Biography
The new spokesman for President of Ukraine Yulia Mendel is a bright and noticeable personality, although before appointment to a responsible position and was in the shadows. In its air service, cooperation with authoritative Ukrainian and American media. She is the first journalist in the country that the Grant of the World Press Institute was obtained.
There is in the dossier of the official "voice" of the head of state and the scandalous page about which colleagues and unfriendliers hurried to remember how only information about the appointment of Mendel was confirmed.
Childhood and youth
About the years of childhood and youth of Yulia information is scanty. At the time of the appointment of Mendel, the press secretary of Vladimir Zelensky in the biography of the civil servant was quite a few "white spots", which a woman is in no hurry to fill. It is known that she was born in September 1986 in the south of Ukraine, in a small resort town of Genichesk, which in the Kherson region.
Who by profession the parents of Yulia Mendel is unknown. The issue of nationality remains open, but many suggest that the name of the presidential speaker has a Jewish origin.
After graduation, the girl went to Kiev and entered the National University. Taras Shevchenko. Successfully graduated from the university, receiving a degree of candidate of philological sciences.
Career
Being a graduate journalist, freely speaking in English, Julia collaborated with the Journal of Forbes, which is published in Ukraine since 2011, and the American publication Politico. Soon the Mendel had experience on television: she was preparing materials for ICTV TV channels, Inter and Espresso-TV. On the channel "1 + 1" she was entrusted to post the author's articles in the TSN column. Blogs. "
After receiving the World Press Institute, Yulia Mendel in 2015 with a group of foreign journalists visited America and met the work of the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and CNN TV channel.
According to Yulia, a turning point in the career was a trip to Yale University, whose graduates were the 41st and 43rd US presidents George Bush - Senior and Bush Jr., Meryl Streep and Paul Newman. In Yale, Ukrainian was held journalistic training.
In 2018, the scandal was hit in Ukraine: Julia Mendel in Tandem with the Russian correspondent "New York Times" Andrew Higgins wrote a revealing article on corruption in the Ukrainian military-industrial complex.
The publication said that from the beginning of the military conflict in the east of the country, the costs of "defense" doubled, reaching $ 6 billion. This is more than 5% of Ukraine's GDP. Such huge amounts gave rise to temptation officials, overcome which they could not. Higgins and Mendel told about the uncleanness of the power that surrounded with the business, on the abuse of officials by the official position and containment of the fight against corruption.
Journalists wrote about buying a military ministry from Bogdan Motors of sanitary vehicles for the front. In addition to poor quality, the machines are produced by the company's capacity that the President Petro Poroshenko has been associated with the business interests.
Deputies of the Verkhovna Rada, journalists and bloggers from Poroshenko's circle hurried to blame Julia in lies, calling the publication of the "chamber" without an evidence base.
Before the presidential election of 2019 and high-tech, Mendel worked as a consultant for communications in the World Bank. Recently graduated from the Euro-Atlantic Academy (Weasa) in Warsaw.
Personal life
Announced the 30th anniversary of Julia Mendel is not officially married. She has no husband and children. But whether the heart of a young and charming woman is free, rapidly at the career staircase, is unknown. Yulia does not advertise a personal life.
In 2016, the name of the journalist surfaced in connection with the scandal provoked the most girl himself. On the page in Facebook, she laid out a screenshot with indecent reports of a stranger, produced by the director of the LE Boutique clothing store. The man left the scubbing comments under one of the photos of Julia.
The discussion broke out on the network, the girl was correctly entered, betraying the personal correspondence public. As it turned out, similar comments stranger left not only under the photographs of Mendel. Scandal is dried when a man asked for a girl forgiveness. She removed the screenshot from Facebook, but could not erase it from the memory of subscribers and journalists.
According to the publication "Glavred", on the back of the presidential speaker there is a tattoo made on the 30th anniversary. A sketch of the drawing is invented by Julia, it is three spikes against the background of the Ukrainian embroidery.
Julia Mendel now
At the end of April 2019, the newly elected President Zelensky announced a competition whose winner will be able to take the place of the Speaker of the Head of State. Requirements - possession of three languages (state and English required), the experience of a journalist and willingness to work 24 hours a day without days off.
Yulia Mendel turned out to be one of 4 thousand applicants, sowing after the selection to stay in the hundred the best. According to the head of the Information Policy Department of the Presidential Administration of Irina Victorious, at the second stage of selection of hundreds selected half, which was given creative tasks.
Troy best arranged an improvised press conference, tasting for knowledge of languages, persuasiveness and resourcefulness. From the troika, Yulia Mendel was chosen, about which it became known on June 3. On the same day, she held the first 20-minute press conference that was not too informative. Yulia had to refute the accusations that the newly elected president chooses the environment, guided by personal acquaintances.
Recruitment caused negative resonance in the United States. Representatives of New York Times accused Mendel who collaborated with the publication as a freelancer, in conflict of interest. I had in mind the publication of Yulia in May 2019, in which she accused Joe Bayden (the main competitor of Trump in the upcoming presidential election) in corruption. That is, the spokesman for the President of Ukraine turned out to be a supporter of Republicans and Trump, which could not like to democrats.
Now Yulia Mendel is preparing for further difficult work, which promises quite a few stresses and challenges.