YULIA TYMOSHENKO, Ukraine’s former prime minister and the country’s most skilled politician, has always taken her hairstyle seriously. Her tight blond braid was a symbol of the peaceful Orange Revolution in 2004. While spending two and half years in jail during the presidency of Viktor Yanukovych, a Russian-backed kleptocrat, she let her hair down.
When she emerged from prison, following the Maidan revolution in 2014, many Ukrainians wrote her off as a spent force. But Ms Tymoshenko is back in fighting form. And on February 3rd, as she flew to Washington in an uninvited effort to meet Donald Trump, America’s new president, she restored the braid. As the first Ukrainian politician to shake Mr Trump’s hand, she hoped to be recognised from the days when she was the televised face of the country’s politics.
Ms Tymoshenko managed to corral Mr Trump during his appearance at a national prayer breakfast, where she was photographed clinging to him tightly. Her stunt infuriated Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine’s president. But it was a public-relations coup for Ms Tymoshenko’s campaign to present herself as an internationally recognised...Continue reading
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