Ex-Ukraine PM to Go on Trial for Abuse of Power

[steven johnson]

Source: Reuters

KIEV (Reuters) - Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko must stand trial next Wednesday on a charge of abuse of power, a judge ruled in a pre-trial hearing late on Saturday.

The charge carries a jail term of at least seven years.

Judge Rodion Kyriyev threw out objections by Tymoshenko and her defence that the charge against her was politically motivated and that President Viktor Yanukovich was behind it.

Earlier, the 50-year-old political firebrand had continued to argue that the accusation against her, which relates to the signing of a 2009 gas deal with Russia when she was in power, was part of a wider political plot.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2011/06/25/world/europe/international-us-ukraine-tymoshenko.html?ref=reuters

[aikoaiko]

1. What is beautiful is not always good.

[ImNotTed]

2. This is Soviet

She lost the presidential election to Putin's boy Yanukovich, and now it's time to show Ukraine that the Orange Revolution is D-E-A-D.

[Rosa Menti]

4. The Soviets you speak of

are buried in history. This is simple power politics and the lady doth protest much...do bad, get screwed by those who oppose you. Classic politics.

[Odin2005]

3. Russia is trying to turn Ukraine back into a satellite state,

[provis99]

5. She's a crook, and so is Yanukovich.

Heck, probably all Ukrainian politicians are crooks.
Democracy isn't appropriate for everybody.