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  • Tymoshenko, ex-Ukraine PM, to go free after 30 months in prison

    02/21/2014 9:17:46 AM PST · by AnAmericanAbroad · 38 replies
    Kyiv Post ^ | February 21 2014 | Katya Gorchinskaya, Mark Rachkevych
    Parliament voted to free ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko from prison by decriminalizing the article in the criminal procedural code under which she was convicted. A constitutional majority of 310 lawmakers from a cross-section of different parties, including the Communists, voted for the measure. This makes the legislation veto-proof, preventing President Viktor Yanukovych from blocking the move. Yanukovych is widely blamed for ordering the imprisonment of his political rival. The bill that parliament passed included other articles of the criminal procedural code that were decriminalized. Batkivshchyna Party lawmaker Oleksandr Turchynov, a close ally of Tymoshenko and her former deputy prime minister,...