she's telling. a very warm welcome to you this is all to you from your headlines now dozens of new arrests across america failed to stop the. together movement from activists saying is now simply too big to fail just spreading across the u.s. dozens of cities. syrians are split over the. price of the capital the president to be given more time to reform cities outside damascus the heart of the regime the u.n. meantime has put the death toll low but. preparations for the

twenty twelve football championships are under pressure from animal rights activists they're accusing the authorities of stray dogs. now with ukraine's former prime minister yulia tymoshenko sentenced to seven years in prison for abuse of power spotlight host al going off to talk to the director of the moscow based institute of national strategy about the implications of her trial right now here. hello yes i'm going to walk a little spotlight into the show you do not see i'll do nothing for they will be talking about the trial of uli etc shadow. the former ukrainian prime minister as opposition leader has been sentenced to seven years in prison the court

found her guilty held over stepping up hours while signing gas contracts with russia the verdict surprised and disappointed the world community and even russia in favor of which the contracts were allegedly soft many said the trial is politically motivated so is it a fair trial or a political pressure will prove units in the show really go to prison and what's going to happen for dance we're asking the direct moscow based institute of national structure that is locked well for. you to machine code was arrested in the summer on charges of abuse of office according to the prosecutor's she signed an unfair long term contract with russia's gas exporter gazprom which resulted in almost two hundred million dollar losses all the ukraine russia the us and the you immediately condemned the verdict as politically motivated and europe

even warned it could hold several trade agreements with kia nevertheless right after the verdict more corruption charges were filed against unit. now she's accused of embezzling government funds to pay out the death of a company she once ran. thank you very much for being with us on the show wasn't any e.u. authorities and even. members of the member states european. countries are menacing ukraine with grave consequences how far do you think europe may go in in defending tima shoko and is a ukraine's new pm and bishan really at stake again i suppose sufficiently far i don't think europe will do greta signs of free trade zone agreement and association agreement with ukraine expects of literals the seer unless you know too much and

can set free by the end of the year and i'm hopeful victor inequality understands this well. we may have some proof to what you just said let's hear how european commission's foreign policy chief catherine ashton commented on tomasz anchors guilty verdicts. you didn't really disappointed with the verdict that's come out of ukraine in a case of yulia timoshenko the trial that took place didn't in our view respect international standards of being fair and transparent and having an independent legal process i've repeatedly asked for this in statements that i've made unfortunately what we're seeing confirms that justice is being applied selectively in what we see as politically motivated prosecutions of the leaders of the opposition and benefits of the former government i have to say it's extremely disappointing in a country that currently holds the chairmanship of the committee of ministers of the council of europe. in this law do you think that.

would be ready to concede spending so as least it's widely known a little italian a college promised to several european leaders to save the little money for free and prove you with their results by the end of the year and a confidential conversations with those leaders. you know colleges informally initiated the trial about half a year ago i think they did not expect not. says consequences but now he cannot reviews a vector of ukrainian development itself and its movement toward europe so he will be forced to change the destiny of you live in washington well a ukraine considers itself to be a sovereign and independent country there are many many questions but still do you think it's independent enough not to let foreigners intervene into its internal judicial affairs. it's independent enough i believe but there's

a scene. the history of what are you koreans and snake ninety one under state emerged in current was an article existing borders reflective of the six koreans of ukrainian development out of russia. we from russia and they dear ukraine is not russia formulated in the flesh inflection book of the former ukrainian president lolita kuchma still dominates for them the political elite regard a list of who is the ukrainian president and so if not as russia then was europe europe was a key point for ukraine to get a read of this fall historical dependence on our country. of course ukraine is important for europe it is important for the for the west. so we should also is important who do you think is more important for western

diplomacy for western politicians that may be deciding the fate of the former prime minister today whose most important ukraine. mr schank i think by this before the throw in washington has never been a hero for europe. she was note and is considered as a symbol of ukrainian democracy europe has been constantly suspicious about. business track record of not her connections with russia's official some big business and her personal connection was lodged in a person which had been established in generally two thousand klein when this country had been signed and so on and so on was the when you say personal relations with their group what do you mean business the business deal there the way they made business together is what i was doing. hardly to be fed from european view but do you believe there is mutual so there wasn't is merely our job to. solve the problem many times and now we see and hear. openly supports the rot in washington

which it to you though that this is true because because she has never been a big fan of russia she has never been a big fan of moscow of kremlin how could it could have she she deserved sympathy. of prime minister who had in washington and i know her well enough as in brazil and even france and really really of the dick eat and i think is not she's not ideologically nor geopolitically motivated person for her as a christian number one is power and for some the world health or for teams of power and to keep the power could be france was in some period of tact what about the old russian saying that a friend of my enemy could be my friend she is a friend of circus really. temperature you should be used to be more crude close friend of her to insulting treason she was of her because i want to call her friend what she's a verb everything and forget you are to much anger and have faction ukrainian

parliament supporter trashed position on south acedia in and up has it in august of two thousand and eight and did not support because of paramount importance problems in our present but you know to much younger faces now a new criminal charge the accusations are fresh though the case is over crimes allegedly committed back in nineteen early states when she had a private power company spotlight has more. to mission because work is the president of the united energy systems of ukraine in the name to ninety's mean you one of the richest people in the country in the can embarrass princess and made her the subject to criminal investigation ten years ago she was arrested on charges of carstens documents and smuggling dance between one thousand nine hundred nineteen ninety seven he was released several weeks later the same year the me. military prosecutor a pressure group charges against you a team

a shanda eligibility giving bribes to russian defense ministry officials russian investigators unsuccessfully tried to invite a mission before the questioning in two thousand and four a new arrest warrant for who was issued in russia and it even went this for a student who in two pools wanted list you could became prime minister of ukraine in two thousand and five but never travel to russia during her first seven months in office later the same year russian prosecutors dropped the courage is against the machine and this week ukrainian prosecutors have once again turned to movements of fourteen years ago it gives intimidation of illegal use in government money to cover her company's debt to the russian defense ministry if the keys goes to trial and if she's found guilty could face up to twelve years in prison.

mr wilcox q what do you think. may be the political consequences of this trial for you it's a machine you said she has never been in the row for the west is she become a hero sandwich has never been that since august since since she's been arrested. she had become a she is she once again becoming the hero among. big percent of the population only crazy as i think so i think knowing you let emotion for personal of it told you i am very suspicious that he. doesn't claim to be arrested should his vestal be arrested by and by august because he has resolved as a chief to gilts iterate to achieve since her defeat and presidential elections in two thousand and ten took him back to her status as an opposition leader as a unique opposition leader and. to consolidate the european support around her. girls and do you think. that. conviction may have any consequences for the present

i guess the words between between guys probably enough to go has been. i know it would live literally on a college and only winning government would try to use this sentence as an argument and the dispute was russian because now ukraine would try to. proof the congress we think on this court decision as picturesque court's decision on the center of the. generally two thousand and nine guess agreement was signed by the people a bit exceeded their powers and such we had syllogism and it may be those arguments before it was international between court as well do you think do you think that putin and we ask from may use some papers but it may use the general outrage against ukraine is leadership in order to hard pressed ukraine on gas prices yes i think so because i don't see. what's in them and get strong. and predictably making

big succession still green so you guess war is not far from us so strenuous laughter will cost the director of the institute of national strategy title i will be back shortly we will continue this interview after a long felt they were. on the money with the business of russia. wealthy british style something. like that look.

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won't come back to spotlight i'll go in often just to remind you that my guest in the studio today stanislav bill cosby director of the moscow based is the theme for the national strategy we're talking about the the the stanton's that. it's a mission called the former ukrainian prime minister got in court seven years and maybe maybe looking at another twelve the who's well many say that this decision was politically motivated well in russia this decision is cold and tight russian so do you think that this court decision may may influence russian ukrainian relations also negatively yes to very considerable extent zero of the sentence was or have been quite predictable for the first two months and i don't think. a surprise for russian leaders and involved in negotiations between different ads well and here's the reaction russian prime minister vladimir putin.

to be honest i can't quite understand why she got those seven years it was you who did not sign anything the contracts were signed between economic agents guns drawn enough to go as they were signed fully accordance with russian and ukrainian legislation as well as international rules and regulations i think it's dangerous and counterproductive to call into question the entire set of agreements. do you also agree that the trial commission call was put into motivate us to reconsider what's then what's the motive there may be only to motives one motive was to make yulia timoshenko even a bigger political star than there then she was three months ago and the other motive is to spoil your relations with your strategic partner which is russia so both seem to be insane for the same validation yes p.v. should not sure of arista meet me in a coach's politician. half

a year ago and all the deal started a victory in a college for me be considerate of the potential consequences of the processes favorable for himself he really thought the trail would undermine you little machine or at completion as politician and opposition leader but the result is a subversive see now and secondly. the gas lobby around him and closing his chief of staff so he can. the energy minister yuriy boyd and some other persons very close economically and. to ukrainian president consider all this tymoshenko trail as an instrument of pressure on to rational chicha the basic conditions of two thousand and guess cataracts and they still hope it could be efficient of the doctors it's not certain it's a very results of the trial. i really don't fall for that sort of political historical prospects of victory on a college but i don't think that a culture that realizes how far why doesn't he realize the simple things there

there there that seem obvious for me for you it is because it's a personal vendetta and we people are and when they're together they don't see anything except when they. sent us because unocal which was so so makes many times mention for the context of his criminal trials it's obvious. you've been in president is going to remind all his enemies sell his competitor of the to be in prison and not to get him to prison is not so complicated in our life so don't remember him he was in prison decided times himself so but it was the no basically it was a strategy mistake of victory on a clutch he hasn't got any political placers he want to talk about has got many political minuses headed duck predict well you know who you actually said he regretted the court's decision was putting obstacles in the way of ukraine's

european integration what does it regret would he be positioning himself as a european european leader a korean authorities emphasizes it does not interfere with any court decisions and those of powers of what. here is how ukraine's president. reacted to the court's decision hours after it was announced. and naturally the court community's decision on the basis of the current criminal code but it's not the final decision there is still the court of appeal. you know it will be very important on the basis of which laws the decision of the court of appeal will be made. will is speaking about political motivation the investigation against the mission coast started back in two thousand and nine and i'm not mistaken then he wasn't yet the president of the country do

you think he had the power and he had enough influence to stop. the investigation not to let the that happen yes only he controls the general prosecutor's office that's most central just depends on his willingness to stop the investigation. that's president you should go was a witness saying in court against to michelle girl they are friends we we all remember the event this picture and this guy was with this thing against this lady why did they do what why. the most victory you should consider the most positive result after five years presidency and not a lot of you little goes in the greatest yes because the relationship between you your part which are much more friendly than between you and currently mushing. really can sort of see little as the biggest threat to ukrainian democracy and you

green in future so he acts logically and predictably and also adding to her popularity the other version of her status of you of the united a position lose both guys i mean both presidents of ukraine are that great i merely learned if you can use it as if you green inequality. was true and still is tried today to a certain degree for treason the key is interest there is this accusation of treason a key of appeal to the nationalist west of the country. to our friends in the west . and before the presidential election of two solved my dose of and seven. when you mean you can invest in us were a bit of disappointment. both because of the content of two thousand nine hundred condition and the relationship going french of between you little machine and played them or put it there to even go humiliate you to the new president viktor

yushchenko in publicly but now i think beautifully chorionic would use of the crown of the sentence you know so much anger has got back all the support of you reinvested if there's a solid liters of water so so so what you're implying is their political preferences the political situation in ukraine is changing today because of that because of this trial yes yes and. i think if you were not arrested the result would be so dramatic and through she understood the rest of the very favorable for her politically and that's why looking at her behavior and what how he offended the jack church how sure fair how she opened a jacket and the rules of behavior in the courts themselves i think you had some simple wanted to be arrested for some time now being hopeful of the same claims of a year by europe's pressure she will be set free shortly if she's said free and she will still be a convicted criminal but she has to win the appeal if she wins the appeal that

there that most clearly when the accusations is that most probably will mean that sure that you will be well at least one of the most probable candidates for president is that right now first and foremost as a leader of the opposition leader of the parliament election two thousand well even if you were to machine which is not clear of the accusations he would not have the right to take part in the parliament elections two thousand and twelve personally but you need him there as a year authority think. harry you would bring very much the opposition victory. i have heard that the head out of the the head of the appeal court of ukraine is the is a great fan of you is that right and does that increase the church had a supreme court supreme muster or not and that sort of final everything will depend a little in a college and has willingness to satisfy european demands and the tymoshenko this you know we're talking about the worst i'm talking about moscow what about the

supporters of the mission queenside the country is their voice heard you mean do they as somehow influence the the political process in the country the leaders of course they think yes any support from from outside would consolidate you know it's a motion to supporters and say to bring. the prosecution continues the investigation another corruption charges against the machine do you think that these new accusations need this new threat of adding another twelve years to her a seventy year sentence may come true. it depends if it's a potential mechanisms of pressure on clearance in washington if she's free this year but if. you're not called which will be wanting some some time in the future to bring her back to cry when present so those newark is even sent investigation

results could be used to the same time the really empowered ones to remind trash that russia has cleared. the general prosecutor's office of russia has given us a machine core of those accusations in two thousand and five and to say it's really true you are college and his cronies one for one to emphasize that russia has could have some confidential delicate relationship but still it's in washington and the details of the relationship between clinton and the machine could be disclosed if it would be political necessary for yanacocha but russia's clear from intimidation comes as i think i cried this was a political event immediately and i was going to do it because i know that's very moment you would so much make a visit that we needed her as a partner has not been able to know it was a year after being fired from my prime ministers imposed but it was my thoughts and my school and they came to some agreements on how to find goods and president and

general public thoughts and so if a person is to heart. or to keep from going to college himself which could remind the world what the relationship between paulson and tymoshenko has been for the five years since two thousand and five be watching how how how this situation would be developing test a reminder that my guest on the show today was stanislav bill kosky director of the institute of national slanders and thanks a lot of familiar with us and this is from our last spotlighted will be that we move into the components on what's going on in and outside russia until then stay on our team and then take.

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