Yanukovych, ideas and secrets of the president that Putin wants in place of Zelensky in Ukraine
Russia intends to appoint Viktor Yanukovych as the new president of Ukraine, in place of Zelensky. Yanukovych has already been president in the past, as well as prime minister. All the details
According to the Ukrainian newspaper Ukraïns'ka pravda , which reports Ukrainian intelligence as a source, Russia intends to appoint Viktor Yanukovych as the new president of Ukraine. It is a position that Yanukovych, authoritarian and close to Moscow, has already held: he was president from 2010 to 2014, the year in which he was overthrown by the popular protests that began in November 2013, triggered by his decision to abandon an agreement with the European Union .
For having ordered the violent repression of those protests, two years ago Yanukovych was sentenced by a Ukrainian court to thirteen years in prison on charges of high treason.
THE PLAN (AND THE LIES) OF PUTIN
Yanukovych – in exile in Russia since his expulsion from Ukraine – would now be in Minsk, Belarus. Vladimir Putin's plans would include his appointment as the new president of Ukraine in place of Volodymyr Zelensky, regularly elected and in office since 2019.
Putin argues that Ukraine is ruled by a neo-Nazi junta and has justified the invasion with the "denazification" of the country. This is false because – as the researcher Luca Lovisolo explains well – “there are no neo-Nazis or neo-fascists in parliament” in Kiev. "There are groups of left and right extremists, as there are in Italy, Germany, even Switzerland, but in Ukraine there is no Nazi regime".
WHO IS VIKTOR YANUKOVYCH
As you can read from the profile that the BBC dedicated to him in 2014, Viktor Yanukovych was born in 1950 in Jenakijeve (in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine): his father was a metalworker, his mother a nurse. In his youth he was jailed twice for violent crimes.
He was a long-time transport manager for the coal mining industry in eastern Ukraine (then the territory of the Soviet Union). His political career began in 1996 with his entry into the political administration of the Donetsk region; not even a year later did he become governor. In 2002 he was appointed prime minister of Ukraine by the then president Leonid Kuchma: he held the role until 2004, leading a government accused of corruption and mismanagement of the economy.
He participated in the presidential elections of 2004 but – following large popular protests, known as the "Orange Revolution" – the trial was found to be illegitimate, the election invalidated and the reputation of Yanukovych, the main target of the demonstrators, was compromised.
However, he remained in politics, in the opposition, and was able to exploit to his advantage the contrasts between the government forces (the groupings of Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko). He returned to the post of prime minister for a second term, in 2006-2007. He participated in the presidential elections of 2010, which he won, beating Tymoshenko.
RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA
Yanukovych's supporters – writes the BBC – were mainly concentrated in the Russian-speaking regions of eastern and southern Ukraine. He himself was strongly supported by Russian President Vladimir Putin, including in the 2004 election campaign.
Although he tried not to appear, in public, as "the man from Moscow", his decision to renounce the agreement with the European Union was the result of Russian pressure, which did not want to lose their economic and political influence on the 'Ukraine.
LIFESTYLE
As we read on SicurezzaInternazionale , the portal of the LUISS university, “the lifestyle led by Yanukovych cannot be compared with that of any other Ukrainian president. Over the years, the man spent much of his time on an opulent estate, commonly called Mezhyhirya, after his location, about 25 kilometers north of Kiev. Spread over 140 hectares of landscaped gardens with artificial lakes, the property was very luxurious, featuring spas, gyms, a tennis court, a golf course, among other things ”.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/yanukovych-ucraina-chi-e/ on Sun, 06 Mar 2022 07:04:05 +0000.