MOSCOW, January 30 (RAPSI) – Moscow’s Dorogomilovsky District Court’s ruling declaring events occurred in Ukraine in 2014 a coup has taken effect, RIA Novosti reported Monday.

The decision taken in December has not been appealed, according to the court’s spokesperson Yevgeniya Gorokhova.

On December 27, the court held that the fact of a coup was a “commonly-known and obvious” and required no further proof. Legal significance of a coup goes outside the bounds of Ukraine and touches Russia’s security as well as civil rights and liberties, the judge noted.

As previously reported, ex-member of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) Vladimir Oleynik lodged a lawsuit with the Moscow court seeking to establish the fact of a coup in Ukraine and consequently illegitimacy of current country’s authorities.

According to the plaintiff, Yanukovych was removed from the office of president illegally.

Ex-MP believed that granting his claim may in future become precedential and prevent constitutional changes in other countries which could result in a war and violations of constitutional civil rights and liberties.

The political crisis erupted in Ukraine in late November 2013 after the government announced that it had halted the country’s association with the European Union. Protests, called Euromaidan, swept across the country and led to violent clashes between armed activists and law enforcement officers in late 2013 and early 2014.

Fighting between radical anti-government protesters and police culminated in mass riots on February 18, 2014.

On February 20, fire was opened on protestors. Over 100 people died those days on both sides, according to RIA Novosti.

Ukraine went through a regime change on February 22, when President Viktor Yanukovych fled the country and Euromaidan activists rose to power in Kiev.