Supporters, opponents of Ukraine's Timoshenko put up tents in Kiev.

KIEV, October 11 (Itar-Tass) - Monday night, activists and supporters
of Ukraine's ruling Regions Party, began putting up tents with the party's
emblem and the slogans saying 'Enough!' along Kreshchatik, the main high
street in the Ukrainian capital Kiev.
A tent camp has also appeared on the side of the street opposite the
entrance to the building of the Pechersky district court, where a sentence
for the former Prime Minister, Yulia Timoshenko, is to be read out Tuesday.
The camp has been arranged by the activists of the Combined Arms Union
of Ukraine. Most of them are young men in jumpsuits who stay away from
contacts with the mass media.
Sources in the Batkivshchina /Fatherland/ party, of which Timoshenko
is the leader, told Itar-Tass a small brawl between supporters of the
Regions Party and the pro-Timoshenko forces had occurred on Kreshchatik
earlier Monday.
"The Regions Party doesn't have permission to assemble the tent camp
in the downtown but a reinforced police patrol that's guarding the place
doesn't put up any obstacles to them," a spokesman for Batkivshchina's
press service said.
"And recall that earlier the Berkut special assignment unit didn't let
us install the tents in front of the Pechersky court building," he said.
Nonetheless, the opposition has managed to place several of its tents
on Kreshchatik somehow.
Deputy Chairman of the Fatherland party, Alexander Turchinov told
Channel 5 TV that Timoshenko's supporters were planning to spend all the
early morning until dawn near the Pechersky court.
"We can't admit a situation where an innocent person may end up in a
jail ward and that's why we'll be pressing for Yulia Timoshenko's
freedom," Turchinov said.
The police sealed off the opposite side of Kreshchatik, which is a
pedestrian zone. The opposing camps thus found themselves in disengagement.
The Regions and the Fatherland supporters have put up about ten tents
on each side of the 'disengagement zone'.
Spokespeople for both camps said they expected an arrival of thousands
of their supporters to the site in the morning.
Timoshenko's lawyers believe the reading out of the sentence will take
three to four hours.
"Materials of the case don't contain a single proof of her guilt and
the charges against her are absolutely absurd," said MP Sergei Vlasenko,
who is acting as a defender in the Timoshenko case.
The accusations issued to Timoshenko by the Office of the Prosecutor
General suggest the natural gas agreements she signed with the Russian
government in 2009 inflicted a damage of about $ 188 million on the
Ukrainian economy.
Yulia Timoshenko denies all the charges, claiming it was she who led
Ukraine quite efficiently out of the gas crisis in 2009, and the
indictment against her "doesn't contain any evidence that would proof any
infringements on the law on my part."