In a welcome display of firmness, EU leaders this week disinvited the Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych from important meetings he was due to have in Brussels today. Anything less would have been a pathetically inadequate response to the outrageous, para-Putinesque conviction of Yanukovych's political opponent Yulia Tymoshenko to seven years in prison, a £120m fine and a three-year ban from holding government office after the end of her jail term.
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The Guardian: As Poland shines, Ukraine sinks
EU leaders this week disinvited the Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych from important meetings he was due to have in Brussels.
