At the end of February 2014, a coup d’état took place in Ukraine. If you doubt what kind of event it was, you can read my article “Did a coup d’état take place at the end of February 2014 in Ukraine?”
And the present
article deals with the question - Did the West provoke this coup d’état?
At the end of February 2014, i.e. 10 years ago, Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych was unconstitutionally removed from office.
At that time, Western
politicians and Western media tried to present this ousting as a legitimate
act; see below a citation from the BBC website:
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.
Probably,
many have already forgotten that one of the main theses of Ukrainian
protest movement - the so-called Euromaidan - which had begun more than 10
years ago, was the allegation that Ukraine under Yanukovych was a colony of
Russia.
Naturally,
no evidence was given for the above-mentioned allegation, but the present article
deals with the current situation in Ukraine. That is, I
want to consider the question - Is post-Maidan Ukraine an independent country?
In this article, I would like to consider the question - How do Western politicians and Western media inform their citizens about the Ukrainian crisis?
The
examples given in this material below will have the following structure:
A
numbered statement of Western politicians and/or Western media;
My assessment of this statement;
Analysis
of this statement.
In my article “What kind of a country is modern Ukraine?” I have provided some examples that situation in the sphere of rights of ethnic minorities and in the sphere of freedom of speech in Ukraine has become worse as compared with the situation before the so-called Euromaidan.
That article has
been discussed on Internet forums and some American users have written that it does
not matter much for them what kind of a country is modern Ukraine. In their
opinion, the main thing is that Ukraine is now fighting against Russia and therefore
Western Europa and the U.S. must help Ukraine because Russia – as a variant “Russia
under V. Putin” is allegedly a threat to Western Europa and the U.S.
And in this article, I am going to consider the question: Is Russia really a threat to Western Europa or the U.S.?
There have been two main subjects in the first part of this article – freedom of speech and rights of ethnic minorities in modern Ukraine.
I would like to add some information about these rights.
