When former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko left prison on Saturday, former Rep. Jim Slattery (D-Kan.) had reason to celebrate.
Slattery, a Wiley Rein partner and chairman of the firm’s public policy group, had worked to secure the release of Tymoshenko since 2011, when she was sentenced to seven years in prison on charges she abused her political power. Tymoshenko’s conviction came during the presidency of her recently ousted political rival, Viktor Yanukovych, who fled Kiev on Friday amid demonstrations in the Ukrainian capital.
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