you don't mind. well with ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko sentenced to seven years in prison for abuse of power spotlight host all going to all of unease gets discussed about the wider implications of her trial that's next on r.t. and i'll be back with more news we in less than half an hour from now. they're. going to walk into a spotlight show you part. of the trial. the former ukrainian prime minister has. been sentenced to seven years in prison the court found her guilty overstepped while signing gas contracts. the verdict surprised and disappointed the world community and even russia in favor

of the contract. the trial. so is it. to. go to prison and what's going to happen to him. we're asking the direct. cost. you tymoshenko was arrested in the summer on charges of abuse of office according to the prosecutors 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 you immediately condemned the verdict as politically motivated and europe even warned it could hold several trade agreements with kiev nevertheless right after the verdict more corruption charges were filed against you . now she's accused of embezzling government funds to pay out adaptive

a company she wants rand. thank you very much for being with us on the show was an. e.u. authorities and even. members of the member states europeans. countries are menacing ukraine with grave consequences how far do you think europe may go in defending to go and it is a ukraine's european and bishan really at stake today as opposed to firstly for i don't think europe would agree to say in that from free trade zone agreement and association agreement with ukraine expected literals this year unless you let him 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 anchor's

guilty verdict. he means really disappointed with the verdict that's come out of ukraine in the 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 so actively in what we see as politically motivated prosecutions of the leaders of the opposition and members of the former government i have to say six trini 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. will be ready to concede i think so at least it's widely known the victorian across which promised to several european leaders to set unity muttering free and to

review their results by the end of the year and the confidential conversations with those leaders. informally initiated the trial about half a year ago i think he did not expect an arp. such consequences but now he cannot refuse a vector of ukrainian development itself its movement towards europe so he will be forced to change the destiny of you later mushing well a ukraine considers itself to be a sovereign and independent country though many may question it 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 the same time. the history of modern new koreans and snake ninety one when the state emerged in was encouraged clear distinct borders reflective the basic trend of ukrainian

development out of russia. we from russia and the idea ukraine is not russia formulated in the flesh inflection book of the former ukrainian president alone it kuchma still dominates within the political elite regardless of who is the ukrainian president and so if not as russia then really europe europe as a key point for ukraine to get rid of this fall historical dependence on our country well of course ukraine is important for europe it is important for the for the west. also is important who do you think is more important for western diplomacy for western politicians that may be deciding the fate of the poor prime minister today who is most important ukraine. mr mishra i think by this before this trial tymoshenko has never

been a hero for your. she was not considered as a symbol of the queen and democracy europe has been constantly suspicious about because business track record about her connections with her ashes official some big business or personal connection was a person which had been established and generally two thousand and nine when this contra had been signed and so on and so on when you say personal relations and let me put in you mean business the business deal the way they made business together is what business deal of mutual soliciting hardly to be had from european of year but do you believe there is mutual so there was it is merely observed. in many times and now we see and hear a lot in our polls and openly supports the rot in washington that she is here the this is three because because she has never been a big fan of russia she has never been a big fan of moscow of kremlin how could have could have she she deserved sympathy

. of prime minister if you read emotion could i know her well enough and. we've been friends really earlier this dick eat and i think is not she's not ideologically nor geo politically motivated person for her is a question number one is power and for systems of the world helpful for her to obtain the power and to keep the power could be france was in some period of time what about the old russian saying that a friend of my enemy could be my friend she is a friend of circus really. extent used to be more of a close friend to her to insult to treason she was a problem so i wouldn't call her friend but she's in her very very sure don't forget you are to much anger and have affection and the ukrainian parliament supported trashed position on south ossetia in august of two thousand and eight and did not support really which was of paramount importance for them apart and well you know it's a much younger faces now

a new crib. all charge of the accusations are fresh though the case over crimes allegedly committed back in ninety ninety six when she had a private power company spotlight you know the media has more. utility mission because work as the president of the united energy systems of ukraine in the mid one nine hundred ninety s. made you one of the richest people in the country it got her the nickname gas princess and made her the subject to criminal investigation ten years ago she was arrested on charges of forging customs documents and smuggling gas between one thousand nine hundred five and nine hundred ninety seven she was released several weeks later though the same year the main military prosecutor of pressure brought charges against you. for allegedly giving bribes to russian defense ministry officials russian investigators unsuccessfully tried to invite

a mission to for the question and in two thousand and four a new arrest warrant for her was issued in russia and it even went as far as putting her on in two pools wanted list. became prime minister of ukraine in two thousand and five but never traveled to russia during her first seven months in office way to the same year russian prosecutors dropped the charges against the machine gun this week ukrainian prosecutors have once again turned to events of fourteen years ago accuse into mission of illegally using government money to cover her company's debt to the russian defense ministry if the case goes to trial and if she's found guilty to mission good face up to twelve years in prison. mr low cost q what do you think. may be the political consequences of this trial for you to mention said she has never been in a row for the west is she become a hero while some much has never been out since august second. since she's been

arrested. she had become is she is she once again becoming a hero among. big percent of the population only in ukraine yes i think so i think and knowing who you are to much interpersonal of it told you i am very suspicious that she. wasn't going to be arrested should it his best to be arrested by and by august because he has resolved to achieve two girls he tried to achieve since her defeat in presidential elections in two thousand and ten to obtain back her status as in a position leader is a unique opposition leader. to consolidate the european support around her should you have both girls and do you think that the mission goes conviction may have any consequences for the president again as the was between between gazprom enough to go has been. and out of college and government would

try to use this sentence as an argument and the dispute was russian because now ukraine would try to. prove that their contracts. brazing cause this court decision was picturesque court decision was the center of that. and the generally two thousand and nine guess agreement was signed by the people which exceeded their powers and such we it's a legitimate as may be those arguments will be brought to the international between court as well do you think do you think that putin and gas prong may use as some papers put it may use the general outrage against ukraine's leadership in order to hard pressed ukraine on gas prices yes i think so because i don't see a large enough what's known and guessed from. i don't predict maybe making big succession still brain so you guess for is not far from us says stein you slopped bill cost the director of the institute of national strategy spotlight will be back

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say that this decision was politically motivated well in russia this decision is cold and tight russian so do you. i think that this court decision may may influence russian ukrainian relations also negatively yes to very considerable extent zero of the sentence was or had been quite predictable for the fast two months and i don't think it a surprise for rationally to us and involved in negotiations because it rained on different at as well and here is the reaction of russian prime minister vladimir putin. to be honest i can't quite understand why she got those seven years to machine code did not sign anything the contracts were signed between economic agents gazprom enough to go as they were signed fully in 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. so this law of do you also

agree that the trial. was politically motivated yes to a very considerable extent what's the motive there may be only two 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 because this is seem to be insane for the same politician yes we should not travaris to meet with three in a club which is politician. half a year ago when all the deal started in a call which may be actually considerate of the potential consequences of the process is favorable for himself he really thought the trial would undermine you little reputation as a politician and opposition leader but the result is vice versa to see now and secondly victory in a college and the gas lobby around him and closing his chief of staff sergei. their

german is to yuri boykin some other persons very close economically and. to ukrainian president consider all of this tymoshenko try was an instrument of pressure on russia to chicha the basic conditions of two thousand and yes contracts and they still hope it could be efficient with regard to this but certainly it's a very results of the trial are very dull full for the history of political historical prospects of victoriana coverage but i don't think. this how far why doesn't he realize simple things there there there that seem obvious for me for you is it because it's a personal vendetta and we when people are on vendetta dead they don't see anything except when they look a certain extent yes because they're going to unocal which was so so many many many times mention for them in the context of his criminal trials that's of your time so

maybe ukrainian president is go. to remind all his enemies all his competitor of the to be in prison and not to to get into prison is not so complicated in our life so don't remember him he was in prison decided times himself so but what was even in a basically it was a strategy mistake a victory on a crutch he hasn't got any political classes he wanted to but has got many political minuses headed duck predict well you know you actually said he regretted the court's decision as putting obstacles in the way of ukraine's european integration what does it regret would he make himself as a european european type leader which emphasizes here does not interfere with any court decisions and with the powers of court. here is how ukraine's president victor here in the court reacted to the court's decision hours after it was announced. naturally the court meet its 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. well as speaking about political motivation the investigation against the machine coast started back in two thousand and nine if 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 verdict happen yes sanity he controls a general prosecutor's office that most wanted just depends on his willingness to stop the investigation ex-president. go was a witness saying in court against to michelle they are friends weak we were we all

remember the event this picture this guy was witnessing against this lady why did they do it what what why. the most victory you should consider is the most positive result of his five years presidency not to let you little. bit about her greatest and yes because the relationship between you your polish are much more friendly than between you going to mushing you should really consider as you are to much anger as the biggest threat to your queen in democracy and you green in future so he acts logically and predictably and also adding to her popularity you have the other things it has to be just a view of the united to position at least both guys i mean both presidents so that you could argue that great i merely learned that if you can really use of ukraine in a part of this. was true and still is tried today to a certain degree for treason. interests there is this accusation of treason of

key and appeal to the nationalist west of the country. to our friends in the west. by and before the presidential election after selves made to serve and serve and some new queen investor in us were bitterly disappointed. both because of the content of two thousand and concrete condition and the relationship growing friendship between you little machine and furthermore put in order to even talk humiliate than ukrainian president viktor yushchenko in publicly but now i think due to victoria no coverage due to the trial and the sentence. has got back all the support of ukraine investors they call solid data support so so so what you're implying is that the political preferences the political situation in ukraine is changing today because the because of this trial yes yes if you were to go and i think if you were not arrested the result would be so dramatic and so she

understood the rest of the very favorable for her politically and that's why looking at her behavior and sick. what how he offended the judge how her how sure fair how she founded a judge and the rules of behavior in the courts themselves i think he was a machine called wanted to be arrested for some time being home for the same time to a year by europe's pressure she will be set free shortly if she's served free she she will still be a convicted criminal but she has to win the appeal if she wins the appeal that that most men are leaving the accusations is that most probably will mean that sure that you will be well at least one of the most probable candidates for presidency is that right now first and foremost as the leader of the opposition we are the player . doesn't wealth and even if you let a machine because not clear two of the accusations it would not have the right to take part in the parliament elections two thousand and twelve personally but you

can hear as they are a certain thing. here and you're a pretty sure but brink very much the opposition victory i have heard that the head of the the head of the appeal court of ukraine is the is a great fan of you there to michigan is that right and does that increase the head of supreme court supreme muster on often that sort of final everything will depend on victory in a college and has been loneliness to satisfy european demands and the tymoshenko this year oh we're talking about the worst we're talking about moscow but what about the supporters of the mission queenside the country is their voice heard. you mean do they as somehow influence the political process in the country the genius of course i think that while yes any support. from outside would consolidate europe's emotion because supporters inside ukraine. the prosecution continues the

investigation another corruption charges against the machine do you think that. these new accusations in this new threat of adding another twelve years to her a seven year sentence make untrue. it depends if it's a potential mechanisms of pressure onto you it's a machine if she is freed this year but if the victorian accord which will be wanting some some time in the future to bring her back to trial and present so those new accusations and investigation results could be used to the same time the queen in power wants to remind thresher that russia has cleared. the general prosecutor's office of russia has given us a machine code of those accusations in two thousand and five and to say to reveal to you our coverage and his cronies one for one to emphasize that russia has could have some confidential delicate relationship with zealots in washington and the

details of the relationship between ports and to machine could could be disclosed if it would be political necessary for yanacocha but russia's clear insight from into machine code was written by year two thousand and five this was a politically motivated this and i was going to get it because at this very moment you're not so much think a visit that we needed her as a part of hers and unable to have more soon after being fired from my prime ministers imposed by force in moscow and they came to some agreements on how to find goods and president and democratic chance ports and so if bolton as too hot. to cave in general college himself in a coup which could remind the world what the relationship between put an end to the has been for five years since two thousand five be watching how how how this situation will be developing just a reminder that my guest on the show today was stanislav bill kosky director of the

institute for international standards and thanks a lot for them with us and this is that from all of our spotlight and we'll be back with more who's going to comment on what's going on in and outside russia until then stay on r t n a.

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