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...Tymoshenko, 44, trained as an economist and launched one of the first Gorbachev-era cooperatives - a chain of videotape-rental shops - in the late 1980s. In 1995 she founded United Energy Systems of Ukraine, which managed Russian natural-gas supplies to energy-starved Ukraine under then-Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko. Her ties to Lazarenko, who was arrested in 1999 and convicted last year in the U.S. on charges of corruption and money laundering, first raised suspicions about her business dealings. When Yushchenko himself was Prime Minister in 1999, he made Tymoshenko his deputy. She forced reluctant businesses to pay cash...
...agree on a date: should Chávez be recalled before Aug. 19, new elections will be held. A recall after that date would hand power to Chávez's deputy until 2006. Lost Leader U.S. A district court in California convicted former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko of 29 counts of money laundering and extortion. Lazarenko, who served as Prime Minister from 1996 to 1997, faces up to five years in jail. He says he'll appeal the decision...
...smaller neighbors like Poland and Hungary prepare to join the European Union - and most other European leaders try not to think about it. Pretty much the only time Ukraine makes the front pages, in fact, is when another scandal blows up. Like the one involving former Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko, now in detention in the U.S. but pleading his innocence, who bought a $6.7-million mansion in California, in cash, or the tapes that revealed the voice of President Leonid Kuchma - misleadingly edited, his aides claim - saying that an investigative journalist should be "given" to the Chechens. The journalist...
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