Ukrainian politics: not such a beautiful game
Journal: Strategic Comments
Year: 2012

To the outside world, Ukraine has scored a diplomatic own goal with its imprisonment of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko. The government was forced to cancel a summit in Yalta planned for early May, when many invited heads of state declined to attend after Tymoshenko began a hunger strike, complaining prison officials had beaten her. The signing of an association agreement with the European Union has been put on ice, and politicians are threatening to boycott the Euro 2012 football tournam