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Prime Minister Andrus Ansip has become the subject of criticism for what has been dubbed as the "one lady" comment, which he made during his visit last week to Ukraine, where he met with the country's president and prime minister.

“It is wrong for the future of Ukrainian-Estonian and
Ukrainian-EU relations to depend on one lady,” Ansip said, referring to
the controversy surrounding former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who
was sentenced to prison in what was widely condemned as a politically
motivated case.

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