The Ukrainian Week

12 October, 2019	Breaking news	Lutsenko is unnamed Ukrainian who led plot to oust Yovanovitch Lutsenko is the Ukrainian official who prosecutors say urged 2 Giuliani associates to push for the ouster of Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador
30 September, 2019	Breaking news	No reason to probe Bidens: former Ukraine prosecutor A Ukrainian ex-prosecutor general has told the BBC there is no reason for his country to investigate President Donald Trump's political rival Joe Biden
6 November, 2018	Breaking news	Ukrainian Chief Prosecutor Lutsenko decides to resign Lutsenko also said he was outraged by "PR on blood" around the Handziuk case
17 May, 2018	Politics	Shadow-boxing: Kramer vs Lutsenko NYT’s Andrew Kramer claims that “Four cases involving Paul J. Manafort have been effectively frozen by Ukraine’s chief prosecutor. Ukrainian officials are wary of offending President Trump.” How true is this?
22 December, 2017	Politics	New players, same broken game What explains the tug-o-war between various enforcement agencies in Ukraine
5 December, 2017	Politics	Mikheil Saakashvili: Detention and unexpected release What is known as of December 5
13 July, 2017	Politics	The very costly secret The pitfalls of Yanukovych's $1.5bn case
1 July, 2016	Politics	Bouillabaisse de president What is Petro Poroshenko's team and who are the centres of influence in it
11 January, 2014	News	Yuriy Lutsenko injuired by Berkut during clashes in front of the Kyiv Sviatoshyn District Court Yuriy Lutsenko, leader of the Third Ukrainian Republic initiative and politically persecuted ex-Interior Minister in Yulia Tymoshenko’s Cabinet, is beaten and injured by Berkut riot police in the clashes on the night of January 10-11. Ten more people are injured, five taken to hospitals.
16 April, 2013	News	*Viola von Cramon: Yanukovych exactly knows that Lutsenko`s pardoning is simply not enough to improve his image The over all climate of repressions in Ukraine has not been improved so far, Viola von Cramon, a member of the "Alliance '90/The Greens" group in the Bundestag, said in a comment to The Ukrainian Week*.
14 April, 2013	Politics	People’s Self-Defence 2.0 Yuriy Lutsenko is going to create a new political project. The question is whether he will make the same mistakes as were made during the launch of People’s Self-Defence and whether the new organization will be constructed to serve the interests of Petro Poroshenko
12 April, 2013	News	*Tadeusz Olszański*: Lutsenko’s release is the only concession which President Yanukovych and his entourage are willing to make After Yuriy Lutsenko`s pardon EU must not expect any real democratisation of Ukrainian political system, Tadeusz A. Olszański, expert at Center for Eastern Studies, Polish think-tank, says in his analytical report for the institution.
11 April, 2013		Political Prisoners: Big and Small Ukraine does have political prisoners. This fact is acknowledged by everyone today except for supporters of the Party of Regions, the Communists and the most inveterate ideologues of the "everyone-in-politics-is-bad" position.
10 April, 2013	News	*Reuters*: turmoil in parliament further undermines Ukraine's hope of being taken seriously by Europe “Despite winning rare praise from the West for freeing an opponent from jail, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich is likely to resist extra pressure and the lure of trade deals to release his fiercest rival, ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko,” writes Reuters.
10 April, 2013	News	*Freedom House* hopes that Lutsenko`s pardon will soon be followed by that of Tymoshenko Freedom House welcomed the pardon of several former government officials in Ukraine and called on President Viktor Yanukovych to take similar action on Tymoshenko.
9 April, 2013	News	*Pawel Kowal*: Lutsenko`s pardon was the success of Ukrainian government, opposition, European diplomats and politicians but not that of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko`s pardon has only given Ukraine some time, Pawel Kowal, member of the European Parliament and Chair of EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, notes in his opinion for New Eastern Europe.
9 April, 2013	News	*Business New Europe*: nothing will happen in the talks with EU until Tymoshenko is released – and that is very unlikely to happen “The pardons are certainly good signs, but while they might halt the deterioration in relations with the EU, the talks on the EU trade deal remain at an impasse,” claims Business New Europe.
9 April, 2013	News	*Forbes*: a few oppositionists freed from prison do not represent a serious threat to Yanukovych “Yuriy Lutsenko's pardon means very little for Ukraine’s democratic process, as the current ruling powers are determined to remain in that position,” writes Forbes.
5 April, 2013	News	*Catherine Ashton and Štefan Füle*: EU will continue to monitor closely developments in Ukraine EU will continue to monitor closely developments in Ukraine and the full implementation Foreign Affairs Council and EU-Ukraine Summit conclusions, Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Štefan Füle, EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy, said in a statement.
23 April, 2012	Politics	Final Say The European Court of Human Rights has yet to rule in Yuriy Lutsenko’s case
11 April, 2012	Politics	PACE Co-Rapporteur Mailis Reps: "The Ukrainian Parliament Could Extend Amnesty to Opposition Leaders” PACE Monitoring Committee Co-Rapporteurs have once again visited Ukraine where they were finally allowed to see Yuriy Lutsenko and talk to the Prosecutor General. In an interview with *The Ukrainian Week*, Mailis Reps, Co-Rapporteur of the Monitoring Committee and an Estonian MP, shares her impressions of a meeting with Lutsenko and others and adverse trends she spotted in Kyiv.
27 January, 2012	Politics	“Those In Power View Us As Antibodies Who Must Be Isolated And Destroyed” Yuriy Lutsenko told *The Ukrainian Week* about the manner in which Ukrainian courts interpret justice, why Orange politicians lost power and his future plans