Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko speaks during a news conference after a meeting with EU top official in Kiev Apr. 27. Gleb Garanich / Reuters
Moscow Times/Reuters: Russia Seizes Ukrainian President Poroshenko's Candy Factory
KIEV — Russian authorities have seized the assets of a confectionery factory owned by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in the Russian city of Lipetsk in order to block their sale, parent company Roshen said on Tuesday.
Since March 2014, when Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula and pro-Russian rebels rose up in eastern Ukraine, the Lipetsk plant has been raided by armed police, boycotted and accused by Russian politicians of supporting extremism.
WNU Editor: It is safe to say that the Roshen brand is all but destroyed in Russia. But what got me about this story is that even though the seizure will be contested in the Russian courts (and who knows what may come out of that kangaroo institution) .... the real story is the decision by Ukrainian Poroshenko to cut off the pension and medical benefits to a million pensioners in eastern Ukraine who are not involved in the fighting but who are now bearing the brunt of this conflict and who are suffering terribly right now. One chocolate factory .... a million pensioners suffering .... guess where my focus is on and where Ukrainian President Poroshenko's should also be but is not.
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