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Jailed Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko on Friday called on people to go out on to the streets to protest against the government's decision not to sign a trade deal with the European Union, her lawyer said. The lawyer, Serhiy Vlasenko, read a letter from the 52-year-old ex-prime minister in which she wrote: "I am calling on all people to react to this as they would to a coup d'etat - that is: get out on to the streets." Her call, which followed a government decision on Thursday to drop plans to sign a trade and cooperation with the EU and move back to closer economic ties with Russia, had echoes of her role as co-leader of the Orange Revolution protests of 2004-5. Those protests, in which the peasant-braided Tymoshenko became known as a fiery revolutionary denouncing sleaze and electoral fraud, doomed the first bid for election of President Viktor Yanukovich.
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