Quotes

"Such a system as [Russian Prime Minister Vladimir] Putin's is exactly a target for destruction. It needs to be destroyed."
3 days ago

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev

"After [Yulia] Tymoshenko lost the presidential election of 2010, she was washed up as a national politician. All [Viktor] Yanukovych had to do to keep her that way was to ignore her."
Feb 2

Alexander J. Motyl, political science professor at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey.

"It would be easier if the [former Prime Minister Yulia] Tymoshenko question were resolved. I would like to see this problem solved in the interests of the country's internal stability and international cooperation, and I would like Ukraine to stop the legal persecution of Tymoshenko. This can be done with a pardon by the president."
Jan 30

President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz

Jan 27

Viktoria Siumar, head of media watchdog the Mass Information Institute, responding to Express newspaper's claims that a court order against the publication is an attempt to shut it down.

"The protection of human rights is an essential value for democratic European countries. We will significantly improve the monitoring and control over the investigation of every case of infringements of human rights and freedoms. Freedom of speech will be the subject of special attention."
Jan 23

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych

“Ukraine suffered a major decline due to President Viktor Yanukovych’s moves to crush the political opposition through a variety of anti-democratic tactics, including the prosecution of opposition political leader and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.”
Jan 19

Freedom House in the World 2012 report

"Over 2007-2012 the Regions Party has turned into a clan party, the ruling party, and turned the state into a clan state, closed and without public people. They are not charismatic leaders...They are gadget people, whose task is to voice the texts written by the headquarters. The Regions Party is facing a publicity crisis."
Jan 18

Head of the Institute of Global Strategy Vadym Karasiov

"Today the president should at least replace the government and officials who cannot defend the Ukrainian economy, and strategically, he should change [his] policy in relations with Russia, in which it's unnecessary to report on the opening of another Russian-speaking school or kindergarten and the publication of a correct textbook in terms of Russian history textbook, but to act from the position of law and the protection of national interests."
Jan 16

Verkhovna Rada Deputy Head Mykola Tomenko