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===Western-backed Euromaidan regime change: 2014/2015===
===Western-backed Euromaidan regime change: 2014/2015===
''See main article: [[Euromaidan coup]]''
''See main article: [[Euromaidan coup]]''
[[File:Kiev mall in 2014.jpg|right|300px|thumb|[[Swastika]] on display in a Kyiv mall , February 2019.<ref>https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Ukraine-mall-displays-Nazi-swastika-on-staiFile:Bandera-in-ss-uniform%20(1).jpgrcase-581065</ref>]]
[[File:Kiev mall in 2014.jpg|right|300px|thumb|[[Swastika]] on display in a Kyiv mall , February 2019.<ref>https://www.timesofisrael.com/staircase-in-ukraine-mall-decorated-with-giant-swastika/</ref>]]
2010 [[Viktor Yanukovych]] and his pro-Russian "Party of Regions" won the free, fair and [[democracy|democratic]] elections certified by the [[Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe]] (OSCE). In a 2013, an [[Obama administration]]-backed [[color revolution]] was unleashed, in which the Ukrainians nationalists protested against Yanukovych and wanted a pro-[[EU]] and [[NATO]] course by the government.<ref>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/vladimir-tismaneanu/ukrainian-people-power/</ref> These protests were dubbed "[[EuroMaidan]]".<ref>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/putin-vs-pro-west-ukrainians/</ref> The key figures of the opposition were [[Victoria Nuland]], [[Yulia Tymoshenko]], [[Vitali Klitschko]] and neo-Nazi [[Oleh Tyahnybok]]. As a result, prime minister Mykola Azarov resigned<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25932352</ref> and Yanukovich was discontinued on February 22, 2014 by the parliament.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/02/22/ukrainian-protesters-claim-control-over-capital/</ref>
2010 [[Viktor Yanukovych]] and his pro-Russian "Party of Regions" won the free, fair and [[democracy|democratic]] elections certified by the [[Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe]] (OSCE). In a 2013, an [[Obama administration]]-backed [[color revolution]] was unleashed, in which the Ukrainians nationalists protested against Yanukovych and wanted a pro-[[EU]] and [[NATO]] course by the government.<ref>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/vladimir-tismaneanu/ukrainian-people-power/</ref> These protests were dubbed "[[EuroMaidan]]".<ref>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/putin-vs-pro-west-ukrainians/</ref> The key figures of the opposition were [[Victoria Nuland]], [[Yulia Tymoshenko]], [[Vitali Klitschko]] and neo-Nazi [[Oleh Tyahnybok]]. As a result, prime minister Mykola Azarov resigned<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25932352</ref> and Yanukovich was discontinued on February 22, 2014 by the parliament.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/02/22/ukrainian-protesters-claim-control-over-capital/</ref>