Is Putin tossing Yukanovich
under the Troika? Yukanovich is toxic. No deal can hold if he stays. There's lots more at the link. People are pissed and they are way out ahead of the politicians.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/22/world/europe/ukraine.html?hp
The developments cast a shadow over a hard-fought accord that mandates early presidential elections by December, a swift return to a 2004 constitution that sharply limited the president’s powers and the establishment within 10 days of a “government of national trust.” In a series of votes that followed the accord and reflected Parliament’s determination to make the settlement work, lawmakers moved to free Mr. Yanukovich’s imprisoned rival, former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, grant blanket amnesty to all antigovernment protesters and provide financial aid to the hundreds of wounded and families of the dead.
Russia’s decision to distance itself from the accord leaves in place one of the primary sources of tension driving a Ukrainian crisis that is not only a domestic political battle but a geopolitical struggle between Russia and the West. Washington and other Western capitals cheered the accord, but Moscow complained that it had been largely negotiated by the Europeans and Ukrainians, and said that agreed-to changes to Ukraine’s constitution to give more power to Parliament should first be put to a referendum.
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