Tymoshenko Looks Set to Remain in Jail By Maria Danilova The Associated Press Published: November 16, 2011 (Issue # 1683) AP / TYMOSHENKO PRESS SERVICE Former Ukrainian PM Yulia Tymoshenko waves to supporters from a prison window in Kiev, Ukraine on Friday, Nov. 4. KIEV, Ukraine — Efforts to free former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia [...]
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November 17, 2011
November 17, 2011
Main news of November 15
WORLD * The Syrian opposition has dismissed any talks with President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, the leader of the rebel Syrian National Council (SNC), Burhan Ghalioun, said * The Ukrainian parliament threw out a bill that would have exonerated jailed ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko * Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with the leader of the [...]
October 22, 2011
Russia, Kazakhstan may cancel oil export duties within CIS free trade zone
Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said Russia and Kazakhstan have agreed to cancel oil export duties for participants in a free trade zone being created within the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). “For the first time, we fixed in the agreement the readiness of Russia, as well as Kazakhstan, another oil producing country, to [...]
October 21, 2011
Russia ‘agrees’ to allow Turkmen gas transit to Ukraine
Moscow is ready to allow Kiev to use Russian pipelines to transit Turkmen gas to Ukraine, Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said on Saturday. “Why can’t we receive cheap gas from Turkmenistan? Because we did not have access to the pipe in the Russian territory,” Azarov said in an interview with Ukraine’s Inter TV channel. [...]
October 19, 2011
Kiev told to dump ‘phobias,’ join customs union
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday urged Ukraine to get rid of its political phobias over accession to the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. “Sit down, calculate, weigh it up, get rid of various political phobias from the past, and look into the future,” Putin said at a news conference after a [...]
October 18, 2011
Fly away: EU cancels Yanukovich invitation
Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovich will not visit Brussels on Thursday to discuss the EU Association Agreement. The visit was canceled after a court sentenced former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to seven years. “We took a decision to postpone this visit to a more suitable moment in our bilateral relations,” Spokeswoman of the European Commission [...]
October 13, 2011
Main news of October 13
WORLD *The relatives of former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned in 2006 in London, have called for a substantial probe into his death, BBC reported *Up to 30,000 Ukrainian nationalists and communists will march in Kiev on Friday in two opposing rallies for and against the recognition of WWII-era Ukrainian Insurgent Army members [...]
October 12, 2011
Yulia Tymoshenko sentenced to seven years in prison
Yulia Tymoshenko has been sentenced to seven years’ jail. Link to this video The former Ukrainian prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, has been sentenced to seven years in prison after being found guilty of abusing her office in a case her supporters claim is politically motivated. Judge Rodion Kireyev said Tymoshenko had exceeded her powers when [...]
October 12, 2011
October 12, 2011
Moscow reads ‘anti-Russian subtext’ into Tymoshenko case
Moscow sees an anti-Russian subtext in the case of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko who was sentenced to seven years in prison for signing “gas contracts” with Russia, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. “As a matter of fact, Yulia Tymoshenko was prosecuted for the current, still valid, legally binding agreements between Gazprom and [...]
October 11, 2011
Tymoshenko Handed 7-Year Sentence
Tymoshenko Handed 7-Year Sentence By Maria Danilova The Associated Press Published: October 12, 2011 (Issue # 1678) EFREM LUKATSKY / AP Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko being led out of the courtroom by police after having been found guilty. KIEV, Ukraine — Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was found guilty of abuse of [...]
October 11, 2011
Putin ‘puzzled’ by Tymoshenko verdict
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday he does not understand why former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was found guilty and handed a seven-year prison sentence for forcing through a gas deal with Russia. He said Tymoshenko had not signed anything herself and that the agreements were concluded by the national companies in [...]
October 11, 2011
Main news of October 11
WORLD * Russia and the West were united in condemnation of Ukraine over the guilty verdict and seven year sentence handed to former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko RUSSIA * Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said: – He expected to complete talks on Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization by year-end – Economic cooperation [...]
October 11, 2011
Yulia Tymoshenko trial is an own goal for Ukraine
The venue was Kiev’s glittering Hyatt Regency hotel, overlooking the Old City. The moment was just before Ukraine‘s 2010 presidential election. Voters had grown weary of the constant bickering between the country’s two pro-western leaders – firebrand prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko and semi-romantic nationalist president Viktor Yushchenko. Instead, the man of the moment was Viktor [...]