ARCHIVE UNIAN Ex-Prime-Minister of Ukraine Pavel Lazarenko at the government bench during the session of Verkhovna Rada in Kiev in 1998. Lazarenko was appointed the Prime Minister of new government by Ukrainian President’s decree of July 11, 1996. For many years Pavel Lazarenko has been in USA, firstly in exile, then in imprisonment. Recently it is rumored in Ukrainian and foreign press that Lazarenko can soon return to Ukraine. Photo by Victor Pobedinsky / UNIAN