Ukraine prime minister summoned by prosecutors

Source: AP

Ukraine's prime minister has been summoned by prosecutors for questioning, officials said Monday, in the latest chapter of her power struggle with the president ahead of 2010 elections.

Once partners in the 2004 Orange Revolution, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and President Viktor Yushchenko have turned into bitter rivals. Their tug-of-war struggle has ruined their Western-oriented coalition and put the county on the brink of its third parliamentary election in as many years.

The circumstances of Tymoshenko's subpoena were unclear.

Olha Ivaniv, spokeswoman for the Prosecutor General's Office, said the prime minister is to be questioned Thursday as a witness in the investigation into the 2004 nearly lethal poisoning of Yushchenko.

But Tymoshenko, speaking to reporters Monday, suggested she was being summoned in response to the president's accusations that she had committed high treason in support of Russia.



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