Tymoshenko and Ukraine's new prime minister to visit Ireland this weekend
The former Ukrainian Prime Minister was released from prison last week and will join two other political figures for the EPP conference.
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The former Ukrainian Prime Minister was released from prison last week and will join two other political figures for the EPP conference.
Viktor Yanukovych’s plane was from leaving the country as Yulia Tymoshenko announces a bid for the presidency.
Yulia Tymoshenko spearheaded Ukraine’s pro-democracy 2004 Orange Revolution.
Three people were killed in Kiev clashes this morning amid renewed violence in the Ukrainian capital. But what’s behind the dispute?
Hundreds of thousands of people turned out in Kiev this afternoon in an increasingly tense stand-off with the government.
Yesterday, tens of thousands protested in central Kiev in the biggest demonstration since the 2004 Orange Revolution overturned a rigged ballot and forced new elections.
“Fair and independent justice is needed in Ukraine, and the release of Mr Lutsenko is a step in the right direction,” the president of the European Parliament said today.
Footballer Andriy Shevchenko and boxer Vitali Klitschko had been tipped to do well but both fell short of expectations as the party of President Viktor Tymoshenko claimed victory.
A judicial panel found that the former Prime Minister had no grounds to appeal her corruption conviction.
Eamon Gilmore will discuss the situation in Syria, the Middle East Peace Process, relations with the Ukraine, EU-Asia trade relations and also the crisis arising from the conflict in Sudan.
Former prime minister of Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko, whose imprisonment has cast a shadow over Euro 2012, will faces charges relating to the 1996 murder of Yevhen Shcherban.
Sport and Youth Minister Valerie Fourneyron said the cabinet were intent on “respecting European values”.
The former prime minister has been on hunger strike for more than two weeks to protest alleged abuse.
Oleksandr Tymoshenko, the husband of the former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko, has accused the Ukrainian authorities of pursuing a vendetta against him.
Opposition leader and former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko is on trial for alleged abuse of power over a gas deal with Russia.