Dozens of lawmakers from parliamentary blocs affiliated with Victor Pinchuk, Ihor Kolomoyskyi and Rinat Akhmetov, all influential oligarchs, left the Rada without voting. For some participants and observers, this escape from the jaws of political death was evidence of the very collusion Mr. Hours later, he comfortably survived a late-night vote of no confidence. When members of the president’s party - the Petro Poroshenko Bloc - threw their weight behind those lawmakers calling for a no-confidence vote, it appeared Mr. But even as he spoke, crowds gathered outside to demand his head.

Yanukovych and corruption, defended his record in the Rada. Yatsenyuk, an ex-lawyer and banker who shot to prominence making speeches to the Euromaidan protesters in which he inveighed against Mr. Poroshenko said the prime minister had overseen “more mistakes than achievements” and lost the support of voters and the ruling coalition. Yatsenyuk's People’s Front party is polling at 1%, and in December an opposition lawmaker picked him up during a speech and tried to carry him out of the Rada, Ukraine’s Parliament. But with the country embroiled in its worst political emergency since 2014, corruption endemic, living standards declining and the war in the east rumbling on, many in Ukraine and its Western backers fear the revolution’s legacy is being squandered.įor months, Ukraine has been stuck in a slow-moving political crisis, which accelerated into overdrive on February 16 when President Petro Poroshenko asked Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the embattled prime minister, to stand down. Two years on, the crowd has long since left the square. “Until you complete everything to the very end, to the final step, no one must leave,” she urged them, speaking from a wheelchair, frail from three years of politically-motivated imprisonment.

Yanukovych’s arch-rival, addressed over 100,000 jubilant anti-government demonstrators in Kiev’s Independence Square. I am the legally elected president.” Hours later, he tried and failed to charter a flight out of the country.Īs night drew in, Yulia Tymoshenko, hero of the 2004 Orange Revolution and Mr. Yanukovych disappeared for several hours, before reappearing in a defiant video interview to say: “I am not planning to flee the country. As protesters took over the presidential office and Parliament in Kiev, the capital, Mr. On February 22, 2014, the long-running ‘Euromaidan’ protests against Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine’s pro-Russian president, turned into revolution.

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