The District Administrative Court of Kiev has opened proceedings on the suit of the fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych, convicted of treason, said Olga Sovgirya, a representative of the parliament in the Constitutional Court.. Yanukovych filed a lawsuit against the Verkhovna Rada.

" Kiev opened proceedings on the claim of Yanukovych V. to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in a dispute over the recognition of the fact of his self-removal from the exercise of the constitutional powers of the President of Ukraine. The court appointed the hearing of the case with the summons of the parties to 16. 02. 2022 at 10:15, "

In particular, Yanukovych asks to establish the parliament's lack of competence (authority) to adopt acts of self-removal of the President of Ukraine. The address for correspondence with the plaintiff specified in the court ruling is the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don.

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In Ukraine, the fugitive ex-president is involved in a number of criminal proceedings: on the usurpation of power by amending the Constitution, on high treason and Russia's complicity in waging an aggressive war against Ukraine, on the executions of Maidan activists.

On November 17, the RRB completed a pre-trial investigation into the involvement of Yanukovych and nine high-ranking officials in the executions on Institutskaya in February 2014. As investigators found out, on February 18-20, Yanukovych called Russian President Vladimir Putin 11 times.

In January 2019, the Obolonsky District Court of Kiev sentenced him to 13 years in prison for treason. In the spring of 2020, Yanukovych was taken in absentia as a preventive measure in the case of usurpation of power - detention.

Yanukovych himself continues to hide from the investigation in Russia, the aggressor country does not extradite him to Ukraine. However, the Attorney General's Office plans to re-apply for the ex-president's extradition..