19 Facts About Natalia Korolevska

Natalia Yuriivna Korolevska is a Ukrainian politician and former Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine.

Natalia Korolevska was born in 1975 in Krasnyi Luch, Luhansk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR.

Natalia Korolevska's father was a miner, her mother a teacher.

Natalia Korolevska graduated from the East Ukraine Volodymyr Dahl National University in 1997 and the Donetsk state academy of management in 2002.

From 1992 Natalia Korolevska worked in several management functions, starting in a company set up by her older brother Kostiantyn, earning a "Leader of middle business" award in 2004.

From 2002 until 2006, Natalia Korolevska was a deputy of the Luhansk regional council.

Natalia Korolevska was a member of Council of Entrepreneurs under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in the years 2003,2004 and 2005.

Natalia Korolevska became a member of All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" in autumn 2005 because "she is sure that the block of Yulia Tymoshenko is the future".

Natalia Korolevska represented her party in early December 2011 at the Congress of the European People's Party.

On 23 December 2011, Natalia Korolevska was elected the leader of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party.

On 14 March 2012 Natalia Korolevska was expelled from her "Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko-Batkivschyna"-faction after refusing to vote for the inclusion of a proposal in the agenda of the Verkhovna Rada.

The faction stated Natalia Korolevska was expelled "for breach of parliamentary ethics and cooperation with the Presidential Administration"; she had been reprimanded previously.

Natalia Korolevska was a candidate in the 25 May 2014 Ukrainian presidential election; but withdrew her candidacy on 1 May.

On 17 January 2015 the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine launched an investigation into Natalia Korolevska's alleged involvement in funding separatism.

Ukrainian journalists discovered that Natalia Korolevska failed to disclose her ownership of real estate in Russia's Moscow Oblast for 16 years in a row; in addition, she has allegedly owned real estate and a plot of land in Russia since 2005.

In December 2022, National Agency on Corruption Prevention revealed that Natalia Korolevska had financially enriched herself as a deputy of Rada by almost UAH 50 million and she had deliberately declared dishonest data about his income; her tax declaration in 2020 differed by UAH 3,8 million from the reliable ones.

Natalia Korolevska wants to involve the non-government sector more in decision-making.

In early March 2012, Natalia Korolevska called for the opposition to run the 2012 parliamentary elections on a single list.

Natalia Korolevska sees herself as a representative of the upcoming generation of political leaders of Ukraine.