UKRAINE has not experienced the kind of intense political dramas seen in Russia and some of the other former Soviet states in the last 15 years, but now its turn may have come.

Former President Slobodan Milosevic’s son, who has fled to Russia, was sentenced in absentia today to six months in prison for threatening to kill one of his father’s political opponents with a power saw.

The son of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic could face prosecution over the alleged beating of a student activist last year.