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Yulia Tymoshenko: Ukraine’s Faded Evita?

Posted October 13th, 2011 at 6:12 am (UTC+0)
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In the musical, the Evita Peron character sings to Argentines: “I will return, and I will be millions.” In Kyiv this week, Evita’s Ukrainian version, Yulia Tymoshenko, could have lamented: “I will return, and I will be thousands.” Newspaper editorial writers waxed indignant over the guilty verdict and seven year jail sentence handed down against […]

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