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"The cost of losing Europe would be devastating for Ukraine. If the economy continues to stall or drop, Ukraine will likely fall further into the Russian sphere of influence, and its reforms would crumble under the spell of Putin’s economic paradigm"
Oct 24, 2011
"The cost of losing Europe would be devastating for Ukraine. If the economy continues to stall or drop, Ukraine will likely fall further into the Russian sphere of influence, and its reforms would crumble under the spell of Putin’s economic paradigm"

Borut Grgic, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and founder of the Trans-Caspian Project.

"Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych risks being remembered as just another dictator in the gray zone between the EU and Russia; a chess player who mistakenly checkmated himself by engaging in a complicated game on three boards simultaneously, with no understanding of the rules and no strategy."
Oct 20, 2011
"Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych risks being remembered as just another dictator in the gray zone between the EU and Russia; a chess player who mistakenly checkmated himself by engaging in a complicated game on three boards simultaneously, with no understanding of the rules and no strategy."

Olga Shumylo-Tapiola, a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe think tank in Brussels

"Human rights monitors are reporting an escalation of all sorts of abuses under [Ukrainian President Viktor] Yanukovych, from deaths in police custody to censorship and curbing of free speech. These have all gone unnoticed in the West, because they're not as "sexy" as [ex-Prime Minister Yulia] Tymoshenko."
Oct 19, 2011
"Human rights monitors are reporting an escalation of all sorts of abuses under [Ukrainian President Viktor] Yanukovych, from deaths in police custody to censorship and curbing of free speech. These have all gone unnoticed in the West, because they're not as "sexy" as [ex-Prime Minister Yulia] Tymoshenko."

Stephen Bandera

I am convinced that there is now a plan to physically eliminate two people who point at [Leonid] Kuchma and [Volodymyr] Lytvyn [as those who allegedly ordered the murder of Gongadze] – Pukach and myself. Sooner or later they will kill Pukach. I think it will happen soon.
Oct 18, 2011
I am convinced that there is now a plan to physically eliminate two people who point at [Leonid] Kuchma and [Volodymyr] Lytvyn [as those who allegedly ordered the murder of Gongadze] – Pukach and myself. Sooner or later they will kill Pukach. I think it will happen soon.

Mykola Melnychenko, the former bodyguard to Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma

"But if foolish decisions are to be criminalized in Ukraine, [President Viktor] Yanukovych himself would be a prime suspect."
Oct 15, 2011
"But if foolish decisions are to be criminalized in Ukraine, [President Viktor] Yanukovych himself would be a prime suspect."

Washington Post editorial from Oct. 15 headlined "Putinesque behavior in Ukraine"

"This was done deliberately to cripple her [Yulia Tymoshenko] politically and remove her from future political participation. Ukraine is moving in the wrong direction, that's for sure. Cleansing the political field of opponents was reminiscent of the democratic rollback that has taken place in Russia over the past decade under the presidency and then premiership of Vladimir Putin. In a certain respect, this is the Putin model and it's not a good model to follow, not if you want to look to Europe for your future."
Oct 13, 2011
"This was done deliberately to cripple her [Yulia Tymoshenko] politically and remove her from future political participation. Ukraine is moving in the wrong direction, that's for sure. Cleansing the political field of opponents was reminiscent of the democratic rollback that has taken place in Russia over the past decade under the presidency and then premiership of Vladimir Putin. In a certain respect, this is the Putin model and it's not a good model to follow, not if you want to look to Europe for your future."

David J. Kramer, executive director of the Washington-based democracy watchdog Freedom House

“Ukraine says it wants to join the EU one day. The UK supports that objective. But that cannot happen until Ukraine can show that it adheres to the highest democratic standards, including respect for human rights, the rule of law and an independent, transparent and fair judicial process. The conviction of Ms Tymoshenko and the ongoing cases against other former members of the government call into question Ukraine’s commitment to these values."
Oct 12, 2011
“Ukraine says it wants to join the EU one day. The UK supports that objective. But that cannot happen until Ukraine can show that it adheres to the highest democratic standards, including respect for human rights, the rule of law and an independent, transparent and fair judicial process. The conviction of Ms Tymoshenko and the ongoing cases against other former members of the government call into question Ukraine’s commitment to these values."

British Foreign Secretary William Hague, discussing the prospects of European Union membership for Ukraine in light of the guilty verdict and seven-year prison sentence against ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

"No one here in Ukraine or elsewhere in the world believes in the crimes announced here. Precisely for this reason, neither [President Viktor] Yanukovych, nor [Judge Rodion] Kireyev will manage to defame my good name."
Oct 11, 2011
"No one here in Ukraine or elsewhere in the world believes in the crimes announced here. Precisely for this reason, neither [President Viktor] Yanukovych, nor [Judge Rodion] Kireyev will manage to defame my good name."

Ukraine's ex-prime minister and leader of the Batkivschyna party Yulia Tymoshenko said during a recess in the court session on Tuesday.


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