Biography
Yulia Tymoshenko - "Lady Yu", "Iron Lady", "Gas Princess", "Icon of the Orange Revolution" "and" Lady with Kospa ", which has become one of the most famous women in the world over the past decade. She won fame and popularity as Prime Minister of Ukraine, who made her main political prisoner country.Tymoshenko's biography is filled with secrets, but it does not prevent a politics woman through all the obstacles to confidently move to the heights of power, showing persistence, the power of will and incremental nature.
Childhood and youth
Yulia Vladimirovna Tymoshenko (real surname - Grigian) was born under the sign of the Zodiac Sagittarius on November 29, 1960 in the city of Dnieper (previously Dnepropetrovsk), the regional center of Ukraine. Her parents divorced when the daughter was another 3-year-old child. Father Vladimir Abramovich left the family, so the future Prime Minister of Ukraine was brought up only by Mother Lyudmila Nikolaevna Tellagin, who worked as a dispatcher in a taxi.
The nationality of Tymoshenko remains an open question until today: all her ancestors on his father were Latvians, and in mothers - Ukrainians. Yulia's childhood was held in difficult living conditions, lacked money, but the mother had time to surround the daughter with love and care.
At school age, the girl did not show interest in the sciences. Teachers tell that she studied without triple, but there was no excellent. In the youth, it was engaged in rhythmic gymnastics, in connection with which she was predicted to a career in sports. In the high school classes, Tymoshenko decided to change the surname. She took the last name of the mother, so in graduation documents, schoolgirl is referred to as Julia Tellagin.
After school, the "iron lady" of Ukrainian politics was enrolled in the Dnipropetrovsk Mountain Institute, at the Faculty of Automatics - Telemechanics, but due to the ability to be accommodated from the 1st year. She then decided to try their strength in another direction and became a student of the Faculty of Economics of the Dnepropetrovsk State University, who graduated with a red diploma.
In 1999, Julia defended her thesis on the topic "State regulation of the tax system" and became a candidate of economic sciences.
Personal life
Ukrainian society has always been interested to know about men and personal life Yulia Tymoshenko, but only one beloved was all his life next to Lady Yu. Back in student years, she married Alexander Tymoshenko, with whom the ascent began to the heights of power. In 1980, the young couple was born daughter of Eugene Tymoshenko.The heir of Ukrainian politics was married to the British rocker of Sean Carre. A loud wedding impressed Evgenia's compatriots, but the marriage lasted 8 years and did not give the spouses of children. After the divorce Tymoshenko, the youngest became the wife of a businessman from Ukraine Arthur Chechetkin. The couple had a long-awaited daughter Eve. In 2019, Julia Vladimirovna became a grandmother for the second time - daughter presented her grandson.
In the family of the former Prime Minister of Ukraine, the roles were distributed by calling: the husband was engaged in business, and the charismatic wife devoted himself to politics. After the "gas scandal", the spouse Tymoshenko also fell under criminal prosecution, as a result of which was forced to ask for political asylum in the Czech Republic.
In September 2020, there was a mountain in the family - the politics of Tatyana Sharapova died in politics. The woman was present at the funeral in the Dnieper.
In addition to the politics and personal life of Tymoshenko, the attention of the electorate is paid to the appearance of the "icon of the Orange Revolution". " The style and hairstyle of Yulia Vladimirovna does not discuss only the lazy, but she herself throws the topics for conversations. For example, elegant suits, dresses and skirts, which are sitting as they lined on her figure (height 163 cm, weight not more than 70 kg).
The favorite "chip" of the most influential woman of Ukraine has always been a business suit in pastel colors and tight braided braid around the head that it demonstrates in many photos in "Instagram" and "Twitter". Now Tymoshenko is not so conservative about the choice of hairstyles. Politics can be seen not only with the famous oblique, but also with tail and curled hair.
And, of course, the incomes of Yulia Tymoshenko do not leave people alone. For 2014, after leaving prison, the ex-prime minister of Ukraine earned 600 thousand hryvnia, 107 thousand of which was the salary of the People's Deputy. Also, its property has a house of 600 square meters. M, but she lives in a rented apartment, which spent 200 thousand vehicles at the disposal of Lady Yu. No, but her spouse owns the "seagull" of 1983 release and the Mercedes-Benz GL 350 CDI car.
In 2016, in the framework of the promulgation of state-owned declarations, the Ukrainian public found out news about the income of Yulia Vladimirovna. It turned out that the financial condition of the former prime minister does not allow to enrolle it in the top of the richest officials of Ukraine.
According to the electronic declaration of Tymoshenko, in 2015 she earned 75,616 hryvnia (salary in the Ukrainian parliament for the year). Another 80,559 hryvnia People's Deputy received on the fulfillment of deputy authority. Also, the Ex-Prime Minister of Ukraine indicated that he holds 485,971 hryvnia in the bank account and has at its disposal 318 thousand cash in national currency. Then the amount of bank account policy increased to 614 thousand hryvnia.
In addition, Julia Vladimirovna declared a house of 588 square meters. m in Kozino village, in Kiev region. It has a "other right of use" to the land plot of 1500 square meters. m under this building, as well as a land plot of 1862 square meters. m near the house.
Business
In the youth Tymoshenko began to be interested in business. Labor days girls began at the Dnepropetrovsk engineering factory from an economist engineer. At that time, he was married to Alexander Tymoshenko, Julia opened a video roller point, for which she had to occupy funds from acquaintances.
Having earned the first money, Tymoshenko organized the "Terminal" youth center, which was supposed to deal with the sale of petroleum products. This required primary capital, and invested in the case of the beetor "Lady Yu". So Yulia Vladimirovna broke into the world of business against the background of the collapse of the country's economic infrastructure in the early 1990s.
Already in the 1995th, the Cooperative Terminal with the support of the Governor of the Dnipropetrovsk Region of Pavel Lazarenko in the Ukrainian-British industrial and financial corporation "Unified Energy Systems of Ukraine" (EES) with a turnover of $ 10 billion. Headed the structure of Gas Princess . Then she had a monopoly on the realization of Russian gas in Ukraine.
In 1996, EESA suffered large political and financial difficulties, which pushed Yulia Vladimirovna to enter the political arena.
Politics
In 1997, the businesswoman became a people's deputy and took the leading position in the Common Party. In 1999, Tymoshenko was created by the All-Ukrainian Association "Batkivshchyna", at the head of which came to the government. Then she was appointed by the Deputy Prime Minister on the TEK in the office of Viktor Yushchenko. Julia immediately showed itself so that he fell into disfavor of many politicians and businessmen of the country.As a result, in 2000, Alexander Tymoshenko, her husband, and after a year, and herself Julia Vladimirovna was in the SIZO. The couple was accused of smuggling of Russian gas to Ukraine and in tax evasion. Later, the Kiev court recognized the accusations against Tymoshenko unreasonable, as a result of which the Gas Princess was released from custody, and after a while they released her spouse, closing all criminal cases on EES.
Further, Lady Yu again continued its political activities and until 2005 raised the level of popularity among the population at the head of the Opposition Promotion "Ukraine without Kuchma". At the same time, she acted in support of the future Ukrainian president of Viktor Yushchenko and became the leader of the Orange Revolution. This made it possible to be as a post of Prime Minister of Ukraine.
In September 2005, Yushchenko sent the Government of Tymoshenko's resignation due to the internal conflict between the branches of government, which caused an ambiguous response among Ukrainian politicians. Nevertheless, in the world, its reputation was stronger, and the American financial and economic journal Forbes called Julia Vladimirovna the third most influential woman of the planet.
The politician did not give his hands and continued to rush to the upper echelons of power. In 2006, "Block Yulia Tymoshenko" overtook a batch of regions in parliamentary elections by typing more than 22% of voters. Thus, in the Verkhovna Rada, the "orange coalition" took more than half of the places. The main part of government portfolios also got a new political formation, and Julia Vladimirovna became the main oppositionist of the country.
In 2007, in early elections, the High Rada BYUT has improved the position that Tymoshenko gave the opportunity to get the post of Prime Minister of the country again.
The second premiere of Iron Lady accounted for a period of a large-scale global crisis, but she managed to prevent large catastrophes in the economy. Its actions allowed to avoid default in the country, support the mining and metallurgical complex and production, prevent delays in the payment of wages to state employees and social payments to pensioners, to preserve the stability of tariffs for housing and communal services, in particular on gas, to privatize land plots and close illegal gambling business.
During this period, Julia Vladimirovna became the main figure of the gas conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Then Ukrainian-Russian relations went into a dead end, and the Gas Princess, the only government of Yushchenko, had to save the situation for which she was in the near future and landed. She was accused of providing a bear service to the country, since the gas supply contract was signed on bible conditions and with an unprecedentedly overpriced price. Soon Tymoshenko's negotiations with the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin fundamentally influenced its rating.
Before the prison, Julia Vladimirovna managed to participate in the presidential election - 2010, where only a few percent of the votes of voters lost to his opponent Viktor Yanukovych, who became the head of Ukraine. After that, the Government of Tymoshenko was declared distrust, she was resigned, and the chair of the prime minister took Nikolai Azarov, an associate of Yanukovych.
Since May 2010, "Iron Lady" of Ukraine began to reap the fruits of their activities: in relation to the policy, the Prosecutor General's Office opened several criminal cases at once. The biggest thing was the case of a gas contract with Russia, as well as the purchase of cars for rural medicine and "Kyoto money", which she allegedly used not to be appointed than damaged to the state in the amount of € 380 million.
In October 2011, the Pechersk Court of Kiev sentenced Tymoshenko to seven years of imprisonment with the reimbursement of damage to the state of $ 189 million. Such a decision of court instances caused sharp criticism in the world community, which considers the criminal prosecution of the former Ukrainian Prime Minister politically motivated. Tymoshenko went to serve a sentence in Kachanovskaya colony in Kharkov.
The stay of the "iron lady" in prison from the first days was filled with unpredictability and mysteriousness. In appearance, a healthy woman began to declare about poor well-being and appearance of bruises on the body, and lawyers reported to poisoning with their client.
Later, Julia Vladimirovna began to move badly because of the strong pain in the back. Tomography revealed an intervertebral hernia, which accounted for her to a wheelchair. At the same time, in 2013, Tymoshenko prison held two perpetual hunger strikes with the requirement of signing Yanukovych Agreement with the EU, but 12 days after appeal to her a crowded Maidan agreed to stop the action.
After the bloody traveling on the main square of the Ukrainian capital and deprivation of the authorities of President Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014, a decision was made about the release of political prisoner. The Verkhovna Rada decriminalized the article on which Yulia Tymoshenko was convicted, and on February 22, the Iron Lady was free.
Immediately after the liberation, the former Prime Minister of Ukraine entered the struggle for the presidential chair, but ranked 2nd, giving way to Petro Poroshenko's chief state post. Without breaking down to power, Tymoshenko began to reform the Batkivshchyna party, took the position of an ardent criticism of the current Ukrainian leadership and became the main opponent Poroshenko.
Some prospects were opened when in 2016 Tymoshenko rating significantly went up against the background of the failure of the Government of Vladimir Groisman, as well as the stable loss of positions by President Petro Poroshenko.
Her political rhetoric has actually changed. Yulia Vladimirovna promises the population to reduce tariffs for housing and communal services, remove the corruption component in the structure of public administration, make the transparent work of the energy industry system, as well as to increase social standards.
Experts and political scientists in 2017 predicted the victory of Tymoshenko in the following presidential elections, and the Batkivshchyna party was given the palm of championship in voting to the Verkhovna Rada. Yulia Vladimirovna began a pre-election campaign long before the official start, criticizing the failures of inept states, trying to provoke early elections to the country's parliament.
Other prominent figures of the Ukrainian political scene are fighting for the electorate "Lady Yu". The leader of the Radical Party Oleg Lyashko tried to drag a part of Tymoshenko's voters to his side, and earlier, Mikhail Saakashvili was trying to influence the sympathy of Ukrainians, the ex-president of Georgia. Political observers also called the hope of Savchenko by the main competitor of Yulia Tymoshenko, because the former pilot of the Ukrainian Air Force consisted in the Batkivshchyna party.
In March 2017, Yulia Vladimirovna demanded the resignation of the Government of Groisman, arguing such a desire for economic circumstances. In addition, she accused power in corruption and total delivery of the national interests of Ukraine when signing a memorandum from the IMF, which the country's leadership never submitted to the public.
Tymoshenko's position on the political arena could be strengthened, after all, her trip to the United States, as well as a conversation with the President of America, Donald Trump had further reduced confidence in Poroshenko and Groisman from foreign partners. A similar meeting of the leader of the Ukrainian opposition said that Lady Yu can get the support of the Administration of the White House.
In 2018, preparation for the presidential election began in Ukraine. The election campaign started in the pre-New Year holidays. A total of 8 candidates were registered. Sociological surveys have shown that Julia Tymoshenko (20.8%) was the leader of the list of applicants for the highest state post. The second and third place was held by Showman Vladimir Zelensky (13.4%) and the current president Petro Poroshenko (11.1%).
In the election program, Julia Vladimirovna affected economic and political issues. She promised to introduce a moratorium on raising prices for utilities services, as well as stop the war in the Donbas. Experts noted in the rhetoric of Tymoshenko the anti-Russian orientation: to solve the problem in the West of Ukraine "Lady Yu" planned not by the execution of Minsk agreements, but involvement in the process of the United States and Great Britain.
Tymoshenko reports had many negative statements about Russia. The applicant for the presidential chair suggested in economic issues to rely on the forces of Ukraine itself and the West, including gas issues, and not count on the help of a neighbor.
Despite the high election rating, Yulia Tymoshenko was subjected to serious attacks by Internet users. The network is replete with photojabs, ridicuing "Lady Yu". And the list of candidates for the presidency promised to replenish another politician, a deputy Yuri Tymoshenko, who was predicted by the role of a candidate spoiler. Until recently, he entered the Folk Front faction of the Verkhovna Rada.
Yulia Tymoshenko now
In March 2019, Ukraine began to shoot the film "Believe! The story of Yulia Tymoshenko. " Mary Lambert made director of the painting. She is known for worked on paintings about Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
In the same month, politician spoke negatively regarding the law "On the sale of the Earth". On social networks, she wrote that the Ukrainian authorities decided to carry out a land scope. They played an unstable situation in the world, which arose in the 2020th due to a coronavirus infection in connection with the pandemic. The new law allows you to sell and buy Ukrainian land to foreigners. Thus, citizens will deprive the most valuable resource, and instead they will receive only a few billion, which is not enough to solve all the problems of the country.
At the 2019 elections, Yulia Tymoshenko ranked 3rd. 14.2% of voters voted for it. In view of this, she did not pass in the second round. Vladimir Zelensky and Peter Poroshenko reached him.
Quarantine 2020 politician observed the incredible. In May, she was noticed in the Elite Spa Edem Resort Medical & Spa in the Lviv region, which continued his work, despite the ban. The company was a lawyer Sergei Vlasenko.
In August, the leader "Batkivshchyna" has become coronavirus infection. Julia Vladimirovna passed the test, and it turned out to be positive. The disease was accompanied by high temperatures. Doctors appreciated the status policy as critical. This information was reported by the press secretary of Tymoshenko Marina Soroka in Facebook.
On August 25, rumors appeared on the network that Julia Tymoshenko was connected to the IVL apparatus. However, soon her colleague in the party Vadim Ivchenko denied them. He noted that the leader of the fraction is also in a steadily serious condition and struggles with a temperature of 39 degrees. However, the ventilation of the lungs is carried out by other methods corresponding to the medical protocol.
Together with Tymoshenko, her daughter got sick and son-in-law, but they endured COVID-19 in a light form, which did not threaten their lives. Under what conditions the family policy and she herself picked up the disease is unknown.