The Art of Politics
Journal: Oxford University Press eBooks
Year: 2023

Abstract The chapter explains the 2013 Euromaidan mass mobilization and assesses the resulting, important changes in Ukrainian politics and society. It also examines Zelensky's relationship to oligarchs and political life more generally. Yanukovych sparked the Euromaidan by moving Ukraine away from Europe, toward Russia. By violently attacking the protesters, he turned even more of the country against him, resulting in his February 2014 ouster and the election of a new president, Petro Poroshenk