In the summer of 2012, the author traveled to the Ukraine, driven by serious doubts about the representation of Tymoshenko spread by politicians and the media. Her image is flawless and free of criticism and opposition. And: While hardly a week goes by without news from the PR department of the ex-Prime Minister, there is no objective, comprehensive examination of the events surrounding this person and her Vita.
Interviews and field observations show that there are links between private and international interests: Western Europe, meaning the EU used Tymoshenko to keep the Ukraine at bay – and the oligarch exploits the West to gain her freedom and continue to make money.
Circa l’autore
Frank Schumann, born in 1951, son of a pastor. After graduating from high school in Torgau, Saxony he worked in a glass factory, and went to sea for three years, then studied journalism at the University of Leipzig. From 1978 to 1991 employed by a daily newspaper. In 1991 he founded the publishing company edition ost, since then he works as publicist, publisher and ghostwriter. Margot Honecker granted him, as first and only German journalist, a 40-hour interview in Chile. With the ‘Last Notes. For Margot’ and ‘The private life of Honecker’ he had two top ten titles in 2012, this year he was successful with his book on Schalck-Golodkowski ‘The man who wanted to save the GDR’.