My name is Maria Spirova. In January, through euronews’s Global Conversation programme , I met a 16-year old Ukrainian called Timur from Kiev. Together we conversed with Viviane Reding online and Timur asked his almost prophetic questions about the EU’s stance on the situation in Ukraine. I dedicate this open letter to him, and to all Ukrainians feeling that special Eastern European desperation which can be produced only by chasing the democratic ideal for quarter of a century only to arrive at a riot police cordon. Timur, to begin with, ...