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Yulia Tymoshenko
Ukrainian court decided on Friday the arrest of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, causing many supporters to take it to the streets of Kiev. Judge Rodion Kireyev, who presided over the case in which Tymoshenko is involved, considered that due to the defendant “systematic abuses” and “obstruction of the interrogation of witnesses” the motion of the prosecution to have her arrested is substantiated and allowed it.
The case against Tymoshenko was opened in April by the Prosecutor General’s office, charging her with signing overpriced gas deals with Russian Gazprom, in spite of the fact that she had no legal right to do so.
The contracts Tymoshenko signed cost the Ukrainians some $190 million, and could bring her several years in prison, if found guilty.
Ever since the case was launched against her, Tymoshenko was banned from traveling until Friday, when she was taken into custody.
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Tymoshenko rejected such accusations considering them fabrications of the regime installed after the presidential election in 2010 that she lost to Viktor Yanukovych. She says these cases are pure “fabrication” against her.
Tymoshenko is one of the two leaders of the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, alongside the former president Viktor Yushcenko, and was prime minister of the former Communist country during Yushcenko’s term in office.
The Orange Revolution was launched in 2004 in the former Communist republics in East Europe and the Caucasus region, and succeeded in Ukraine, where Tymoshenko and Yushcenko became the leaders, in Romania, where president Traian Basescu became the president of Romania and won a second term in office at the end of election that resemble closely what happened in the Ivory Coast, and after a first term with no astonishing accomplishments, and in Georgia, where Mikhail Saakasvili won the elections and lost two provinces of the small country by declaring war on mighty Russian Federation.
After four years of Orange Revolution the disappointment of the people in the Orange politicians was so big that Yushcenko scored 6 percent in the presidential election and in the end Yanukovych won, though he is a pro-Russian president.
By the election of Yanukovych, Ukrainians renounced their pro-Western orientation and resumed a pro-Russian stance.
Yulia Tymoshenko is a controversial person and accusations of corruption have long accompanied her, whether in Ukraine or in Russia.
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