Today's Verkhovna Rada session reminds opposition leader of 1991 Soviet coup attempt
KYIV. April 4 (Interfax) - The leader of the opposition Batkivshchyna faction, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, has drawn parallels between the decision to hold today's parliamentary session outside the Verkhovna Rada building and the Soviet coup d'etat attempt of 1991.
"What happened today stands just like the 1990s GKChP [State Committee on the State of Emergencies] before my eyes. The organizer of these things is evident. The organizer is the president [Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych] and the perpetrator is Rybak [Ukrainian Parliament Speaker Volodymyr Rybak]," Yatsenyuk told journalists in Kyiv on Thursday.
"What Rybak did was not his personal initiative. It was a direct order from President Yanukovych," he said.
Yatsenyuk said earlier that the opposition could ask Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka to open a criminal inquiry into a constitutional coup attempt.
Any decision to be adopted outside the parliamentary building "will be treated as a constitutional coup attempt," he said.
