GUARDIAN / M.ELDER
Her cell is small and damp. Just 15 square meters...with one tiny window in a 150 year-old prison.
Ex-PM Yulia Tymoshenko, a political prisoner sentenced last week to 7 years and a fine of $181mn...has been sharing it with two women...since early August.
Her daughter Yevhenia Carr, 31, describes the austere conditions in Kiev's Lukyanivska prison of Ukraine's controversial former 'Gas Princess.'
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