Yuliya Timoshenko

Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko at the 45th Munich Security Conference "NATO, Russia, oil and gas" in Munich, Germany, February 7, 2009. Tymoshenko called construction of alternative gas pipelines bypassing Ukraine an absurd and suggested a unified system for determining the price of gas and its transit. She noted that the recent gas crisis revealed the absence of such a policy. Photo by Aleksandr Prokopenko / POOL / UNIAN