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Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko (Ukrainian: Юлія Володимирівна Тимошенко, IPA: [ˈjul⁽ʲ⁾ijɐ woloˈdɪmɪr⁽ʲ⁾iu̯nɐ tɪmoˈʃɛnko]; née Hrihyan (Грігян); born 27 November 1960) is a Ukrainian politician, who served as Prime Minister of Ukraine in 2005, and again from 2007 until 2010; the first and only woman in Ukraine to hold that position. She has been a member of the Verkhovna Rada as People's Deputy of Ukraine several times between 1997 and ...
Jun 9, 2024 · Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian businesswoman and politician who served as prime minister of Ukraine (2005, 2007–10). She subsequently was charged with abuse of power and was imprisoned for several years, though her trial was widely criticized as being politically motivated. Learn more about her life and career.
May 23, 2014 · Yulia Tymoshenko, a former favourite for the Ukrainian presidency, is now lagging well behind her main rival Petro Poroshenko.
Oct 11, 2011 · Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine’s glamorous former prime minister, was on Tuesday jailed for seven years after being found guilty of exceeding her power when she arranged a controversial 2009 gas deal ...
Feb 28, 2022 · Yulia Tymoshenko told FRANCE 24 that she thanks "the whole world for its support and the sanctions against Putin". But, she warns, "If Putin's army intends to bomb our nuclear power plants, it ...
Feb 23, 2014 · With her distinctive sleek braid and fiery oratory, Yulia Tymoshenko is back in the center stage of Ukraine politics. And it’s almost like she never left. Tymoshenko, 53, was freed from prison ...
Mar 19, 2019 · In an effort to regain ground, Ms Tymoshenko has touted populist measures aimed at older voters, such as slashing gas prices in half, raising pensions threefold, and returning savings to Soviet ...
Aug 7, 2022 · Yulia Tymoshenko believes the war offers a chance to revitalise European security structures Ukraine’s former prime minister wants a new kind of peace deal for her country
Mar 4, 2010 · But critics point out that she herself made a fortune in the energy sector in the 1990s. She was born in 1960 in the industrial city of Dnipropetrovsk, in the mainly Russian-speaking east, which is now a stronghold of Viktor Yanukovych, the man she helped push aside in the Orange Revolution, and who is now her main rival for the presidency.
Oct 11, 2011 · Ukraine's colourful former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko - a heroine of the Orange Revolution and darling of the West only a few years ago - has been jailed for seven years for abuse of power.
