Criminal proceedings against supporters of Yulia Tymoshenko

The building of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine

Tax protests or so-called "Tax Maidan" (Kiev), November 29, 2010

Since May 2010 there have been several criminal proceedings in Ukraine against important supporters Yulia Tymoshenko and Tymoshenko himself. These are internationally recognized in parts of politics and the media as a systematic political measure following Tymoshenko's defeat in the presidential election in early 2010 and the subsequent takeover by the party of the regions . Mainly they were charged with abuse of office or power (see point 2 of the resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe of 26 January 2012). The General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine did not establish the fact of appropriation of funds or property from them; none of them was charged with passive or active bribery.There are a number of appeals from the European Union , the USA , Russia , civil rights organizations , the Ukrainian society in Ukraine and in the diaspora with regard to these criminal proceedings : the political component of these criminal proceedings is always focused on pointed out. However, the prosecutor of Ukraine claims that "the political component" is missing.

Yulia Tymoshenko's supporters, against whom criminal proceedings have been initiated since 2010

Political prosecutions in Ukraine have been actively discussed in the press of Ukraine, Europe, Russia and the USA (see the review articles)

Since May 2010, a series of criminal proceedings have been launched against Yulia Tymoshenko and her supporters. By October 2011, around fifteen former members of the Tymoshenko government had been arrested; half of them were in custody for 8–12 months. They are mainly charged with abuse of office.

The Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko
The Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko .
- The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on July 3, 2012 that the arrest of Yuriy Lutsenko was illegal and politically motivated.
- “In his judgment, the judge stated that Lutsenko had overpaid the driver of his company car and helped him to get to a one-room service apartment by passing the queue. The Ukrainian state suffered a loss of around 4,000 euros, the judge said on Monday with a serious expression ».
The Defense Minister Valeriy Ivashchenko . On January 14, 2013, Valery Ivashchenko received political asylum in Denmark.
The Economy Minister Bohdan Danylyshyn
The Minister of Natural Resources Heorhi Filipchuk
First Deputy Minister of Justice Yevhen Kornijchuk
The head of the Customs Service of Ukraine Anatoly Makarenko .
The head of the regional customs service Taras Shepitko
The chairman of the State Treasury of Ukraine Tetiana Sljus
the first deputy chairman of the State Treasury Tetiana Hryzun.
-12. Deputy head of Naftohas (the state monopoly of trade in oil and gas ) - Ihor Didenko ; Marija Kuschnir - the head of accounting at Naftohas.
The Minister of Construction (and the former mayor of Lviv ) Kujbida ;
-15. The governor (the head of state administration) of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (the former Minister of Transport and Liaison) Viktor Bondar ; Oleksandr Davydov, the former Deputy Minister of Transport (January 2008 to March 2010) - for abuse of office in connection with an airline.
The governor of Kharkiv Oblast Arsen Avakov (he was forced to be in Italy , where he was granted political asylum , for most of the year ; he was only able to return to Ukraine when he was elected as a member of the parliament of Ukraine )
-18. Some state employees (in particular the First Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Turchynov ) have also been called to interrogation many times in order to initiate criminal proceedings, but these have not been initiated. On October 19, 2011, the apartment of the former coal industry minister Viktor Poltavets (December 2007 to March 2010) was searched.
On January 31, 2011, an arrest warrant was issued against Mikhail Poshivanov, the former Deputy Minister of Economy (December 2007 to March 2010) and head of the Reserve Fund of Ukraine. He then fled to Austria, where he has lived and worked ever since. He is said to have embezzled 3 million euros.
-27. Criminal proceedings were also opened against the activists of the “ Tax Maid 2010 ”, which was organized by the small business owners in close cooperation with the Blok Yuliya Tymoshenko (BJuT). (The protests of the entrepreneurs against the new tax laws). At the end of 2010 and beginning of 2011, eight representatives of the business movement “The Common Cause”, who organized the “Tax Maidan 2010” protest in cooperation with Tymoshenko, were arrested.
-32. On October 12, 2011, the Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine announced its intention to reopen criminal trials that had closed in 2003–2005. These are criminal cases against relatives of Yulia Tymoshenko: Olexander Tymoshenko Gennadij Tymoshenko and against the employees of the company « United Energy Systems of Ukraine » (the VESU): Yevhen Schaho , Antonina Boljura , Lidija Sokoltschenko (case of the VESU regarding the delivery of building materials to Russia in the years 1996–1997).
In November 2012 the General Prosecutor's Office announced the criminal proceedings against the well-known ex-deputy of the bloc Yulia Tymoshenko (BJuT) Andrij Shkil . A. Shkil was an activist of the UNA-UNSO (a Ukrainian right-wing extremist and nationalist party) and an organizer of the protests in March 2001 (the action « Ukraine without Kuchma »). In December 2012, Schkil was forced to leave for the Czech Republic .
-36. Criminal proceedings have also been opened against some candidates for the "Fatherland" party ( Ukrainian «Batkivschyna») for the mayor (local elections in 2010). After these elections, pressure was exerted on the mayors of the cities of Zaporizhia , Kremenchuk , Novomoskovsk and others (members of the «Batikivshchyna» party). As a result of the pressure, they left the "Batikivshchyna" party and declared that they were not party members, otherwise they would not be allowed to work.

International assessment of the proceedings

Germany

The Minister of State in the Foreign Office Werner Hoyer ( FDP ) has expressed concern about the arrest of the Ukrainian opposition leader Julija Tymoshenko. "The federal government has taken note of today's arrest of the Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko with great concern," said Hoyer. There were great doubts as to whether the pre-trial detention was proportionate. «The fact that numerous members of the previous government are being investigated for abuse of office arouses suspicion of a politically motivated judiciary. If this impression were to become more solid, it would be a major hurdle for Ukraine to move closer to the European Union, ”said Hoyer

Russia

The President and Prime Minister of Russia made a number of statements about the “politically motivated trial of Yulia Tymoshenko”. On October 11, 2011, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation issued the official statement (see their website): «The governments of many states and the world public all perceive this criminal process to be extremely politically motivated. This fact can hardly be disregarded ».

The director of the branch of the «Institute of the Commonwealth of Independent States » in Ukraine (the Russian state institute for the study of the problems of the CIS ) Volodymyr Kornilov said that if Kiev is the opinion of the European Union , Russia and the USA on the case by Julija Tymoshenko "will repeatedly ignore, Brussels' relationship with Ukraine can become like that with Belarus ".

United States

On December 30, 2010, the US State Department informed the Ukrainian government of its concern about the criminal proceedings against Tymoshenko's supporters and that "the persecution should not be selective or politically motivated".

On June 24, 2011, the US State Department declared that the conviction of Yulia Tymoshenko was a politically motivated trial against members of the opposition .

Assessment after the judgment against Tymoshenko (after October 11, 2011)

On October 11, 2011 (the day Yulia Tymoshenko was sentenced), the US government issued a warning to Ukraine to «release Yulia Tymoshenko, other leading figures and former government officials». On October 13, 2011, the Co- President of the Ukraine Support Group in the US Congress, Marcy Kaptur, registered the draft resolution on "the persecution of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko and her confidants".

European Union

On January 13, 2011, the Czech Republic granted political asylum to ex-Minister for Economy Bohdan Danylyschyn . On January 6, 2012, the Czech Interior Ministry granted Olexander Tymoshenko political asylum.

On June 22, 2010 - shortly before the start of the trial against Tymoshenko - the Ambassador of Great Britain to Ukraine Leigh Turner warned the government of Ukraine against the persecution of the opposition in an interview with the newspaper "Den" :

«We are paying close attention to the development of criminal trials against former government officials […] We are concerned about the suspicion of possible political motives in these cases […] Now we have clearly explained to the representatives of the Ukrainian authorities that any reference to subjective and disproportionate Application of legal influence can significantly and in the long term damage the international reputation of Ukraine ».

The process offers “cause for concern about the state of the rule of law in Ukraine,” said EU Foreign Affairs Representative Catherine Ashton .

Six European Parliament resolutions on Ukraine and the Yulia Tymoshenko and other members of the former government

During 2010–2012, the European Parliament adopted six resolutions on the prosecution of the former Tymoshenko government and its political allies.

On June 9, 2011, the European Parliament passed the following resolution on Ukraine «Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko and other members of the previous government»:

«The European Parliament, having regard to its previous resolutions on Ukraine, and in particular to its resolution of 25 November 2010 […], having regard to the statement made by its President on the arrest of Yulia Tymoshenko of 24 May 2011, having regard to the statement of the Spokesperson for the EU High Representative , Catherine Ashton , on the Julija Tymoshenko case of 26 May 2011, referring to the statement made by Commissioner Štefan Füle on 24 March 2011 following his meeting with Julija Tymoshenko […]:

1. […] warns against any abuse of criminal law as an instrument to achieve political goals;

2. Expresses concern about the increase in selective prosecution of members of the political opposition in Ukraine and about the disproportionate nature of the measures taken, particularly in the cases of Yuliya Tymoshenko and former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko , and notes that this has been going on since December 26, 2010 is in custody […] »

On October 25, 2011, the European Parliament (five political groups out of six) passed the resolution on Ukraine (the third resolution in 2011). Recalling the statement made by the representatives of the European Union , the European Parliament stated that «whereas an increasing number of civil servants - including former government ministers , but mostly heads and deputy heads of government departments and regulators, heads of law enforcement departments, Judges at district courts and heads of local authorities - be held criminally responsible for their actions ”,“ the European Parliament regrets the conviction of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko (according to point 2) ”,“ demands that all criminal proceedings against former and current leaders Government representatives are carried out in accordance with European standards in terms of fairness , impartiality, transparency and legal independence (according to point 6) ».

The PACE and OSCE resolutions

On January 26, 2012, PACE adopted the resolution «The functioning of democratic institutions in Ukraine». The resolution deals with the political nature of the criminal proceedings against Tymoshenko and the ministers of her government (Ministers Yuriy Lutsenko , Valery Iwaschtschenko , Bohdan Danylyschyn , Heorhi Filipchuk, General Anatoly Makarenko, Yevhen Korniychuk were mentioned).

On July 11, 2012, the OSCE adopted a resolution on selective justice in Ukraine against Tymoshenko's supporters.

The criminal proceedings in detail

The criminal case against the former Minister of Economy Bohdan Danylyschyn

On August 5, 2010, Bohdan Danylyschyn , the economics minister of Tymoshenko's former second cabinet , left for Germany .

On August 12, 2010, the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine opened the criminal case against Bohdan Danylyschyn pursuant to Section 2 Art. 364 for abuse of office or power. Danylyschyn was put out for international manhunt. On October 18, 2010, Danylyschyn from Germany arrived at the Ukrainian embassy in the Czech Republic for a meeting with his lawyer, but after the meeting Danylyschyn was arrested (October 18, 2010) by the Czech police (at the request of Interpol ) in Prague .

After his arrest, Danylyschyn applied for political asylum in the Czech Republic, which he received on January 12, 2011.

The emblem of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine

The criminal case against ex-defense minister Valery Ivashchenko

On August 24, 2010, the former Defense Minister Valery Ivashchenko was arrested. He was charged with the alleged unlawful sale of property at the Feodosia ship assembly plant .

On June 20, 2011, Ivashchenko started a hunger strike because of his arrest, but he was forced to end the hunger strike on June 25 due to the severe deterioration in his health.

The Helsinki Committee disapproves of Ivashchenko's verdict:

The verdict against the former Defense Minister of Ukraine cannot be called the result of a fair trial. «The Helsinki Committee emphasizes that the indictment against Ivashchenko was based on Articles 364 and 365 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, which are unclearly worded, can be interpreted in different ways, originate from the Soviet Criminal Code and through the PACE resolution of January 26th 2012 was criticized ».

On January 14, 2013, Valery Ivashchenko received political asylum in Denmark .

The criminal case against the former Minister of Natural Resources Heorhi Filipchuk

On December 14, 2010 the former Minister of Natural Resources of Ukraine Heorhiy Filipchuk was arrested: “On December 13, 2010, the prosecutor of Ukraine opened the criminal case against the former Minister of Natural Resources of Ukraine Heorhiy Filipchuk according to section 2, article 364 of the Criminal Code Ukraine - abuse of office or power with serious consequences opened ». Filipchuk was charged with a share in the deal "Kyoto money".

On April 8, 2011, the General Prosecutor's Office announced that Heorhi Filipchuk "has been released for completing the preliminary investigation."

The criminal case against ex-minister for regional development and construction Wassyl Kujbida

In June 2010 the criminal case against Vasyl Kujbida (the Minister for Regional Development and Construction of the former Tymoshenko government; the mayor of Lviv from 1994–2002) was opened. The Security Service of Ukraine charged Kujbida with appointing a head of State Architecture and Construction Control in Rivne Oblast without a candidate competition. The trial began in August 2010 but has been adjourned several times.

Kujbida stated that there is a resolution according to which there should be no competition if the candidacy for the head of State Architectural and Building Control is approved by the minister and by agreement with the governor. The ex-governor of Rivne Oblast, Viktor Mattschuk, confirmed Kujbida's statement.

On December 13, 2010 the trial against him was closed by the decision of the Shevchenko District Court in Kiev. The prosecutor protested the closure of the criminal case, but on January 14, 2011, the Kiev Court of Appeal upheld the decision to close the criminal case.

Vasyl Kujbida announced that criminal proceedings had been initiated against him so that he could not run for the election of the mayor of Lviv :

“I was persecuted after the consultations regarding my possible candidacy for Lviv mayor. After that, I was forced to spend a lot of time in Kiev and therefore forgot about the elections. In other words, in the end they managed to prevent me from running for the office of mayor ”.

Indeed, the criminal case against Kujbida was closed after the local elections in Ukraine on October 31, 2010. It should be noted that prior to the local elections in Ukraine, criminal proceedings were launched against the mayors of some cities.

The criminal case against the former first deputy minister of justice Yevhen Kornijchuk

On December 22, 2010, the public prosecutor's office arrested Yevgen Korniychuk, the former First Deputy Minister of Justice in the Tymoshenko Cabinet; he is the son-in-law of Vasyl Onopenko (Chief of the Supreme Court of Ukraine). Korniychuk was arrested on the day his wife was born, the newborn child was in a reanimation in two days. But Yevgen Kornijchuk was released in a couple of weeks (after a meeting Vasyl Onopenkos with President Yanukovych ) with "the obligation to report".

On February 15, 2011, the security measure against Yevgen Kornijchuk was changed from imprisonment to an obligation to report.

The criminal case against Viktor Bondar, the ex-governor of Dnepropetrovsk Oblast

On December 24, 2010, the public prosecutor's office arrested the ex-transport minister, ex-governor of Dnepropetrovsk Oblast Viktor Bondar. Viktor Bondar had only joined Prime Minister Tymoshenko's team in the last few months leading up to the 2010 presidential election, but his support (support for the governor of one of the largest areas in Ukraine) was very important for the 2010 elections.

Criminal proceedings were initiated against W. Bondar regarding his activities as acting deputy of the transport minister in the government of Jechanurov in 2006 after the departure of transport minister J. Chernenko during the construction of the bus station "Teremky" in Kiev. The loss is valued at 5 million UAH (about 950,000 US dollars) - (Section 5 Art. 27, Section 2 Art. 194, Art. 353 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine: Assistance in the deliberate destruction of someone else's property caused the loss of property to a considerable extent, combined with the arbitrary appropriation of power.)

The criminal proceedings against Igor Didenko and Anatoly Makarenko

The emblem of the Ministry of Fuel and Power of Ukraine

On June 23, 2010, the ex-head of the State Customs Service of Ukraine, Anatoly Makarenko, was arrested.

On July 8, 2010 , Igor Didenko, the former first deputy chairman of Naftohas Ukrajiny National Company , was arrested.

On July 22, 2010 the first deputy attorney general Viktor Pschonka announced: "Taras Shepitko, the former deputy head of the regional customs service for energy, was arrested on July 21, 2010". Pschonka stressed that the Stockholm Court resolution is not a reason to initiate criminal proceedings.

«Ihor Didenko, sentenced to three years suspended prison sentence. This was preceded by a reassessment of the penalties from “misappropriating property of others to a particularly high degree” to “abuse of office” ”.

The criminal case against Taras Schepitko in March 2009

In early 2009, on the orders of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko , Naftohas confiscated 11 billion cubic meters of gas in the country's underground storage facilities, which belonged to RUE. The basis for this was the right to debt claims against the gas trader in the amount of 1.7 billion dollars, which Gazprom assigned to Naftohas. But the gas extraction via the settlement of debts was not legally fixed between “Naftohas” and RUE. At the same time, Gazprom stopped selling fuel to gas traders, which made it impossible for him to fulfill contracts in Europe. Nonetheless, RUE made no claims against the Russian monopoly, but turned to the Stockholm Arbitration Court, demanding that the NAK be fined 11 billion cubic meters and a 1.1 billion cubic meters fine. In June the court backed the gas trader, and last week the Supreme Court of Ukraine upheld the decision.

The Security Service of Ukraine (head Valentyn Nalywajtschenko , first deputy Valery Khorozhkovsky ) led the criminal proceedings on March 2, 2009 ( Yushchenko was President of Ukraine at the time ) regarding the appropriation of 6.3 billion m³ of gas worth 7, 4 billion UAH (approx. 1 billion dollars) through the Naftohas . Taras Schepitko, deputy head of the regional energy customs service, was arrested as part of the trial. However, the acting manager of Naftohas, Igor Didenko, appealed to the Shevchenko District Court , and on March 24, 2009, the Shevchenko District Court ruled that some acts of the Security Service of Ukraine were illegal and revoked the Ordinance of the Security Service of Ukraine on initiating the Criminal proceedings (Schepitko was released from custody).

Marija Kuschnir, the head of accounting at Naftohas

Marija Kuschnir is the fourth accused in the "RosUkrEnergo" criminal case (after Didenko, Makarenko and Shepitko were arrested).

On July 23, 2010, the Security Service of Ukraine initiated criminal proceedings against the head of accounting at Naftohas , Marija Kuschnir. On July 26, 2010, the Kiev - Pechersk District Court issued the sentence for the arrest of Maria Kuzhnir. The head of the security service of Ukraine Valery Khorozhkovsky said that Kuzhnir was specially hired by “Naftohas” for the operation of clearing the natural gas of “ RosUkrEnergo ”: “She should only give the necessary signature. She in particular gave the order to put the gas on the balance sheet of the “Naftohas” and signed the first receipt ».

At first Kuschnir was accused according to section 2, article 367 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (official sloppiness with serious consequences), which provides for up to three years in prison; but on September 9, 2010 she was convicted according to section 2, article 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (abuse of power or office with serious consequences).

«On September 10, 2010 Kuzhnir was arrested in the Volgograd region ( Russian Federation ) thanks to interaction with the law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation» and extradited to Ukraine in a month. Marija Kuschnir has been in custody since then (until October 2011). There were no notices of her criminal case in the mass media.

The chronology of events related to the "RossUkrEnergo" claim at the Stockholm Arbitration Court

The first lawsuit of the AG “ RosUkrEnergo ” against the NAK “ Naftohas ” was filed in April 2008 (at the arbitration court at the Chamber of Commerce in Stockholm). In January 2009, “RosUkrEnergo” filed three more lawsuits against “Naftohas”. “Naftohas”, for its part, filed four counterclaims against “RosUskrEnergo”. All lawsuits related to this dispute were combined into one criminal case.

On April 2, 2010, the Stockholm Arbitration Court ordered “ Naftohas Ukrajiny with respect to the claims of“ RosUkrEnergo ”to pay the plaintiff $ 197 million.

On June 8th 2010 the Stockholm Arbitration Court adopted the resolution (with peace agreement). The working group “Naftohas Ukrajiny” has accepted all the requirements of the working group “RosUkrEnergo” and is obliged to refund 11 billion m³ of gas and an additional 10% compensation.

These 11 billion m³ of Russian gas were destined for RosUkrEnergo (RUE) in January 2009, but RosUkrEnergo did not pay the value of the gas to OAO Gazprom. Therefore in 2009:

"Naftohas" has paid $ 1.7 billion for "RosUkrEnergo" in front of Gazprom; At the same time, Gazprom delivered the 11 billion m³ of gas (ie 156 dollars for 1000 m³) specified as compensation to NAK «Naftohas».
RosUkrEnergo was excluded from the scheme of deliveries of natural gas to Ukraine; The state-owned companies “Naftohas” and “Gazprom” signed the supply contract directly. Until April 2010 Gazprom owned 50% of the shares of RosUkrEnergo, but in April 2010 Gazprom left the group of founders of RosUkrEnergo. RosUkrEnergo became completely a private company in which Dmytro Firtash held the majority share.

“Naftohas” refunded the Swiss company RosUkrEnergo 12.1 billion m³ of gas (11 billion m³ of gas and 10% compensation) from November 2010 to April. RosUkrEnergo paid the NAK «Naftohas» 1.7 billion dollars. Since in 2011 the price in the European Union was $ 490 for 1000 m³ of gas, the total value of the gas supplied was about $ 5.4 billion

D. Firtasch explained his point of view in an interview with the magazine “Brennpunkt”.

In May 2011, Tymoshenko sued RosUkrEnergo in court in New York : “ Kiev in the pillory . RosUkrEnergo in US court. A New York court has accepted a lawsuit by the Ukrainian opposition leader Tymoshenko, in which she speaks of collusion between the government and the natural gas distributor RosUkrEnergo ».

Makarenko and Shepitko were released after a year in custody

On July 5, 2011, Makarenko and Shepitko were unexpectedly released from pretrial detention, but only the security measures against them were changed from detention to reporting requirements.

Mass media linked this release with the future meeting (on July 6, 2011 in Krym) of the Prime Minister of Russia V. Putin and the President of Ukraine V. Yanukovych . In the summer of 2010, the Russian naval commanders who had served with Makarenko in the navy turned to Vladimir Putin and V. Yanukovych to request Makarenko's release from custody. Putin supported her request in the speech on the Russian Navy Day in 2010.

In connection with Makarenko's release, the mass media reported that Russia had recommended Ukraine to end the persecution of Tymoshenko. During the press conference on July 7, 2011 in Moscow (as a result of the negotiations between Vladimir Putin and Mykola Azarov), Prime Minister Putin stated that Russia is against the revision of the January 19, 2009 gas contract. He also believed that the Ukrainian government's criticism of the current treaty had a political component. "The aim is to prove that the predecessors did everything badly"

The Presidents of the State Treasury: Tetjana Sljus and Tetjana Hryzun

Tetiana Sljus, the chairwoman of the State Treasury of Ukraine

On December 24, 2010, Tetjana Sljus (the head of the State Chamber of Ukraine) was put out to search; she was charged with the share in the "Kyoto money" deal.

The public prosecutor claims that Sljus is abroad.

Tetjana Hryzun, the first deputy chairman of the State Treasury

On July 19, 2010, Tetjana Hryzun (the former first deputy chairwoman of the State Treasury of Ukraine) was arrested. She was accused of abuse of power or office with not inconsiderable consequences (Section 2, Art. 364 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine; punishable by three to six years in prison): According to investigators, between September 2009 and April 2010, Hryzun issued instructions to the competition guarantees in the amount Not transferring 800 million hryvnia to the participants in the privatization competition for the Odessa port, although they would have been obliged to do so according to an instruction from the State Property Fund. This affected the companies «Nortima Ltd» and «Frunze-Flora». The court also determined that the legal and court costs of the two companies as well as a fine totaling more than 2 million hryvnia must be paid to them.

In October 2011, Tetyana Hryzun is in custody .

The essence of the conflict around the «Odessa port works» is as follows:

Prime Minister Tymoshenko was reluctant to significantly supplement the state budget in the "crisis year 2009" by privatizing the strategic operation. At that time, Ukraine was preparing for the presidential elections; President Yushchenko led the fight against Tymoshenko and passed the resolution banning the privatization of the Odessa port works. By this resolution - "the strongest investors" did not participate in the competition; only three companies have registered. During the competition the price actually stayed at the initial level. The company "Nortima" (owner Igor Kolomojski) won the auction, but Tymoshenko said that the work would not be sold because "the participants agreed to buy it for the minimum price." Kolomoysky announced that he would sue, and Tymoshenko interrupted the repayment of bail for "Nortima" and "Frunze Flora", but not for the third participant in the competition, the Russian company "Nitrogen Service", which presented the interests of "Gazprom". Nitrogen service was immediately guaranteed backwards. Tymoshenko said that there is no money in the state budget, that the competition guarantees will only be transferred after the privatization of the Odessa port plant.

The criminal case against the ex-Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko

The emblem of the Ministry of Interior of Ukraine

On December 26, 2010, the ex-Interior Minister of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko was arrested. Three criminal proceedings have been initiated against Lutsenko:

Because of the excessive pension of his driver (around 100 euros per month, and one-time at the exit to the pension 2,500 euros)
Among other things, he was charged with embezzlement in the amount of around 600,000 UAH (60,000 euros) in the years 2008–2009, for which the Palace of Culture “Ukraine” was leased to celebrate Militia Day.
Because of illegal continuation of prosecution of figurants of criminal case about Yushchenko's poisoning (section 3, article 364 of the Criminal code - abuse of office).

Yury Lutsenko's hunger strike

On April 23, 2011, Yuriy Lutsenko started a hunger strike to protest the illegal arrest (he did not eat anything but drank coffee with sugar). On April 28, he signed the official letter to the management of the remand prison "on the voluntary refusal of food". By 10 May he lost 19.5 kg and "was brought to the medical center of the Luk'yanivsk remand prison on the occasion of the deterioration in health . " On the same day Lutsenko was hospitalized in the Kiev first aid hospital. On May 19, intravenous feeding was ordered on the occasion of the deterioration in his health. On May 23, 2011, the trial was supposed to take place at which «the preventive measure» was settled (that is, Lutsenko was released from custody). Yuriy Lutsenko only stopped the hunger strike after the trial on May 23 (i.e. after 30 days of hunger strike and about 25 kg of weight loss) Lutsenko stated:

«I think it is inappropriate to continue the hunger strike. I started it to suggest that we don't have a real prosecutor's office in Ukraine. Through today's session of the court I made it clear that we do not have a lawful court. But I still need strong health to break it. "

Yury Lutsenko in the opposition a week before the Verkhovna Rada elections. March 20, 2007

After the hunger strike, Luzenko's health deteriorated significantly. Lutsenko was operated on in January 2013.

The letters from prison

While in custody, Lutsenko wrote (until June 2011) six «letters from prison», journalistic essays on current political issues.

Marek Siwiec, the head of the EU-Ukraine Committee, supported Lutsenko

On June 29, 2011, Marek Siwiec, Member of the European Union and former head of the «State Security Office in Poland», sent an official letter to the Pechersk District Court requesting that Lutsenko be released until the trial under his personal guarantee:

«" I have decided to give the plenipotentiary judicial bodies of Ukraine the official letter with the request to release Lutsenko under my personal guarantee and to give him the opportunity to respond freely before the court. "Siwiec recalled the resolution of the European Parliament in which the increase in the number of cases of criminal prosecution of the former government and opposition is established ».

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on July 3, 2012 that the arrest of Yuriy Luzenko was illegal and politically motivated.

The Tax Maid of 2010

The Tax Maidan. Kiev, November 29, 2010

In autumn 2010, owners and employees of small and medium-sized businesses protested in Ukraine against some government measures to lower social standards through a series of " oligarchic reforms ".

The new Pension Code and the Labor Code also made the life of the broader classes of society much worse.
The new tax law significantly increased taxes on small business owners. There was a particularly large increase in taxes for micro-enterprises, which were taxed in a simplified manner. Medium-sized entrepreneurship also suffered. The new tax law also allowed «the search of the entrepreneur's house by the tax inspection without sanction from the public prosecutor».

The protest rallies took place in Kiev (20,000 demonstrators) and in all major cities, namely Kharkiv , Dnipropetrovsk , Odessa , Donetsk , Zaporizhia , Poltava , Ternopil , Rivne , Chernihiv , Chernivtsi . The markets in Zaporizhia , Kharkiv, Chernihiv and Rivne were closed in support of the protests.

One of the high points of the protests was the “Tax Maidan” (the All-Ukrainian rallies by small and medium-sized entrepreneurs against the Azarov and Tihipko Tax Act , from November 22nd to December 3rd, 2010). The tax majdan resulted in the repeal of the most difficult points of the Azarov and Tihipko tax law . BJuT almost exclusively supported the entrepreneurs. On November 22, 2010, Tymoshenko gave a keynote address, although since the beginning of the protests she had strived to ensure that the mass actions were free from political opposition.

Tymoshenko's party is the main political force on which the "tax majdan of entrepreneurs" oriented

In Ukraine, owners and employees of small and medium-sized enterprises protested against the new tax reform under the leadership of the organization “Common Cause”. But among the political forces they were mainly oriented towards the "United Opposition of Tymoshenko":

On the first day of the tax protests (November 22, 2010), Tymoshenko gave a keynote speech «Majdan demands a veto». She stood on the podium together with the leader of the «Tax Maid 2010» (the head of the «Common Cause» organization) Alexander Danylyuk.
The tents of the people's deputies from the Yulia Tymoshenko (BJuT) block and from the “People's Self-Defense” stood on the “Tax Maidan 2010”.

Repressive measures against the participants of the «Tax Maid 2010», arrests of activists

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and Prime Minister Mykola Azarov met on November 27, 2010 on Independence Square in central Kiev with entrepreneurs who were taking part in the protests against the tax reform. They wanted to get to know the position of entrepreneurs. Some points of the Tax Code were actually removed in the "new editing of the Tax Code of November 29, 2010", but:

On December 3, 2010, the militia carried the activists' tents away from Independence Square: at five o'clock in the morning, the square was surrounded by four restricted sections belonging to the Ministry of the Interior.
On December 28, 2010 three activists of the «Tax Maid» were arrested: I. Harkavenko, O. Saplatkin and V. Hrusyniv; the fourth arrested person (co-organizer of Aktion Alexander Manditsch) was soon released. By January 14th, 2011 criminal proceedings against 7 activists of the «Tax Maidan» were initiated. These are the following entrepreneurs: Ochtyrski, Manditsch, Kawenko, Saplatkin, Hrusyniw, Melnytschenko, Fedchuk. They were charged with damaging the tiles on Independence Square in the amount of UAH 230,000 (EUR 21,000)
In December 2010 Sergij Kostak, an activist of the “Tax Maid”, was arrested. In July 2011, he was still in custody.

Eight people were arrested for the peaceful actions against the tax law, which was processed in any case by agreement with the president and the prime minister, and were detained for more than seven months without trial (July 2011).

Cooperation between President Yanukovych and the section of the opposition who do not consider Tymoshenko to be his leader

There is also a section of the opposition who does not consider Tymoshenko to be his leader and whose members are therefore not supporters of Tymoshenko.

Viktor Yushchenko's political team

After Viktor Yanukovych came to power , only Tymoshenko's political team and ministers of her government were persecuted and arrested. Viktor Yanukovych worked with part of the opposition. Some close supporters of Viktor Yushchenko had been appointed to high offices.

Viktor Baloga became Minister of Emergency Ministries (his brother Iwan Baloga had been the head of the Carpathian Ukraine Regional Authority from 2010 );
Petro Poroshenko was appointed head of the supervisory board of the National Bank , and later "Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine" of the Azarov government;
Roman Bessmertnyj became the ambassador to Belarus ;
Yevgeny Chervonenko was appointed head of the Air Fleet Department of the Interior Ministry;
Wladyslav Kaskiv (the former leader of the "Pora" organization - until October 2006) became the head of the State Agency for investment and management of national projects;
Maryna Stawnijchuk (member of the Venice Commission) worked for a time as the deputy head of the administration of President Yanukovych;
Yuri Pavlenko (former minister under Viktor Yushchenko ) was appointed plenipotentiary on children's rights to the President of Ukraine at the time of his testimony in court regarding Tymoshenko.

The political opposition forces against whom no criminal proceedings have been opened

The leaders of the political team of the ununified opposition (ex-chairman of the parliament Arseniy Yatsenyuk , Serhiy Tihipko , Anatoly Hryzenko , Oleh Tyahnybok ) were not persecuted either. The unified opposition opposed both Yanukovych and Tymoshenko.

Petro Poroshenko , head of the supervisory board of the National Bank of Ukraine from 2010–2011, minister since 2012
Arseniy Yatsenyuk , ex- chairman of parliament, foreign minister in the Yanukovych government, 2006
Anatoly Hryzenko , Minister of Defense of Ukraine in the Yanukovych government, 2006
Oleh Tjahnybok , the Ukrainian nationalist , January 2008

There are also examples of Yanukovych's cooperation even with «former BJuT politicians », but only when these politicians left the BJuT. Two of them were appointed "notable offices":

Alexander Feldman (No. 43 in BJuT's lists for the 2007 elections, the ex-head of BJuT in Kharkiv Oblast and owner of the large market in Kharkiv ) was expelled from the BJuT on June 25, 2010, but has decided not to to surrender the mandate of the « Batikivshchyna » party . On March 16, 2011, he joined the Party of Regions. On July 8, 2011, he was elected to the Political Council of the Party of Regions .

Andrei Portnow (No. 58 in the BJuT lists for the 2007 elections, the well-known lawyer from the " Private " group) headed the team of Tymoshenko's lawyers after the presidential elections in 2010. On April 2, 2010, he was deputy head of the Administration of President Yanukovych has been appointed. The head of administration of the president had 9 deputies. At the same time he was expelled from the Batikivshchyna party ; on April 16, 2010, he resigned his parliamentary mandate. On April 5, 2011, he was dismissed from the position of Deputy Head of Administration to the President.

Feldman and Portnow were important members of the BJuT in the past , but they were not confidants of Tymoshenko (nos. 43 and 58 in the lists). Overall, a third of the members of the «BJuT» parliamentary group were expelled from 2010–2011 (mainly because they voted against the parliamentary group's decision). Of 156 MPs, more than 100 stayed (October 2011).

Web links

Nico Lange: Julia Tymoshenko is the new Prime Minister of Ukraine . Konrad Adenauer Foundation Ukraine, December 19, 2007.
Konrad Schuller: The List of Power . FAZ , January 25, 2011.
Tymoshenko's confidante in the grip of justice . Welt Online , January 2, 2011.
"Documentation: preliminary investigations and judgments against former members of the Tymoshenko government and high officials" . Federal Agency for Civic Education , Dossier Ukraine, Ukraine Analysis, October 31, 2011.
Heiko Pleines / Stanij Wićaz: Tymoschenko , Julija Wolodymyriwna , in: Kurt Groenewold , Alexander Ignor, Arnd Koch (eds.): Lexicon of Political Criminal Processes , online, as of April 2016.

Political reprisals in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Helsinki Committee :

Report on political reprisals in Ukraine in 2011. helsinki.org.ua, The Ukrainian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, November 21, 2011
The Helsinki Committee disparagingly assesses Ivashchenko's verdict. Kiev, April 13, 2012.

Six European Parliament resolutions on Ukraine and the Yulia Tymoshenko and other members of the former government cases:

Multimedia Credits

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Documentation: Investigations and judgments against former members of the Tymoshenko government and high officials . Ukraine dossier, Ukraine analyzes. Compiled by Judith Janiszewski . October 31, 2011.

↑ Nico Lange: Habemus Julia! Julia Tymoshenko is the new Prime Minister of Ukraine . Konrad Adenauer Foundation , Ukraine, December 19, 2007.

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Tymoshenko's confidante in the grip of justice. Since President Yanukovych took office, a wave of arrests has rolled through the country . In: Die Welt , January 2, 2011.

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Resolution “The Functioning of Democratic Institutions in Ukraine”, January 26, 2012. ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and still Not checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ (English) "The Instrumentalization of the judiciary in Ukraine: authoritarian excesses of one man or an approach to political development?" Robert Shuman Foundation. July 23, 2012.
↑ ^a ^b Valentyna Telychenko: (English) Courtroom Drama. Dependent courts are a bigger problem for Ukraine than the imperfect Criminal Code . The Ukrainian Week, January 27, 2012.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Concern in the Kremlin Ukraine: Tymoshenko trial leads to further tensions between Moscow and Kiev. August 10, 2011.
↑ ^a ^b plenary debates. Thursday 9 June 2011 - Strasbourg. Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko and other members of the previous government (debate).
↑ ^a ^b Resolution of the European Parliament of October 27, 2011 on current developments in Ukraine.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Konrad Schuller: The list of power. Yulia Tymoshenko speaks of “selective justice” in Ukraine . In: FAZ , January 25, 2011.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Ukraine: Julija Tymoshenko and other members of the previous government." Thursday 9 June 2011 - Strasbourg.
^ Committees of Ministers to give birth to Tymoshenko's case. Who's next? (Experts opinion).
↑ Judith Janiszewski: Documentation: Investigations and judgments against former members of the Tymoshenko government and high officials . (PDF; 1.2 MB) Dossier Ukraine, Ukraine Analysis, October 31, 2011.
↑ «Outrage over the mistreatment of Julija Tymoshenko, Russia demands humane treatment». April 25, 2012.
↑ Visiting the dictator . In: FAZ, April 21, 2012.
^ After the judgment in Ukraine, Tymoshenkos deputy for EU sanctions . In: FAZ, April 21, 2012.
↑ Konrad Schuller: Ukrainian Torture. Yulia Tymoshenko is tortured. The new trial against the former Prime Minister of Ukraine is a cruel farce. Europe cannot stand idly by . In: FAZ, April 24, 2012.
↑ ^a ^b Ukrainian opposition politician arrested. In: NZZ . December 26, 2010, accessed on June 12, 2019 (allegedly embezzled 5,000 francs - the government strikes back): “The former Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuri Lutsenko has been arrested in Kiev. A special police force grabbed him when he was walking his dog with his son in front of his house in Kiev. "
↑ "The Human Rights Situation in Ukraine". Decision of the Federal Expert Committee on Development Cooperation and Human Rights of the CDU Germany under the direction of Arnold Vaatz MdB on October 15, 2012. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 155 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.cdu.de

↑ Yuri Lutsenko: «I do not expect a fair judgment». by Paul Flückiger . The website «DerTagesspiegel», February 28, 2012.

↑ ^a ^b ^c “Another senior official from the Tymoshenko government arrested”. The website «ukraine-nachrichten.de», August 26, 2010.

↑ ^a ^b The Helsinki Committee disparages Iwaschtchenko's verdict. Kiev, April 13 (UKRINFORM). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2
↑ ^a ^b Tymoshenko's former Minister of Economy is wanted by the Attorney General. August 19, 2010.
↑ ^a ^b Tymoshenko's ex-minister receives political asylum in the Czech Republic. January 13, 2011.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Tymoshenko's Minister of Economic Affairs was arrested in the Czech Republic. The website «ukraine-nachrichten.de», October 19, 2010.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Ukraine: Wave of indictments against previous government. The website «diepresse.com» (Jurij Lutsenko, Georgi Filipchuk, Bohdan Danilischin, RosUkrEnergo (RUE), Firtasch), January 6, 2011.
↑ ^a ^b ^c «The Ukrainian leadership in a dead end». Kyryl Savin and Andreas Stein. Kiev, September 27, 2011.
↑ Andreas Stein: Ihor Didenko received three years probation . In: Ukrajinska Pravda, September 5, 2011.
↑ ^a ^b ^c (English) «Accountant of Naftogaz of Ukraine arrested in Russia. Photo". The website «MIGnews.com.ua», September 14, 2010.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Andreas Stein: The court releases Makarenko and Schepitko from custody. Didenko remains in prison . "Left Coast" ( Ukr. "Lewyj Bereg"), 5 July 2011.
↑ ^a ^b (Ukrainian) “The court acquitted ex-minister Kujbida.” The website “Єдина Одеса”, January 14, 2011.
↑ ^a ^b (Ukrainian) The trial against Kujbida was postponed until September. The website of the newspaper "Лівий берег", August 17, 2010.
↑ ^a ^b ^c (Ukrainian) Kujbida assumes that he was arrested for the local elections. The website “Ukrainian Truth” ( ukr. “Ukrainska pravda”), January 14, 2011.
↑ «Why does Arsen Avakov stay abroad?» Overview by Eugen Slobojan, Kharkiv, Ukraine. August 12, 2012. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / postup.kh.ua
↑ Konrad Schuller: The language of power . In: FAZ, June 12, 2012.
^ Turchynov was questioned as a witness by the SBU. The website «ukraine-nachrichten.de», September 8, 2010.
↑ ^a ^b Ukraine: Former Interior Minister arrested in Kiev.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Despite snowfall in Kiev, entrepreneurs continue to protest against tax reform. November 29, 2010.
↑ ^a ^b (Russian) Seven activists were charged with the “Tax Maidan” criminal case. "TCH.ua" website, January 14, 2011.
↑ ^a ^b (Russian) Three activists of the tax protests were arrested. Website “Коментарі PRO.UA”, December 29, 2010.
↑ ^a ^b "Ukraine: Tymoshenko's husband flees to the Czech Republic". The "Spiegel-online" website, January 6, 2012.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ½Czechia hopes that relations with Ukraine will not deteriorate. The website «ukraine-nachrichten.de», January 9, 2012.
^ (English) «Oppositionist Shkil Left Ukraine and Plans to Seek Asylum in Czech Republic. His Property Seized ». December 18, 2012.
^ Minister of State Hoyer worried about the arrest of the Ukrainian opposition leader Tymoshenko. January 25, 2011.
↑ Заявление МИД России ( Russian ) mid.ru. Archived from the original on February 13, 2015. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
^ The website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia
↑ The verdict against Tymoshenko: the day that did not change Ukraine. The website of the TV program “Voice of America”, October 20, 2011.
↑ Tomasz Konicz : Concern in the Kremlin Ukraine: Tymoshenko trial leads to further tensions between Moscow and Kiev on the website of the Peace Research Working Group. From: Junge Welt, August 10, 2011.
↑ (English) The Financial Times: US warns Ukraine about opposition arrests. By Roman Olearchyk in Kiev, December 30, 2010.
^ Prosecution of the Ukrainian opposition leaders. June 24, 2011. ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ US calls for release of Tymoshenko , Kyiv Post . 11 October 2011.
↑ (Ukrainian) «We take care of development of criminal cases against former government officials.» Lie Terner, the ambassador of Great Britain to Ukraine, especially for the newspaper «Den», the newspaper «Tag» ( ukr. «Den»), Nu. 107, June 22nd, 2011 (Wednesday). ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Resolution of the European Parliament of February 25, 2010 on the situation in Ukraine. Thursday 25 February 2010 - Brussels.
^ Resolution of the European Parliament of June 9, 2011 on Ukraine and the cases of Yulia Tymoshenko and other members of the former government. Thursday 9 June 2011 - Strasbourg.
↑ Resolution of the European Parliament of October 27, 2011 on current developments in Ukraine. Thursday 27 October 2011 - Strasbourg.
↑ Resolution of the European Parliament of December 1, 2011 on the recommendations of the European Parliament to the Council, the Commission and the EEAS on the negotiations on the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement (2011/2132 (INI)). Thursday 1st December 2011 - Brussels.
↑ Resolution of the European Parliament of May 24, 2012 on the situation in Ukraine and the Julia Tymoshenko case (2012/2658 (RSP)). Thursday May 24th 2012 - Strasbourg.
↑ Resolution of the European Parliament of December 13, 2012 on the situation in Ukraine (2012/2889 (RSP)). Thursday December 13th 2012 - Strasbourg.
↑ Resolution of the European Parliament on current developments in Ukraine. October 25, 2011.
↑ Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe: «Ukraine 2012 Parliamentary Elections: Progress on the European Standard». July 12, 2012.
↑ Tymoshenko's Minister of Economic Affairs Danilischin is advertised at Interpol for a search. August 31, 2010.
↑ ^a ^b Czech court releases Danylyschyn into freedom. January 14, 2011.
↑ ^a ^b (Russian) - The former minister faces the criminal case for 5 million. The website “Ukrainian Truth” ( ukr. “Ukrainska pravda”), January 21, 2011.
↑ (Russian) The special services of Ukraine detained the top manager of Naftohas, who was responsible for the business with RosUkrEnergo.
↑ ^a ^b The court allowed the arrest of Taras Schepitko. The website «Versions» ( ukr. «Versii»), July 22, 2010.
↑ ^a ^b Immediately after Makarenko and Didenko, Schepitko was also arrested. The website «Novyny UNIAN», July 23, 2010.
↑ Ukraine still uncompromising. Andreas Stein. February 11, 2008.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d RosUkrEnergo dictates “Naftohas” terms of debt payment. Review article. November 30, 2010.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e «Kiev in the pillory: A New York court has accepted a lawsuit by the Ukrainian opposition leader Tymoshenko, in which she speaks of collusion between the government and the natural gas distributor RosUkrEnergo». The “Neue Zürcher Zeitung” website, May 2, 2011.
↑ ^a ^b (Ukrainian) The Pechersk District Court in Kiev has made the decision on the arrest of Taras Shepitko, the head of the regional customs service in Kiev, for two months. The website “Лівий берег”, July 22, 2010.
↑ (Russian) Mister F. Intewiev with Dmytro Firtasch. The “Fokus.ua” website, December 9, 2011. ( Memento of the original from November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / focus.ua
^ The court releases Makarenko and Shepitko from custody. Didenko remains in prison.
↑ (Ukrainian) Tymoshenko comments on the release of Didenko and Shepitko on July 5, 2011: "This is not a result of the judiciary, but a consequence of the exact democratic position in the world and in Ukraine".
↑ (Russian) The Russian naval commanders wrote a letter to V. Yanukovych requesting the release of their comrade Anatoly Makarenko from pre-trial detention. The website «ТСН.ua» (news service of the Ukrainian TV channels «1 + 1», «2 + 2», «ТЕТ»). August 27, 2010.
↑ (Ukrainian) “The mass media about Putin's conversation with Yanukovych: if Viktor Fedorovych does not want the complications with the Kremlin, then it is necessary to refrain from persecuting Tymoshenko”. The website «Censorship, no» (ukr. «Zensor, net»), July 6th, 2011.
↑ (Russian) The head of the Government of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and the Prime Minister of Ukraine M.Ya Azarov held the general press conference on the results of the meeting of the Economic Cooperation Committee. The website of the Government of Russia. June 7, 2011. ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ ^a ^b (Ukrainian) The ex-chairman of the State Treasury of Ukraine Tetiana Sljus is abroad, explains the public prosecutor of Ukraine. The website «NEWS.ru.ua», January 5, 2011. ( Memento of the original from June 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
^ Court arrests ex-first deputy head if state treasury Tetiana Hrytsum. Retrieved September 30, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b (Russian) The sale of the Odessa port plant: failure, noise, conspiracy. Dmytro Korotkov. R. Akhmetov's newspaper “Today” ( ukr. “Segodnia”), September 30, 2009. ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Domestic Policy. Ex-Interior Minister Lutsenko arrested in Kiev
↑ Yuri Lutsenko: "I do not expect a fair judgment", by Paul Flückiger28. February 2012
↑ Civil Protection Minister speaks out against the second criminal case against the former Interior Minister Lutsenko. July 20, 2010. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.unn.com.ua
^ "Proceedings against Yuri Lutsenko, Oleh Pavlenow and Volodymyr Tarasenko for illegally extending the time limit of the proceedings in an operational investigation into the poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko". Mass Media Relations Department of the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine. July 25, 2012.
↑ Ex-Interior Minister on hunger strike6. May 2011.
↑ Lutsenko remains in custody and announces a hunger strike. Valery Kutscherk. April 22, 2011.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Yuriy Lutsenko: I defend myself with what little I have left. Valery Kalnysch (Kommersant-Ukraine. May 13, 2011).
↑ Lutsenko is near death. May 17, 2011.
↑ Lutsenko stops the hunger strike. May 23, 2011.
↑ Marek Siwiec, a member of the European Parliament, is ready to grant the Ukrainian court a personal guarantee that Lutsenko will be released. The website of the Ukrainian TV station «Channel 5» ( ukr. «5 kanal»), June 29, 2011.
↑ Ukraine: Protests against new tax law in Kiev. November 22, 2010.
↑ Tymoshenko was unable to convince party comrades to end the hunger strike. October 12, 2010.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Ukrainian entrepreneurs protest against tax legislation in Kiev. November 22, 2010.
↑ Protests in Kiev: Protesters do not let the police through. November 22, 2010.
↑ ^a ^b (Ukrainian) Julia Tymoshenko: «Majdan demands a veto». November 22, 2010.
↑ (Ukrainian) O. Turchinow: We both helped with the tents and our members of parliament were on duty on the Maidan (square). The website «RBK-Ukraine» ( ukr. «РБК-Україна»), December 2, 2010.
↑ Mass protests in Kiev: Yanukovych starts dialogue with demonstrators. November 27, 2010.
↑ (Ukrainian) Tax Maidan's activist is waiting for the main trial in custody for 7 months. The website «Ukrainian Truth» ( ukr. «Ukrainska pravda»), June 15, 2011.
↑ (Ukrainian) About the appointment of V. Kaskiv as head of the State Agency of Investments and Management of National Projects of Ukraine. ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[dosie-vse-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Documentation: Investigations and judgments against former members of the Tymoshenko government and high officials . Ukraine dossier, Ukraine analyzes. Compiled by Judith Janiszewski . October 31, 2011.

[19-12-2007-2] Nico Lange: Habemus Julia! Julia Tymoshenko is the new Prime Minister of Ukraine . Konrad Adenauer Foundation , Ukraine, December 19, 2007.

[Bondar-Naftogas-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Tymoshenko's confidante in the grip of justice. Since President Yanukovych took office, a wave of arrests has rolled through the country . In: Die Welt , January 2, 2011.