Posted by petro on September 06, 2000 at 16:07:25:
Reading some of the comments about Kuchma and the corruption in Ukraine you have to be fair to Kuchma. If you put him in jail you would also have to put most of his cabinet, his parliment and his government in jail.
Then you'd also have to put most, if not all of the most recent millionaires in Ukraine in jail with them. You'd also have to jail several hundred thousand civil servants who are on the take. It's hard to imagine where it would all end. I don't think Kuchma is responsible for all the corruption that he inherited when he became president, but he most certainly is responsible for not putting a stop to it. Let's be fair and slap his fingers for dipping into the till and let's be rest assured that no one is going to jail, for any corruption, because no one is going to do anything about it anyway.