ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to project the Euromaidan leadership as being legitimate political actors based upon a subjective evaluation of their techniques used, the success of the seizure of political power and their alleged representativeness among the Ukrainian people. It seeks to explore the manner in which knowledge was manufactured by the international media on Euromaidan in order to provide support for the insurgency that saw the successful overthrow of the democratically elected, but highly corrupt, President Viktor Yanukovich. The chapter aims to investigate how an actor rhetorically explains, justifies and attempts to legitimise regime change when this very action may contravene their own expressed values and norms by doing so. It covers the initial period of regime change that occurred in Ukraine from the opening of the Euromaidan protests until the opening of the so-called Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) that marked the beginning of open warfare in the east of the country.
