As Russia’s best-known political prisoner, Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, arrived in Germany on Friday at the end of a whirlwind 24-hour passage to freedom, the daughter of Ukraine’s most prominent political prisoner urged the president here to follow in the footsteps of the Russian president and set her mother free.
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New York Times: Tymoshenko’s daughter urges pardon
Eugenia Tymoshenko, daughter of imprisoned ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, hopes that President Viktor Yanukovych follows in Russian President Vladimir Putin's footsteps regarding her mother. Putin pardoned Russia's best-known political prisoner, Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky. In photo, she holds a giant European Union flag during a Nov. 24 EuroMaidan protest.
