Yulia Tymoshenko

Tymoshenko in 2019

Yulia Tymoshenko, November 2009

Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko (Ukrainian: Юлія Володимирівна Тимошенкоcode: uk is deprecated , born 27 November 1960), is a Ukrainian politician. Tymoshenko is a member of the Verkhovna Rada since 2014. She is the leader of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc political party. She was the Prime Minister of Ukraine for two separate terms in 2005 and again from 2007 until 2010.

Political career

Her first term as Prime Minister was from 24 January to 8 September 2005. She was re-elected on 18 December 2007 but was removed by the Ukrainian Parliament on 3 March 2010^[1] after the government with her own political party and the political party of Viktor Yushchenko (former President of Ukraine) Our Ukraine and the small Lytvyn Bloc lost a no-confidence vote.^[1]

While they were once strong allies, today there is a lot of political rivalry between Yushchenko and Tymoshenko. When Viktor Yushchenko lost the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, and his followers argued that the election had been corrupt, she was his main ally and one of the leaders of the Orange Revolution.^[2]

Presidential campaigns

In February 2010 Tymoshenko lost the presidential election to Viktor Yanukovych; with a 3.48% difference, she said Yanukovych won because of fraud.^[3] She has promised to make life for the new President as difficult as possible.^[2]

She was an unsuccessful candidate for President of Ukraine in the 2019 presidential election.

Yulia Tymoshenko meeting with the United States President George W. Bush on 1 April 2008

Criminal charges

On 11 October 2011 a Ukrainian judge sentenced Tymoshenko to seven years in prison for misusing her powers as Prime Minister when she signed a natural gas deal with Russia in 2009.^[4] She had been in prison for improper behaviour in court since 5 August 2011.^[4] Tymoshenko appealed against the sentence on 24 October 2011;^[5] she said the sentence was an act of revenge by Viktor Yanukovych (he has said it is not).^[4]^[6] The European Union and Russia protested against the sentence.^[4]

Personal life

Tymoshenko was born in Dnipro, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. She studied at Dnipro Polytechnic, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University and Kyiv National Economic University.

Tymoshenko's first name is sometimes spelled Yuliya, Yulia, Iulia, or Julia. In 1979, she married businessman Oleksandr Tymoshenko. They have a daughter, businesswoman Eugenia.

Yulia Tymoshenko Media

Portrait of Yulia Tymoshenko. 2002. Politician in Ukraine, activist of the "orange revolution" in november/december 2004
Julia Timoshenko without "kosa"
Yulia Tymoshenko in Parliament, 4 February 2005
Yulia Tymoshenko with Viktor Yushchenko in 2009
Yulia Tymoshenko and Vladimir Putin meeting on 19 March 2005. In November 2009, Putin praised Tymoshenko's political choices and stated that he found it comfortable to work with her.
Tymoshenko and President of Poland Lech Kaczyński, 14 February 2008
Tymoshenko in November 2009
Yulia Tymoshenko, 9 December 2009
Yulia Tymoshenko (first round) – percentage of total national vote (25%)