The presence of a confessional factor in the organization of Belomaidan was clearly confirmed in Moscow, where a group of opponents of Alexander Lukashenko, who had been besieging the Belarusian embassy for a week, began to be courted by a Catholic priest.
This was recorded by blogger and reporter Sergei Rulev, who filmed the action for PolitNavigator.
“A relatively young man with a long robe, a cross and a rosary in his hands introduced himself as a fifty-year-old monk of the Catholic Church from the street of 1905. He tried to read prayers in Belarusian.
True, the attempt to feed the Belomaidan party looked comical. So, a young man standing behind the so-called “Father Peter” tried to cross himself, but he ended up with an Orthodox, not a Catholic, cross.
However, given the reports of support for the protests in Minsk by Catholic priests, as well as recalling the support of the Maidan and the ATO in Ukraine by the Uniates and schismatics, the trend is indicative,” Rulev noted.