Oleksandr Tymoshenko, the husband of jailed former Ukrainian prime minister and opposition Batkivschyna party leader Yulia Tymoshenko, has submitted documents in Prague to register the International Non-Governmental Organization Batkivschyna.
In an interview with Radio Liberty, Oleksandr Tymoshenko said the documents were filed in December 2011. He said that organization’s mission is "to analyze the actions of the ruling government and its criminal activities aimed at robbing Ukraine, provide coverage of the activities of Yanukovych’s government in foreign publications, and monitor observance of human rights and freedoms and democratic principles in Ukraine.
"You have to understand that Yanukovych’s regime is not the Ukrainian people. It is a group of former bandits dressed in Brioni who through lies, by manipulating Ukrainian law, secured absolute power in the country and are cheating and robbing the Ukrainian people," Oleksandr Tymoshenko said.
According to him, the people did not elect a president of Ukraine with such powers and they did not give parliament such powers.
"The people didn’t elect deputies that were bribed to switch parties, they voted for party factions. Because of the betrayal by certain deputies there was a constitutional coup that allowed the dictatorship of Yanukovych, who has been fighting against Yulia Tymoshenko for all these years," the ex-premier’s husband said.
"Today Yulia Tymoshenko and other political prisoners are in jail, while Yanukovych sits on a golden toilet with his sons and junta – [Ukrainian business tycoon Dmytro] Firtash, [head of presidential administration Serhiy] Liovochkin, [Chief Security Service of Ukraine Valeriy] Khoroshkovsky, and [Prosecutor General Renat] Kuzmin and their sons – and robs the Ukrainian people," he said.
