EuroMaidan Revolution
Alexander J. Motyl: Yanukovych invites violence

Alexander J. Motyl urges foreign countries to freeze the bank assets of President Viktor Yanukovych and his cronies.
It was all quite predictable. How could the gangster regime of an avaricious sultan not provoke an uprising by a population tired of being systematically and relentlessly plundered and abused? You don’t have to be an expert on revolutions and rebellions to know that, at some point, all decent people will say to their oppressors: enough is enough.