Yulia Tymoshenko
EU dilemma: Must Ukraine remain a no man’s land?
December 19, 2011By Michael Leigh/ GMF/ Brussels -- After reaching an agreement on Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization on Thursday, European Union leaders are set to meet Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich in Kiev today. Although the EU-Ukraine...
Ukraine Court Sentences Tymoshenko To Seven Years In Jail(VIDEO)
October 12, 2011By RFE/RL / KYIV -- Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been jailed for seven years and penalized tens of millions of dollars over abuse-of-office charges in a verdict the European Union says could have "profound implications"...
EU Condemns Minsk Crackdown, Voices Concern Over Ukraine's Tymoshenko
October 02, 2011By Rikard Jozwiak/ WARSAW -- European Union leaders have condemned Belarus over its crackdown on the political opposition and expressed their concerns to Ukraine over the trial of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. The statements came at the end...
Ukraine: Tymoshenko on trial in Kiev for abuse of power
June 24, 2011Ukraine's former prime minister and heroine of the 2004 Orange Revolution Yulia Tymoshenko has gone on trial in Kiev for abuse of power. Mrs Tymoshenko has dismissed the charges, which concern natural gas contracts with Russia, as revenge by her rival...
U.S. law firm begins probe of former Ukrainian government spending
June 11, 2010A U.S. law firm has begun an investigation into the expenditures of the former Ukrainian government headed by defeated presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. The firm, Trout Cacheris PLLC, was commissioned last month...
Ukrainians protest against pro-Russian policies of Viktor Yanukovych
May 11, 2010By Peter Fedynsky Policies of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, perceived by many to be pro-Russian, have sparked demonstrations outside of parliament in Kyiv. Inside, lawmakers discussed damages from last month's egg-throwing brawl over one of...
Opposition ‘Committee To Protect Ukraine’ Launched
May 11, 2010The Ukrainian opposition has announced the creation of an opposition movement, the Committee to Protect Ukraine, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. The committee is made up of opposition parties represented in parliament: Fatherland, the Reforms and...
Ukraine’s foreign policy turns East
April 23, 2010By Taras Kuzio With less than two months in office President, Viktor Yanukovych, has undermined a twenty year-old elite consensus on national security by, as EDM (November 3, 2009) forecast, introducing a far more pro-Russian essence to Ukrainian foreign...
Taras Kuzio: Ukraine's fractured opposition
April 16, 2010By Taras Kuzio During the four years between the unveiling of secret tapes made by a presidential guard in November 2000 that implicated President Leonid Kuchma, the speaker of parliament, and the security forces in the abduction and murder of an opposition...
Yanukovych inaugurated: a pseudo Kuchma era?
March 03, 2010By Pavel Korduban Viktor Yanukovych was inaugurated as Ukraine’s new president on February 25. His first steps and statements have proved reminiscent of President Leonid Kuchma’s (1994-2004) first term. Yanukovych selected Kuchma’s...