1. Kateryna Mykhaylivna Yushchenko was born on Catherine Claire Chumachenko, September 1,1961 and is an American-born Ukrainian politician and philanthropist who was the First Lady of Ukraine from 2005 to 2010.
16 Facts About Kateryna Yushchenko
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Kateryna Yushchenko served in the Soviet Army, and was captured by German forces and taken to Germany in 1942.
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Kateryna Yushchenko's mother, Sofia Chumachenko, was born in Litky, Kyiv Oblast, in 1927, and died 30 September 2012 in Kyiv.
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Kateryna Yushchenko's parents met in Germany, married, and gave birth to her sister, Lydia, in 1945.
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Kateryna Yushchenko's dream was to return to his village and start a small farm.
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Kateryna Yushchenko died in 1998 and is buried in Kyiv.
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Kateryna Yushchenko was born Catherine Claire Chumachenko in Chicago to immigrants from the Left-bank Ukraine.
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Kateryna Yushchenko worked as a special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs.
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Kateryna Yushchenko holds a bachelor's degree in International Economics from the Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
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Kateryna Yushchenko later worked in the White House in the Office of Public Liaison during the administration of Ronald Reagan.
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Kateryna Yushchenko left her job in August 2000, when she was expecting her second child.
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Kateryna Yushchenko is involved in numerous charitable projects with the Ukraine 3000 International Foundation that she chairs.
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President Victor Kateryna Yushchenko served as Chairman of the Supervisory Council until his inauguration in 2005.
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Kateryna Yushchenko had earlier been accused by Russian television journalist Mikhail Leontyev of leading a US project to help Yushchenko seize power in Ukraine; in January 2002, she won a libel case against him.
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Kateryna Yushchenko is married to Viktor Yushchenko and has three children: Sofia, Khrystyna, and Taras.
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Kateryna Yushchenko became a Ukrainian citizen in 2005, and in 2007, she renounced her US citizenship.