Ukraine protesters nominate leader
Ukraine protesters nominate leader
Supporters cheer a candidate for Ukraine’s new prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Wednesday in Kyiv’s Independence Square.
Posted: Thursday, February 27, 2014 12:00 am
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KYIV, Ukraine — Leaders of Ukraine’s protest movement on Wednesday proposed a top legislator as the country’s next prime minister, while Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered major military exercises just across the border in a show of force and apparent displeasure over the country’s new direction.
The new government, which is expected to be formally approved by parliament Thursday, will face the hugely complicated task of restoring stability in a country that is deeply divided politically and on the verge of financial collapse. The country’s pro- Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych, fled the capital over the weekend.
At Kyiv’s Independence Square, the heart of the protest movement against Yanukovych, the interim leaders who seized control after he fled proposed Arseniy Yatsenyuk as the new prime minister.
Yatsenyuk, 39, is a millionaire former banker who served as economy minister, foreign minister and parliamentary speaker before Yanukovych took office in 2010. Widely viewed as a technocratic reformer, he appears to enjoy the support of the U.S.
The top U.S. diplomat for Europe, Victoria Nuland, was overheard discussing Yatsenyuk and other opposition figures in a bugged phone call that was leaked, saying “I think Yats is the guy who’s got the economic experience, the governing experience.”
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