Yuliya Timoshenko and Yuriy Medvedev

Leader of the Batkivshchyna party Yulia Tymoshenko, second from the left, and the head of regional party organisation of Batkivschyna Party in Vinnitsa Yuriy Medvedev during official ceremony of meeting in Vinnitsa, on Thursday, October 28, 2010. The moratorium on the sale of agricultural land has been cancelled prematurely, says Yulia Tymoshenko. "None of our farmers or Ukrainian businesses will be able to compete money-wise for this land," she said at a press conference in Vinnytsia, adding that first a package of laws should be passed that will ensure transparency of land sales and create favorable conditions for land owners. The moratorium is to be lifted on 1 January 2011. Photo by Aleksandr Prokopenko / POOL / UNIAN