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Judicial Stalingrad on the Dnipro

December 5, 2005 01:29 PM

Okay. A Ukrainian court orders the country's ousted prosecutor general to be reinstated. But there's a twist: The new prosecutor general won't abandon the office. Meanwhile, in direct contravention of the laws of Ukraine, the president who fired the first PG refuses to enforce the court's decision, on grounds that it was tainted by "corruption." Question: Will either of these PGs prosecute this insoucient flouting of executive responsibility?... P.S. This is not an easy one. Ukraine's courts are notoriously corrupt and Vyatislav Piskun, the ousted PG, is an ineffectual putz who has botched the most important investigation on his docket -- the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze in 2000. But if a country's president isn't at the very least investigated for brushing aside a specific mandate from the judicial branch, there's not much sense in having a prosecutor general, no? Ukraine ain't supposed to be Belarus....

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