Philip H. Gordon: “These are very serious charges. We have looked at them carefully and came to the view that they deserved, indeed…”

Ukraine has taken some steps in that direction, but on the question of democracy, there has been some backsliding as well and a failure to appropriately reform the electoral code.

We have said publicly--I have stated publicly that if those detained on the December 19 crackdown were not released very soon, we would have to conclude that they are now political prisoners.

If we're not satisfied after this back-and-forth... sanctions go back in place. That's new and different.

your leadership on United States policy toward the Balkans has been instrumental in the past couple of decades in moving this region toward peace and democracy.