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Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych [b] (born 9 July 1950) is a former Ukrainian politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014. [4] He also served as the prime minister of Ukraine several times between 2002 and 2007 and was a member of the Verkhovna Rada from 2006 to 2010.
After voting to remove Yanukovych, the Verkhovna Rada appointed Arseniy Yatsenyuk as Prime Minister of Ukraine. He stated: [13] The first basic commitment was the return to the 2004 Constitution. However, the next day, Viktor Yanukovych publicly refused to sign the bill and walked away from the Agreement.
These led to the removal of President Viktor Yanukovych and his government by the parliament in February, as part of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, during which Yanukovych fled the country to Russia. [10] [35] On 22 February 2014, the Verkhovna Rada voted 328–0 [36] to dismiss Yanukovych as president. [37]
Overthrow of Viktor Yanukovych may refer to: 2014 Ukrainian revolution, where president Viktor Yanukovych was ousted; Orange Revolution of 2004–2005, where president-elect Viktor Yanukovych's electoral victory was nullified
A popular uprising in early 2014 against pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych forced him to flee to Russia by helicopter. He was from Donetsk province and popular in the area.
Yanukovych won [82] the 2010 presidential election with strong support from voters in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and southern and eastern Ukraine. The Crimean autonomous government strongly supported Yanukovych and condemned the protests, saying they were "threatening political stability in the country".
Yanukovych accepted "bail-out" money—$2 billion out of a $15 billion package—from Russia. [85] Russian officials had been pressuring the Ukrainian administration to take decisive action to crush the protests, and the police assault on Euromaidan protesters was ordered hours after the $2 billion from Russia was transferred.
The following day, Yanukovych resurfaced in Russia and in a press conference, declared that he remained the acting president of Ukraine, just as Russia was commencing a military campaign in Crimea. Leaders of Russian-speaking eastern regions of Ukraine declared continuing loyalty to Yanukovych, [ 31 ] [ 38 ] triggering the 2014 pro-Russian ...