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Batkivshchyna Party faction head Yulia Tymoshenko on the death of the founder of the Interfax-Ukraine agency:

“Oleksander Martynenko, founder and head of the Interfax-Ukraine agency, has died. He was a man who stood at the very origins of freedom of speech in Ukraine. I knew him for a long time and remember him as very refined, smart and intelligent... There are never enough people like him. There are always not enough of them. Blessed memory!” Tymoshenko wrote on Facebook.