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Lawyer Ihor Lyashenko is the new government attorney, who will be protecting Ukraine’s ex-president Viktor Yanukovych in court. Inna Svynarenko, the press secretary of the Obolon district court in Kyiv, said this in her commentary for Interfax-Ukraine news agency.

Lyashenko appeared before the jury as the one appointed by the Regional Centre for Rendering Free Secondary Legal Assistance. The lawyer, the native of Mykolaiv region, southern Ukraine, was granted his license in February 2012.

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