Outside of Viktor Yanukovich and his cronies, few people are pleased with the fact that Yulia Tymoshenko is supposed to spend 7 years in prison for corruption and defrauding the Ukrainian people. As I have said many times in the past, there is little doubt that Yulia Tymoshenko is in fact a corrupt bitch that deserves jail time, but having Viktor Yanukovich claim she is corrupt while he is squeaky clean is absurd. Viktor Yanukovich and his master Rinat Akhmetov are not just corrupt, they put African warlords to shame.

FEMEN recently protested Yulia Tymoshenko’s conviction on top of the Kiev’s largest mall. While this did little to help Tymoshenko, they made their point known. However, their recent protest (if you would call it that) is far more entertaining.

A single FEMEN activist took to the metro tunnels of Kiev with a sign in hand, "Give for Ukraine". The girl was collecting money to help pay Tymoshenko’s court debt, a mere half billion griven (roughly $70,000,000). That is chump change to Tymoshenko and her crew, and not even a drop in the bucket for Yanukovich and Akhmetov. The real joke is that while for the Ukrainian oligarchs, such a sum isn’t too extraordinary, I highly doubt that if the middle and lower classes of Ukraine gave away all their money, they still wouldn’t have enough to bail out Tymoshenko. While Americans scream about the distribution of wealth within the states, they should look at the distribution of wealth in 3rd world countries … that would just blow their mind. These are places where revolutions aren’t just ready, they are necessary.

But I digress … the protest in question isn’t just entertaining, it is shear comedy. I can imagine the reactions FEMEN received from unsuspecting citizens trying to catch their train. None the less, here are some choice shots of the event, all taken from FEMEN’s livejournal site.



