KYIV. Aug 8 (Interfax) - Judge Rodion Kireyev, who is presiding in the gas case at Kyiv's Pechersky District Court, has declined the motion of the lawyer of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Yury Sukhov, to change the measure of restraint for his client from arrest to guaranty.
A Interfax correspondent reports that earlier Sukhov related to court an address of head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Filaret and several clergymen of different creeds to Kireyev to change the measure of restraint for Tymoshenko.
Last Friday, Kireyev changed the measure of restraint from a travel ban to arrest at the motion of the prosecution. The prosecution insisted on Tymoshenko's arrest after Prime Minister Mykola Azarov was interrogated as a witness.
Earlier on Monday, Kireyev refused to cancel Timoshenko's arrest at the motion of her lawyer because the lawyer had not produced information about any new circumstances that would justify such a change.