Potters Bar, Ukraine’s stolen billions and the Eurovision connection A UK company helped the circle of Ukraine's disgraced ex-president profit from last year's Eurovision Song Contest, a BBC investigation has found. 2 974 0 Previously in trend: Yanukovych Family
$1.4 billion from Yanukovych’s accounts could be used in Ukraine’s budget. The Rada should get involved. Task #1 for the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and Anti-corruption Bureau at the moment is to confiscate the money and property of Yanukovych’s family and close people, as well as those of the terrorists’ allies. 118 540 71 Previously in trend: Yanukovych Family
AN INTRODUCTION TO DEMOCRACY WITH UKRAINIAN CHARACTERISTICS Borys Kolesnikov, Ukraine’s powerful Deputy Prime Minister, spent the last day of the election season, October 26, nursing a bit of hangover in his office with a pack of Marlboros and a bottomless cup of espresso. The day before, he had celebrated his 50th birthday in his home region of Donetsk, the coal-mining heartland of the ruling Party of Regions. So he did not have much energy left for campaigning when he went back to Kyiv, the capital, the next day. The press conference he was scheduled to give at the InterContinental hotel, where the Party of Regions had set up its campaign headquarters, was forced to proceed without him. The reason was the traffic, his aides explained. Kolesnikov did not feel like slogging through it to go meet the press. And besides, his party knew that these elections were a lock. 2 614 0 Previously in trend: Elections 2012 Yanukovych Family