Tymoshenko does not remember Russian offenses

Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko said she had long forgotten about the charges against her in Russia, RIA Novosti reports.

“Listen, I have already forgotten about this for a long time,” she said, answering the question of journalists about whether the Russian side provided some guarantees that the persecution would be stopped against her. The head of the Ukrainian government noted that she does not need any guarantees, "since these guarantees are not worth anything." “I think that the most important thing is that we are building a new Ukraine. And all the other vanity is simply uninteresting to me,” she said in an interview with the British media.

Tymoshenko suggested that "in Russia, someone does not like the fact that I really are very tense to diversify energy carriers to Ukraine ... Perhaps I do not like the fact that the population of Ukraine really trusts the new government. But in any case, this is not a reason to threaten repression." Answering the question of whether she was afraid of arrest, the prime minister indicated that "this is actually a proven, long -proven Stalin method, which some politicians have not yet stopped using." “But they do not understand that time has already changed and break uncomfortable politicians through the knee is a completely unpromising business,” the prime minister said.

Earlier, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation brought Yulia Tymoshenko a charge of giving bribes to Russian officials. For a long time, this fact served as the most likely explanation of Tymoshenko’s postponing visits to Russia. In June, the Ukrainian Prime Minister accepted the invitation of Mikhail Fradkov and announced her intention to come to Russia in the near future.