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Euromaidan 2014 overthrew a democratically elected president.

• throwaway894345 4y ago
  It's not clear that he was "democratically elected"--there were many allegations of election fraud and voter intimidation. Moreover, he wasn't "overthrown", parliament voted to remove him (because he ordered the police to shoot protesters en masse). The courts also convicted him of treason, and he was even disavowed by his own party.
  • ailef 4y ago
    Allegations? I thought one had to provide evidence in order to invalidate election results. It's funny how allegations are enough when it's useful to one's own side, but hard evidence is needed for the rest. > "Yesterday's vote was an impressive display of democratic elections," said João Soares, the president of the OSCE's Parliamentary Assembly and Special Coordinator for OSCE short- term observers. It seems election were pretty democratic unless you can provide some evidence to the contrary. Also, parliament voted his removal without reaching the needed majority, according to Ukraine's own constitution, so the removal itself was unconstitutional.
• adventured 4y ago
  If that had been a democratically elected regime, Ukraine wouldn't be making the stand it is today vs Russia. Ukraine would have immediately folded under popular domestic pressure to give in to / join up with Russia.
  • ailef 4y ago
    The elections have been internationally recognized as democratic. Please refer to the quote from the head of the OSCE observers mission I just posted in the parent thread. That's the only thing that counts, not your assumption on how Ukraine would behave, especially 12 years after said elections.