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Jailed former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Monday requested permission to be absent from her tax evasion trial proceedings, which are scheduled to resume on July 31. Tymoshenko reportedly asked to be excused...

A Ukraine judge on Monday again postponed the tax evasion trial of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko . Judge Kostyantyn Sadovsky for the court in the city of Kharkiv held that it would...

A Ukrainian appeals court on Thursday postponed the appeal hearing for former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko , making this the third postponement in the former prime minister's appeal of her seven-year prison sentence. The case...

A Ukrainian court in the city of Kharkiv on Tuesday ruled that the tax evasion trial of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko would be delayed until July 23 due to Tymoshenko's inability to attend...

The Ukrainian parliament on Tuesday passed a language bill that would allow Russian to be spoken in official settings in particular regions of the country. The legislation, which would allow Russian in courts, education and other government institutions [AP...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled unanimously that the arrest and detention of Ukraine's former interior minister Yuriy Lutsenko violated several articles of the European Convention on Human Rights [text,...

A Ukrainian appeals court on Tuesday delayed the appeal hearing for former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko challenging her corruption conviction and seven-year sentence. Although Tymoshenko has previously indicated that she would discontinue all...

Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko was ordered to be seen by a court-appointed doctor on Monday after she failed to appear at her tax evasion trial. Tymoshenko is reportedly suffering from a spinal...

Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko will face charges associated with the shooting of a Ukrainian lawmaker, a deputy prosecutor said Monday. Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka had indicated last month that...

A court in Thailand sentenced former Indian financier Rakesh Saxena to 10 years in prison on Friday for embezzling tens of millions of dollars from a bank in Thailand during the 1990s. The Bangkok South Criminal Court, found Saxena...