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Yulia Tymoshenko, a former prime minister and the leader of the Batkivschyna All-Ukrainian Association party, has said that she is not ruling out the possibility of further attempts being made to restrict her freedom, including her arrest. Tymoshenko was speaking in an interview with REN TV, a Russian television channel, on May 28. "I think that it exists because the people that are in power today simply believe that they have no other choice," the former prime minister said when asked about the probability of her being arrested. Tymoshenko believes that the authorities are trying to eliminate opponents by depriving them of liberty because of falling public support for them. Read the story here