Nikolay Titarenko and Sergey Vlasenko

Defender of Yulia Timoshenko Nikolay Titarenko (left) and people’s deputy of “BYUT-Batkivshchyna” fraction Sergey Vlasenko put the documents on the case of leader of Batkivshchyna Party and former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Timoshenko on charges of abuse of office during the signing of gas contracts with Russia in 2009, before a press-conference on the topic: "Further protection strategy of Yulia Timoshenko", in Kiev, on Tuesday, July 19, 2011. At a press-conference Vlasenko said that the situation around the trial of the former Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko is a consequence of the so-called "judicial reform". Lawyers for the ex-prime minister plans to apply to the Commissioner of the Parliament on Human Rights Nina Karpachova with a request to participate in the trial of the former Preme Minister in the status of an independent party. Defense plans to appeal to the professional legal community to respond to everything that happens in the trial of Timoshenko. Photo by Aleksandr Prokopenko / UNIAN