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Leader of the Batkivschyna Party Yulia Tymoshenko has said that Viktor Yanukovych deserves only "a hopelessly unsatisfactory mark" for his first year of presidency.

"I think that neither the experts nor the politicians, the opposition or people’s deputies should evaluate Yanukovych. I think that every family should give a mark to Yanukovych. For this he has to answer several questions. Firstly: did salaries and pensions increase? Secondly: what do they think about the price rises? … I would like to ask people whether their lives really improved, or do they fear for future of their families and children today? … And with the answers to these questions every family can evaluate Yanukovych. I have no doubt that it will be a hopelessly unsatisfactory mark. The same as he got when he studied at school," Tymoshenko said at a press conference on Friday.

She also said that she has no questions to put to the incumbent president.

"The point is that I don’t have questions for Yanukovych. I think that everything is clear with him," Tymoshenko said, when asked what questions she would like to put to Yanukovych during the Conversation with the Country television project, if she had such an opportunity.

"Besides, I don’t really know how one asks questions of a record player," she said.