Ukraine

Must-Reads from Around the World, June 8, 2012

Internal Democracy — The South China Morning Post reports that senior members of the Communist Party held an internal poll in May to select their favored top leaders for the party’s 25-member Politburo and the Politburo Standing Committee, its inner-most cabinet, for the next 10 years. It writes: “If this experiment goes well and …

Court Convicts Ukraine’s Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko

The judge read out the guilty verdict, and Yulia Tymoshenko’s supporters shouted “Shame!”

This afternoon a court ruled that Tymoshenko, Ukraine’s former Prime Minister, had acted against the national interest when she signed a natural gas deal with Russia in 2009, leading to $190 million in damages to Ukraine’s state-run …

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