"Ukrainian 'bully' needs a lesson" [Winnipeg Free Press]

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http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/ukrainian-bully-needs-a-lesson-132123233.html

By: Stephen Bandera

Posted: 10/19/2011 1:00 AM

Ukrainian ‘bully’ needs a lesson

Yulia Tymoshenko’s recent conviction won’t be the first time the Ukrainian opposition leader is going behind bars.

She was first placed in pre-trial detention in 2001, charged with crimes that caused damage to the state while she headed United Energy Systems of Ukraine in the late 1990s. Those charges were dismissed several weeks later and Tymoshenko was freed.

Tymoshenko was next detained last August, when the judge presiding over the case into the natural gas deal she reached in 2009 with her Russian counterpart, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, found her in contempt of court.

Last week, Tymoshenko was found guilty in that case, sentenced to seven years and ordered to pay the equivalent of $188 million in damages.

That crime isn’t the only one Tymoshenko has been charged with since losing Ukraine’s presidency to Victor Yanukovych by three per cent in early 2010.

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