Court of Slava Stetsko against Simonenko

Chairman of the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists Slava Stetsko looks through the papers and waits for the court sitting in the hall of Pecherskyi Court in Kyiv, on Tuesday, May 18, 1999. Stetsko brought a suit against the Head of Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU) Petr Simonenk on the protection of dignity and professional name. The suit was caused by the distribution on May 12, 1998 of the CPU fraction’s declaration, in which nationalists and Stetsko, in particular, was named «the Hitler’s menials». Photo by Alexander Sinitsa/ UNIAN