Yulia Timoshenko, Sergey Vlasenko and Marina Soroka

From right to left - press-secretary of Batkivshchyna Party leader Marina Soroka, people's deputy from BYuT party Sergey Vlasenko and the former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Timoshenko answer the questions of the journalists near the building 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