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Tymoshenko slams elections

KIEV: Yulia Tymoshenko, the jailed opponent of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich, said yesterday that an October parliamentary election would be unfair and called for western sanctions against the former Soviet republic's leadership.

She said: "Democracies should stop offering hospitality to the world's dictators."

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