Yulia Tymoshenko - Women's Political Communication Archives Yulia Tymoshenko Yulia Tymoshenko Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko served as the prime minister of Ukraine twice: January to September 2005 and again from December 2007 until March 2010. Tymoshenko was Ukraine’s first female prime minister. Tymoshenko was born on November 27, 1960, in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine). Upon graduating from high school in 1979, she continued her education at Dnipropetrovsk State University. Her major was economics-cybernetics in the Department of Economics. In 1984, Tymoshenko graduated with distinction. She started to work as an engineer-economist at the Dnipropetrovsk machine-building plant, named after Lenin.

From 1989 to 1991, Tymoshenko was a commercial director of the Dnipropetrovsk Youth Center "Terminal." From 1991, she was a CEO of the corporation "Ukrainskiy Benzin” (Ukrainian Gasoline). In 1995, Tymoshenko became the president of United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU). At the end of 1996, she became a candidate to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (Supreme Rada of Ukraine). She received a majority of votes (92.3%) in her Bobrinsky Congressional District # 229, which is located in Kirovograd Region. In 1998, she served as the head of the Budget Strategic Committee of the Verkhovna Rada. During her work in this position, Tymoshenko developed projects regarding budget and taxation codes, a new system of pension and medical security, and a mechanism for paying off pension and salary debts. Tymoshenko, for the second time, became a representative of Verkhovna Rada, and, again, led the Budget Committee in the parliament.

Under her leadership, legislation on taxation, social codes and pension reformations was developed. In 1999, Tymoshenko became the leader of All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland". Also in 1999, she defended her thesis titled "National Regulations of the Taxation System" and became a candidate (equivalent to Ph.D.) of economic studies. Her scientific activity did not end there. Since, Tymoshenko has written more than 50 scientific papers. On December 30, 1999, Tymoshenko took the post of Vice Prime Minister on the issues of fuel and energy complex. During this period, Tymoshenko developed the "Energy Concept of Ukraine" and the anti-corruption program "Clean Energy." In January of 2001, Tymoshenko was dispatched from the position of Vice Prime Minister. On February 13, 2001 she was arrested and charged by the district attorney, which the public interpreted as a punishment for her democratic movement. In March, however, the Kiev City Pechersk Court found that the accusations were baseless and annulled the sanctions for the arrest.

On February 9, 2001, Tymoshenko became an initiator of the Forum of National Salvation (FNS). This public union’s main objective was to get rid of Kuchma's (Communist Party) criminal regime. In November of 2001, the participants of the union decide to rename the FNS into the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. As the head of this party, Tymoshenko participated in the parliamentary elections. As the result of the elections, the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc received more than 20 seats in the Verkhovna Rada. In September of 2002, Tymoshenko, as one of the parliamentary opposition leaders, headed the All-Ukrainian movement "Rebell, Ukraine!" This became the first serious strike of Ukrainian opposition and first action of public strike, during which there were a lot of street protests. In 2004, the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and the Viktor Yushchenko Bloc announced the creation of the coalition "People's Power" in order to support Victor Yushenko's presidential candidacy during the October 2004 election.

In November, Tymoshenko became one of the leaders of the Orange Revolution, which secured Yushenko’s win in the presidential elections. On February 4th, 2005, the Verkhovna Rada declared Tymoshenko as the prime minister (head of government) with 373 votes. In September 2005, Tymoshenko left the position, as the result of an artificial political crisis, and Yuriy Yekhanurov was appointed acting prime minister by President Yushchenko. In March 2006, during the parliamentary elections, the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc obtained victory in Kiev as well as half of Ukraine's regions, receiving the majority of votes amongst the democratic forces. On December 18, 2007, Tymoshenko was again elected as Prime Minister of Ukraine. On October 24, 2009, the Congress of the All-Ukrainian Union, "Batkivshchyna," was held in Kyiv’s Independence Square, during which the delegates and close to 200,000 citizens of independent Ukraine nominated Tymoshenko as a candidate for president.

On May 9, 2010, a Viche of the national-patriotic forces of Ukraine adopted a resolution on the creation of a united democratic opposition. Tymoshenko was chosen as the leader. In March 2010, Tymoshenko initiated the creation of an opposition government whose job was to monitor the work of the ruling government and offer proposals for the country’s positive development. She also signed, on behalf, of Batkivshchyna a memorandum with representatives of parliamentary and non-parliamentary political forces to create the Committee to Defend Ukraine, which coordinates activities to protect Ukraine’s national interests. In 2011, Tymoshenko was tried and convicted of abusing her power as prime minister for signing a gas deal with Russia in 2009. She was sentenced to seven years in jail and to pay a fine of $188 million. On August 29, 2012, an appeal against her conviction was heard by the Ukrainian high court and was rejected. After her imprisonment, the European Union, United States, Russia and Amnesty International called into question the fairness of her trial and resulting sentence.

Following the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution, the parliament voted for her release. However, President Yanukovych fled the country without signing the bill into law. On February 22, 2014 the Verkhovna Rada (Supreme Council of Ukraine) adopted a decree based on the decision of the European Court of Human Rights and corresponding decision of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, and Tymoshenko was released the same day. On February 28, 2014 the parliament restored Tymoshenko's rights. In March 2014, Tymoshenko announced her candidacy for the 2014 presidential election, but lost the election. After the 2014 parliamentary election, Tymoshenko became faction leader. She is a member of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on issues of European integration in the 8th convocation of parliament.

Yulia Tymoshenko | Wikigender Yulia Tymoshenko Wikis > Yulia Tymoshenko Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko (Ukrainian: Юлія Володимирівна Тимошенко) (b. November 27, 1960) is a Ukrainian politician and former Prime Minister of Ukraine. She is the leader of the All-Ukrainian Union “Fatherland” party and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. Before becoming Ukraine’s first female Prime Minister, Tymoshenko was one of the key leaders of the Orange Revolution. Forbes Magazine ranked her the 17th most powerful woman in 2008. Table of Contents 6 References Education and Business Career In 1979, she started her university studies at the economic faculty of Dnepropetrovsk State University, studying cybernetic engineering. The following year, during her studies, she married Oleksandr Tymoshenko and her daughter Eugenia was born in same year.

Prior to her political career, Yulia Tymoshenko was a successful but controversial businesswoman in the gas industry, becoming the managing director in 1991 of the “Ukrainian Oil” corporation (UOC), which made her wealthy. Political Rise Yulia Tymoshenko moved into politics in 1996, and was elected to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) from the Kirovohrad Oblast, winning a record 92.3% of the vote in her constituency. She was re-elected in 1998 and 2002. From 1999 to 2001, Tymoshenko was the Deputy Prime Minister for fuel and energy sector in the cabinet of Viktor Yushchenko. She was fired by President Leonid Kuchma in January 2001 after developing a conflict with the oligarchs in the industry. In February 2001, Tymoshenko was arrested on charges of forging customs documents and smuggling of gas between 1995 and 1997 but was released several weeks later.

According to Tymoshenko, the charges were fabricated by Kuchma’s regime, under the influence of oligarchs threatened by her efforts to root out corruption and institute market-based reforms. Orange Revolution Since 2001, she became one of the leaders of street-level campaigns against President Kuchma for his alleged role in the murder of the journalist Georgiy R. Gongadze. In this campaign, Tymoshenko first became known as a passionate revolutionary-like leader. During this time, she founded Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. She is the head of the Batkivshchina (Fatherland) political party. Despite her questionable past in the gas industry, her transition from oligarch to reformer was believed by many to be both genuine and effective. As energy Deputy Prime Minister, Ukraine’s revenue collections from the electricity industry grew by several thousand per cent. Her reforms meant that the government had sufficient funds to pay civil servants and increase salaries. Prime Minister On January 24, 2005 she was appointed as acting Prime Minister of Ukraine under Yushchenko’s presidency.

On February 4, 2005, Yulia Tymoshenko was ratified by the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) by an overwhelming majority. Several months into her government, numerous inner conflicts inside the post‐Revolution coalition began to damage Tymoshenko’s administration. Her government was dismissed on September 8, 2005 by President Viktor Yushchenko during a live TV address. 2007 Parliarmentary Elections In the 2007 parliamentary elections, Orange Revolution parties said they had won enough votes to form a governing coalition. As of October 3, 2007, an almost final tally gave the alliance of Tymoshenko and President Yushchenko a slim lead over a rival party of Prime Minister Yanukovych. On November 29, a coalition was signed between the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and Our Ukraine–People’s Self-Defense Bloc, which is associated with President Yushchenko. Both parties are affiliated with the Orange Revolution. On December 18, Tymoshenko was once again elected as Prime Minister.

2008 political crisis The coalition of Tymoshenko’s Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko (BYuT) and Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine–People’s Self-Defense Bloc (OU-PSD) was put at risk due to differing opinions on the ongoing 2008 South Ossetia War between Georgia and Russia. Yulia Tymoshenko disagreed with Yushchenko’s condemnation of Russia and preferred to stay neutral on the issue. After Tymoshenko BYuT voted alongside the Communist Party of Ukraine and the Party of Regions to pass legislation that would facilitate the procedure of impeachment for President and limiting the President’s power while increasing the Prime Minister’s powers President Yushchenko’s OU-PSD bloc pulled out of the coalition and Yushchenko promised to veto legislation and threatened an election if a new coalition was not formed soon. This resulted in the 2008 Ukrainian political crisis, which culminated in Yushchenko announcing/calling an early parliamentary election on October 8, 2008. Tymoshenko was fiercely opposed to the snap election stating: “No politician would throw Ukraine into snap elections at this important time.

But, if Yushchenko and Yanukovych – who are ideologists of snap elections – throw the country into snap elections, then they will bear responsibility for all the consequences of the global financial crisis on Ukraine”.[39] The election was initially to be be held December 7, 2008, but later posponed to an unknown date. On February 5, 2009 the second Tymoshenko cabinet survived a second no-confidence vote in the Ukrainian Parliament, and relations with President Yushchenko remain hostile. Prime Minister Tymoshenko is a member of the Council of Women World Leaders , an international network of current and former women presidents and prime ministers whose mission is to mobilize the highest-level women leaders globally for collective action on issues of critical importance to women and equitable development. See also Юлія Володимирівна Тимошенко Yulia Tymoshenko Ukraine - YouTube Юлія Володимирівна Тимошенко Yulia Tymoshenko Ukraine Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content.

The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Apr 23, 2012 Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko (Ukrainian: Юлія Володимирівна Тимошенко, pronounced [ˈjulijɑ ʋɔlɔˈdɪmɪriʋnɑ tɪmɔˈʃɛnkɔ]), née Grigyan[6][7] (Ukrainian: Ґріґян),[8] born 27 November 1960, is a Ukrainian politician.

She was the Prime Minister of Ukraine from 24 January to 8 September 2005, and again from 18 December 2007 to 4 March 2010.[9][10] She placed third in Forbes Magazine's List of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women 2005.[11] Tymoshenko is the leader of the All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" party and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. She has been a practising economist and academic. Prior to her political career, Yulia Tymoshenko was a successful but controversial businesswoman in the gas industry, becoming by some estimates one of the richest people in the country. Before becoming Ukraine's first female Prime Minister in 2005,[12] Tymoshenko co-led the Orange Revolution.[13] Tymoshenko was a candidate in the Ukrainian presidential elections of 2010,[14] but lost this election to Viktor Yanukovych (Tymoshenko received 45.47% of the votes in the second and final round[15] of this election[16][17]).

At first Tymoshenko challenged the election results, claiming the vote was rigged,[18][19] but withdrew her appeal on 20 February 2010, stating, "It became clear that the court is not out to establish the truth".[20] Since May 2010 a number of criminal cases have been opened against Tymoshenko.[21] On 11 October 2011, a Ukrainian court sentenced Tymoshenko to seven years in prison after she was found guilty of abuse of office when brokering the 2009 gas deal with Russia.[22] The conviction is seen as "justice being applied selectively under political motivation" by the European Union and other international organizations.[23] Category I Was Here.: Yulia Tymoshenko Tuesday, November 29, 2011 Yulia Tymoshenko Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko (born 27 November 1960, is a Ukrainian politician.

She was the Prime Minister of Ukraine from 24 January to 8 September 2005, and again from 18 December 2007 to 4 March 2010. She placed third in Forbes Magazine's List of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women 2005. Tymoshenko is the leader of the All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" party and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. She has been a practising economist and academic. Prior to her political career, Yulia Tymoshenko was a successful but controversial businesswoman in the gas industry, becoming by some estimates one of the richest people in the country. Before becoming Ukraine's first female Prime Minister in 2005, Tymoshenko co-led the Orange Revolution. Tymoshenko was a candidate in the Ukrainian presidential elections of 2010, but lost this election to Viktor Yanukovych (Tymoshenko received 45.47% of the votes in the second and final round of this election).

At first Tymoshenko challenged the election results, claiming the vote was rigged, but withdrew her appeal on 20 February 2010, stating, "It became clear that the court is not out to establish the truth". Since May 2010 a number of criminal cases have been opened against Tymoshenko. On 11 October 2011, a Ukrainian court sentenced Tymoshenko to seven years in prison after she was found guilty of abuse of office when brokering the 2009 gas deal with Russia. The conviction is seen as "justice being applied selectively under political motivation" by the European Union and other international organizations. On her 51st birthday an action called "Flowers for Yulia" happened in the Lukyanivska Prison. Early life and career Yulia Tymoshenko (born Grigyan) was born 27 November 1960, in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union). Her mother Ludmila Nikolaevna Telegina (née Nelepova), was born 11 August 1937, in Dnipropetrovsk.

Her father Vladimir Abramovich Grigyan was born 3 December 1937, in Dnipropetrovsk and was, according to his Soviet passport, Latvian. Vladimir left the family when Yulia was three years old. Tymoshenko took the surname of her mother "Telegina" – before graduating in 1977. In 1979, Tymoshenko married Oleksandr Tymoshenko, son of a middle-level Soviet official. In 1980 their daughter Yevhenia (Eugenia) was born. Education Tymoshenko graduated from high school in 1977 (school № 37 in Dnipropetrovsk). In 1978 Tymoshenko entered the mining department of "Dnipropetrovsk Mining Institute". In 1979 she transferred to the Economic Department of the Dnipropetrovsk State University and majored in cybernetic engineering. In 1984 Tymoshenko graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk State University with honors (red diploma) as an engineer-economist.

In 1999, she defended a PhD dissertation at the Kiev National Economic University (Dissertation of Y. Tymoshenko "State Regulation of the tax system"). Business career After graduating from the Dnipropetrovsk State University in 1984 Tymoshenko worked as an engineer-economist in a "Dnipro Machine-Building Plant" in Dnipropetrovsk (factory made missiles) until 1988. In 1988, as part of the perestroika initiatives, Yulia and Oleksandr Tymoshenko borrowed 5000 Soviet rubles, and opened a cooperative "video rental"; perhaps with the help of Oleksander's father Gennadi Tymoshenko, who presided over (in the provincial council) a network of regional film distribution. In 1989–1991, Yulia and Oleksandr Tymoshenko founded and headed a Komsomol video rental company "Terminal" in Dnipropetrovsk (which grew to be quite successful), and later privatized it.

In 1991 Tymoshenko established (jointly with her husband Oleksandr, Gennadi Tymoshenko and Olexandr Gravets) "The Ukrainian Petrol Corporation", a company that provided the agriculture industry of Dnipropetrovsk with fuel from 1991 to 1995. Tymoshenko worked as a General Director. From 1995 to 1997, Tymoshenko was the president of the United Energy Systems of Ukraine, a privately owned middleman company that became the main importer of Russian natural gas to Ukraine in 1996. During that time she was nicknamed "gas princess" in light of accusations that she had been reselling enormous quantities of stolen gas and avoiding taxation of those deals. She was also accused of "having given Pavlo Lazarenko kickbacks in exchange for her company's stranglehold on the country's gas supplies". During this period Tymoshenko was involved in business relations (either co-operative or hostile) with many important figures of Ukraine.

The list includes Pavlo Lazarenko, Viktor Pinchuk, Ihor Kolomoyskyi, Sergei Tigipko, Leonid Kuchma who at that time was the President of Ukraine. All of these are, like Tymoshenko, originally from Dnipropetrovsk. Tymoshenko has also been closely linked to the management of the Russian corporation, Gazprom. Tymoshenko is said to have acquired a significant fortune between 1990 and 1998, she became one of the wealthiest oligarchs in Ukraine. Now she's not a businesswoman, as well politician — since 2006 Ukraine published ratings of the "100 richest Ukrainians", Tymoshenko is not present in these rankings. Orange Revolution In the Autumn of 2001, both Tymoshenko and Viktor Yushchenko attempted to create a broad opposition bloc against the incumbent President Leonid Kuchma in order to win the Ukrainian presidential election 2004.

In late 2002, Tymoshenko, Oleksandr Moroz (Socialist Party of Ukraine), Petro Symonenko (Communist Party of Ukraine) and Viktor Yushchenko (Our Ukraine) issued a joint statement concerning "the beginning of a state revolution in Ukraine". In the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, the communist party stepped out of the alliance, but the other parties remained allies and Symonenko was against a single candidate from the alliance (until July 2006). On 2 July 2004, Our Ukraine and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc established the Force of the people, a coalition which aimed to stop "the destructive process that has, as a result of the incumbent authorities, become a characteristic for Ukraine", the pact included a promise by Viktor Yushchenko to nominate Tymoshenko as Prime Minister if Yushchenko would win the October 2004 presidential election. Tymoshenko campaigned for Yushchenko during the 2004 electoral campaign. The Yushchenko campaign publicly called for protest on 21 November 2004 (second round election day) when allegations of fraud began to spread.

On November 22, 2004 massive protests broke out in cities across Ukraine: the largest, in Kiev's Maidan Nezalezhnosti attracted an estimated 500,000 participants. These protests became known as the Orange Revolution. During the protests, Tymoshenko speeches on Maidan kept the momentum of the street protests going. After the cancellation of Viktor Yanukovych's official victory and a re-run of the second round of the election Viktor Yushchenko was elected President. Personal life Tymoshenko and her husband rent a house in Kiev (the house belongs to relatives) and own a house in Dnipropetrovsk. Tymoshenko has declared she never used and will never use or move into a state-owned summer house, in contrast all former-Presidents of Ukraine are all living in state-owned dachas in Koncha-Zaspa. According to Ukrainian media Tymoshenko lives in a estate in Koncha-Zaspa (estimated worth: $5 million), "rented from a friend for free".

Tymoshenko has publicly stated that, like most Soviet citizens, she spoke only Russian in her childhood (although Tymoshenko was studying the Ukrainian language and Ukrainian literature at the school for 10 years, as all schoolchildren in Ukraine). In January 2010 Tymoshenko stated that in Dnipropetrovsk she did not have to speak Ukrainian until she was 36 (ie before 1996). According to Tymoshenko her braids are a family tradition. In her spare time, before she was imprisoned, Tymoshenko ran on a treadmill for exercise and listened to the music of Andrea Bocelli, Sarah Brightman, Anna Netrebko and Alessandro Safina. Ukrayinska Pravda is her favourite news source. Tymoshenko has stated she has watched the Tunisian Revolution and Egyptian Revolution of 2011 "with joy and admiration" Cultural and political image Tymoshenko is a voluble public performer. Her fiery rhetoric made her an icon of the Orange Revolution. Tymoshenko's critics have suggested that, as an oligarch, she gained her fortune improperly.

Some have speculated that her familiarity with the illegal conduct of business common in Ukraine uniquely qualifies her to combat corruption—if she is willing to do so. Her former business partner, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko, was convicted in the United States on charges of money laundering, corruption and fraud, the magnitude of which was in the billions of dollars. Her transition from oligarch to reformer was believed by many voters to be both genuine and effective. Discrepancies between her declared income and her (viewed as luxurious) lifestyle have been pointed out in the Ukrainian media. When Tymoshenko joined the Yushchenko Government she didn’t speak Ukrainian.[296] According to fellow Ukrainian politician Borys Tarasyuk in 2002 Tymoshenko "only spoke Russian even when I spoke to her in Ukrainian", but since then she has made the transition to speaking only Ukrainian. During her second stint as Prime-Minister her ratings at opinion polls fell.

Early 2008 at public opinion polls for the Ukrainian presidential election, 2009 she stood at a 30% rate but late-April 2009 that had shrunk to 15% According to a poll carried out between January 29 and February 5, 2009 by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology just over 43% of the Ukrainian voters believed Tymoshenko should leave her post, whereas just over 45% believed she should stay. According to an opinion poll carried out between February 3 and February 12, 2009 by the "Sofia" Center for Social Studies some 59.1% of those polled believed that the activities of (then) Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko where aimed at the defense of her own interests and that of her entourage, some 4.2% said her activities where aimed at the defense of interests of foreign states and some 23.9% believed that Tymoshenko worked for the sake of national interests. 77.7% of the respondents where unsatisfied with the economic policy of the second Tymoshenko Government.

Some 71.8% believed that this government was not able to lead the Ukrainian economy out of the 2008–2009 Ukrainian financial crisis or even change the situation in Ukraine to better; 18.1% of respondents did think the that the government could do that. Tymoshenko has been ranked three times by Forbes magazine among the most powerful women in the world. During her first term, in 2005 she was ranked third (behind only Condoleezza Rice and Wu Yi), in 2008 she was ranked at number 17 and in 2009 at number 47. According to the Ukrainian magazine Focus Lady Yu was placed first in annual ranking of the most influential women in Ukraine in 2006–2010 (five years). During the Orange Revolution some Western media publications dubbed her the "Joan of Arc of the Revolution". Tymoshenko was also dubbed one of the most beautiful women ever to enter politics by Daily Mail and 20 Minutos in 2009.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has stated (in November 2009) he found it comfortable to work with his (then) Ukrainian counterpart Yulia Tymoshenko and also praised her for strengthening Ukrainian sovereignty and building stable ties with Moscow and called the second Tymoshenko Government "efficient and a force for stability". It has been suggested by Reuters that the Russian government, after seeing her opposition to Viktor Yushchenko, supported her since late 2008. Former ally and President of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko stated in November 2009 "I am sure that every week, spent by Yulia Tymoshenko at the post of Prime Minister, leads the country to a catastrophe. Because of Yulia Tymoshenko – it is a crisis, crisis in everything". Yushchenko has repeatedly accused his former ally turned rival Tymoshenko of acting in the interests of Russia, she firmly denied the allegations. On 31 May 2010 Yushchenko stated that Tymoshenko was his "worst mistake", "The most serious mistake was to give the power to her twice". Expert in Ukrainian politics Dr.

Taras Kuzio believes that he has always prioritized personal revenge against Tymoshenko over Ukraine’s national interests. Former Ukrainian Minister of Finance of Ukraine Viktor Pynzenyk has called Tymoshenko's decisions "normally guided by ‘adventurous populism,’" which she saw as a tool to "consolidate power in her own hands" and believed Tymoshenko should have "taken advantage of the opportunity presented by the 2008–2009 Ukrainian financial crisis to reform". Party of Regions Deputy Head Borys Kolesnykov stated on February 11, 2010 "Tymoshenko was the most effective politician during the entire period of Ukraine's recent history". Former European High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana has called Tymoshenko "a patriot regardless of the position in which you have found yourself". President Viktor Yanukovych stated about Tymoshenko on May 13, 2010 "She likes to create a sensation. We have grown used to this extravagant woman". Vitaly Chepinoha has closely collaborated with Tymoshenko during various elections for more than a decade.

In some press-media Tymoshenko is sometimes referred to as Lady Yu. From : Yulia Tymoshenko - Bio, Facts, Family | Famous Birthdays Yulia Tymoshenko Sagittarius World Leader#17 About Known as a leader of the Ukrainian Orange Revolution of 2004 and 2005, this Batkivshchyna Party (All-Ukrainian Union Fatherland Party) politician served in 2005 and from 2007 until 2010 as the first female Prime Minister of Ukraine. Before Fame After earning a PhD from the Kyiv National Economic University, she became a highly successful business executive for a natural gas company. Before she even entered politics, she was included on a Forbes Magazine list of the world's wealthiest and most powerful women. Trivia In 2011, she was arrested and sentenced to a seven-year prison term on charges of abuse of power and embezzlement. The European Union viewed the charges as false and politically-driven, and she was released from prison in February of 2014.

Yulia Tymoshenko News | Quotes | Video | Wiki - UPI.com Yulia Tymoshenko News Next Wiki Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko (Ukrainian: Юлія Володимирівна Тимошенко, pronounced ), born Grigyan (Ukrainian: Грігян, from the Latvian surname "Grigan"); (born 27 November 1960) is a Ukrainian politician. Tymoshenko was the Prime Minister of Ukraine from 24 January to 8 September 2005, and again from 18 December 2007 to 4 March 2010. She is the leader of the All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" party and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. She has been a practising economist and academic. Prior to her political career, Yulia Tymoshenko was a successful but controversial businesswoman in the gas industry, becoming by some estimates one of the richest people in the country. Before becoming Ukraine's first female Prime Minister in 2005, Tymoshenko co-led the Orange Revolution.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License . It uses material from the Wikipedia article " Yulia Tymoshenko ." Quotes Yulia Tymoshenko Yulia Tymoshenko 2005-09-11 08:58:57 CRIENGLISH.com Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenk was the Prime Minister of Ukraine from 24 January to 8 September 2005. She is a politician and leader of the Bat'kivshchyna party and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. Prior to that she was a successful businesswoman in the gas industry and became one of the wealthiest people in Ukraine. Before becoming Ukraine's first female prime minister, she was considered the most significant ally of opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko (whose deputy she had been, when he was prime minister), and had a very high profile during the 2004 presidential election. She was also one of the key leaders of the Orange Revolution inspired by those elections, which eventually brought Yushchenko to power. In this period, some media publications dubbed her "Joan of Arc of the Orange Revolution".

On July 28, 2005, Forbes magazine named her third most powerful woman in the world, behind only Condoleezza Rice and Wu Yi. Origins Tymoshenko's origins have been the basis of some debate. Some have claimed that her maiden name is Grigyan, and that she is half-Armenian on her father's side. However, her supporters insist that she is ethnically Russian, her maiden name being Telegina. She married Oleksandr Tymoshenko, a son of a mid-level Soviet communist party bureaucrat, in 1979, and began rising through a number of positions under the Soviet system. She graduated from Dnipropetrovs'k State University with a degree in economics in 1984, and went on to gain a candidate degree (the equivalent of a Ph.D.) in economics. She has since authored about 50 papers. In 1989, she founded a video rental chain which grew to be quite successful.

Tymoshenko experienced a rise in power under the Soviet system, but it was after the demise of the Soviet Union that she rose to particular prominence, directing several energy-related companies and acquiring a significant fortune between 1990 and 1998. From 1995 to 1997, Tymoshenko was the president of United Energy Systems of Ukraine, a privately owned company which became the main importer of Russian natural gas in 1996. During that time she was nicknamed "gas princess" in the light of accusations she had sold abroad enormous quantities of stolen Russian gas. Political career Tymoshenko once said she would like to appear in PlayboyTymoshenko made a move into politics in 1996, and was elected as a representative of Kirovohrad oblast, winning a record 92.3% of the vote in her district. She was re-elected in 1998 and 2002. In 1998, she became the Chair of the Budget Committee of the Ukrainian parliament.

From 1999 to 2001, Tymoshenko was the deputy prime minister for fuel in the energy sector in the government of Viktor Yushchenko. Tymoshenko was fired by President Leonid Kuchma in January 2001, on charges of forging customs documents and smuggling Russian natural gas while she was the president of United Energy Systems of Ukraine between 1995 and 1997. She was arrested in February 2001 but was released and cleared of charges several weeks later. According to Tymoshenko, the accusations were fabricated by Kuchma's regime, under the influence of coal industry oligarchs threatened by her efforts to root out corruption and institute market-based reforms.Once the charges were dropped, she led a street-level campaign against President Kuchma for his alleged role in the murder of the journalist Georgi Gongadze. The following year she was in a mysterious car accident that almost killed her - an episode some believe may have been a government assassination attempt. Tymoshenko's critics have suggested that, as a so-called oligarch, her fortune was gained improperly.

Some have speculated her familiarity with the illegal conduct of business common in Ukraine uniquely qualifies her to combat corruption -- if she is willing to. Her former business partner, the former Ukraine Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko is fighting extradition back to Ukraine on allegations of abusing his office for personal gain. He is believed to have sent billions of dollars outside of the country. In addition her husband, Oleksandr, was hiding outside of Ukraine facing charges he and his wife describe as unfounded and politically motivated by the former Kuchma administration. Ukrainian prosecutors said Friday, January 28, 2005 that they have closed the case against then Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and her family members due to lack of evidence. Prosecutors also ended their case involving Tymoshenko's husband, Oleksandr, and her father-in-law, Henadiy Tymoshenko, who were charged with fraud, embezzlement and tax evasion. Mister Oleksandr Tymoshenko returned to Ukraine soon after that. Despite this questionable past, her transition from oligarch to reformer was believed by many to be both genuine and effective. As energy Vice Prime Minister, she virtually ended many corrupt arrangements in the energy sector.

Under her stewardship, Ukraine's revenue collections from the electricity industry grew by several thousand per cent. She scrapped the practice of barter in the electricity market, requiring customers to pay for their electricity in cash. She also terminated exemptions for many organizations which excluded them from having their power disconnected. Her reforms meant that the government had sufficient funds to pay civil servants and increase salaries. However, several months into her government, allegations of corruption and failure to deliver on the promise of reform after the Orange Revolution began to damage Ms Tymoshenko's administration. On 8 September 2005, after the resignation of several senior officials including the Head of the Security and Defence Council Petro Poroshenko and Deputy Prime Minister Mykola Tomenko, Yulia Tymoshenko's government was dismissed by President Victor Yuschenko. She was succeeded by Yuriy Yehanurov, governor of Dnipropetrovsk province. Brief Biography Yulia Tymoshenko was born on November 27, 1960 in the city of Dnipropetrovs'k. She received university education as an economist-cyberneticist and earned a candidate of economic science degree.

Worked as an engineer-economist in the machine-building plant in Dnipropetrovs'k. 1995 to 1997 锟�C president of the Corporation "United Energy System of Ukraine". In 1997 elected people's deputy of Ukraine. In 1998 elected people's deputy to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, head of the Budget Committee. She authored the projects of Budget, Tax, Social Codes and other bills. In 1999 elected a head of the political party - All-Ukrainian "Batkivschyna" party. December 1999 to January 2001 锟�C vice Prime Minister of Ukraine. Author of "Energetic Conception of Ukraine" and anticorruption programs "Pure Energy", "Ukrainian coal". In 2001 initiated formation of the National Salvation Forum and became the leader of the united democratic forces. She was one of the leaders of civic protest action "Arise, Ukraine!" People's deputy of three convocations. During elections to the Parliament headed the political parties bloc - "Block of Yulia Tymoshenko" (BYT).

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Finally, it appeared, Yanukovych had got the better of his nemesis, Yulia Tymoshenko , sending her to prison for seven years and locking her up in a female penal colony in the eastern city of Kharkiv. This weekend, however, Yanukovych's strategy looks like a woeful blunder. True, Tymoshenko is still in prison. But Yanukovych has become the international community's newest hate figure. Last week, Angela Merkel announced she and the entire German cabinet will boycott the 2012 European football championships, which Ukraine is co-hosting with Poland, unless Tymoshenko is freed. Merkel said she wouldn't attend Germany's match against the Netherlands next month. The venue is Kharkiv, just down the road from Tymoshenko's cell. Other EU bosses followed Merkel. The European commissioner, José Manuel Barroso, said he was boycotting Ukraine; the EU president, Herman Van Rompuy, said he wouldn't travel either. The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton , expressed concern.

Downing Street is sitting on the fence, but has signalled that British ministers may stay away from England's three group games to be played in the capital Kiev – where the Euro 2012 final will be played on 1 July – and in Donetsk. Tymoshenko has been on hunger strike since 20 April. She alleges that when prison guards forcibly removed her to hospital they beat her up. Photos showing bruises to her arms and stomach have fuelled international outrage. Her daughter, Eugenia, told the Guardian on Wednesday that her mother had been "brutally" punched; Ukrainian authorities say her injuries are self-inflicted . Even Vladimir Putin has been appalled by her mistreatment. There are sound reasons for this: keeping Ukraine politically weak and divided suits Russia's strategic interests. But Putin – inaugurated tomorrow for a third stint as Russia's president – appears to have a soft spot for Ukraine's opposition leader. He has gallantly offered Tymoshenko medical treatment in Russia. German doctors say she is suffering from a herniated spinal disc; Berlin also wants to give refuge to the woman known as Lady Yu.

In a matter of days, Tymoshenko – firebrand co-leader of Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution – has succeeded in recapturing the world's attention. She may be confined to a cell, but she has again shown herself to be one of Europe's most beguiling and resourceful politicians. "It really takes a novelist or playwright to do her justice. She has glamour, hubris and potential tragedy," observed Andrew Wilson, senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. More than this, Tymoshenko has adroitly focused the west's attention on the dark things that have been happening in Ukraine since she narrowly lost to Yanukovych in the country's 2010 presidential election. During her election campaign, she warned that Yanukovych would rip up Ukraine's nascent democracy; her aides talked condescendingly of Yanukovych's "Soviet mental map". Not enough voters believed her. She was proved right more quickly than anybody expected. Once in office, Yanukovych broke parliamentary rules, squeezed the independent media and began selectively prosecuting his political enemies. Five members of Tymoshenko's former government are now in jail.

She was convicted of "illegally" agreeing a 2009 gas deal with Russia. Tymoshenko was born in 1960 in Dnipropetrovsk, a city in eastern Soviet Ukraine. Like Yanykovych, she grew up without a father. After leaving school, she married Oleksandr Tymoshenko, the son of the local Communist party boss. The couple still appear to be together. But he was the first of a series of usefully connected men who have sponsored her career, first in business and then in politics, and given her a "krysha", the "roof" necessary to succeed in post-Soviet life. "She is clearly a clever operator who is not above using her considerable feminine charms to do things," Wilson said. After studying engineering at university, Tymoshenko went into business. By the mid-1990s, she had become president of United Energy Systems of Ukraine. The company became the main importer of Russian natural gas. This monopoly made her rich, with the firm used as a battering ram to take over other industries. Yanukovych's prosecutors accuse her of various crimes from this period and are preparing fresh charges.

Did she act unlawfully? She denies it. The spirit of the 1990s was predatory oligarchic capitalism; Tymoshenko appears to have behaved little differently from others, in an era when there were few rules. Her political rise was rapid. By 1999, she had become deputy prime minister responsible for fuel and energy. Two years later, however, Ukraine's then president, Leonid Kuchma, fired her. It was then that she discovered her talent as a fearless political campaigner. Together with Viktor Yushchenko, she opposed Kuchma's choice as his successor in the country's 2004 elections, the Kremlin-friendly Yanukovych. When Yanukovych attempted to steal the vote, protests broke out across Ukraine and an Orange tent city appeared in Kiev. This was the Orange Revolution. She became its unstoppable face. Tymoshenko was unlike any other post-Soviet female politician. Eschewing the conventional bling and cleavage favoured by other high-profile women, she wore her hair in a braided crown. Her clothes, chosen from Kiev boutiques, radiated peasant chic.

Her image was sexy yet demure – a knock-out combination in a world dominated by pasty-looking men in dull suits. (One journalist who met her in 2004 complained that she "softly but persistently" stroked his arm throughout the interview; he failed to take notes.) Yushchenko won the rerun presidential election and appointed Tymoshenko his prime minister. Soon, however, it emerged that the two Orange leaders couldn't get on. There were rumours that Yulia and Mrs Yushchenko disliked each other; complaints from the Yulia camp that Yushchenko was prolix and had a messiah complex; and accusations of sexism. In 2005, Yushchenko fired Tymoshenko and brought in Yanukovych. Tymoshenko bounced back as prime minister in 2007, a job she held until 2010. But she proved less successful in government than she did as a campaigner; micro-managing, and barking orders in cabinet, for sure, but failing to get to grips with Ukraine's deepening recession. "She wasn't good at delegating or forming a team," Wilson observed.

By 2010 the Orange Revolution had fizzled out, with ordinary Ukrainians fed up with the warring antics of the Orange duo and harsh economic times. International observers say Yanukovych's 2010 election victory was fair. But in power, he, too, has found governing tough; recently his poll ratings have slumped. Many Ukrainians are now dissatisfied with the country's entire political class, seeing it as venal and self-serving. Whether they are pro-western or pro-eastern, the elite are seen as little more than crooks. And yet Yanukovych's clumsy hounding of Tymoshenko has, in part, rehabilitated her in the eyes of the public. Her opinion poll ratings have crept up. It may be coincidence that Tymoshenko has started her hunger strike at a moment when Ukraine is preparing to host the biggest sporting event in its post-communist history. Or canny timing. Either way, Tymoshenko now seems ascendant again. "We have a paradoxical situation," Sergiy Taran, director of Kiev's International Democracy Institute, said. "We have two leaders. One is in prison, the other is in power.

Yanukovych has media, money, everything. And yet it is Tymoshenko who has the higher level of support. She's more influential than ever." Taran added that political leaders doing time was one of the hallmarks of a "transitional society". (Yanukovych also sat in prison as a teenager, after being convicted of theft and hooliganism.) Ukraine was emulating the experience of other European countries but a few decades late, he said. Despite EU pressure, Yanukovych is unlikely to free Tymoshenko. His government has reacted sharply to what it sees as German bullying, with officials decrying "Cold War tactics". The president's aim, it appears, is to keep her there during parliamentary elections in October. But if his current unpopularity continues, he will struggle to win re-election in 2015 – at which point Tymoshenko will emerge from her cell. She is barred from taking part in this autumn's poll but is acknowledged by Ukraine's opposition as its pre-eminent leader. According to Taran, her ultimate ambition is to be president. It is the drive for power that, more than anything, keeps her going.

"Yanukovych is a very different person. He wants material prosperity. Yulia isn't interested in material things," he suggested. But what could one expect from President Tymoshenko? "We don't really know," Taran admitted. "She could be a great reformer. Or she could be a dictator."

Question: In 2005 Yulia Tymoshenko became the first female Prime Minister of which country?
Answer: Ukraine