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2010 [[Viktor Yanukovych]] and his pro-Russian "Party of Regions" won the free, fair, open and [[democracy|democratic]] presidential election certified by the [[Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe]] (OSCE).
2010 [[Viktor Yanukovych]] and his pro-Russian "Party of Regions" won the free, fair, open and [[democracy|democratic]] presidential election certified by the [[Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe]] (OSCE).
On June 23, 2011 two emissaries of the [[Obama administration]] — the head of [[Google]], [[Eric Schmidt]], and his aide, and former subordinate to Hillary Clinton in the U.S. State Department, [[Jared Cohen]] — visited [[Julian Assange]] at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, pretending to be on his side, while deceiving him to reveal to them ways to reach out online to members of Ukraine’s pro-nazi organizations in order to generate mobs for the demonstrations which were to be organized on Kiev’s Maidan Square to overthrow Ukraine’s President.<ref>https://www.transcend.org/tms/2018/06/how-and-why-the-us-government-perpetrated-the-2014-coup-in-ukraine/</ref>
On June 23, 2011 two emissaries of the [[Obama administration]] — the head of [[Google]], [[Eric Schmidt]], and his aide, and former subordinate to Hillary Clinton in the U.S. State Department, [[Jared Cohen]] — visited [[Julian Assange]] at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, pretending to be on his side, while deceiving him to reveal to them ways to reach out online to members of Ukraine’s pro-nazi organizations in order to generate mobs for the demonstrations which were to be organized on Kiev’s Maidan Square to overthrow Ukraine’s President.<ref>https://archive.fo/wip/PYiwx</ref><ref>https://www.transcend.org/tms/2018/06/how-and-why-the-us-government-perpetrated-the-2014-coup-in-ukraine/</ref>
In the same month the Obama administration quietly put out for bid to American contractors their planned project to renovate a school in [[Sevastopol]], in [[Crimea]], in Ukraine, in the location where Russia since 1783 had (and still has) its largest naval base:
In the same month the Obama administration quietly put out for bid to American contractors their planned project to renovate a school in [[Sevastopol]], in [[Crimea]], in Ukraine, in the location where Russia since 1783 had (and still has) its largest naval base:
You tell me which country in the world would allow an [[NGO]] to operate out of the US Embassy? This is disrespectful to the Ukrainian Government, and against the Ukrainian people! I thus appeal to the [[constitutional]] authorities of Ukraine with the following question: Is it conceivable that representatives of the US Embassy who organize the “TechCamp” conferences misuse their diplomatic immunity? [Someone tries to interrupt him.] A UN Resolution of 21 December 1965 regulates inadmissibility of interference in the internal “affairs of any State, and protects its independence and [[sovereignty]]." I urge that there be an official investigation into this matter."<ref>https://archive.ph/5Tbgg#selection-1917.0-1925.31</ref>}}
You tell me which country in the world would allow an [[NGO]] to operate out of the US Embassy? This is disrespectful to the Ukrainian Government, and against the Ukrainian people! I thus appeal to the [[constitutional]] authorities of Ukraine with the following question: Is it conceivable that representatives of the US Embassy who organize the “TechCamp” conferences misuse their diplomatic immunity? [Someone tries to interrupt him.] A UN Resolution of 21 December 1965 regulates inadmissibility of interference in the internal “affairs of any State, and protects its independence and [[sovereignty]]." I urge that there be an official investigation into this matter."<ref>https://archive.ph/5Tbgg#selection-1917.0-1925.31</ref>}}
November 30, 2013, protesters were ordered to leave Maidan Square.<ref>''Maidan Nezalezhnosti''</ref> In response, radicals began to throw glass, stones, pipes, bottles and burning logs at police officers and Berkut special forces. This provoked the security forces to violently disperse the protesters.
[[File:McCain Tyahnybok2.PNG|left|300px|thumb|[[John McCain]] with Oleh Tyahnybok during the Euromaidan coup.]]
In December 2013, in a speech to the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland said: “The United States has supported Ukraine’s European aspirations. … We have invested over $5 billion to assist Ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic Ukraine.” On December 14 Sen. [[John McCain]] met with fascist leader Oleh Tyahnybok and Arseniy Yatsenyuk in Kiev. <ref>https://progressivedemocrat.org/tag/oleh-tyahnybok/</ref>
People started talking about the Pravy Sector on December 1, 2013, when the radicals staged battles with the police guarding the Presidential Administration. They seized several buildings and settled on the 5th floor in the Kiev House of Trade Unions. At that time, the group was formally a hundred of the "Maidan Self-Defense".<ref>Avakov later incorporated these neo-Nazi radicals of the Maidan Self Defense team into the Ministry of Interior. https://avakov.com/biography.html</ref> Militants organized rallies outside Maidan Square. They monitored the protesters and carried out their self-protection. But the PS didn't stop there. They attacked [[law enforcement]] officers, tried to seize the parliament and government buildings, beat the security forces with truncheons, threw cobblestones, smoke bombs, [[Molotov cocktail]]s at them, set fire to buses and trucks. In the battles on the streets, extremists used catapults built like the medieval type. The terrorist frenzy caused shock and dismay even among peaceful advocates of change.
===Heavenly Hundred===
{{See also|Heavenly Hundred}}
[[File:Heavenly Hundred (2).PNG|right|350pc|thumb|Pravy Sektor snipers atop the Music Conservatory building as reported by the [[BBC]].<ref>[https://youtu.be/flztD56UcYk?list=PLKMoq61IN02VsItd-uIZKtJKrPxA4z1Q8 The "Snipers' Massacre" on the Maidan in Ukraine (2021)]. YouTube.</ref>]]
On February 16, 2014 members of parliament passed a bill toughening penalties for participation in mass [[riot]]s. After that, the Headquarters of the National Resistance (the coordination center of Euromaidan) announced a "peaceful offensive" on the parliament building. On February 17, the PS put its metropolitan and regional units on alert.
The participants of the picket led by people's deputies Oleg Lyashko, [[Andriy Parubiy]], Oleh Tyahnybok, Andriy Illienko planned to demand an urgent decision on the settlement of the conflict in the country. On the morning of February 18, several thousand activists headed from the Maidan to the parliament building, the Verkhovna Rada. But 100 meters from the parliament building, the path was blocked by trucks placed there by the police. In an effort to break through to the Verkhovna Rada, extremists of the Pravy Sector and "Maidan Self-Defense" began to throw stones and Molotov cocktails at the security forces. Cars caught fire. Police used [[tear gas]] and stun grenades to suppress the rioters. The peaceful action for stabilization in the country turned into massive bloody clashes.
In December 2013, in a speech to the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland said: “The United States has supported Ukraine’s European aspirations. … We have invested over $5 billion to assist Ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic Ukraine.” On December 14 Sen. [[John McCain]] met with fascist leader Oleh Tyahnybok and Arseniy Yatsenyuk in Kiev. <ref>https://progressivedemocrat.org/tag/oleh-tyahnybok/</ref>
Over the next day, 25 people were killed. More than 350 citizens were injured, more than 250 were hospitalized. Riots in the center of Kiev continued in the following days. In connection with the tragic events, February 20 was declared a day of mourning. However, on this day, the clashes intensified. Dozens of people were killed by Pravy Sektor snipers atop the Music Conservatory and Hotel Ukraina buildings.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKMoq61IN02VsItd-uIZKtJKrPxA4z1Q8 Maidan Massacre in Ukraine], Ivan Katchanovski. YouTube.</ref> According to official data of the Ukrainian Ministry of Health, from February 18 to February 21 2014, 77 people were killed.
On February 21, 2014, President Vikto Yanukovych signed an agreement with the leaders of the parliamentary opposition that he would not seek re-election the following February since his removal was the protesters primary demand. German Foreign Minister [[Frank-Walter Steinmeier]], Polish Foreign Minister [[Radosław Sikorski]], a head of department of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Russian observer Vladimir Lukin were witnesses. It was hoped the agreement with opposition leaders would bring ton an end the crisis situation in Ukraine.<ref>[https://www.salon.com/2014/02/25/is_the_us_backing_neo_nazis_in_ukraine_partner/ Is the US backing neo-Nazis in Ukraine?], By MAX BLUMENTHAL, FEBRUARY 25, 2014.</ref>
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]].
In the evening of the same day, on Maidan Sqaure, the radicals rejected the agreement. Threatening an armed offensive, the extremists demanded that Viktor Yanukovych leave the presidency before 10 a.m. on the morning of the 22nd. The leader of the [[neo-fascist]] [[Pravy Sektor]], [[Dmitri Yarosh]] claimed that his militants would continue the violent uprising until Yanukovych resigned.
Soon the security forces were withdrawn from the government quarter. This was taken advantage of by [[revolution]]ary militants, deciding not to wait for the expiration of their announced deadline. Neo-nazi [[activist]]s and participants of the "Maidan Self-Defense" stormed the Presidential Administration, Parliament, the Cabinet of Ministers, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. On the evening of February 21, 2022 Yanukovych, together with the heads of the Verkhovna Rada and the presidential administration – Volodymyr Rybak and Andriy Kliuyev – fled Kiev to [[Crimea]] for their own personal safety. Throughout Ukraine, massacres unfolded between supporters and opponents of the U.S.-appointed [[Maidan junta]].
In response to the armed fascist coup of a democratically elected president, Russian soldiers landed in Crimea the same month. Because many of the people living in Crimea are ethnic Russians, there was an ongoing dispute whether Crimea belongs to Ukraine or to [[Russia]].<ref>https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-warns-russia-over-military-moves-crimea</ref> On March 11, 2014, Crimea declared its independence from the illegally US-installed Ukrainian regime.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2578160/Ukraines-fugitive-president-blasts-bandit-regime-says-country-heading-civil-war.html</ref> On March 16, 2014, Russia sponsored a referendum in Crimea about joining Russia. As a result of it 95.5% of voters supported joining Russia.<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26599776</ref> The decision of the voters was ratified by the Russian Duma. Since March 18, 2014, Russia claims Crimea as a part of its territory.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/03/18/russia-moves-to-annex-crimea-laughs-at-us-sanctions/</ref> [[Afghanistan]], [[Cuba]], [[Nicaragua]], [[North Korea]], [[Russia]], [[Syria]] and [[Venezuela]] recognized Crimea as a part of Russia.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/24/world/asia/breaking-with-the-west-afghan-leader-supports-russias-annexation-of-crimea.html?ref=asia&_r=1</ref>
In response to the armed fascist coup of a democratically elected president, Russian soldiers landed in Crimea the same month. Because many of the people living in Crimea are ethnic Russians, there was an ongoing dispute whether Crimea belongs to Ukraine or to [[Russia]].<ref>https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-warns-russia-over-military-moves-crimea</ref> On March 11, 2014, Crimea declared its independence from the illegally US-installed Ukrainian regime.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2578160/Ukraines-fugitive-president-blasts-bandit-regime-says-country-heading-civil-war.html</ref> On March 16, 2014, Russia sponsored a referendum in Crimea about joining Russia. As a result of it 95.5% of voters supported joining Russia.<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26599776</ref> The decision of the voters was ratified by the Russian Duma. Since March 18, 2014, Russia claims Crimea as a part of its territory.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/03/18/russia-moves-to-annex-crimea-laughs-at-us-sanctions/</ref> [[Afghanistan]], [[Cuba]], [[Nicaragua]], [[North Korea]], [[Russia]], [[Syria]] and [[Venezuela]] recognized Crimea as a part of Russia.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/24/world/asia/breaking-with-the-west-afghan-leader-supports-russias-annexation-of-crimea.html?ref=asia&_r=1</ref>