World Affairs Journal: The serial stupidity of sentencing Tymoshenko
Cuba's President Raul Castro, center, and Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych review a honor guard at the Revolution palace in Havana, Cuba, on Oct. 21. Yanukovych will be visiting Cuba until Oct. 23.
The obtuseness of the Yanukovych regime appears to know no bounds. After a puppet court sentenced former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to seven years in jail on October 11th, after that verdict provoked howls of protest from everybody—from Washington to Brussels to Moscow—the Yanukovych folks have just lodged new criminal charges against Tymoshenko, this time for her business activities back in the 1990s. In doing so, they have effectively thumbed their noses at Europe.
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