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In Iceland the former prime minister is facing trial, not for corruption, but for negligence in connection with the handling of the country's financial crisis in 2008. Geir Haarde risks being put behind bars for two years. Ironically, Iceland, like Ukraine, has set the goal to join the European Union. I wonder whether Brussels protects Haarde as well as Ukraine's Yulia Tymoshenko, since the former was the leader of the opposition - the Independence party - and the charges against him are politically motivated?
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Dear Editor,
I have been following the cases of ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and ex-Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko. I note a recent revelation that the Tymoshenko judge,Rodion Kireyev,was VERY unqualified.
Dear Editor,
Kostiantyn Yelisieiev, Ukraine’s ambassador to the European Union, wrote (‘There is no reason for alarm in Ukraine-European Union relations,’ in the March 9 edition of the Kyiv Post) that “the establishment of the Constitutional Assembly, which with the participation of leading Ukrainian and international legal experts, NGOs and different political forces is engaged in proposing new and balanced constitutional amendments.”