Late last year it was reported that a Russian entrepreneur had
managed to get a trade mark registration for the name
Yulia's Icicles, which will be used in relation to
lollipops. But these are lollipops with a difference – they
will be in the shape of the braids famously sported by Ukrainian
politician, Yulia Tymoshenko. For those of you who don't follow
Ukrainian politics that closely, Yulia Tymoshenko is a former prime
minister of Ukraine, but she now heads the opposition party from a
jail cell, a place where she unfortunately finds herself as a
result of charges that she claims were fabricated by the
country's president. Said an opposition party spokesman about
the trade mark registration: 'This is the
latest dirty business. She is an ill woman, an opposition leader,
harassed and tortured in prison. She is being mocked, only filth
and scum could do such nasty things' (trade mark
registrations do sometimes raise eyebrows, but this is quite an
extreme reaction!) The
