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“I don’t think they’ll touch her [Yulia Tymoshenko], as the same thing could happen again. It’s better to put pressure on her and weaken her.”
Sep 24, 2010
“I don’t think they’ll touch her [Yulia Tymoshenko], as the same thing could happen again. It’s better to put pressure on her and weaken her.”

Yuriy Yakymenko, head of political programs at the Razumkov Center, commenting on threats that Yulia Tymoshenko had claimed receiving from SBU.

"Ukraine solves the problems in the framework of achieving the [Millenium Development] Goals successfully. The most important thing is that by increasing the level of minimum social standards, we managed to significantly reduce the proportion of the population living below the poverty line. Ukraine has strong global ratings, and reforms in this area are currently going on. The situation in healthcare has improved substantially. The most notable achievements are reduction of child mortality and improvement of maternal health. Among the pressing tasks is improving gender equality and environmental health. The situation with HIV/AIDS is of the most concern. We must put extra efforts into solving this problem. As in most countries, our work to achieve the Millennium Development Goals was affected significantly by the global economic crisis, which has damaged almost all the sectors of economy, thousands of companies and incomes of millions of citizens."
Sep 23, 2010
"Ukraine solves the problems in the framework of achieving the [Millenium Development] Goals successfully. The most important thing is that by increasing the level of minimum social standards, we managed to significantly reduce the proportion of the population living below the poverty line. Ukraine has strong global ratings, and reforms in this area are currently going on. The situation in healthcare has improved substantially. The most notable achievements are reduction of child mortality and improvement of maternal health. Among the pressing tasks is improving gender equality and environmental health. The situation with HIV/AIDS is of the most concern. We must put extra efforts into solving this problem. As in most countries, our work to achieve the Millennium Development Goals was affected significantly by the global economic crisis, which has damaged almost all the sectors of economy, thousands of companies and incomes of millions of citizens."

President Viktor Yanukovych on Sept. 22 speaking at the United Nations in New York City during a special meeting of world leaders to discuss the Millenium Development Goals.

"In the end, Yanukovych will likely realize it may be better to be number one in an independent Western-oriented Ukraine than to be number fifteen in the Politburo of a reincarnated version of the Soviet Union. And Ukrainian civil society and the country’s relative political pluralism are acting as a counterweight to Yanukovych’s pro-Russian measures. The question is: will the Ukrainians be able to slow down the pro-Russian train that Yanukovych has set in motion?"
Sep 22, 2010
"In the end, Yanukovych will likely realize it may be better to be number one in an independent Western-oriented Ukraine than to be number fifteen in the Politburo of a reincarnated version of the Soviet Union. And Ukrainian civil society and the country’s relative political pluralism are acting as a counterweight to Yanukovych’s pro-Russian measures. The question is: will the Ukrainians be able to slow down the pro-Russian train that Yanukovych has set in motion?"

John Hewko, a nonresident senior associate with the Carnegie Endowment’s Democracy and Rule of Law Program, in an interview, titled "Ukraine's new direction," published on Sept. 22.

“You know, I am not one to intrude into arguments. But I am someone who always reacts by taking action. So when they tell me that the State Security Service (SBU) is harassing historians from the ‘Lonsky Prison’ museum in Lviv, I order the Cabinet of Mnisters to transfer the museum from the SBU to the Institute of National Heritage, which I budget accordingly for next year. When people say I reject The Famine of 1932-33, I declassify materials involving that period and also transfer them to the Institute of National Heritage.”
Sep 21, 2010
“You know, I am not one to intrude into arguments. But I am someone who always reacts by taking action. So when they tell me that the State Security Service (SBU) is harassing historians from the ‘Lonsky Prison’ museum in Lviv, I order the Cabinet of Mnisters to transfer the museum from the SBU to the Institute of National Heritage, which I budget accordingly for next year. When people say I reject The Famine of 1932-33, I declassify materials involving that period and also transfer them to the Institute of National Heritage.”

President Viktor Yanukovych in a letter addressed to the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, appearing on the presidential website on Sept. 21.

“I was amazed by the summons [to appear at the State Security Service in Kyiv] and the interrogation because they asked almost the same questions which I have already answered. I replied again the same way today. Speaking as a politician, I honestly do not understand their motivation for interrogating me.”
Sep 20, 2010
“I was amazed by the summons [to appear at the State Security Service in Kyiv] and the interrogation because they asked almost the same questions which I have already answered. I replied again the same way today. Speaking as a politician, I honestly do not understand their motivation for interrogating me.”

Batkivshchyna Party leader and former Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Turchynov on Sept. 20 following questioning by State Security Service agents in Kyiv.

"I only yesterday started to study the materials of the case, but even before that and now I was and am confident that the current scenario of the murder in which [the former head of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry's external surveillance department, Oleksiy] Pukach, [is accused of killing the journalist] is unlikely. If [Former Interior Minister Yuriy] Kravchenko was the person who ordered the killing, then who else ordered the murder, and why?"
Sep 17, 2010
"I only yesterday started to study the materials of the case, but even before that and now I was and am confident that the current scenario of the murder in which [the former head of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry's external surveillance department, Oleksiy] Pukach, [is accused of killing the journalist] is unlikely. If [Former Interior Minister Yuriy] Kravchenko was the person who ordered the killing, then who else ordered the murder, and why?"

Valentyna Telychenko, lawyer for Georgiy Gongadze's widow Myroslava, speaking to Interfax-Ukraine on Sept. 16, 2010.

“It’s an international scandal [journalist Georgiy Gongadze's death] designed to compromise Ukraine. They didn’t give me or Ukraine any peace for five years.”
Sep 15, 2010
“It’s an international scandal [journalist Georgiy Gongadze's death] designed to compromise Ukraine. They didn’t give me or Ukraine any peace for five years.”

Former President Leonid Kuchma, saying that the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze ten years ago is an international provocation, claiming that foreign secret services were involved in Gongadze’s disappearance.

"Until Viktor Yanukovich bludgeoned his way into Ukraine’s presidency earlier this year, Ukraine was becoming emphatically European in its orientation. Now, Yanukovich seems determined – for the most shortsighted of motives – to weaken Ukraine fatally as an energy-transit country. Indeed, his latest gambit is an effort to sell Ukraine’s transit pipelines to Russia’s Gazprom in exchange for cut-rate gas."
Sep 15, 2010
"Until Viktor Yanukovich bludgeoned his way into Ukraine’s presidency earlier this year, Ukraine was becoming emphatically European in its orientation. Now, Yanukovich seems determined – for the most shortsighted of motives – to weaken Ukraine fatally as an energy-transit country. Indeed, his latest gambit is an effort to sell Ukraine’s transit pipelines to Russia’s Gazprom in exchange for cut-rate gas."

Hryhoriy Nemyria, former deputy prime minister, in an article, titled "Europe and the Rising Powers," appearing Sept. 14 in Project Syndicate.


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