Observers say Tymoshenko is trying to shake off that past and play to her strengths as one of Ukraines best-known figures. At a recent news conference, she was asked how she would wrest Crimea back from Russia, following the regions annexation last month.
A lot of factors in returning Crimea to Ukraine depend on how we can build an economically strong, democratic and European state on the continental part of Ukraine, she said. I think that an example of well-ordered lives, freedom that will become the spirit and sense of life in the new Ukraine, will set a strong example for anyone who once might have considered Russia as a possible new Motherland.
To become the leader of that new Ukraine, Tymoshenko is trading on her striking image, says Orysia Lutsevych.
Shes called the Ukrainian Joan of Arc, somebody who can bring hope in a way of personalizing suffering, being ready not to compromise with [ousted president] Yanukovychs regime and his people, she is believed to be a tough politician you know, someone who can fight the oligarchs, she said.
In recent days pro-Russian armed groups have stormed city offices in several eastern Ukrainian cities.
Just tens of kilometers away, Russian forces are massed on Ukraines borders.
Tymoshenko has talked a tough game against President Vladimir Putin - but that may not help Ukraine in the long run, says Andrew Foxall of the analyst group the Henry Jackson Society.
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