Bogdan Sokolovskiy

Former commissioner of the President of Ukraine on Energy Security Bogdan Sokolovskiy answers the questions of the journalists near the building of Pechersk district court, where consideration of a case against Batkivshchyna Party leader and former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Timoshenko takes place, in Kiev, on Wednesday, August 17, 2011. Before beginning of examination in Pechersk court Sokolovskiy said that he considered unreasonable a compulsory process as a witness. Sokolovskiy said that Timoshenko had a right to give instructions to then head of "Naftogaz Ukraine" Oleg Dubina for gas talks with Russia. Photo by Aleksandr Prokopenko / POOL / UNIAN