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From inside the hospital where she is being held, former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is forging compromises to help unite Ukraine's fractured opposition parties. 

With a parliamentary election coming up this Sunday, she hopes to force out the current regime and secure her release.

The live broadcast of the program Sogodni pro golowne, or “The Most Important News of the Day,” begins at 7:30 each evening, and would be a standard political talk show if not for two unique features. First, TVi is the last independent broadcaster in the country, and it openly supports the opposition. And second, host Mustafa Nayem is a veritable thorn in the side of the regime in Kyiv. 

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