Foreign Policy: Cold case
While political and physical earthquakes in the Middle East and Japan have dominated the international media, the news from Ukraine that former President Leonid Kuchma has been indicted on charges of abuse of power in connection with the murder of investigative journalist Georgy Gongadze has unleashed no-less-profound political tremors that are shaking the foundations of the Ukrainian state and could be giving dictators around the world pause for thought. After all, it's rare for former heads of state to be put on trial for crimes attributed to them during their time in office, and rarer still for them to be tried in their own country. Read the story here.