Tymoshenko views suspension of Ukrainian integration with EU as analogue of 1991 Soviet coup attempt - defender
KHARKIV. Nov 22 (Interfax) - Former Ukrainian Prime Minister and leader of the Batkivshchyna party Yulia Tymoshenko has described the government's decision to suspend the European integration process as a Ukrainian analogue of the 1991 coup in the Soviet Union attempted by the self-appointed State Committee on the State of Emergency, known as the GKChP and including a number of top-level government, Communist Party, and KGB officials.
"Yulia Volodymyrivna [Tymoshenko] absolutely views yesterday's decision by [President Viktor] Yanukovych and the Cabinet of ministers led by [Prime Minister Mykola] Azarov, who could not have made this decision [on suspending the signature of an association agreement with the EU on his own, as a Ukrainian GKChP," Tymoshenko's defender Serhiy Vlasenko told journalists on Friday near the hospital in Kharkiv where Tymoshenko is currently receiving medical treatment while serving her prison term.
"She is calling on everyone to take to the streets and express their civic position on squares in all cities of Ukraine," Vlasenko said.
