One commonly held thesis is that the cornerstone of Ukraine’s post-independence foreign policy has been that of “milking both cows”, ie, playing Russia, to which Ukraine has strong historical, cultural and economic ties, off against the West, and the EU in particular, membership of which many Ukrainians still aspire. This thesis would suggest that Ukraine’s push for EU/NATO membership has been played as a means to secure economic concessions from Russia, in particular market access for Ukrainian products, and cheap [...]
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Ukraine – Trip Notes – Timothy Ash
Political risk; IMF; macro outlook; parliamentary elections; relations with Moscow; liqudity issue; banking sector By Timothy Ash, Global Head of Emerging Markets, Research & Strategy Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), London, UK, Wednesday, May 16, 2012 LONDON — We visited Kiev on May 14-16, 2012 meeting with officials from the MOF, the IMF, the World Bank, alongside meeting with deputies from the Verkovna Rada, and diplomats, local journalists, banks, and corporates. Officials from the NBU did not make themselves available to meet investors.SUMMARY VIEW: Political [...]
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RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA – MOSCOW PLAYS HARD TO GET
One commonly held thesis is that the cornerstone of Ukraine’s post-independence foreign policy has been that of “milking both cows”, ie, playing Russia, to which Ukraine has strong historical, cultural and economic ties, off against the West, and the EU in particular, membership of which many Ukrainians still aspire. This thesis would suggest that Ukraine’s push for EU/NATO membership has been played as a means to secure economic concessions from Russia, in particular market access for Ukrainian products, and cheap [...]
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ORANGE REVOLUTION II
One focus for discussion during the trip was how the electorate would react to a situation where Regions managed to secure a parliamentary majority with only a small share of the popular vote – either through the failings of the new electoral law, using political patronage to capture independent deputies, and/or outright vote rigging. Members of the opposition we met signalled that opinion polls reveal a high willingness on the part of the population to partake in street protests (>50%), [...]
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FOCUS ON PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
Opinion polls suggest a closely fought contest is now likely in October’s parliamentary elections. Support for the ruling Party of the Regions has collapsed to 15-20% (halving over the space of two years, and noticeable even in the party’s heartland in eastern Ukraine), a reflection perhaps of Ukraine’s relatively weak recent economic performance and the lack of adequate trickle-down effects, concern over the Tymoshenko case, and arguably the broader ineffectiveness of the Regions regime to bring a meaningful change in [...]
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POLITICAL RISK – RISING
Political risk perceptions have increased noticeably over the past year, and specifically since the arrest, subsequent jailing and conviction of a number of prominent opposition politicians, including the leader of the main opposition party (Batkivshina) and former prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, and her ally and the former minister of interior, Yuriy Lutsenko. These arrests appear to have divided opinion within Ukraine. Both politicians have been charged and convicted of abuse of office, and Tymoshenko also faces new charges of corruption [...]
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Daughter says she fears for Tymoshenko’s life
THE DAUGHTER of jailed Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko has told US congressmen she fears for her mother’s life and accused the Kiev government of preparing to rig October’s parliamentary election. Yevgenia Tymoshenko addressed via video-link a hearing of the US House of Representatives on issues concerning Ukraine. This focused on the treatment of the former prime minister, who was jailed for seven years last October for abuse of office after a trial the EU and US say was politically [...]
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Tymoshenko daughter to US Congress: don’t abandon us
The daughter of Ukraine’s detained former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko told US lawmakers Thursday she still feared for her mother’s life, and implored them to “keep the pressure” on Kiev to help free political dissidents. Speaking via live video link from Kiev to a House of Representatives hearing in Washington, Yevgenia Tymoshenko also warned that Ukraine’s powerful current rulers will do “anything possible” to manipulate results of the country’s upcoming October election. “I am very afraid for my mother’s life [...]
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Tymoshenko appeal delayed by Ukraine
The trial of jailed Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko has been delayed again until late June. State prosecutors asked the supreme court to delay her appeal, due to begin on Tuesday, because they needed more time to prepare and due to her absence. Ms Tymoshenko was moved from prison into a hospital to be treated for chronic back pain last week. The country’s prime minister said Ms Tymoshenko had been convicted by a free and independent judiciary. Prime Minister Mykola [...]
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After visiting Tymoshenko, European official says Ukraine’s jailed ex-PM needs more privacy
KIEV, Ukraine — European officials who met this week with imprisoned former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said Thursday that authorities are impinging on her privacy. Mailis Reps and Marietta de Pourbaix-Lundin, rapporteurs for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, visited Tymoshenko this week in the hospital room where she is being treated for a chronic back condition. They told reporters that there are three cameras in Tymoshenko’s room and that guards are present at all times, making [...]
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Top EU officials to shun Ukrainian premier during Brussels visit
Brussels (dpa) – Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov is expected to visit Brussels next week, but will not be meeting with the European Union‘s top officials, a spokeswoman said Saturday, amid increased tensions over jailed Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko. Azarov is due to head a delegation that will discuss landmark political association and free trade deals in Brussels on Tuesday with EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule and a representative of the bloc‘s Danish presidency, during a so-called cooperation council. [...]
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Ukraine govt may send Tymoschenko abroad for medical treatment
The Ukrainian government may consider a possibility of sending the former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko abroad for medical treatment for back pain, Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov said Sunday. In an interview with the Euronews TV channel he said that if there is no opportunity to provide proper medical treatment to Tymoshenko in Ukraine it would be humane to provide such a treatment abroad. Earlier a medical commission of German and Canadian doctors was formed to examine Tymoshenko, who is now [...]
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Ukrainian opposition parties held a rally Kiev in support of jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
Ukrainian opposition parties on Saturday held a rally in central Kiev in support of jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Opponents of President Viktor Yanukovich, who enjoys close ties with Moscow, gathered to unveil a plan of action for October’s parliamentary election. The vote is being seen as a litmus test for Ukraine’s democracy after criticism by the West that Tymoshenko’s jailing over a gas deal she signed while in office was politically motivated. The leader of the Front for [...]
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Tymoshenko’s husband says West should be tougher on Yanukovych
Oleksandr Tymoshenko, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s husband, who has been granted political asylum in the Czech Republic, has warned that the Ukrainian authorities will disregard the West’s criticism if the two parties continue speaking in the language of diplomacy. “It is wrong to speak in the diplomatic language with the [Ukrainian President Viktor] Yanukovych regime. The West should understand that power in Ukraine belongs to former criminals wearing the most expensive clothing brands and trained to say only [...]
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Tymoshenko’s daughter addresses Kiev protest
KIEV: The daughter of Ukraine’s jailed former premier Yulia Tymoshenko addressed an anti-government protest in Kiev on Saturday demanding the release of the opposition leader. “Mom, I know you can hear me now, and I am confident that you will return to us,” a teary-eyed Yevgenia Tymoshenko said at the “opposition congress” attended by some 2,000 people and broadcast live by the private television channel TvI. The rally gathered several opposition parties in a central square in the capital in [...]
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EU considers Ukraine’s isolation over Tymoshenko case
Ukraine risks finding itself in international isolation if it continues with the criminal prosecution of former PM Yulia Tymoshenko and other political opponents of the ruling president. EU leaders are calling for an international boycott of Kiev. Europe is aligning positions in a slam-bang political brawl with Ukraine. European capitals are calling on Kiev to commit to democratic principles and denounce the seven-year prison sentence handed to Tymoshenko as politically-motivated. They’re also demanding the release of former Interior Minister Yury [...]
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EU ministers to meet over Tymoshenko amid calls for Euro 2012 boycott
European governments will try for the first time to reach a common position on the Euro 2012 football championships in Ukraine next month, under rising pressure to agree a boycott after Kiev threatened to try the former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko for murder. With the regime of President Viktor Yanukovych upping the ante against Tymoshenko and showing no signs of yielding to German-led pressure to release her for medical treatment overseas, a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels on Monday is expected to see a clash betweenPoland – [...]
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‘Disabled for life after beating’: Daughter of Ukraine’s former Premier tells of her mother’s desperate prison plight
The jailed former prime minister of Ukraine may be left permanently disabled after mistreatment by prison authorities, her daughter has claimed. Yulia Tymoshenko, 51, who is serving seven years for alleged abuse of office, is in hospital after ending a 20-day hunger strike. She needs treatment for a severe spinal problem and her condition has shocked her daughter Eugenia, who is calling for Britain to speak out against the Ukrainian government, which she claims is becoming a dictatorship. She has [...]
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US official to meet with Ukrainian authorities, opposition, visit Tymoshenko
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor of the U.S. State Department Thomas O. Melia will visit Ukraine next week, the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine has told Interfax-Ukraine. The official will co-chair a meeting of the working group on political dialogue and the supremacy of law of the Ukraine-US Commission on Strategic Partnership, the embassy said. Melia will also meet with members of the Ukrainian government, leaders of the opposition, public activists and the media. [...]
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Tymoshenko’s family will pay German doctor for her treatment, says Vlasenko
The family of former Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko will pay the University Clinic Charite in Berlin for the services of its doctor during treatment of the ex-premier at Kharkiv Central Clinical Hospital No. 5. “The bill for treatment from the German Charite clinic will be paid by Tymoshenko’s family,” the ex-premier’s defense lawyer, Serhiy Vlasenko, said at a briefing in Kyiv on Friday, May 11. He said that a statement of First Deputy Health Ministry of Ukraine Raisa Moiseyenko, according [...]
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Tymoshenko leaves jail for hospital
Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine’s imprisoned former prime minister, was moved Wednesday from jail to a hospital for treatment of a severe back condition under the supervision of a German doctor. The move was likely to allay at least some Western concerns over Tymoshenko’s health and handling in prison. Top EU officials and some EU governments have vowed to boycott the European football championship matches co-hosted by Ukraine in June, and Ukraine had to cancel a regional cooperation summit this weekend after [...]
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Medical commission inspects Kharkiv hospital, departs to ask Tymoshenko to start treatment
A commission of doctors headed by First Deputy Health Minister Raisa Moiseyenko has examined a department of the Central Clinical Hospital of Ukrzaliznytsia No. 5 in Kharkiv where former Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko is to be treated. The chief of the hospital, Mykhailo Afanasyev, told reporters that a doctor from the University Clinic Charite in Berlin also took part in the check, but did not comment on the equipment and conditions in the hospital. According to Afanasyev, the German doctor [...]
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European Parliament to discuss situation of Tymoshenko at conference
Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Renat Kuzmin will take part in a discussion of the situation of former Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko at the European Parliament. In particular, a conference entitled “The Trial of Yulia Tymoshenko – Respect for Ukrainian Law or a Violation of Human Rights” will be held on Wednesday. Expert of the Danish Helsinki Committee on Human Rights Mikael Lyngbo (Denmark) will take part in the event along with Kuzmin. The conference is being organized by Vice-Chair [...]
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NATO Secretary General worried about Tymoshenko, unlikely to visit Ukraine during Euro 2012
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has expressed alarm at the situation around former Ukrainian premier Yulia Tymoshenko and will unlikely visit Ukraine during the Euro 2012 European football championship due to a lack of time. “In June and July I will unlikely have time to attend the championship. However, despite this fact: I’m deeply alarmed at the treatment of Tymoshenko by the Ukrainian government,” he said in an interview with the German publication Bild. Rasmussen said during a conversation [...]
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Yulia Tymoshenko: Ukraine’s bruised firebrand
As the country prepares to co-host Euro 2012, its charismatic former prime minister languishes in jail. But her political ambitions are undimmed Poor Viktor Yanukovych. In what looked very much like vengeance,Ukraine’s president last year succeeded in jailing his main political opponent. Finally, it appeared, Yanukovych had got the better of his nemesis, Yulia Tymoshenko, sending her to prison for seven years and locking her up in a female penal colony in the eastern city of Kharkiv. This weekend, however, Yanukovych’s strategy [...]
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FREE TYMOSHENO – IT’S YOUR ONLY HOPE
FREE TYMOSHENKO-FREE TYMOSHENKO-FREE TYMOSHENKO FREE POLITICAL PRISONERS – FREE POLITICAL PRISONERS FREE THE OPPSITION – FREE THE OPPOSITION FREE UKRAINE – FREE UKRAINE GOD BLESS DEMOCRACY – YANUCONVICT GOOD BYE
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The Voice of Russia: Boycotting Ukrainian authorities or sports?
The European Commission and some Western politicians are intending to boycott the Europe football championship which is due to be held in Ukraine. This is a part of their protest against the imprisonment of Ukraine’s former prime minister Yuliya Tymoshenko. The Chairman of Poland’s largest opposition party “Law and Justice” Jaroslaw Kaczynski has even suggested to hold the championship not in Ukraine’s capital Kiev, but in Warsaw. However, the Chairman of the International Football Federation (more commonly known under the [...]
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Tymoshenko to be treated at Ukrainian clinic
Ukraine’s jailed and ailing ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko tentatively agreed Friday to have her back condition treated at a local hospital under the supervision of a German doctor. Tymoshenko lawyer Serhiy Vlasenko said the treatment of Tymoshenko’s herniated disc will start Tuesday at a hospital in the eastern city of Kharkiv where she is jailed. He said she will give her final approval after meeting with her attorneys next week. Dr. Karl Max Einhaeupl of Berlin’s Charite clinic, who arrived [...]
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Tymoshenko Beating: Business as Usual in Yanukovych’s Ukraine
It had to come to this, of course. When thugs throw an innocent person in jail, how can they resist showing her who’s boss? How can they resist beating her up? They can’t. And, in Viktor Yanukovych’s Ukraine, they didn’t. It happened on Friday, April 20th, shortly after 9 p.m., and the victim of the Regionnaire assault was the recently incarcerated opposition leader and former prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko. Here’s her description of the beating: At around 21:00 my fellow prisoner was [...]
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Anarchy in Ukraine
An undercover Sun team filmed members of extreme right-wing militia The Patriot of Ukraine as it drilled thugs in unarmed combat, knife fighting and use of rifles and pistols at a secret camp. One yob boasted how they planned to riot and hurl racist abuse at black England stars such as Rio Ferdinand and Ashley Cole. He told us: “Of course we will boo your black players. There will be fighting too. Why should we apologise for it?” The Sun [...]
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Tymoshenko’s family worried about ex-premier’s health, calling on her to stop hunger-strike
Daughter of former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Yevhenia, has said that their family is worried about her mother’s health following her decision to go on a hunger strike on April 20. “My mother has not been eating for twelve days. We are very worried about her health. It’s the holidays and they’re not letting us see her, and we don’t know what can happen to her during this time. We are very worried,” Yevhenia Tymoshenko said. “I appeal to [...]
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The Guardian: Angela Merkel plans Euro 2012 boycott if Yulia Tymoshenko kept in jail
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych address a press conference following talks at the chancellery in Berlin August 30, 2010. Merkel said on August 30, 2010 she held “very open” talks with Yanukovych about press freedom following criticisms from journalists and international watchdogs. Angela Merkel is planning to boycott next month’s Euro 2012 football tournament in Ukraine unless imprisoned opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko is released, according to newspaper reports. The German chancellor’s decision came as the former Ukrainian prime minister’s daughter made an [...]
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Sharp Practices in Government Smear Campaign
PR firm Burson-Marsteller has been retained by the Party of Regions. Nothing odd in that but it is strange that it is setting up interviews for Ukraine’s first deputy prosecutor general Renat Kuzmin. Interviews are being arranged by the PR agency’s Brussels office so that Kuzmin can justify the continued prosecution and imprisonment of Yulia Tymoshenko. Firstly, it is highly irregular that Burson-Marsteller should be extending its brief to aid a high ranking government servant who is meant to be [...]
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Merkel may shun Ukraine if Tymoshenko not freed – report
29 Apr 2012 14:18 Source: reuters // Reuters By Boris Berner BERLIN, April 29 (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel could cancel her visit to Ukraine during the Euro 2012 soccer tournament in June if jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko is not released by then, Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine reported on Sunday. The European Union saw Tymoshenko’s jailing last October as politically motivated and has criticised her abuse-of-office conviction. The case has strained ties between the former Soviet republic [...]
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Tymoshenko court hearing postponed in Ukraine
A Ukrainian court on Saturday postponed a hearing in the second criminal case against the jailed former prime minister and opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, whose treatment in prison has raised concerns in Europe. She was due in court in the eastern city of Kharkiv, but the judge agreed to postpone the hearing due to the poor state of her health. The next hearing was set for May 21. Tymoshenko is on a hunger strike to protest alleged abuse in a [...]
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Court refuses to consider UESU case without Tymoshenko, announces break until May 21
In this photo provided by Ukrainian Pravda taken Wednesday, April 25, 2012, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko shows bruises on her body to Ukrainian Commissioner for Human Rights in Kachanovskaya prison in Kharkiv, Ukraine, which she said she sustained when prison guards attacked her on Friday April 20 when trying to transport her to a local hospital against her will. German doctors who have examined Tymoshenko said Friday they are “extremely skeptical” that she can be successfully treated for [...]
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EU demands visit to jailed Tymoshenko
BRUSSELS – The European Union has asked Ukrainian authorities to let its ambassador visit jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko following allegations she was beaten by prison guards, the EU’s foreign policy chief said on April 26. Tymoshenko has been on hunger strike since April 20, when she said she was punched in the stomach and dragged from her bed during a forced move to a hospital – an accusation jail authorities deny. Prison officials warned her on April 24 that [...]
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Fule concerned about situation of Tymoshenko, demands immediate clarification Read more
Brussels – European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fule is extremely concerned about the recent reports on the treatment of former Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko and insists that the Ukrainian authorities immediately clarify what had happened during Tymoshenko’s transfer from prison to hospital on April 20. Fule said this during a meeting with First Vice Premier of Ukraine Valeriy Khoroshkovsky, according to the EU Commissioner’s press service. “Commissioner Fule expressed his extreme concern about the recent reports [...]
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Brussels warns: Association Agreement depends on situation with Tymoshenko
Brussels – Brussels has warned Kyiv once again that the signature and ratification of the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement depend on certain political circumstances including the situation with former Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko. European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fule said this during a meeting with Ukrainian First Vice Premier Valeriy Khoroshkovsky in Brussels. “Of course, the signature of the Association Agreement will, first of all, depend on certain political circumstances, which were voiced absolutely clearly, we discussed [...]
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Official statement by Yulia Tymoshenko: ‘I thought these were the last minutes of my life’
Statement By Yulia Tymoshenko on April 24 On Friday, April 20, after the end of the working day, conclusions of the German doctors, Professor Karl Maks Einhäupl and Norbert Haas, were conveyed to me. In the collusions, it was said that I would be unable to restore my health in the hospital proposed by Ukraine’s government. The reason is not in doctors – I trust Ukrainian doctors and respect them deeply because I know about the difficult conditions they work [...]
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Daughter says life of Tymoshenko ‘at risk’
The daughter of jailed Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko says her mother’s life is now at risk after President Viktor Yanukovych “crossed a fine line” when he rejected all early chances of compromise to free her. In an interview, Yevgenia Tymoshenko urged the West to consider applying personal sanctions against officials of the Yanukovych leadership, such as visa bans, to stop it driving Ukraine further into isolation in Europe. Tymoshenko, Yanukovych’s arch-rival who was twice prime minister, is serving a [...]
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MEPs demand Yulia Tymoshenko’s release MEPs demand Yulia Tymoshenko’s release
http://audiovisual.europarl.europa.eu/AssetDetail.aspx?g=4863a6fc-f8a0-4999-912d-098d8532934e Italian MEP Licia Ronzulli said that standing up for the rights of Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, who was put in prison on trumped up charges, and her freedom must be a priority for the newly elected president of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz. Italian MEP Licia Ronzulli said that standing up for the rights of Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, who was put in prison on trumped up charges, and her freedom must be a priority for the [...]
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Ambulance called for Lutsenko, lawyers asks court to postpone hearing of case
Ihor Fomin, a lawyer for former Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko, has asked the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv to announce a break in a court session on Thursday due to the worsening of his client’s health and move the hearing to another date. The lawyer said that Lutsenko felt unwell on Thursday morning and that an ambulance was called for him. After that, the ex-minister managed to attend the court session. Before putting a petition for discussion, the presiding [...]
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French human rights ambassador notes violation of Lutsenko’s rights to defense
The right of former Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko to a defense in court is being violated, France’s Human Rights Ambassador Francois Zimeray said on Thursday in an interview with reporters after attending a Kyiv Pechersky District Court hearing of Lutsenko case. The wife of the ex-minister, Iryna Lutsenko, briefed the ambassador about the charges brought against her husband, his conditions in the detention centre, as well as Lutsenko’s state of health. After listening to her and observing the court [...]
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Yevheniya Tymoshenko to inform EU countries about threat to her mother’s life
Yevheniya Tymoshenko, the daughter of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, has said that her mother’s life is in danger and “a critical moment has already come,” therefore, she is planning to inform European leaders about this. “We’re very grateful for the fact that the European community and the leaders of the European Union leaders support and are concerned for us. But now we want to tell them that a critical moment has come and that her [Yulia Tymoshenko's] life [...]
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Eugenia Tymoshenko Interview
Very effective counter-attack by Eugenia – a few more appearances like this on TV across Europe and nobody would want to shake Yanukovych’s hand: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj3Tnf8Sf00&feature=player_embedded#!
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I swear it is true – Mikey listen to me
I swear to God Comrades. BALLS DIS BIG I swear Mikey, She was voted ‘MAN OF THE YEAR IN UKRAINE’ She was voted ‘Hottest Woman Politician’. She got some ‘European or worse, International award as a politicia, I dunno, she get’s all the news.’ ‘Now some dame wantsa give her a Nobel Prize or sumfin with bells on.’ ‘Whatever, Im tellin ya, She’s got Balls dis Big an Pucha P ain’t playin transit fee’s. Wadda we do Mikey?’- ‘BALLS DIS [...]
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Case 3 :Top aide denies Yanukovych is trying to kill jailed Tymoshenko
As Tymoshenko’s husband goes into exile in Czech Republic. Ukraine has entered a new year, but the epic case of imprisoned opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko unfolds with no end in sight – haunting the nation as well as sabotaging its prospects of closer integration with the European Union. Days after EU officials expressed shock that the former prime minister was transferred from a Kyiv detention center to a prison in Kharkiv just before the New Year, opposition lawmakers accused President [...]
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Hearing of Lutsenko’s case adjourned to Jan. 13
Kyiv Pechersky District Court has again postponed the consideration of a criminal case against former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko in connection with the absence of a defense counsel of one of the defendants. Presiding judge Serhiy Vovk announced this decision on Thursday. The next meeting of the court will start at 09.10 on Jan.13, the press service of the People’s Self-Defense reported. Lutsenko and his driver Leonid Prystupliuk were charged on Dec.13, 2010 with the large-scale misappropriation of state owned [...]
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CASE NUMBER 1, Ivaschenko’s health condition satisfactory, says penitentiary service
Doctors have recommended that former Acting Defense Minister Valeriy Ivaschenko undergo an additional instrumental and laboratory examination, although ex-official’s health condition is satisfactory, according to the press service of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine. “On Jan. 11, Valeriy Ivaschenko was again examined by the commission at the medical unit of the detention facility in Kyiv. [The commission] recommended that he undergo an additional instrumental and laboratory examination. At the moment the health condition of Ivaschenko is satisfactory, and medical [...]
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Tymoshenko ally cries out to EU after health scare
BRUSSELS – A top ally of former Ukrainian leader Yulia Tymoshenko has accused authorities of trying to “kill” her after a health scare in prison at the weekend. Former deputy prime minister and Tymoshenko party MP Hyorhiy Nemyria told EUobserver on Tuesday (10 January): “The more you think and the more you put the facts in line, the more logical it seems that the authorities are trying to solve this problem by killing her.” He said that what happened in [...]
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Hillary Clinton: we will continue to defend the dismissal of Yulia Tymoshenko
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the United States continue to insist on the necessity of proper judicial process in Ukraine, as well as dismissal of Yulia Tymoshenko and other officials of the former prisoners. “We will continue to defend the need for proper judicial process, and release your prisoners and other former senior government officials, as a very important step in this process. In addition, be certain in our commitment to holding free elections with the participation [...]
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Evgenia Tymoshenko government attempted to arrest members of my family and my mother’s colleagues
The daughter of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko declares Eugene repression from the authorities regarding her family. “There were very outspoken attacks on my family, for my grandfather and my mother’s former colleagues, members of parliament. There were a illegal attempt to re-arrest these people and interrogate them, but today these activities stopped because no one expected that my father asked for political asylum because it also wanted to reach and arrest him, “- said Eugenia Tymoshenko in Ukraine BBC [...]
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Taras Kuzio and Daniel Hamilton eds., Open Ukraine. Changing Course towards a European Future (Washington DC: Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University-SAIS, 2011).
Taras Kuzio and Daniel Hamilton eds., Open Ukraine. Changing Course towards a European Future (Washington DC: Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University-SAIS, 2011). http://www.his.com/~pete/CTR/Open_Ukraine/ Taras Kuzio is an inaugural Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University and Senior Research Fellow in the [...]
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YANUKOVYCH IS TRYING TO KILL TYMOSHENKO
SIGN THE PETITION: zeropersecution@gmail.com FREE TYMOSHENKO PoliticsPenitentiary Service: Tymoshenko does not need additional medical treatmentToday at 19:53 PoliticsTymoshenko: Keep hands off gas transportation systemToday at 17:51 PoliticsBYUT-Batkivshchyna: Yanukovych is trying to kill TymoshenkoToday at 17:09 PoliticsTurchynov: Tymoshenko was unconscious over two hoursToday at 16:34 PoliticsKlitschko’s UDAR party in talks with Hrytsenko’s Civil PositionToday at 13:15 PoliticsEx-ambassador: Granting political asylum to Tymoshenko’s husband to hurt Ukrainian-Czech relationsToday at 12:47 PoliticsStatement by Oleksandr Tymoshenko on political asylum in the Czech RepublicToday [...]
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Tymoshenko’s husband to register Batkivschyna international NGO in Prague
Oleksandr Tymoshenko, the husband of jailed former Ukrainian prime minister and opposition Batkivschyna party leader Yulia Tymoshenko, has submitted documents in Prague to register the International Non-Governmental Organization Batkivschyna. In an interview with Radio Liberty, Oleksandr Tymoshenko said the documents were filed in December 2011. He said that organization’s mission is “to analyze the actions of the ruling government and its criminal activities aimed at robbing Ukraine, provide coverage of the activities of Yanukovych’s government in foreign publications, and monitor [...]
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Daughter defends Oleksandr Tymoshenko’s decision to seek Czech political asylum
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s daughter, Yevhenia, has said that her father, Oleksandr Tymoshenko, applied to the Czech government for political asylum “out of necessity”. “My father did not want to leave. Even now he is greatly worried about it. But I think that it was a necessary measure, given the situation our family found itself in,” Yevhenia Tymoshenko told the TVi television station, according to Yulia Tymoshenko’s Web site. Yevhenia said that it would have been much more [...]
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Statement by Oleksandr Tymoshenko on having been granted political asylum in the Czech Republic
Editor’s Note: The following is the statement by Oleksandr Tymoshenko, the husband of Ukraine’s jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who was recently granted a political asylum in Czech Republic. On Jan. 6, 2012, by the decision of the Interior Ministry of the Czech Republic, I, Oleksandr Tymoshenko, was granted political asylum. I was forced to leave Ukraine and ask for political asylum following enormous pressure and persecution carried out by the current Ukrainian government – the authoritarian regime of [...]
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Tymoshenko’s husband seeks asylum in Czech Republic (updated)
PRAGUE – The husband of Ukraine’s jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko has asked for asylum in the Czech Republic, a Czech government source said on Friday. Former Prime Minister Tymoshenko was sentenced in October in to seven years in prison for abuse of office in what the United States and the European Union denounced as a politically-motivated trial. Her husband, Oleksander Tymoshenko, requested asylum in the Czech Republic at the end of last year, the source told Reuters. “He applied [...]
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How to get Ukraine back on the democratic path
Yesterday at 21:06 | Nestor Gayowsky Recent political events in Ukraine, culminating in the highly questionable conviction and imprisonment of former Prime Minister Julia Timoshenko, demands effective international reaction from democratic countries. The European Union, countries of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Canada and the United States have a major interest in these events having invested time and millions upon millions to help Ukraine emerge from the wasteland of the Soviet Union and help it find a [...]
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Zero Tolerance for Political Persecution in Ukraine
POLITICAL PRISONER LUTSENKO THANKS TO THE DEDICATION OF SUPPORTERS OF POLITICAL PRISONERS AND THE LEGACY OF THE ORANGE REVOLUTION ‘DEMOCRACY’ – PLEASE DO NOT BETRAY THAT LEGACY. VOTE FOR CHANGE. SUPPORT THE PETITION. http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/119996/ PLEASE EMAIL zeropersecution@gmail.com AND ASK ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS OF UKRAINE TO DO THE SAME AND SPREAD THE WORD BY EMAIL, TWITTER, FACEBOOK AND ANY OTHER SOCIAL NETWORK SITES. EX POLITICAL PRISONER IVASHCHENKO Mr President, We [...]
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