The impeachment bill was authored by Nikolay Rudkovskiy, head of the Socialist Party in Ukraine, which is part of the ruling Party of Regions coalition. Mr Yanukovych said it was a "coup."
The vote to "remove Viktor Yanukovych from the post of president of Ukraine" was passed by 328 MPs. Such ballots, passed by what is called constitutional majority, are binding and enter into force with immediate effect, the BBC's Ukraine analyst Olexiy Solohubenko reports.
Coups don't happen when the Parliament including the President's own party votes for his removal and schedules new elections in a few months. Ukraine has been notorious for corrupt elections. There was even an attempt to kill one of the candidates by poisoning him.
The US had nothing to do with his removal.
“The US had nothing to do with his removal.”
Oh, really?
George Soros’ “International Renaissance Foundation” since 1990ies :
“(its) mission is to foster an open, participatory, pluralist society based on democratic values in Ukraine. The foundation works with leading Ukrainian nongovernmental groups to engage them in developing a shared public policy agenda for the country...”
Who do you think was paying for the “protesters” to appear on the place well-armed?
Secretary of State Nulland, who met the opposition leader Klitschko in early December 2013 - an open interference of Washington in the internal affairs of Ukraine. She boasted that the US funded the same opposition with $5 billion!
She was followed by a brazen Senator John McCain a few days later, siding with the same opposition in December.
February 1st
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said: “The United States and EU stand with the people of Ukraine in that fight.”
Cut the crap. The US government had EVERYTHING to do with the violent clashes on Maidan and the violent removal of a president democratically elected in a foreign country. It is not the first time the US is meddling in the affairs of an sovereign, independent country. Just recall Yugoslavia, Serbia, Libya, Chile, etc etc ...