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2014-03-28 Europe
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Ex-Ukraine PM Tymoshenko will run for president
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[FOXNEWS] Yulia Tymoshenko, former Ukrainian prime minister, announced Thursday that she will run for president. Tymoshenko, who was released from jail last month following the overthrow of President Viktor Yanukovych, returns as one of the most polarizing figures in Ukraine's political scene.
The vote is set for May 25.
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"I will be the candidate of Ukrainian unity," the 53-year-old Tymoshenko said. "The west and center of Ukraine has always voted for me, but I was born in the east, in Dnipropetrovsk."
This will be her second attempt to secure the presidency -- she narrowly lost to Yanukovych in 2010.
Once Yanukovych was in power, Tymoshenko was brought to trial and convicted of abuse of office for negotiating a 2009 deal for Russian gas imports at an allegedly excessive price. The trial was widely seen as a political vendetta, but the gas deal and Russian President Vladimir Putin
 ...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
's comments that he found Tymoshenko easy to work with shadowed her image with many Ukrainians.
Tymoshenko struck a hostile stance toward Putin on Thursday, saying she considers him "the No. 1 enemy of Ukraine."
Her return to the forefront of public life brings back one of the most divisive
...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled ...
figures in Ukraine's political scene. She is variously admired as an icon of democracy and detested as a self-promoting manipulator with a shady past. 
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