Tymoshenko dogged by enrichment suspicions

Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine’s ex-premier freed as the tide turned against her nemesis, president Viktor Yanukovych, is a steely and telegenic figure hailed by the opposition, but also a polarising one dogged by suspicions of personal enrichment and opportunism.

She has ruled out becoming prime minister again but as a close ally of Oleksandr Turchinov she is likely to play an integral role in her country’s future.

After Ukraine’s parliament ordered her release from a seven-year sentence for “abuse of power” she had been serving since 2011, Tymoshenko made it clear she would remain Yanukovych’s arch-foe in word and deed.