Yuliya Tymoshenko
Yuliya Tymoshenko is a former prime minister of Ukraine.
The upcoming EU summit in Riga, where the Union’s tattered Eastern Partnership tops the agenda, can and must demonstrate Europe’s determination to defend its unity, security, and values in the face of… read more
The new ceasefire agreement, signed by the leaders of France, Germany, Russia, and Ukraine, is unlikely to fare any better than the previous one, because Vladimir Putin has found in Ukraine the perfec… read more
Whether Ukraine is reduced to a semi-sovereign buffer state, and the rule of brute force is given free rein, depends on whether world leaders understand that appeasement begets only further aggression… read more
Ukraine is facing a new threat, in the form of a “peace offensive” – an old staple of Soviet diplomacy designed to undermine Western resolve. Vladimir Putin’s recent phone call to Barack Obama to seek… read more
Incarceration – particularly when one is jailed unjustly – is said to harden the soul. But the truth of life for a political prisoner is the opposite of this, as Nelson Mandela's passage to freedom an… read more
For many who grew up in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Margaret Thatcher will always be a heroine. Not only did she espouse the cause of freedom, but, by embracing Mikhail Gorbachev at a time wh… read more
When an authoritarian regime’s entire system of coercion, including its media, is trying to discredit and destroy you once and for all, prayer becomes the only intimate, trusting, and reassuring conve… read more
Unlike Japan’s Fukushima nuclear crisis, the main lesson of the Chernobyl disaster 25 years ago does not concern nuclear-plant safety. Rather, it concerns the nature and consequences of official indif… read more
As pro-democracy movements mobilize in Arab countries, their members should learn from countries like Ukraine that free elections are not enough. Only a vigilant citizenry can prevent anti-democratic … read more
