Yulia Timoshenko, Yuriy Sukhov and Andrey Kozhemyakin

From left to right - the former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko, defender Yuriy Sukhov and people's deputy from BYuT party Andrey Kozhemyakin taking council in a courtroom of Kiev Pechersk district court, on Monday, August 1, 2011. This day a judge of Kiev Pechersk District Court Rodion Kireyev, presiding in hearing of a criminal case on the gas contracts, has allowed Yuriy Sukhov to defend Ukraine's former Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko in the court. Sukhov immediately filed a petition requesting the court to give him eight weeks to study the gas case materials. Photo by UNIAN