Tymoshenko launches bid for presidency

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has officially announced she will run for president, with polls showing her as the front-runner in the March presidential election. “A great country is my goal, from which I will not back down a single step. That is why I am running for president today,” she told a congress of her opposition Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party in Kyiv on January 22.