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After the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, Viktor Yanukovych abandoned the office and fled the country. He was subsequently impeached and temporarily replaced by Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Turchynov; the chairman serves as acting president when the office is vacant.
Viktor Yushchenko, Petro Poroshenko, and Viktor Yanukovych served one term, with the latter being replaced by acting president Oleksandr Turchynov, who then also served as Chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament, on 21 February 2014. [4] Oleksandr Turchynov was the only acting president in Ukraine's modern history. The powers of an acting ...
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]
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.
Euromaidan leaders Vitali Klitschko, Petro Poroshenko (second left) and Arseniy Yatsenyuk (right) with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, 30 January 2014. The Yatsenyuk government took office in the wake of the anti-government Euromaidan protests that began in 2013 and culminated in the 22 February 2014 dismissal of President Viktor Yanukovych. [4]
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
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.
[12] [13] Meanwhile, his rival, Yanukovych, frequently appeared in the news and even accused Yushchenko, whose father was a Red Army soldier imprisoned at Auschwitz, of being "a Nazi," [14] [15] even though Yushchenko actively reached out to the Jewish community in Ukraine and his mother is said to have risked her life by hiding three Jewish ...