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Vice Prime Minister / Social Policy Minister Serhii Tihipko thinks that the conviction of Yulia Tymoshenko, a former prime minister and current leader of the Batkivschyna All-Ukrainian Association party, was right, he has announced in an interview with Ukrainska Pravda webzine. "If the court has decided there is a violation, and I hear independent law specialists saying there is really a violation, then, probably, the court's decision was right," said Tihipko when asked about his attitude towards the conviction of Tymoshenko.

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