KIEV (Reuters) - A Ukrainian court stripped an ally of jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko of his seat in parliament on Wednesday, prompting criticism from the European Union which considers his case politically motivated.
The ruling was made less than two weeks after an EU-Ukraine summit where Brussels told Kiev it needed to address the issue of selective justice if it wanted to secure landmark deals on political association and free trade with the bloc.
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