The Economist: Moscow show trials, the remake
Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko (4-L), her mother Maria (C), sister Vira (3-L), President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko (3-R) and Aydar battalion servicemen pose after a ceremony on May 25 in Kyiv.
Nearly two years of imprisonment, intermittent hunger strikes and a Russian show trial did little to dull the edge of Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko. “I want to thank those who wished me well, because I survived thanks to you,” Savchenko declared upon her return to Kyiv on May 25th. “And I want to thank those who wished me evil, because I survived in spite of you.”
