Summary
Ever since her party arrived at the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, dressed exclusively in white, the former prime minister has tirelessly cultivated a public image of herself as a force of light and purity, shaping concerns about corruption and Russian influence into an epic campaign narrative of good versus evil. In election campaign posters, Tymoshenko has dressed as the sword- wielding hero of a Russian blockbuster, beside the phrase "Get out of the darkness everyone!" Her latest campaign poster, freely handed out at the party's many white tents, showed her in a white leather cosmonaut suit suspended in space next to a satellite, with the slogan "Ukrainian Breakthrough".
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The Woman in White
On the last day of campaigning before the parliamentary elections, Yulia Tymoshenko stood on a stage in Kiev's St Sophia Square and prepared to lead a prayer for ...
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