{"id":163312,"date":"2014-02-26T07:53:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T07:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/article\/caspian-report-legitimacy-of-ukraines-new-government\/"},"modified":"2014-02-26T07:53:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T07:53:12","slug":"caspian-report-legitimacy-of-ukraines-new-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meydan.tv\/en\/article\/caspian-report-legitimacy-of-ukraines-new-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Caspian Report: Legitimacy of Ukraine&#8217;s New Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n    <iframe\ttitle=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q-FYM5QkXZ8\"\tframeborder=\"0\"\tallow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n  <\/div><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\n  It has been a very busy week for Ukraine&#8217;s Parliament. They\u00a0reinstated the 2004 constitution, which turned Ukraine back to\u00a0a parliamentary system rather than a presidential one. The parliament\u00a0also appointed a new interior minister and speaker of the parliament\u00a0(both are members of Fatherland Party led by recently\u00a0freed Yulia Tymoshenko), and is now moving to impeach\u00a0measures against former President Viktor Yanukovych. In fact, I should say\u00a0current president, because even before the impeachment process began,\u00a0the parliament dismissed Yanukovych on the grounds that he was incapable\u00a0of fulfilling his presidential duties. This is dubious, because\u00a0technically speaking such charge does not exist in Ukraine&#8217;s\u00a0constitution. I am not defending the legitimacy Yanukovych, but the\u00a0parliament simply bypassed the entire impeachment process and thus\u00a0acted against their own constitution, therefore one can argue whether\u00a0this was a coup or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was the ousting of president Yanukovych constitutional?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":6155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","infinite-scroll-item","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Caspian Report: Legitimacy of Ukraine&#039;s New Government - 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