Viktor Yanukovich

A placard with the image of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovich during indefinite meeting-picket against the arrest of Timoshenko, in Kiev, on Monday night, August 8, 2011. The court banned peaceful protest near Pechersk district court and Lukyanovka pre-trial detention center, where a leader of "Batkivschina" party and the former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko is being contained. This decision was taken on Sunday night. On August 5, by the decision of Pechersk District Court the former Preme Minister of Ukraine, opposition leader Timoshenko was taken into custody and placed in detention center of Lukyanovka in Kiev. Several hours later, Batkivshchyna party has begun an indefinite protest against the arrest of Yulia Timoshenko. Photo by Andrey Skakodub / UNIAN