Russiaprofile.org: Ukraine – the territory of anti-Russian delusions
The arrest of the former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko in Kyiv for contempt of court is sure to provoke a lot of talk both in the West and the East. The West will most likely restart the familiar tune about the “authoritarian trends” of the “pro-Russian” president Viktor Yanukovych. Russian press will continue to dwell upon the colorful personality of Yulia Tymoshenko, her Soviet youth inside the communist establishment and the currently hard human predicament. The remaining impartial Ukrainian media will entertain their readers with investigations on the subject of who was the person which made the Russian gas so costly for Ukraine. Reality, however, is more contradictory and more complicated than these three visions suggest. In order to understand the situation, one needs to shed some of the stereotypes – a thankless task in our age, when media became a subdivision of show business. Read full report here.