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Ukrainian ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko attends a session at the Pecherskiy district court in Kiev October 11, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Gleb Garanich By Pavel Polityuk and Richard Balmforth KIEV | Tue Oct 11, 2011 11:39am EDT KIEV (Reuters) - A Ukrainian court on Tuesday sentenced former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko to seven years in prison for abuse of office in relation to a 2009 gas deal with Russia that she brokered, a case regarded widely in the West as politically orchestrated. Russia and the European Union -- major trading partners of the ex-Soviet republic -- both reacted sharply to the verdict and the sentence, the maximum sought by state prosecutors. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, speaking on a visit to Beijing, said it could jeopardize energy relations between the two former Soviet states, while the foreign ministry said it had detected an "obvious anti-Russian subtext" in the outcome. The Tymoshenko affair seems certain to slow the Kiev government's drive for European integration, a declared foreign policy priority for President Viktor Yanukovich. In Brussels, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said the trial smacked of "selective" justice. "The EU will reflect on its policies toward Ukraine," she said in a statement on behalf of the EU, an apparent allusion to a planned association agreement that would entail a Ukrainian-EU free trade zone. Tymoshenko's supporters say the trial outcome reflected Yanukovich plans to eliminate her as the only real opposition to him. If she ends up serving a long prison term, she will be unable to contest a parliamentary election next year or run again for president in 2015. Judge Rodion Kireyev handed down the seven-year sentence at the end of a three-month trial that threw a spotlight on the key role the charismatic opposition leader played as prime minister in the signing of a 10-year contract with Russia. The 2009 agreement ended a pricing dispute between Ukraine and Russia which had led to disruptions of gas supplies to some EU countries. It was greeted with relief by Europe at the time. But the government under Yanukovich, who beat Tymoshenko in a fight for the presidency in February 2010 and forced her out as prime minister, says the deal saddled Ukraine with an exorbitant price for Russian gas. Taking the line argued by the prosecution, the judge said Tymoshenko had exceeded her authority "for criminal ends" by railroading the state energy firm Naftogaz into signing the agreement. Her actions had led to a loss for Naftogaz of 1.5 billion hryvnias ($188 million), he said. "The court has ... found Tymoshenko guilty ... and sentenced her to a prison term of seven years," he said. Justifying the seven-year sentence, he said he had not found any "extenuating circumstances" to reduce the prison term nor any signs of remorse from Tymoshenko. Her lawyers said they would appeal. Tymoshenko, who denied any wrongdoing, says the trial is a "lynching" by Yanukovich and by those whom she describes as the "criminal oligarchy" backing him. TURBULENT CAREER For Tymoshenko, the style-conscious heroine of the 2004 popular "Orange Revolution" that doomed Yanukovich's first bid for the presidency, her jailing was the latest chapter in a rollercoaster political career of highs and lows. Once known as the "gas princess" because of her involvement in post-Soviet Ukraine's gas industry in the mid-1990s, she was charged with forgery and gas smuggling in 2001 under then President Leonid Kuchma. She spent a month in the Luky'anivska detention center -- ironically in the same cell where she has been held during her trial -- before being cleared. After helping propel Viktor Yushchenko to the presidency in 2005, she twice served as his prime minister. But policy differences and personality clashes ruined the relationship between the two former allies too. Yushchenko, even though he is of a different political stripe from Yanukovich, testified against her at the trial. With her trademark peasant-style hairbraid, the slightly-built Tymoshenko has cultivated an image as a no-nonsense firebrand and enjoys almost iconic status in some parts of Ukraine. Flanked by her daughter, Yevhenia, and her husband, Oleksander, she smiled faintly as sentence was passed. But defiant to the last, she rose to her feet on Tuesday -- studiously ignoring the judge who was still delivering the final sentences of his judgment -- and denounced Yanukovich's "authoritarian regime" and the absence of justice in Ukraine. She was quickly driven away in a police van after police carved a cordon through thousands of her supporters outside the courtroom. EU diplomats had urged Yanukovich to use his powers to "decriminalize" the charge against her -- reclassifying it as an administrative rather than an criminal offence -- to allow her to go free. There was no sign of a move in this direction when the trial resumed. Yanukovich later offered a hint that this might still be on the cards. Referring to her likely recourse to the Appeals Court, he was quoted by Interfax news agency as saying: "It goes without saying that the decision (the court) will take and within what legislative framework it will take its decision -- this will have great significance." PR DISASTER The trial, which most commentators agree has been a public relations disaster for Yanukovich, has now complicated relations with Ukraine's two main trading partners, east and west. The EU's Ashton said the outcome would boomerang against an association agreement between Ukraine and the EU, which includes creation of a free trade zone and which the two sides are scheduled to sign before the end of the year. Though Russia has always rejected Ukrainian suggestions that the 2009 deal was incorrectly worked, it has recently sounded more sympathetic to Kiev's call for the contract to be reviewed and talks on its terms have been taking place. Putin's words that it was "dangerous and counter-productive" to cast the package of agreements in doubt suggested that the outcome of the trial might affect the progress of those talks. Moscow's reading of the case contradicted its traditional loyalties in Ukraine. Tymoshenko helped through the Orange Revolution that put pro-Western Yushchenko in the presidency. Russia has struck a much softer tone toward Kiev since 2010 and the beginning of the term of current President Viktor Yanukovich, who has been seen as closer to Moscow. (Additional reporting by David Brunnstrom in Brussels and Gleb Bryanski in Beijing; Reporting by Pavel Polityuk and Olzhas Auyezov; Writing By Richard Balmforth; Editing by Mark Heinrich) World Russia Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (1) Jivatmanx wrote: Slow clap for Yanukovich. Can you say “Martyr”? Oct 11, 2011 9:59am EDT -- Report as abuse See All Comments » Add Your Comment Social Stream (What's this?) 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