Via Reuters: Ukraine Supreme Court Meets on Election Crisis
Legal experts said the Supreme Court was unlikely to be able to satisfy either side in the bitter dispute over whether Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich won the Nov. 21 presidential election by fraud, as alleged by his opponent Viktor Yushchenko.[…]
The court, Ukraine’s highest legal body, consists of about 100 judges. Some 21 will sit for this case, their names kept secret until the last minute to guard against pressure on them.
About 100 judges, lawyers and reporters squeezed into a small courtroom in the center of the capital, near parliament.
Modern Ukraine does not have a tradition of an independent judiciary but Supreme Court judges have in the past been prepared to rule against the authorities.
And this is always fun:
The election has underscored the divide between western and eastern Ukraine, rooted in differences in history and language.
More of the legacy of Russian/Soviet imperialism, it would seem.
