{"id":134537,"date":"2011-10-11T16:35:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T11:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=134537"},"modified":"2011-10-11T16:38:35","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T11:38:35","slug":"ukraines-tymoshenko-sentenced-to-7-years-in-jail-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/10\/11\/ukraines-tymoshenko-sentenced-to-7-years-in-jail-photos.html","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine&#8217;s Tymoshenko Sentenced to 7 Years in Jail (PHOTOS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yulia V. Tymoshenko, once one of Ukraine\u2019s most powerful and popular politicians, was sentenced on Tuesday to seven years in prison, the culmination of a politically charged trial that could presage the end of the country\u2019s short and often raucous experiment with democracy, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/12\/world\/europe\/yulia-tymoshenko-sentenced-to-seven-years-in-prison.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The New York Times reports<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The sentence was the maximum demanded by prosecutors on charges that Tymoshenko had harmed Ukraine\u2019s interests when, as prime minister, she carried out negotiations with Russia in 2009 over the price of natural gas. Her supporters and many Western officials have insisted that her actions could hardly have amounted to a crime.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/bYul1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-134477 aligncenter\" title=\"bYul1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/bYul1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/bYul1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/bYul1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ruling will likely put a freeze on Ukraine\u2019s integration with Western Europe, which the country\u2019s president, Viktor F. Yanukovich, has pursued even as he has flirted with the iron-fisted ruling style practiced in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/hYul1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-134485 aligncenter\" title=\"hYul1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/hYul1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/hYul1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/hYul1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an authoritarian regime that is distancing Ukraine from Europe, while using European rhetoric,\u201d Tymoshenko said in the courtroom. Yanukovich, she said, \u201cis bringing Ukraine back to 1937,\u201d the height of the Stalinist purges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/dYul1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-134478 aligncenter\" title=\"dYul1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/dYul1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/dYul1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/dYul1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Riot police stood outside the Kiev Pechersk court as thousands of supporters and opponents gathered. There have been minor clashes and some arrests.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/eYul11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-134503 aligncenter\" title=\"eYul1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/eYul11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/eYul11.jpg 300w, https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/eYul11-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/iYul11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-134506\" title=\"iYul1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/iYul11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/iYul11.jpg 300w, https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/iYul11-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yulia V. 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