Ukraine’s parliament just threw President Yanukovych under the bus. That’s great news.

WaPo ^ | February 20 at 5:41 pm | Max Fisher

[KOZ.]

Late Thursday, Ukraine's parliament voted to approve a resolution that calls for the country's security services to pull back and end their crackdown on ongoing protests. The resolution states an end to the "anti-terrorist" operation against protesters and orders a release of all imprisoned protesters, as well as similar measures.

The degree to which Ukraine's security services do or do not obey this resolution is not actually the most important thing here. What makes this a really big deal is that the parliament is actually as well as symbolically undermining President Viktor Yanukovych – challenging both his handling of the protests as well as the president himself. It's a very significantly symbolic blow to Yanukovych's legitimacy.

[GeronL]

if that isn’t too late

[cherokee1]

He did get elected-—by lying thru his teeth not unlike our own Kenyan. He professed support for the EU and then double crossed the folks by swinging back to Putin, not to mention jailing his opposition. That kind of “election” , along with ordering killing protesters just might result in summary trial and hanging.

[Eagles6]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NbhNBBS85mc

For what it's worth...