Populist presidential candidate Yulia

Populist presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko hewed a centrist line with the European Business Association Monday evening, saying that Ukraine cannot afford to stop cooperating with the IMF, Bloomberg reports. Calling Ukraine’s debt burden ‘heavy,’ she said she would negotiate better terms from the IMF. She promised to “find a common language with investors before parliamentary elections and lift this burden a little.” Tymoshenko and Poroshenko are roughly even in polls leading up to the March 31 election. Volodymyr Zelenski, a well-known comedian and entrepreneur, is currently in first place.