First Georgia, then Ukraine, then Belarus?

A heartening story from the Globe today: activists from Belarus, affectionately called "Europe's Last Dictatorship", have been using Ukraine's Orange Revolution to recruit interested parties for a future peaceful revolution there.

Since the fall of communism, Belarus' leaders have maintained a Soviet-style authoritarianism, ensuring that Belarussians are some of the most oppressed peoples among the undemocratic Soviet successor states.

Let's hope that the results of Ukraine's revolution emboldens Belarussians in the coming months and years to achieve what Ukrainians did so remarkably rapidly and successfully.