Did Ms. Tymoshenko sign a bad deal for corrupt reasons in 2009? I've no idea. If she were given a genuine trial by an independent court we might find out, but from the charade that convicted her we found out only that there's nothing worse than politics dressing twitchy officials in robes to masquerade as justice. Ms. Tymoshenko claims to be sick, mistreated and on a hunger strike. The media are paying attention. Ukraine's government isn’t helping its own cause by having a representative hint, as Deputy Prime Minister Valery Khoroshkovsky did in Brussels this week, that it may pass special legislation to release Ms. Tymoshenko if the European Union plays ball with Ukraine in other trade negotiations.
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