The Peninsula: Ukraine should be careful
After the sentencing of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to seven years in jail, the security services of the former Soviet Republic launched a new corruption probe against her yesterday. This time, the darling of Ukraine’s Orange Revolution, will be possibly charged with corruption in handling state funds when she headed the company United Energy Systems in the 1990s. The government of president President Viktor Yanukovych is likely to accuse her of embezzling $405m in cooperation with another government member while being at the helm of the firm in the post-Soviet days. Read more.