Ukraine’s Ex-President Is Convicted of Treason, as He Watches From Russia
The former president is a widely reviled figure in Ukraine for his over-the-top corruption — he lived in a palace with a private zoo — and because the police shot dozens of antigovernment demonstrators during an uprising in 2014. He has also been widely characterized in Ukraine and the West as pro-Russia — and even as a puppet of the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin.
The court’s ruling was the first to formally determine that Mr. Yanukovych was serving Russian interests while president of Ukraine.
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