Presseurop: Don’t pulls the blinds down on Kyiv
Although the recent sentencing of the former muse of the Orange Revolution, Yulia Tymoshenko, has raised doubts about the independence of the Ukrainian justice system, the EU should not give up on dialogue with Kiev, which remains eager to build relations with the EU. The 11 October decision to sentence former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko to a seven-year term in prison has been widely reported and commented in the European press. It is probably the first time since the “Orange Revolution” that events in the internal politics of Ukraine, which has a population of 45 million, have made the international front pages. Whereas governments in the EU and the United States have adopted a firm position with regard to this court decision, for its part the reaction of Ukrainian society has been relatively limited. Read the story here.