Ukraine

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A supporter of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko holds a poster of her in front of a state-run hospital in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Wednesday, May 9, 2012. (AP Photo/dapd, Alexey Furman)

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** FILE ** Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko looks out from a prison window in Kiev on Friday, Nov. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Tymoshenko Press Service)

People assist an injured person after an explosion in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, Friday, April 27, 2012. Officials say four blasts within minutes have rocked the center of the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk, injuring dozens of people, including schoolchildren, in what prosecutors believed was a terrorist attack. (AP Photo/Dmitriy Dvorsky)

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Washington Capitals' Mathieu Perreault (85) is sent flying on a check by New York Rangers' Brian Boyle, right, as Rangers Ruslan Fedotenko, of Ukraine, looks on during the first period of an NHL hockey game Saturday, April 7, 2012, at Madison Square Garden in New York. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun)

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Russian sailors line up to cast their ballots at the polling station for a fleet base in Sevastopol, Ukraine. (Associated Press)

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Illustration: Ukraine by John Camejo for The Washington Times

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Ukrainian singer Ruslana performs at the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation gala in Washington on Thursday to celebrate two decades of Ukraine independence. (image from www.ruslana.ua)

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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych says he backs legal changes that could allow the release of jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Mrs. Tymoshenko received a seven-year jail term on charges of abuse of office in signing a gas deal with Russia. (Associated Press)

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Ukrainian riot police officers block supporters of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko outside the Pecherskiy District Court in Kiev on Tuesday. (Associated Press)

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Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko speaks during her trial as Judge Rodion Kireyev (left) reads the indictment at the Pecherskiy District Court in Kiev on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

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Workers are seen on the flight deck of China's first aircraft carrier, the former "Varyag" of Ukraine, which is under restoration at a shipyard in northeastern China's Liaoning province. China has acknowledged it is rebuilding an aircraft carrier bought more than a decade ago, but says the refurbished ship will be used only for research and training - a strong indication it plans to build carriers of its own. (AP Photo/Color China Photo)

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On Tuesday, May 3, 2011, Ukrainian-born John Demjanjuk arrives in a wheelchair at a Munich courthouse, where he is on trial on 28,060 counts of being an accessory to murder for allegedly serving as a guard in the Nazis' Sobibor death camp. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

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After Tuesday's service for Chernobyl disaster victims at St. Elias Cathedral near the nuclear power plant site in Ukraine, (from left) Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Ukrainian Orthodox Metropolitan Vladimir and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych ring bells in memory of the victims.

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In this , Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011 photo Andrei, a 2-year-old HIV-positive boy in the Ukrainian city of Cherkassy hides his face in his hands as his mother Yelena, 33 embraces him in Cherkassy, Ukraine. Ukraine has Europe's worst AIDS epidemic _ and it risks getting much worse because of drug supply cuts blamed on government corruption and official harassment of AIDS groups and HIV-infected drug users, health experts warn. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

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White birds are released over Ukrainian believers during an Epiphany ceremony to bless the water in Lviv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011. Orthodox believers celebrate the holiday of the Epiphany on Jan. 19, and traditionally bathe in holes cut through thick ice on rivers and ponds to cleanse themselves with water deemed holy for the day. (AP Photo/Petro Zadorozhnyy)

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This undated handout photo provided by the National Nuclear Safety Administration shows a container loaded onto a plane, in Sevastopol, Ukraine. In a secret operation to secure nuclear material, the United States has helped Ukraine send to Russia enough uranium to build two atomic bombs. (AP Photo/National Nuclear Safety Administration)