> First there was the USA backed coup (Nuland was physically in Maidan), then the annexation of Krimea
do you know what was original reasons why a several people came out to protest in Kyiv in november 2013?
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I have heard that but i don't remember. What was it?
but this is strange ) you know that Nuland was there but you don't know what was the whole reason for maidan. and with Nuland you probably imply that US somehow paid and organized maidan.
Initial cause for people coming out to protest was that Yanukovich refused to sign preliminary agreement with the EU. this is whole story, I can't go to far here, but this was very very strange, because this meeting with EU was organized specifically for signing this document, but he suddenly refused to sign. why he did that the whole another story, which we, usual people, learned only years after
It's been years since that. I heard that in 2014... The next time i spent time about Ukraine was when i heard that USA was thinking to ban Russia from swift2. I knew that this could easily escalate to ww3, so i follow the situation as close as i can since then, since that effects us. Meanwhile i thought it was globally accepted, even from ukrainians, that the coup had the support of USA. Isn't it? As for entering the eu swamp thing, it is possible that russians put pressure on Yanukovich about that. If so, it was a mistake by russians and they shouldn't intervene on that, if you ask me. Nowdays though, Lavrov says they have no problem if Ukraine enters the eu, but there is a problem with entering NATO.