The pro-West opposition leader, former Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko, has ended up in prison.

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Mrs Timoshenko, who never met a rabble she didn't try to rouse, will now be a formidable opposition leader.

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Mrs Timoshenko has taken to sporting a blue ribbon alongside her orange one.

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Yulia Timoshenko, a volatile but important ally, had talked darkly about Mr Kuchma's fate if he did not co-operate.

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Was the legal offensive launched against Mrs Timoshenko because she is upsetting the corrupt tycoons close to the presidential administration, as she insists.

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They also like Yulia Timoshenko, a former deputy prime minister who tangled with the tycoons over the country's murky energy business, ending up in jail.

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After the resignation of key officials amid a corruption scandal, Ukraine's president, Viktor Yushchenko, dismissed the government of Yulia Timoshenko and asked Yuri Yekhanurov, a regional governor, to become prime minster.

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He blames Mrs Timoshenko and her allies exclusively.

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He has set up a commission to look into the allegations against Mr Poroshenko, but says he has seen no facts to support them (though he offered none in support of his own charges against Mrs Timoshenko).

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The assembled also included relatives of other officers lost in the line of duty: the father and sister of Alain Schaberger, who was shoved to his death while answering a domestic violence call in 2011, and the mother of Russel Timoshenko, who was shot during a 2007 traffic stop.

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