The bitch is back

Just a quick update on the last post about Ukrainian politician Yulia Tymoshenko. From today she is the Ukrainian prime minister designate, after the three "orange" parties finally agreed on and signed the terms to a new coalition. And she has returned back with a bang, threatening to reignite the Russo-Ukrainian gas quarrel which saw Russian cutting off gas to its neighbour at the turn of the new year. Tymoshenko, who has the rather amusing nickname of "Gas princess", was one of the most vocal critics of the agreement the Ukrainian president signed with Russian gas giant Gazprom.

Porn!

In 2005, a Russian member of parliament for the notorious far-right Liberal Democratic Party, Aleksey Mitrofanov funded the production of a porn film. That alone is quite strange - but the content of the film is even stranger. The 26 minute soft-core movie, entitled Yulia, tells the story of the ficticious love affair between Yulia Tymoshenko and Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili, who also swept to power in an anti-Russian "colour revolution". Ukrainian media responded by circulating a rumour that a gay porn film featuring look-alikes of Russia's Vladimir Putin and ex-Ukrainian PM Vitkor Yanukovych was also in production. Unfortunately it never emerged.