Tweets To Be Used As Evidence In Trial Against Former Ukrainian Prime Minister
The former Ukrainian Prime Minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, has fully embraced the power of Twitter in politics – much to the chagrin the judge who is presiding over her trial for abuses of power and corruption.
Tweeting from @YuliaTymoshenko, Tymoshenko regales her 28,000+ followers with tales of the comical goings-on inside the courtroom. And, perhaps unsurprisingly, the young judge presiding over her trial isn’t happy with how she’s been describing him.
As Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty (RFERL) reports, yesterday, judge Rodion Kireyev admitted into evidence all of Tymoshenko’s tweets pertaining to the trial, claiming that they highlight her “inappropriate language with respect to the court.”
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