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President of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014
Major claims that the United States “orchestrated” a 2014 coup in Ukraine rest largely on two strands of evidence cited by proponents: public U.S. diplomacy and assistance (notably Victoria Nuland’s c...
The Donbas is a historical, industrial region made of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts that has lain predominantly within Ukraine since 1991 but has been the focal point of armed conflict and partial Russi...
Paul Manafort’s years-long consulting for pro‑Russian Ukrainian political interests shaped both the vulnerabilities he brought to the 2016 Trump campaign and the legal and intelligence scrutiny that f...
Claims that Euromaidan (Nov 2013–Feb 2014) was a right‑wing, Western‑engineered coup are widespread in Russian and pro‑Kremlin outlets, but mainstream Western histories and fact‑checking organizations...
Expert analyses mostly reject the simple claim that the U.S. “planned or directed” a coup in Ukraine in 2014, describing instead a complex mix of large grassroots protests, Western diplomatic engageme...
Scholars and international bodies agree the Maidan protests were overwhelmingly a large domestic popular movement that toppled Viktor Yanukovych, with millions participating and state violence radical...
Tensions between Russia and Ukraine before 2014 grew from two intertwined strands: Ukraine’s post‑Soviet pivot toward Europe and recurrent Russian interventions to defend its strategic and cultural in...
Russia formally incorporated Crimea on 18 March 2014 after a fast-moving sequence of events that began with Ukraine’s Euromaidan protests and the flight of President Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014...
Paul Manafort served as a senior official in the 2016 Trump campaign, rising to campaign chairman and handling convention operations, but his prior work for pro-Russian Ukrainian interests and later c...