Yulija Tymoshenko's detention continues, former Ukrainian prime minister, in prison since last October 11 for the crime of "abuse of power" for having stipulated a (disadvantageous) contract for the supply of Russian gas without the prior consent of the government, and continue calls to bring to light the seriousness of his condition.
To the denunciation of her daughter Eugenia (who accused the Ukrainian authorities of using intimidation and sleep deprivation to break her mother's will to force her to publicly ask President Viktor Yanukovych for pardon) and to the intervention of Hillary Clinton, who requested and obtained that Tymoshenko be examined by independent doctors, joins the heartfelt request of Andiy Kozhemiakin, lawyer of the former prime minister and his successor at the helm of their political formation, present in Rome for a meeting with some Italian deputies, during which he declared that his client "is sick, very bad: in prison they are slowly killing her. She hardly moves”.
Then, after the accusations against former ally Yushchenko, guilty, according to Kozhemiakin, of having betrayed not only Tymoshenko, but also his own ideals, by allying himself with his former rival, the pro-Russian Yanukovych, to carve up Ukraine and sell it off to the oligarchs, the lawyer colored his denunciation of a disquieting hue, a painful echo of the past, stating: "We say that when the person disappears, the problems associated with him also disappear".
It says why Trotsky said it, “no man, no problem”, and then Stalin, who appropriated the maxim of his enemy (the same enemy he tried in every way to annihilate, until he had him killed, in exile, in Mexico City, and whose whole family he exterminated) then trying to implement it with particular stubbornness during the thirty years of his regime.
And this monstrous sentence is not the only autocratic echo of this story, of the long shadow of a father from whom what remains of the Soviet Union seems to have never been able to get rid of completely and of his legacy which unfolds in the retreat democracy of Ukraine, less than ten years after that orange revolution (of which Tymoshenko was the banner) which had colored the country against the corruption of power, promising a different tomorrow, and in the systematic return of the political process (in addition to Tymoshenko, former Interior Minister Yuri Lutsenko and former Defense Minister Valery Ivashchenko also ended up in jail), founded on a crime, the "abuse of power", which dates back to Stalin's times and which was used as a tool to get rid of the most uncomfortable opponents.
