[This expert survey was conducted in May-June
2011, i.e. before the trial and arrest of Yulia Tymoshenko, and later partly
updated. Abridged versions of the expert interviews
were previously published on the website of Ukraine's major English-language
weekly "Kyiv Post."]
Olena Tregub is a GMAP student at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Medford, Mass., and works as a freelance journalist, in Washington, DC, and Kyiv, Ukraine.