Tne Moscow News: We need to talk about Yulia
Most reaction to the jailing of Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko has focused on its effect on Ukraine’s relations with the European Union and Russia, and concerns about political repression by President Viktor Yanukovych’s government. But most of the media, in personalizing the issue around the charismatic figure of Tymoshenko, has missed a key motivation behind the seven-year sentence: Fear. Yanukovych and his billionaire backers are petrified of a social explosion as his tough austerity program, ordered by the IMF, begins to bite. Read full story here.