U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland with the US Ambassador, distributing bread on Maidan Square, Kiev, Ukraine, Dec. 11, 2013
The US puppeter Nuland with her Ukrainian puppets in December 2013 in Kiev: (L-R) Oleh Tyahnybok (leader of de neo-nazi party Svoboda), Vitaly Klitschko (the boxer who wants boxing in politics, but has some difficulties with the spoken language) and Arseniy Yatseniuk (Nuland's Yats, the banker she picked up to play the new prime-minister on strings):
No one in the Beltway gave a damn that Viktor Yanukovich was legally elected president of Ukraine, and that he had full authority to reject a dodgy deal with the EU.
Princeton's professor Stephen Cohen stressed that Nulandgate "was that high-level US officials were plotting to 'midwife' a new, anti-Russian Ukrainian government by ousting or neutralizing its democratically elected president - that is, a coup d'etat".