The head of the regional organization of the party Batkivshchyna and MP Andriy Pavlovsky face imprisonment of up to 4 years for the "group hooliganism".
Batkivshchyna party said in a statement that in the criminal case New Year greetings to Yulia Tymoshenko are regarded as a failure of the New Year holiday for the entire Ukraine. The Batkivshchyna party considers the criminal case yet another manifestation of political repression and persecution of the opposition.
