Placard with a picture of Yulia Timoshenko

Participants of the meeting in support of Batkivshchyna Party leader and former Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko near the building of Kiev Pechersk district court, where the case of the former Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko is being hearing, in Kiev, on Thursday, July 7, 2011. Supporters of Batkivshchyna Party leader returned from the building of the Parliament of Ukraine to the Pechersk district court of Kyiv. About 5 thousand participants marched along the Kreshchatik with the flags of Batkivshchyna. They said that this march is a protest against the "trial of Timoshenko," and a pension reform. Photo by Aleksandr Sinitsa / UNIAN