...it wasn't a coup. If anything it makes the case for it even more. If he was leaving on his own accord....it would have took longer as he still left a lot of stuff behind....and I like how you missed this little gem:
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including, apparently, a large number of secret documents thrown into a lake)."
If you got a bunch of documents (and from I read from other articles, even more were found that didn't get completely burned, and plenty more still found in the file cabinets) that can incriminate you...you don't just dump them into the lake and you make damn sure they burn up well.
Shoot even the first line of that article says he fled. Fled from what? You said it yourself "Yes, Viktor Yanukovych spent three days packing up his goods, right at the very height of Maidan."
He left...the police switch sides. How perfectly opportune. Three days is not enough time to pack up a mansion and destroy evidence. Its just enough time pack up your most valuables (as you are seriously going to be without an income soon), because perhaps someone told him his protection was going to go bye bye on a certain date.
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