Huge anti-Russian protests in Tbilisi echo Ukraine’s Maidan

THE ECHOES seem obvious. A Kremlin-backed oligarch grabs power and breaks off the country’s relationship with the European Union, eliciting huge protests. Masked police beat up peaceful demonstrators, bringing more people onto the street. Such were the scenes during Kyiv’s Maidan revolution in 2013-14, which overthrew that country’s president and ultimately led to a Russian invasion.