Yanukovych was not "pro-Russian".

Below is a link to a short analysis I wrote, based on five mainstream news articles contemporaneous with Viktor Yanukovych's 2010-2014 presidency, arguing that characterizing Viktor Yanukovych as "pro-Russian" is not correct.

It is a nit, but I think it is an important one because it is Mr. Yanukovych's strong commitment to geopolitical neutrality – what he called his "non-bloc" policy – that so infuriated Washington that they prevented him, with their Orange Revolution in 2004, from assuming the Ukrainian presidency the first time he won it and used vicious Banderite proxies to violently drive him out of office on Feb. 21, 2014.

Many prominent voices [as of this writing], from Seymour Hersh to Chris Hedges to Doug Macgregor refer to Mr. Yanukovych as "pro-Russian" and make no mention of his explicitly stated and firmly held non-bloc foreign policy stance.

I think this needs to be clarified once and for all because it is his staunch position of neutrality that motivated the U.S. to orchestrate the Maidan coup, enabling the Russophobic extremists who seized Ukraine's government on Feb. 22, 2014, to declare war, first on the Russian language on Feb 23, 2014, and in short order on everyone and everything Russian in Ukraine.

My piece is 821 words, virtually all of it blocks of text from the 5 articles mentioned above.

Here is the link: Non-bloc: Yanukovych was not "pro-Russian"