Barely a week after prosecutors accused Tymoshenko – based, yet again, on mere hearsay – of organizing the 1996 assassination of a member of parliament, Yanukovych proclaimed: “Our goal is to ensure real economic and political independence, strengthen democracy and the rule of law, and establish Ukraine as [a] young, powerful, and modern state.” This disturbingly common disconnect between official words and deeds devalues the rule of law in the eyes of the public.
在检察官起诉季莫申科——其依据仅仅是流言——组织了1996年行刺某国会议员的行动后大约一周，亚努科维奇说：“我们的目标是确保真正的经济和政治独立、强化民主和法治，以及将乌克兰建成年轻、强大和现代的国家。”这一令人不安的说一套做一套极大地破坏了法治在公众眼中的价值。