Kuchma Chides Yanukovych (2004)

Today’s lions can be yesterday’s lambs.

PM Yanukovych [mumbles on]: ...renovating the production and technology base of the facilities and developing their infrastructure, revamping the means...

President Kuchma [loses patience]: Bang! Let...let me stop you right there. That’s it. For starters...we heard this...at the national security council meeting...you and I...after [the ammo depot blaze at] Artyomovsk. I just requested [this handout] — too bad it’s not available — I could’ve come forward and read it out right next to you. Why must you read out what we’ve already heard? It’s already been said! Why did you [staff] have to prepare what’s already been said?

Conversely, today’s prisoners can be yesterday’s princesses.

Take this fair lady/Gazprom partner, the one who brushed off gas supplies from places cheaper than Russia. Oh, we’re talking ‘97, not ‘09, here.


Her other partner served as Ukraine's PM at the time [1:53].


They called their party Hromada (Community), but soon went their separate ways.

She went on to become Ukraine's PM. And he went to jail. To US jail, that is. Not Gitmo, but anyway… How can you persecute opposition leaders like that?


What if he, too, wants to run for president? For US president maybe?

Can't you guys decriminalize a thing or two and give him a chance?

Sources:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUyAguCD__I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_TOX2r92N0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HaB2KWCIdo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPtSXDCPjz4
http://www.whatson-kiev.com/index.php?go=News&in=view&id=6695

Tymoshenko Gifts Gaddafi With Sabre (2008)

Freedom fighters?

Tymoshenko: I want you to be strong...and, as always...an armed person. Hahaha!

This was November '08. I was already done with Tymoshenko.

But the West wasn’t done with Gaddafi. Even John McCain, who now supports Tymoshenko, considered Gaddafi an “interesting man.”



Still, you have to admit that giving that man a sabre and wishing him to be “armed” looks a bit too intimate of Tymoshenko.

Wanna make a dictator happy? Forget the sabre. Buy him a bigger drainage pipe! (Or maybe a bigger gas pipeline?)


Hope Tymoshenko would agree.

Sources:
http://tsn.ua
http://1tv.com.ua
http://kanalukraina.tv

As Yanukovych Jails Tymoshenko for 7 Years, FEMEN Slam Both

Last October, they messed with Putin. Now they're messing with his partners.



“Switch on your mind!” “Tymoshenko and Yanukovych, same shit!”

That's all it takes for Tymoshenko fans to side with the police. The same police that used force to disperse their rally.









As Tymoshenko fans in the EU are going into police mode, Yanukovych has said that the final say rests with the Court of Appeals. Which probably means she'll let her go. Who doesn't need a safe retirement plan?

The EU will be fine with that. Who doesn't need low transit rates and stability?

But there's one problem. The Ukrainian people might feel a little different about this whole gas-stability thing.

Sources:
http://femen.livejournal.com/174237.html
http://www.pravda.com.ua/articles/2011/10/11/6654310/

Yanukovych Booed, FEMEN Chased as Stadium Reopens

I play, you pay.







If you think Ukraine’s richer Turkey, think again. We’re richer than Germany!

Olympic (Kyiv, 68,000 seats): €435M
Olympia (Berlin, 74,000 seats): €242M
Allianz Arena (Munich, 70,000 seats): €340M

That last one they built from scratch.

If you feel like scratching your head a little bit, wait until you see this.




Breathtaking, huh? That's Yanukovych’s Mezhyhirya principality.





Hey, EU, you want this *decriminalized* too? Done! Just make sure you hire Tymoshenko to negotiate your gas bills with Russia, OK?

You can then grant immunity to Yanukovych and hire him to run the ECB.

What do you say, Shakira?





Sources:
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2011/10/8/6649137/
http://blogs.pravda.com.ua/authors/larin/4e90bed263e0a/
http://femen.livejournal.com/173971.html#cutid1
http://gallery.korrespondent.net/ukraine/3400-s-neba-na-zemlyu-eksklyuzivnye-snimki-mezhigorya-s-vysoty-ptichego-poleta?img=0
http://www.pravda.com.ua/articles/2011/10/6/6645004/