KIEV, Sept. 1 – Opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko is now being tried for falsifying government directives for the country's gas talks with Russia when she was prime minister, according to Prime Minister Mykola Azarov.

"Understanding quite well that the government would have never approved these directives, she [Tymoshenko] created fake "directives of the Ukrainian government' and submitted them for signature by [ex-CEO of Naftogaz Ukrayiny Oleh] Dubyna," he told the students of the Taras Shevchenko National University in Kiev on Thursday.