Yanukovich has never been pro-russian. He just wasn't pro-western as ex-president Yuschenko. Yanukovich always turned to one side for getting money there and to other to get money from another place...
Well, he's pro-Russian now, isn't he?... running to Russia for help, in an attempt to restore himself to political power, after The People kicked his nasty, corrupt ass out of office.
He ran to Russia because that is the only country which will not let someone to kill him (getting him back to Ukraine now = to kill him)...
Oh, his life might very well have been in-danger had he remained in the Ukraine; I doubt that anybody is contesting that idea.
Then again, we need to ask ourselves WHY his life was in danger?
He has a long-standing criminal record and is reported to have wasted and stolen great sums of Ukrainian taxpayer money.
If true, I have no doubt that the Ukrainians (at least those who are not ethnic Russians) would have thrown him in jail, if not worse.
"...The same was done by Snowden as he knew that all other countries would give him to US..."
You need to ask yourself why most other countries would have turned Snowden over to the US, but Russia would not.
Because Russia is such a champion of freedom?
Don't make me laugh.
"...I'm in Russia now and I never met someone or never heard in mass media words that Yanukovich is good guy. He is heavily blamed and he deserves that..."
I, for one, have never said that the Russians think that Yanuk is a good guy.
"...The only things Russia does - protects his life until he would be legally judged..."
More likely, the Russians will use Yanku as a puppet, for that part of the Ukraine which they seize for themselves, or, they will use him as the excuse for a broader invasion.
"...Tell me please how would american authorities act if hundred civilians armed with stones, fire bottles and sticks went to White House shouting "Obama go away!..."
Last I looked, Obama has not stolen billions of dollars from the National Treasury for his own personal use, nor angered people sufficiently so that they took to the streets in protest, with thousands of Army and Police troops defecting to the side of the protestors. But we can certainly talk about that when such circumstances materialize.
"...All of them would be arrested or shot (which is more likely!). Why? Because they violate the law. Wasn't the same in Kiev?..."
Unfortunately, that does not explain Army and Police troops in Kiev, going over to the side of the protesters, in their thousands.
"...But all western mass media pushed on Yanukovich not to do the same and it led to revolution..."
Governments - and leaders - who have allowed corruption to become so widespread that the nation erupts in protests and riots - deserve to fall.
"...Now illegal government is ruling Ukraine and west is satisfied..."
No.
Now, a replacement government is in-place in Ukraine, setting aside the corrupt former President.
A corrupt politician who ran to the Russians, calling on them to act against his own people.
The Norwegians were once ruled by someone like that, back in the 1940s.
His name was Vidkun Quisling.
We had someone who wanted to be like that himself.
We called ours Benedict Arnold.
Jesus called his Judas.
"...Imagine the situation vice versa - Russia organised revolution and set its politicians to Rada...>
What's Rada - the
Royal
Academy of
Dramatic
Arts?
"...Corruption does exist in EU as well. There was a report regarding to this problem in Europarlament about a month ago. And what?..."
Apparently, not bad enough to make people riot and protest and overthrow their government. Wake me up when that happens in the EU, OK? Until then...
"...What do u know about Russia?..."
Enough to participate in this conversation.
"...Why do u think it is always the wrong side?..."
I don't. It usually IS on the wrong side. Not always. But usually. As it is now.
"...Russia today is not a communist USSR, people there live quite in the same way as people in US or EU. Why living under the heel of US or EU is better?..."
Because people who live in the US or the EU do not live under
anyone's heel.
But we can hardly expect understanding of such fact from those whose country spent 75 years forcing its political idealogy down the throats of its own people before the idiots in the Kremlin figured out that it wasn't going to work after all - and putting the rest of the world through 75 years of trouble before that happened.
"...Look what USA have done to people of Yugoslavia..."
No... that was the citizens of Yogoslavia themselves... reacting badly after being under the Soviet Russian heel for 40 or 50 years.
We didn't go into Iraq to make things better for them.
We went into Iraq to kill their leaders and to cut off their military balls for a generation or two so that they couldn't cause trouble for a while. And then we left.
Another Soviet puppet who hung on for longer than anyone expected and who had gone psychotic in the meantime, and whose people finally decided it was time for him to go.
"...Look how 'happy' people of Bulgaria, Romania, Greece became after 10 years of being a member of EU..."
Bulgaria and Romania have the disadvantage of having turned into shit-holes during 40-50 years of Soviet-Russian tyranny and they're still having difficulty in climbing out of the deep hole Russian dug for them.
Greece has nobody but itself to blame for its troubles, and is now paying the price, but, like most Western countries that are worth a damn, they will find their own answers soon enough, without needing Russian to invade them, to set things right.
"...Why joining EU is called integration and supposed to be free movement to wellness while joining to Eurasian union is called going under heel of Russia and is supposed to be a rebuilding of new terrible Russian Empire?..."
Maybe because nobody trusts you any more, and haven't now, for many decades?
"...For me it looks like the USA and EU are afraid of economical growth of Russia and former soviet countries..."
Except for the stranglehold you have on Natural Gas being piped to Europe, the European Union will kick your ass on the economic front any day of the week and twice on Sunday. They (and we) are far better at economics than you are. Afraid? Hardly. Although that's a rather comical thought.
"...And they do everything they can to show Russia as non-democratic country, deeply tyrannic where people are suffering every second..."
They don't, actually. Most of the time, we tend to forget that you even exist, beyond a certain soft-and-fuzzy background awareness. You aren't well-integrated with The West and you have a long way to go before you can aspire to be a Global Economy player on a scale capable of competing with The West.
"...I just don't understand why Putin is so popular in Russia?..."
The Russian peasant soul needs a strong hand... a Czar... a Commissar... a Politburo Chief... or similar authority figure?
Most of The West outgrew its need for Kings (as functioning rulers) long ago... real kings or king-like strong-men... even though a Western country now and then will 'relapse', quite noticeably... but that's largely behind us now.
You have yet to reach that level of political and social maturity.
"...Ukraine and Russia is the same country divided about 150 years ago. Only 2 western regions were not a part of Russia in 19th century and earlier..."
No. Russia has been oppressing the Tartars and other native Ukrainians for a long time - many centuries - and only annexed the region in the 1780s. That annexation and assimilation has always been a very imperfect and hostile arrangement and required constant force to keep it from unraveling; witness the deportation of 250,000 Crimean Tartars in the 1940s.
"...1/3 of population wants to go to Europe, 2/3 to Russia..."
I suggest you take a closer look at the demographics of the Ukraine.
Demographics of Ukraine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Somehow, I seriously doubt that 2/3 want to fall back under the Russian heel again.
"...What should be done?..."
Leave the Ukraine alone. They have Ukrainian problems. Those problems should be solved by Ukrainians.
"...'Selling souls'...sounds very pathetic but let's talk about wellness of civilians. What kind of Liberty would people get if go to EU and lose if go to Eurasian union?"
That is not the question.
The question is what are you doing in the Crimea, and why are you forcing your will upon the Ukrainians?
Between your large-scale thefts of farmlands and starving a million or more ethnic Ukrainians to death and your persecutions of Tartars and other ethnic Ukrainian native groups - and having spent 75 years under the Soviet heel - it comes as no surprise that most Ukrainians want nothing more to do with Russia than is absolutely necessary.
They don't like you, they're afraid of you, and they have good reason to be.
You say you're a Ukrainian.
If you are, than it is pretty damned obvious that you are an ethnic Russian, or living in a region heavily dominated by ethnic Russians, and are either a Russo-phile, or something closely akin to one.
It is entirely acceptable to demonstrate some measure of bias or prejudice or favor, towards one side or another.
But you, on the other hand, go much further than just demonstrating some measure of bias... you approach being a propaganda shill, which is a different kind of animal.
It is my hope that I am wrong in my initial assessment, but I have a sinking feeling that there is more accuracy than inaccuracy in that analysis.
