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EU Observer: Azarov hoping to beat EU blacklist

By EU Observer.

Published Jan. 25, 2016 at 9:50 pm

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov (L) and former deputy of the Ukrainian Parliament Verkhovna Rada Vladimir Oleynik arrive for a press conference of the newly created "Committee for the Salvation of Ukraine" in Moscow on August 3, 2015.

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Mykola Azarov, Ukraine’s one-time prime minister, is hoping the EU court will, on Thursday (28 January), clear his name, and free him to work against Kiev’s pro-EU government.

“Unfortunately, I’m not wealthy. The Ukrainian regime illegally seized my flat and my house and they even seized my pension,” the 68-year old said to EUobserver from Moscow last week.