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The news of the Ukrainian businessman, Oleksandr Tymoshenko, husband of the jailed ex-prime minister, winning political asylum in the Czech Republic made headlines in the local and Ukrainian printed media. Not surprisingly, the news was received differently by Yulia Tymoshenko’s supporters and opponents in Ukraine. Surprisingly, media and political responses varied in the Czech Republic. Jiri Paroubek, ex-Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, leader of the newly established party, National Socialists-21st Century Left, tagged the government’s decision to grant political asylum to Oleksandr Tymoshenko as cynical. The popular Prague-based periodical Dnes noted that there were asylum waiting lists that numbered years, whereas Oleksandr Tymoshenko won it in a matter of weeks.

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