Family of Yulia Tymoshenko

[13] In early January 2012, Oleksandr Tymoshenko was granted asylum in the Czech Republic, as he had requested at the end of the previous year.

For two and a half years of the former prime minister imprisonment Eugenia conducted an active campaign for her release: held dozens of meetings with leaders of the European Union, the Western countries and international organizations, delivered speeches in the US Senate,[23] at the meeting of the Committee on Foreign affairs of the Italian Parliament,[24] at the Bornholm conference in Denmark,[25] at the 20th Congress of the European People's Party,[26] at congresses of the German Christian Social Union[27] and the Italian party "The Union of Christian and Centre Democrats",[28] in the media.

[29][30] In February 2012, Eugenia Tymoshenko submitted a statement to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine to demand investigation in prison of the facts about the torture of her mother.

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[32] Yulia Tymoshenko was raised by her mother Liudmila Mykolaivna Telehina (Людмила Миколаївна Телегіна), née Nelepova (Нелепова), who was born 11 September 1937, in Dnipropetrovsk.

It is unknown how long this first marriage lasted or why it was dissolved, but Liudmila was married a second time, to Volodymyr Abramovych Hrihian, at some point before 1960.

[34] Lyudmila's sister, Antonina Ulyahina, in 2008 published the book «Юля, Юлечка», about her memoirs surrounding the then Prime Minister.

[5] In the autumn of 1940 Kapitelman was mobilized into the army, he was killed while taking part in World War II on November 8, 1944, with the rank of "lieutenant communications".

The prosecution of the criminal case stated: "Hrihan discredited the Soviet regime among the workers, praised the good life of the working class in the fascist countries: Germany and Poland").