There are politicians whose memoirs are such guaranteed bestsellers that publishers will happily make deals in advance.
In advance, that is, of the book being finished. Not of a book perhaps being written or perhaps not.
For the second year in a row, President Viktor Yanukovych has declared mega-earnings in royalties – for 2012, his "royalties" for books not written came to a hefty 15.5 million UAH (nearly €1.5 million).
Over the last two years he says he has earned 32 mil...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.