Ukraine Bomb Blasts.

I know I said I'd be taking the day off but this is going to annoy me otherwise.

Yesterday (27/4/12) four bomb blasts ripped through the city of Dnipropetrovsk in eastern Ukraine injuring 29. Along with Poland Ukraine will host the finals of the 2012 European Football Championships. Hosting a sporting of that scale always puts the host nation and it's government in the spotlight. Ukraine's recent political history has been very controversial. In 2004 the Pro-Russian elected President Viktor Yanukoyvch was ousted by Pro-western Viktor Yushchenko during the "Orange Revolution" one of many western backed colour themed revolutions that swept through eastern Europe at the time. In 2010 Viktor Yushchenko made way as Presidental candidate for another leader of the Orange Revolution Yulia Tymoshenko who was promptly defeated in the 2010 election by Viktor Yanukoyvch. Tymoshenko was then sent to prison for abusing her position while serving as the countries Prime Minister.

In the run-up to Euro2012 Tymoshenko has been a very noisy prisoner going on hunger strike and claiming to have been beaten by prisoner guards although the bruises she's shown to prove her point look more like hepatitis. She is receiving western backing in this effort most notably from Germany. Therefore it is possible that Yanukoyvch's government carried out yesterday's bombings to distract from all the publicity surrounding the Tymoshenko case. However it's equally possible the Tymoshenko's western backers carried out the bombings to smear the Yanukoyvich government. If it's the latter then I don't really know enough to point the finger at a suspect but Britain are certainly developing a reputation for this sort of thing. For them it also has the added advantage of putting pressure on Russia over Syria by making it look like Russia either carried out the bombings or supported them in order to raise the fact within Syria the Saudi Irregular Army (SIA) appear to be switching towards this type of terrorist bombing campaign.