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Yanukovych has nothing to do with Tymoshenko's arrest, says president's press secretary

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Aug. 5, 2011, 5:46 p.m. | Politics — by Kyiv Post Staff

Viktor Yanukovych has nothing to do with the arrest of former Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko and never intervened in activity of the judiciary.

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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has nothing to do with the arrest of former Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko and never intervened in activity of the judiciary. "The president has said many times that his administration has nothing to do with [the court process against Tymoshenko], and cannot intervene in the activity of the judiciary according to the constitution," the president's press secretary, Darya Chepak, told Interfax-Ukraine.

Yulia Tymoshenko, on trial for abusing her authority in reaching a 2009 gas deal with Russia when she was Ukraine's prime minister, was arrested today for disobeying court procedures.

One of her assistants told a Kyiv Post reporter she was taken to the Lukyanivska pre-trial detention center in Kyiv.

At the same time the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine has no information about the place of Tymoshenko imprisonment, according to the Interfax reports.

"The Prosecutor General's Office does not know where she was taken to," the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office said.

Kyiv's police said that they did not know about Tymoshneko's place of detention as this issue is outside their competence.

The press service of the Security Service of Ukraine also said that they did not know where Tymoshenko was being held.

A brawl erupted outside the courtroom as Tymoshenko supporters attempted to block police from leaving the court with the arrested Tymoshenko.


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Anonymous Aug. 5, 2011, 6:05 p.m.    

Liars!!! Their time will come sooner than they think!

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Anonymous Aug. 5, 2011, 6:19 p.m.    

They didn't waste anytime to defend themselves, even before anyone asked! Liars!

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Anonymous Aug. 5, 2011, 9:02 p.m.    

This is the end of Yanukovych.

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Anonymous Aug. 6, 2011, 5:17 a.m.    

After betraying his role as the guarantor of the Constitution, Yanukovych has effectively become a guarantor of corruption — guaranteeing the financial well-being of millions of bureaucrats, government employees and well-connected businesspeople.

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Anonymous Aug. 6, 2011, 7:30 p.m.    

One thing you can say about this illegal and corrupt govt is that they learned well from their Russian masters...Lie Often And Many Will Begin To Believe You.

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Anonymous Aug. 6, 2011, 7:46 p.m.    

After Yanukonvict ordered Tymoshenko's arrest, he disappeared into hiding.We won't see his ugly face for a while because the paranoid idiot knows that we hate him!

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