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Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said that fresh criminal charges have been brought against ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko for good reason.

“If the corresponding agencies have started such a criminal case, they had reasons for that,” he told reporters in Uman, Cherkasy region, on Friday.

He added: “And what should they do? Pretend that they don’t know anything and that they haven’t noticed anything?”

Azarov also said that somebody had to answer for the $405.5-million debt that the Russian Defense Ministry is demanding from the Ukrainian government.

“Who has to answer for this? Those who took this decision and who dumped this debt on the country?” he said.

A new criminal case was opened against Tymoshenko for laying the burden of the debts of the United Energy Systems of Ukraine corporation on the Ukrainian budget.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said that the reason for launching a new criminal case against the former Ukrainian prime minister was a letter from the Russian Defense Ministry to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, which raised the issue of repaying the corporation’s debt of $405.5 million.

According to the SBU, charges under this case were brought against Tymoshenko on October 12.

However, Oleksandr Turchynov, the first deputy leader of the Batkivschyna Party, said that the Ukrainian Security Service had not brought any charges connected with the company’s debts against Tymoshenko.

“No charges have been brought against Tymoshenko,” he said at a press conference in Kyiv on Thursday.

Tymoshenko’s defense lawyers remained in her cell until 1800 on Wednesday. After they left, at about 19.00, Security Service investigators “attempted to question Tymoshenko or serve some papers to her,” but the ex-prime minister refused to talk with them in the absence of her defense lawyers, he said.

Truskavets – Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Sergiy Tigipko said he is hoping for a swift reaching of a deal at gas talks with Russia.

“Lengthy talks continue and I think that very soon we will be able to reach an agreement on the Russian part. The most important thing is that constructive factors have emerged there, which allow us to have this hope,” he told a press conference at the 11th International Economic Forum in Truskavets on Friday.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) demands that Ukraine raise gas prices by 32% for its population and by 56% for heating utilities, Tigipko said

“Their logic is simple: the IMF says that our Naftogaz is having losses and we must cover its losses. If you subsidize Naftogaz, then you are virtually helping absolutely everyone – the rich have bigger houses and they consumer more gas, and you subsidize them with low prices. Raise the prices to the real level and help the poor,” the deputy prime minister said.

Raising prices will lead to the gas price being increased by 32% for ten million families, for whom this figure is insurmountable, he said.

“It means that for them the tariff will rise by UAH 200-250 per month. For us, it is a very important decision, which is why we dug in our heels and are looking for other options,” Tigipko said.

Ukraine is participating in the 63rd World Newspaper Congress in Vienna (Austria), which is being held from Oct. 12-15.

During the event, Ukraine is presenting itself as a country prepared to host the World Newspaper Congress in Kyiv in September 2012, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) said in a statement.

The Ukrainian state at the congress in Austria in represented by an information stand and promotional videos inviting the editors of leading international media to come to Kyiv next year.

Ukraine is represented by an official delegation led by Head of the State Committee of Ukraine on Television and Radio Broadcasting Oleksandr Kurdinovych and President of the UMH (United Media Holding) Group of Companies and Member of the Board of the Ukrainian Association of Press Publishers Borys Lozhkin.

“We have come to Vienna to inform the WAN-IFRA leadership that Ukraine is ready to host the congress next year. Thanks to Euro 2012 infrastructure projects, we have the opportunity to host the event at the highest level,” Lozhkin said.

WAN-IFRA CEO Christoph Riess will visit Ukraine in November 2011 to meet with the working group on preparing for the event and assess the country’s readiness to host the congress.

“We have the opportunity to help develop the media to work with our colleagues in the second largest country in Europe. We hope the presence in Kyiv of hundreds of editors and publishers from around the world will help improve the media situation by focusing attention on the issues and through professional exchanges that are central to our meetings,” Riess said.

WAN-IFRA is a nonprofit, non-governmental organization. It was set up in 1948 and represents more than 18,000 publications, 15,000 online sites and over 3,000 companies in more than 120 countries. The association has the status of an official consultant representing the press at UNESCO, the UN and the Council of Europe.

The World Newspaper Congress has been held since 1948. Annually since 1961 the Golden Pen of Freedom Award for the contribution in freedom of press has been presented during the event.

The WAN-IFRA Executive Committee has chosen Ukraine as the venue for the 2012 World Newspaper Congress, World Editors Forum and Info Services Expo.

The European Commission has confirmed that it expects Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to visit Brussels on Oct. 20, but notes that a final decision on this matter will be taken only in the next few days.

“President Yanukovych’s meetings with [European Commission] President [Jose Manuel] Barroso and [President of the European Council Herman] Van Rompuy, which were scheduled for Oct. 20, are on the agenda, but a final decision will be taken in the next few days,” a source at the European Commission told Interfax-Ukraine on Friday.

When asked about the prospects of the upcoming EU-Ukraine summit, which is to be held in Kyiv in December, the source noted that at present “there is no confirmed date.”

“We are continuing to work on the basis of our previous assumptions – to hold the summit in order to complete talks on the association agreement and a free trade area, provided that the talks are going well,” the source said.

Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, a popular opposition leader who once symbolized Western hopes for a democratic Ukraine, was convicted of abuse of office and sentenced to seven years in prison in a verdict condemned by the U.S. and European Union as politically motivated.

The charismatic politician denounced the court even before the judge finished speaking Tuesday. She compared it to the 1930s purges and show trials of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and promised Ukrainians: “I will always be with you.”

Tymoshenko’s conviction bodes ill for Ukraine’s aspirations to shake off Russian influence, integrate more closely into the West, and eventually join the 27-nation European bloc.

The verdict capped a chaotic trial that started in late June and saw scuffles between Tymoshenko’s supporters and opponents in the courthouse. She called Judge Rodion Kireyev a “monster” and refused to rise when addressing him — leading to her arrest Aug. 5 on charges of contempt of court.

The court found Tymoshenko guilty of abuse of office in the signing of a natural gas import contract with Russia in 2009, saying she lacked an official authorization for the deal and had agreed to a price that was too high for Ukraine’s economy.

Tymoshenko, 50, has maintained her innocence, saying that as prime minister she did not need any special permission to order the signing of the deal. She says her actions helped end a bitter pricing dispute between Moscow and Kiev, which had led to energy supply shortages across Europe.

The government of President Viktor Yanukovych — a longtime foe of Tymoshenko — had insisted that the contract she signed should be renegotiated in favor of a lower price.

In finding her guilty, Kireyev read a long summary of the case, saying she had inflicted damages of some 1.5 billion hryvna ($190 million) on the national gas company by signing the import contract with Russia. He fined her that amount, sentenced her to seven years in prison and banned her from occupying government posts for three years after the end of her prison term.

TOUGH MESSAGE

Ukraine EU officialsagain spelled out the tough message to Yanukovich on Friday at an ‘Eastern partnership’ summit in neighbouring Poland.

“We have expressed ourselves very clearly to the authorities of Ukraine that the whole EU, and each of us separately, believe the bad treatment of the democratic opposition and the violation of democratic standards … may overshadow the final stage of the negotiations (on association agreement),” Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk told a Warsaw news conference.

“We expressed our concern about the fate of the former prime minister and we expressed our rejection of a possible selective use of criminal judicial measures against former government members,” said European Council president Herman van Rompuy.

In comments to the court before the adjournment, Tymoshenko, who spoke for four hours on Thursday, said: “The sentence which Kireyev will announce will testify to whether Yanukovich wants European integration for Ukraine.”

Yanukovich, who narrowly beat Tymoshenko in an election for president in February 2010, denies he is hounding Tymoshenko and says her trial is part of efforts by his leadership to root out corruption.

The trial of Ukrainian ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, on a charge of abuse of office, was adjourned on Friday for 11 days to give the political leadership time to ponder its next move in the face of fierce criticism from the West.

Judge Rodion Kireyev said the trial of the 50-year-old opposition leader would be paused until Oct. 11 at the earliest, and was expected to announce his verdict soon after it resumed.

State prosecutors have asked for a seven-year jail sentence to be passed on the charismatic politician who they allege exceeded her powers as prime minister by forcing through a 2009 gas deal with Russia to the detriment of Ukraine.

She denies this and says the trial is a vendetta against her by her arch-rival, President Viktor Yanukovich.

Kireyev gave no specific reason for the adjournment. He said the court would re-convene again “round about” Oct. 11.

But political commentators said it was clearly designed to give Yanukovich and his ruling circle a breathing space in which to consider their options following pressure from the European Union and the United States over the case.

The EU, with which Ukraine is negotiating important agreements on association and free trade, has said these will be jeopardised if Tymoshenko is jailed.

It has urged Yanukovich to push through amendments to the criminal law to re-classify the charge against Tymoshenko to allow her to go free and continue as an opposition politician.

“Yanukovich needs these two weeks to make a decision. He is in a difficult situation in that the prosecutor has asked for a seven-year jail sentence on Tymoshenko,” said political analyst Viktor Nebozhenko.

“They (the Yanukovich administration) are looking for a solution … If he (Yanukovich) puts her in jail she will become at a stroke the most famous dissident in Europe, and who needs that?,” he said.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych agrees that the Tymoshenko case impedes the European integration of Ukraine and says he is upset with that.

Reporters asked the president in Kamyanets-Podilsky on Thursday whether the sentence on ex-Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko might lead to international isolation of Ukraine. “No one would have uttered a word or even opened one’s mouth if the same situation had occurred in any other state, even the most democratic,” he said.

“Ukraine is under the microscope. Are we happy about that or not? No, we are not. Does this hamper the European integration of Ukraine? Yes, it does. Do I like that? No, I do not,” Yanukovych said.

He said he felt negative about that and the future developments would depend on several factors. Modern laws will be adopted “and an appeals court will hear the case,” he said.

If the amendments to the Criminal Code are approved before the hearings at the appeals court, the latter will take them into consideration, Yanukovych said.

“There is no doubt that the Tymoshenko case is high profile. However, the court will consider nothing but its merits and the laws in effect at the moment of the hearing,” he said.

The amendments to the Criminal Code are being evaluated by the Council of Europe Venice Commission. Yanukovych said they expected an opinion soon. After that, the law will be approved in Ukraine, he said.

The president recalled that the Tymoshenko case started at a meeting of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council in February 2009, when the police were ordered to hold an investigation.

Tymoshenko blocked the investigation when she became the premier, he said.

“As long as Tymoshenko was the premier, she was blocking the investigation. When she left that position, the investigation was held quickly and brought to court. The court heard the case,” he said.

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