As is so often the case in Ukrainian politics, the split on the ground in reflected and in many ways amplified by the split between Russia and the West, who each have very different ideas of who the government is.
The European Union sees the regime change as mission accomplished, and with President Yanukovych fleeing the capital, they have endorsed Oleksandr Turchinov as the “interim president.”
Russia isn’t nearly so eager to accept this, saying they aren’t comfortable with the idea that “Kalashnikov-toting people in black masks who are roaming Kiev” are the legitimate government.
Hoping to consolidate their gains, the pro-EU officials are looking to track down Yanukovych, saying they intend to charge him with “mass murder” for the deaths of protesters in Kiev. His whereabouts are unknown at the moment, but he is believed to be in the Crimea, where he has plenty of support and could potentially flee via the Russian naval base.
Why would Russia recognize a government in Kiev controlled by right-wing neo-Nazi's who ascended to power in a coup by ousting a democratically-elected leader. I don't care how incompetent or corrupt Yan was, they could've just voted him out at the polls. The reality is that none of the three stooges the EU/US wanted to control the government have any real power and will be sidelined in the days/weeks ahead. The right-wing Bandera loving fascist groups have the guns and organization so they are the ones who will remain in charge.
Fascists of western Ukraine will now be encouraged by their paymasters in Berlin, Brussels and Washington to colonize for them eastern parts of industrial Ukraine, since that was the primal fighting-prize of the whole "revolution". Maybe there will be also more lost lives of innocent people, since a thug with a gun thinks very often that he is a master. Only later he will realize that his status of a slave did not change too much.