"Do you support Yushchenko's various other progressive moves?"
Very little of what is packaged as "Progressive" anywhere has my support. And Stalin is being 'reincarnated' by Useful Idiots there, as practically a folk hero, statuary and all....
Hmmmmmm indeed.
Gog.
jb6 is just shilling for the crooked Ukrainian oligarchs who are beholden to the Russian mob. He defends Putin for cracking down on these gangsters and renationalizing oil assets but then turns around and calls the Ukrainians "progressive" for doing the same thing.
Ukrainian businessmen who amassed their fortunes during the reign of Leonid Kuchma and who now face the threat of re-privatization from the new Ukrainian government have launched their case in the European human rights court, trying to protect their wealth from being taken away from them.
On Tuesday, April 5, Serhiy Vlasenko, a Ukrainian lawyer who represents the interests of the Investment-Metallurgical Union consortium told a news conference that he lodged a complaint with the European court to challenge a ruling made by a Kiev court on Feb. 17 suspending the privatization of the Krivorozhstal steel mill that was begun last year. The case has become one of the most disputed of Ukraine’s post-Soviet privatizations as the government of new President Viktor Yushchenko moves to undo the deals that put state property in the hands of people close to the previous government.
Investment-Metallurgical Union which won the privatization tender last year, despite reportedly higher bid prices from Russian and U.S. steel companies, is largely owned by Viktor Pinchuk, the son-in-law of former President Leonid Kuchma, and Rinat Akhmetov, a wealthy businessman with a stronghold in the city of Donetsk.
After his election Viktor Yushchenko called the sale of Krivorozhstal a theft and said his government would return the mill to the state. A group of lawmakers backing Yushchenko challenged the sale in a Kiev court, which halted the privatization. Vlasenko said that the ruling violated his clients’ right to a fair hearing as guaranteed by European human rights laws.
“The law was breached so many times and so flagrantly during the opening of the review of the privatization that now we have no choice but to defend our rights in a totally unbiased manner by appealing to the European court,” he said, quoted by AP. Vlasenko told a news conference that he had lodged a complaint with the court in Strasbourg on March 23 and expected a decision within the next five months on whether it will accept the case.