Yulia Timoshenko and Sergey Vlasenko

Batkivshchyna Party leader and former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Timoshenko and people’s deputy of “BYUT-Batkivshchyna” fraction Sergey Vlasenko near the building of Kiev Pechersk district court, on Thursday, July 28, 2011. After a hearing Yulia Timoshenko has denied all allegations of Prosecutor General's Office that examination of the witnesses during a session of Pechersk district court on a criminal case on charges of abbuse of power during a signing of gas contracts in 2009 confirmed her guilt. Besides, she added, all the witnesses confirmed that the gas price in 2009 after the signing of contracts was 232 USD for 1,000 cubic metres, and everybody confirmed that the price at the time was favorable. Photo by Vladimir Gontar / UNIAN