Yanukovych has fallen!

Late last year I wrote about the protests that were happening in Kiev's Maidan Square when they were in their infancy, I fully supported the will of the Ukrainian people in having their country's fortunes united with that of the European Union, given that being a client and puppet State to Russia had brought them nothing but misery and oligarchic corruption. Well, today it's my pleasure to announce that dictator-lite and Putin wannabe, Viktor Yanukovych has lost control of all state organs, the parliament has decided to vote him out, and the police and the interior ministry have now joined the people, it looks as if his tenure of terror is over.

The seed were planted yesterday when under pressure from the French, German and Polish foreign ministers, Yanukovych agreed to a pact with the opposition led by Vitaly Klitscko, that the country will revert to the 2004 constitution that curbed the power of the presidency exponentially, to call early elections in December of this year and stop the police violence. The pact was signed, and I am sure to him it looked like he had saved his neck as he announced that he would run for the presidency, again. The people were not appeased and they remained in the streets. Soon enough his rule began to collapse and parliament enacted the moves I wrote about above. 

Yanukovych, of course, ran back to the Russian speaking Kharkhiv Province where he is the most supported and they are now talking secession. the Ukrainian parliament did not stop there as they announced that the elections would take place in May and they freed Yulia Tymoshenko, Yanukovych's most potent political opponent who swiftly announced her candidacy to the presidency. The protesters stormed the grounds of the opulent if not downright dowdy presidential palace, watched over by the guards who were attacking them days earlier. Yanukovych had truly fallen.

Ukrainians have decided they are sick of being a client state to a self serving Russia and its president Putin. They have decided to throw their lot in with the European Union in their quest for a better life and stability. Results have began to show themselves as they British Pime Minister called for the IMF to bail them out of a fast approaching default. Hopefully this will set Ukraine to the path of a stronger democracy and a stability that has long eluded them. Congratulations to the people in Maidan, you have truly taken back your country!