Yuliya Tymoshenko, twice Prime Minister of Ukraine, has been a political prisoner since 2011.
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Yuliya Tymoshenko
Commentaries by Yuliya Tymoshenko
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The Iron Lady as Liberator
KHARKIV, UKRAINE – Prison is always a place of mourning. But perhaps learning of Margaret Thatcher’s death in this place is grimly appropria…
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A Prisoner’s Christmas
LUKYANIVSKA PRISON, KYIV – It has been said that there are no atheists in a foxhole. Here, after my show trial and four and a half months in…
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The Meaning of Chernobyl
KYIV – It began as a grey and muddy spring day, like so many others in my homeland. It ended in dread and mourning.Of course, none of us kne…
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The Revolution Betrayed
KYIV – From snowy Kyiv, I have watched the successful revolutions in Cairo and Tunis with joy and admiration. Egyptians and Tunisians are ri…
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France’s Fourth Moment
KYIV – Since World War II’s end, France has consistently risen to the challenge of restructuring Europe in times of crisis. In doing so, Fra…
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Ukraine’s Democratic Choice
Suddenly, Ukraine faces another stark choice: dismiss the government and parliament and hold new elections, or see the country’s independenc…
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Moscow and the Middle East
Iran’s influence in the Middle East is being strengthened not only because of the opportunities created by the frustration of US power in Ir…
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Germany, Europe, and Russia
European unity is indivisible. When one nation is intimidated or ostracized, all are not free. Every aspect of our shared culture, if not th…
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Multilateral Engagement for Energy Security
Our global need for energy reliability binds us together as surely as the global network that delivers it; a failure in one part of our netw…
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Ukraine’s Watershed Election
Ukraine’s politics are not those of the steppe. Our voters cannot stroll in one direction during one poll, and in the opposite direction the…
The Iron Lady as Liberator
Tsuda Shoken: Dear Madam, I strongly think that more conviction politicians needed to make strong and free societies. Men are too weak to make final decisions that should not be full of compromise, which many hi…
The Iron Lady as Liberator
Ken Presting: If politics is the art of riding a trend, then history is the science of uncovering all the trends and understanding their combined significance. Ms. Tymoshenko was a seminal politician but now she is…