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Tymoshenko rejects treatment in protest at publication of her daily routine by media Former Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko, who is undergoing treatment at Kharkiv Central Clinical Hospital No. 5, has refused to undergo medical procedures, Deputy Health Minister of Ukraine Oleksandr Tolstanov said.
May 15 at 16:09 | Interfax-Ukraine
Ukraine puts off Tymoshenko appeal hearings A Ukrainian court delayed hearings on May 15 into former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko's appeal against last year's abuse-of-office conviction, a verdict seen by many Western nations as politically motivated.
May 15 at 14:23 | Reuters
Official: Tymoshenko eating properly, gaining weight KHARKIV - Ukraine's ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is undergoing a course of treatment at a hospital in Kharkiv, is gradually returning to normal eating and has gained some weight, Ukrainian Deputy Health Minister Oleksandr Tolstanov said.
May 14 at 19:39 | Interfax-Ukraine
Tefft: US position on Tymoshenko case unchanged, selective justice unacceptable KHARKIV – The United States' position on the case of former Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko remains unchanged, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine John F. Tefft and U.S. Assistant Deputy Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Thomas O. Melia have stated following a meeting with the ex-premier.
May 14 at 17:35 | Interfax-Ukraine
Katerynchuk: US guests weren't allowed to take cameras to meeting with Tymoshenko KHARKIV – U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine John F. Tefft and U.S. Assistant Deputy Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Thomas O. Melia had to hand over their cameras before a meeting with former Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko in her ward at Kharkiv Central Clinical Hospital No. 5, lawmaker Mykola Katerynchuk has said.
May 14 at 17:26 | Interfax-Ukraine
Court may pronounce judgment on Tymoshenko's cassation appeal in gas case on May 15 The defense team of former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko believes that Ukraine's Higher Specialized Court for Civil and Criminal Cases may pronounce its ruling on the appeal against Tymoshenko's sentence in the gas supply contracts case as early as May 15 and may order a new trial.
May 14 at 15:17 | Interfax-Ukraine
Parliamentary opposition wants to hear report from foreign minister on Euro 2012 boycott BYT-Batkivschyna faction has proposed to invite Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko to parliament to report on the situation with the boycott of matches of the Euro 2012 European Football Championship in Ukraine by European leaders.
May 14 at 14:55 | Interfax-Ukraine
Tefft: US cannot compel Lazarenko to testify The United States cannot oblige former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko, who was convicted and is serving a sentence in the United States, to provide testimony to representatives of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine John Tefft has said.
May 12 at 23:29 | Interfax-Ukraine
EU to discuss human rights situation in Ukraine Paris, May 12 (Interfax-Ukraine) – A wide range of issues, including the situation in Russia and Ukraine, have been put on the agenda of a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council on May 14, French Foreign Ministry spokesperson Bernard Valero said at a briefing on Friday.
May 12 at 23:17
Tymoshenko's husband says West should be tougher on Yanukovych Oleksandr Tymoshenko, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's husband, who has been granted political asylum in the Czech Republic, has warned that the Ukrainian authorities will disregard the West's criticism if the two parties continue speaking in the language of diplomacy.
May 12 at 23:13 | Interfax-Ukraine
Yanukovych warned over jailed Tymoshenko Lithuania's president has warned Ukraine it could become isolated by the West over the imprisonment and deteriorating health of jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
May 12 at 14:47 | Associated Press
Tymoshenko: Impeach Yanukovych Former Ukrainian Prime Minister and Batkivschyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko has said that she is ready to offer mechanisms for the democratization of the Ukrainian society.
May 12 at 14:36 | Interfax-Ukraine
Opposition approves united plan The forum of the united opposition ended on Mykhailivska Square in Kyiv on Saturday, during which a number of political leaders delivered their speeches and appeals were read out to the participants of the forum from former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko, who are currently imprisoned.
May 12 at 14:29
Opposition plans to win elections, impeach Yanukovych The united opposition, in its program entitled "A fair state, an honest government, decent life," has proposed introducing the mechanism for expressing distrust in the president through a referendum and regulating the procedure of his impeachment.
May 12 at 14:25 | Interfax-Ukraine
Chicago Tribune: Yanukovych welcomes pause in Ukraine-EU relations Lithuania'spresident warnedUkrainian President Viktor Yanukovich on Friday that he wascourting "isolation" by the European Union through his treatmentof jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

Dalia Grybauskaite, the Lithuanian president, met Yanukovichafter seeing Tymoshenko for an hour in a hospital in the city ofKharkiv to where she was moved from prison on Wednesday for
treatment forback pain.

Emerging from her talks in the capital Kiev with Yanukovich,she said she had told him that if he did not guarantee lawfulrights to his opponents, including Tymoshenko, the relationship
with the EU would become "critical".

"One or another degree of isolation will be guaranteed," shetold reporters.

Grybauskaite was the first foreign leader to see Tymoshenkosince the opposition leader was jailed last October for sevenyears for alleged abuse of office after a trial denounced by the
EU and the United States as politically motivated.

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May 12 at 07:55