West condemns Ukraine

Western leaders condemned the jailing of former Ukraine Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko who had been sentenced to 7 years imprisonment on Tuesday.
The US and EU said the trial was politically motivated and Russia's foreign ministry said the ruling had a "clear anti-Russian subtext".
Tymoshenko was jailed for seven years for acting beyond her powers in sealing a gas deal with Russia in 2009.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who signed the deal, said he could not understand the court's verdict.
"It is dangerous and counterproductive to cast the entire package of agreements into doubt," said Putin.
The judge ruled that Tymoshenko had "used her powers for criminal ends" by pushing Ukraine's state energy firm Naftogaz into a deal with Russia's Gazprom.
The US called for the release of Tymoshenko and decried the "politically motivated prosecution".
Several European countries were scathing about the sentencing, Sweden's Foreign Minister Carl Bildt labelling it a "political show-trial".
Rights watchdog the Council of Europe accused Ukraine of "criminalisation of political decision-taking", while Amnesty International demanded that Tymoshenko be set free.
The president had been under pressure from Western governments and rights groups to downgrade the charges against Tymoshenko to administrative offences rather than criminal.