Foreign Affairs committee  They are concerned. Unfortunately, they are concerned in a rather specific fashion. Euronews is one channel that.... I don't know if you know it here. It's similar to BBC and Deutsche Welle. Unfortunately, it has a Ukrainian service that is actually positively distorting news,

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much. I totally agree with you. One of the things I would say is that since about March 2010, when Yanukovych basically violated the constitution to get these turncoats to form the government, there has been a very widespread perception among Ukrainians that the

Foreign Affairs committee  The wrong people, yes, you're right—a very good correction. The wrong people must be targeted, and targeted hard, rather than simply going for the judge. Yes, we know from Nuremberg that obeying orders is bad, but on the other hand, if we know that, for example, the people who p

Foreign Affairs committee  I would be delighted to mention it. I totally agree with you that at the moment, any sort of statement that lets Yanukovych and company think they have gotten away with it is extremely dangerous. I would just mention that on top of Tymoshenko and Lutsenko, whom everybody mentio

Foreign Affairs committee  I would really just reiterate that, but also I would say one of the things that my organization, Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, and also the Ukrainian Helsinki Group are doing together with New Citizen and so forth is trying to actually consolidate that civil society work

Foreign Affairs committee  This may well be through a political point of view about the U.S.A. I have no idea. From the point of view of the Ukrainian population finding out about the statements made, on the whole, those who did not read the Internet did not find out because television totally distorted t

Foreign Affairs committee  There's a complete lack of press freedom, I think. Yes, there's total distortion. But the other problem—and just very quickly on the subject of Yulia Tymoshenko—I found even among human rights people...I think there was some degree of bemusement or even indignation that the west

Foreign Affairs committee  Again, it's wild guessing about that.

Foreign Affairs committee  Can I...? Just to add to that, I basically do agree, except I would just say that any such process needs to be very much focused on civil society as well, so that they understand. The civil society in Ukraine does support the west. It also saw all the years of the Orange Revolut

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm sorry. I'd better hurry. The point about that particular protest is that eight people have spent time in prison and are facing criminal prosecution. The prosecutions are over totally absurd things. One very last point that I would make—I'm sorry, I didn't realize how long

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. I'm Halyna Coynash from the Kharkiv human rights group. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for allowing me to be here today. Frankly, I would have preferred to be here as a tourist. Unfortunately, I'm here with really quite serious things to say. The hearings are taking place