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“[President Viktor] Yanykovych’s son, his family and friends are thinking just about filling their pockets. Cyprus is a very good place to find out these assets.”
2 days ago
“[President Viktor] Yanykovych’s son, his family and friends are thinking just about filling their pockets. Cyprus is a very good place to find out these assets.”

European Parliament Michael Gahler told the Journal of Turkish Weekly, advocating a freeze on the Yanukovych assets abroad.

“English fans need to know that if they try to mess with Ukrainian women then we will try to mess with them. The sex industry exploits women who are so poor and often uneducated. That is why we are going to try to attack every match.”
3 days ago
“English fans need to know that if they try to mess with Ukrainian women then we will try to mess with them. The sex industry exploits women who are so poor and often uneducated. That is why we are going to try to attack every match.”

Inna Shevchenko, a member of Femen, the women's group that stages topless protests against men who come to Ukraine for sex tourism.

“It was seven or 10 of them. I could not defend myself as the attackers had pepper spray and I had to protect my eyes. I fell to the ground and was kicked. When I got up, they ran away.”
May 22
“It was seven or 10 of them. I could not defend myself as the attackers had pepper spray and I had to protect my eyes. I fell to the ground and was kicked. When I got up, they ran away.”

Svyatoslav Sheremet, the leader of Ukraine’s Gay Forum, explaining to Ukrainian news website gazeta.ua, how he has assaulted after announcing on May 20 that he is cancelling the Gay Pride Parade because of threats to participants' safety.

"From the very beginning, our position was that selective persecution of Tymoshenko and her party-mates is unacceptable. We've called for her release again and again."
May 14
"From the very beginning, our position was that selective persecution of Tymoshenko and her party-mates is unacceptable. We've called for her release again and again."

U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine John F.Tefft told reporters at a news briefing in Kharkiv on May 14 after his meeting with jailed ex-premier.

"We've been very consistent in sending messages to Ukraine about the importance of justice being done and seen to be done"
May 14
"We've been very consistent in sending messages to Ukraine about the importance of justice being done and seen to be done"

European Union foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton said.

"We want to live and we will live in a democratic country that will offer opportunities and freedom for everyone's life and labor."
May 7
"We want to live and we will live in a democratic country that will offer opportunities and freedom for everyone's life and labor."

Russian President Vladimir Putin, during his May 7 inauguration speech for his third term as president, extending a rule that began in 2000 as Boris Yeltsin's successor.

May 2
"We continue to call for her release, the release of other members of her former government and the restoration of their full civil and political rights."

US State Department statement on May 1, calling for freedom of ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and other members of her former government.

"We understand well that we must find the criminals as soon as possible and they must be punished. We must understand what motivations and goals this crime had."
Apr 29
"We understand well that we must find the criminals as soon as possible and they must be punished. We must understand what motivations and goals this crime had."

President Viktor Yanukovych, speaking in Dnipropetrovsk on Saturday, the day after four bombs injured 30 people.


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