By Published March 2 at 6:14 pm Odesa activist Serhiy Sternenko attends a hearing in the Shevchenkivskyi District Court in Kyiv on June 16, 2020. Odesa’s Primorsky District Court on Feb. 23 convicted Sternenko and another activist, Ruslan Demchuk of kidnapping, robbing and torturing Serhiy Shcherbych, a member of Odesa Oblast’s Kominternivske District Council, in April 2015. They were sentenced to seven years in jail and confiscation of half of their property. Sternenko denies the accusations. Photo by
Kostyantyn Chernichkin
The Serhiy Sternenko case, and the reaction it has generated, have been in the headlines. I want to share some thoughts about this for, while at the core of the matter is the issue of justice or rather lack of it, there is more to it all than meets the eye.