Yanukovych in a sentence

Much of it is banal, in the way that Yanukovych himself was banal: Notwithstanding his cosmetic makeover by Manafort, Yanukovych remained unapologetically a gangster.

Over the months, the protests swelled to represent over Yanukovych’s policies, widespread government corruption, and police brutality — as well as the movement’s pro-democracy, Europe-leaning dreams.

Yanukovych was corrupt, despotic and beholden to Moscow.

Of course, I do not know who if anyone was behind the overthrow of Yanukovych.

She was well-known even before the war as her oppositional journalism found her under threat of imprisonment by the old hardline regime of Viktor Yanukovych, deposed in the 2014 Maidan Revolution.

From his inauguration until the Maidan Revolution in 2014 that pressured him to leave, Yanukovych and his “family” embezzled and stole an estimated $160 billion from Ukraine.

For Mr. Craig and his law firm — Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom — getting too close to Mr. Yanukovych’s corrupt and increasingly authoritarian government posed perils, chiefly the prospect of tainting its prestigious white-shoe law practice.

However, Yushchenko’s efforts were frustrated by political infighting among his former backers and a constitutional reduction in presidential power that he had conceded in negotiations with Yanukovych’s supporters.

In 2016, Leshchenko had helped expose the “black ledger,” an accounting book of hundreds of pages found in Yanukovych’s former party headquarters.

Prosecutors are said to be investigating, in particular, his links to the former Russian intelligence operative Konstantin Kilimnik, the Russian-Ukrainian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, and the former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych.

Pyatt specifically lambasted Shokin’s office for subverting a British case against a man named Mykola Zlochevsky, Yanukovych’s former ecology minister.

She describes how Putin was outraged by American support for the ouster of the corrupt and pro-Russian Ukrainian leader, Viktor Yanukovych, which happened in the midst of his triumphant Sochi Olympics.

That August, a Ukrainian law-enforcement unit released records showing that Manafort had received $12.7 million in payments from the Yanukovych regime, and he resigned from the campaign.

The following February, Yanukovych was ousted in Ukraine’s pro-Western Revolution of Dignity.

The Justice Department’s inquiry concerned a 2012 report that Mr. Craig and his law firm — Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom — performed for the Ukrainian government, then led by Viktor F. Yanukovych.

The natural gas company in question was owned by an ally of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who was aligned with Russian President Vladimir Putin before being forced from office in 2014.

Zlochevsky had been Ukraine’s ecology minister under former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, a pro-Russian leader who had been forced into exile in Russia.

A former lawyer at the prominent firm Skadden Arps, Van der Zwaan worked on a 2012 report commissioned by Manafort to defend former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych from international criticism.

However, during the Eurovision Song contest Fineroad Business was in control of Iashar Khodzhaiev, who is allegedly linked to the Yanukovych family.

In other words, the Obama White House was apparently pleased that Yanukovych’s government supported a closer relationship with Russia as well.