People sign a 500-meter-long petition to Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich during a meeting to support EU integration in Kiev, November 27, 2013. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich said the European Union should stop meddling in the fate of his rival, former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, and that her imprisonment should not hinder Kiev's integration with Europe.
Pouring scorn on the woman who helped engineer the 2004-5 Orange Revolution that thwarted his first bid at the presidency, Yanukovich said she was part of a ring of criminals and that her fate should lie in the hands of Ukrainian judges.
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