Ukraine's never been a normal country. The competing factions are less interested in policy or national identity (Russian vs Ukrainian) than protecting the interests of their dodgy business contacts, Yulia in the West, Yanukovich in the East. One guy ran on a platform of 'i'm so rich i don't need to be corrupt!' a few years ago but didn't get far. All the key politicians are enormously corrupt and the economy has stagnated as they bicker.
Yulia's billions were built on the back of (literally) stealing gas from Russia so it's always been a sensitive policy area for her, particularly when her role was negotiating treaties with companies across the border.
― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 10:42 (twelve years ago) link
;_;
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, October 11, 2011 6:28 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
She may be stylish, and I love her for that, but she's just another European far-right kleptocrat, anf the Ukraine is better off without her. Except for her prettiness/stylishness.
― trapdoor fucking spiders (dowd), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjXwlIb25O0
― buzza, Monday, 24 October 2011 01:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/10/yulia-tymoshenko.html
― foxes freud (Leee), Monday, 24 October 2011 01:26 (twelve years ago) link
British rocker and biker Sean Carr has denied reports that he plans to divorce Yevheniya Carr, the daughter of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, the Segodnya newspaper wrote on Wednesday.
"This is nonsense. We're not getting divorced," the newspaper quoted Carr as saying.
Earlier, the 1+1 TV Channel, citing its own sources, reported that the couple's marriage could fall apart.
According to the channel, Yevheniya Carr no longer lives with the 43-year-old leader of the British band Death Valley Screamers, although on Oct. 1, they were expected to mark the sixth anniversary of their marriage.
The court sentenced Tymoshenko to seven years in prison on abuse of power charges in signing a gas contract with Russia in 2009.
Sean Carr earlier came to Lukyanivska jail on a motorbike to support Tymoshenko and attended several court sessions.
― buzza, Thursday, 27 October 2011 04:17 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/BiLxA.jpg
The message is pretty stark - either free Tymoshenko or have your access to the Crocs store hampered for the forseeable future.
They have a decent little camp of 30-40 people set up on Kreschatik with lots of anti-Yanukovich propaganda but it's not going to cause anyone in government sleepless nights.
― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Friday, 28 October 2011 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
Saaaaaaay
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/files/tymoshenko_0.jpg
― Brakhage, Thursday, 2 February 2012 23:38 (twelve years ago) link
http://img.ezinemark.com/imagemanager2/files/30006024/2011/10/2011-10-12-09-55-46-6-tymoshenko-and-her-daughter-yevgenia-tymoshenko-a.jpeg
― mh, Thursday, 2 February 2012 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
Wau... Evgenia looks like nun from a Jesus Franco film
― Flag post? I hardly knew her! (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 3 February 2012 00:04 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvXGI4MXuuA
― buzza, Friday, 3 February 2012 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
I was at the same university as Yevhenia at the same time (i think) but never ran into her. Might have been interesting. Most of my friends loathed her mother with a burning passion, though.
I wonder if the camp is still going now the weather has hit -23 degrees.
― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Friday, 3 February 2012 08:48 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/world/europe/ukraines-jailed-ex-premier-tymoshenko-goes-on-hunger-strike.html?hpw
no pictures since, i guess, she's in jail still.
― j., Tuesday, 24 April 2012 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/27/ukraine-bomb-blasts-scores-injured?newsfeed=true
There's been a series of bomb blasts in Dnipropetrovsk. Difficult to know what might be behind it but i doubt it's connected to high-level politics.
― Just like you, except hot (ShariVari), Friday, 27 April 2012 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
Ending hunger strike after 19 days. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17995846
― stet, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/images/stories/large/2012/07/12/148195770-590x460.jpg
― buzza, Sunday, 15 July 2012 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.tymoshenko.ua/assets/13150/thumbs/600/061-tim_hosp-a.jpg
― buzza, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 02:58 (eleven years ago) link
Ukraine's Tymoshenko release hangs in balance
― Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 November 2013 13:59 (ten years ago) link
Freed
― Brakhage, Friday, 21 February 2014 18:44 (ten years ago) link
More context from FP along with many popups
― Brakhage, Friday, 21 February 2014 18:45 (ten years ago) link
She’s got a gun.https://www.instagram.com/p/CacS3JmgYpM/
― Madchen, Sunday, 27 February 2022 21:49 (two years ago) link