Brussels and Moscow. That is, their main goal is isolation, "clogging" of Russia by creating a sanitary cordon. Both economic and political isolation, "- said the political scientist.