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Editor’s Note: In this feature, the Kyiv Post brings together the most relevant events from morning headlines.

Ukraine’s State Penitentiary Service announced that jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko caught a cold and can’t meet her lawyers, writes Ukrainska Pravda, quoting the official website of the penitentiary service. However, Tymoshenko’s daughter Eugenia Tymoshenko claims her mother isn’t sick, and her rights to have visitors are illegally restricted.

Viktor Pylypyshyn will once more run for parliament in Kyiv constituency #223, reported Ukrainska Pravda. In October 2012m Pylypyshyn lost the elections in the same constituency, but the results were not approved by Central Electional Commission because of registered violations. New elections will be held on Dec. 15.

Vitali Klitschko thinks that his opposition allies, Oleh Tyahnybok and Arseniy Yatseniuk, shouldn’t run for president in the 2015 elections. In his interview to Focus magazine, Klitschko said that all the forces of opposition must be united around a single candidate.

Ukraine and Russia having a joined football championship doesn’t fit the principles of UEFA, said UEFA president Michel Platini, as quoted by Kommersant newspaper. Such consolidations are only acceptable for small countries, said Platini.

State-owned railway monopoly Ukrzaliznytsia published its financial results for the first six months of 2013, reports Kommersant. Company’s EBITDA is 14 percent down, and the income decreased 3.1 times compared to the same period of 2012.