Tymoshenko supporter

A supporter of jailed ex Ukrainian premier <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PEPLT0008871" title="Yulia Tymoshenko" href="/topic/politics/government/yulia-tymoshenko-PEPLT0008871.topic">Yulia Tymoshenko</a> holds a picture of her during a rally to mark 300 days since her improsonment in Kiev on May 30, 2012. <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PLGEO00000034" title="Ukraine" href="/topic/intl/ukraine-PLGEO00000034.topic">Ukraine's</a> general prosecutor said Tymoshenko was cited as a witness in the murder of a deputy, putting fresh pressure on President <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PEPLT0008904" title="Viktor Yanukovych" href="/topic/politics/government/viktor-yanukovych-PEPLT0008904.topic">Viktor Yanukovych</a>'s arch-enemy. Ukrainian parliament member Yevgen Shcherban was gunned down at the airport in Donetsk in 1996 in a crime in which prosecutors have in the past implicated Tymoshenko and her ally Pavlo Lazarenko, who is serving a sentence in the United States for corruption.
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A supporter of jailed ex Ukrainian premier Yulia Tymoshenko holds a picture of her during a rally to mark 300 days since her improsonment in Kiev on May 30, 2012. Ukraine's general prosecutor said Tymoshenko was cited as a witness in the murder of a deputy, putting fresh pressure on President Viktor Yanukovych's arch-enemy. Ukrainian parliament member Yevgen Shcherban was gunned down at the airport in Donetsk in 1996 in a crime in which prosecutors have in the past implicated Tymoshenko and her ally Pavlo Lazarenko, who is serving a sentence in the United States for corruption.

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