Jan 2007
One on one: a lot on her plait
24 January 2007
Published in The Jerusalem Post
By: Ruthie Blum
Yulia Tymoshenko marches through the entrance of Jerusalem's David Citadel Hotel with a 10-strong male entourage in tow. Head high and smile radiant, she strides, starlet-like, to the elevator, into which she is ushered like a queen. Or at least like the "Orange Princess" she has been coined - a title the head of Ukraine's opposition movement earned not for her lineage or beauty, but rather for her having been a leading fomenter of her country's liberal revolution in 2004.
After a full day of touring and fact-finding, the political reformer - who looks more like a 20-something fashion model than a 46-year-old former prime minister - is "taking five" to freshen up before facing more lights, more cameras, more action. All of which she is used to; all of which she uses to further her agenda: regaining what she considers to be her rightful place at the top - the only right place from which she says change can be implemented.
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By: Ruthie Blum
Yulia Tymoshenko marches through the entrance of Jerusalem's David Citadel Hotel with a 10-strong male entourage in tow. Head high and smile radiant, she strides, starlet-like, to the elevator, into which she is ushered like a queen. Or at least like the "Orange Princess" she has been coined - a title the head of Ukraine's opposition movement earned not for her lineage or beauty, but rather for her having been a leading fomenter of her country's liberal revolution in 2004.
After a full day of touring and fact-finding, the political reformer - who looks more like a 20-something fashion model than a 46-year-old former prime minister - is "taking five" to freshen up before facing more lights, more cameras, more action. All of which she is used to; all of which she uses to further her agenda: regaining what she considers to be her rightful place at the top - the only right place from which she says change can be implemented.
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Moscow`s mideast myopia
16 January 2007
Published in HAARETZ
By: Yulia Tymoshenko
Iran`s influence in the Middle East is being strengthened not only because of the opportunities created by the frustration of U.S. power in Iraq, but also because of the diplomatic protection it has been receiving from China and, most importantly, from Russia.
Russia, by wielding the threat of its UN Security Council veto, spent much of the past two years whittling away at the proposed list of sanctions that might be slapped on Iran for its refusal to honor its commitments to the International Atomic Energy Agency over its nuclear program. As a result, the sanctions now imposed by the Security Council are so tepid that they are unlikely to be effective.
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By: Yulia Tymoshenko
Iran`s influence in the Middle East is being strengthened not only because of the opportunities created by the frustration of U.S. power in Iraq, but also because of the diplomatic protection it has been receiving from China and, most importantly, from Russia.
Russia, by wielding the threat of its UN Security Council veto, spent much of the past two years whittling away at the proposed list of sanctions that might be slapped on Iran for its refusal to honor its commitments to the International Atomic Energy Agency over its nuclear program. As a result, the sanctions now imposed by the Security Council are so tepid that they are unlikely to be effective.
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