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Your support makes all the difference.A Ukrainian court yesterday kept the former premier Yulia Tymoshenko in jail on charges of abuse of office, defying renewed Western pressure to release the country's main opposition leader.
A Kiev appeals court upheld a lower court's guilty verdict and seven-year sentence for Tymoshenko, 50, in a decision her top aide called President Viktor Yanukovych's "personal vengeance". She was convicted in October of overstepping her authority while negotiating a natural gas contract with Russia in 2009.
The US and the European Union have sharply criticised Tymoshenko's imprisonment as politically motivated and demanded her release. The EU refused to sign a key partnership deal with Kiev this week over the Tymoshenko case.
Mr Yanukovych said the courts and law enforcement agencies were independent and he would not intervene.
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