19 Facts About Raisa Bohatyriova

Raisa Vasylivna Bohatyriova is a Ukrainian politician and former Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister of Health and former Secretary of National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

In October 2014, Raisa Bohatyriova was put on its wanted list by Ukrainian authorities as a suspect of large-scale embezzlement of state budget funds.

Raisa Bohatyriova was born on January 6,1953, in the town of Bakal, Chelyabinsk Oblast, of the Russian SFSR, to a family of workers.

Raisa Bohatyriova was born on the day of Christmas Eve, according to Eastern Orthodox Christianity.

Raisa Bohatyriova's husband, Ihor Oleksandrovych was a student at the Kharkiv Aviation Institute.

In 2000 Raisa Bohatyriova defended her doctorate dissertation, Role of Inborn and Inherited Pathology in Reproductive Losses of a Family, in the same university.

From 1997 to 2003, Raisa Bohatyriova was the Secretary of the Supervisory Board at the National Fund of Social Protection for Mothers and Children Ukraine to Children.

Raisa Bohatyriova was a member of the Communist Party of Soviet Union and a member of the organizing committee in the creation of the Socialist Party of Ukraine.

Raisa Bohatyriova was elected to the Verkhovna Rada by the members of the Kramatorsk city hospital as a people's deputy, a duty she accepted on May 15,1990.

In March 1994, Raisa Bohatyriova was not re-elected, yet was appointed as a Deputy of Minister of Health Security.

Raisa Bohatyriova made a career in this position, working her way up to be appointed Minister of the portfolio on January 27,1999.

On January 12,2000, Raisa Bohatyriova was deposed as a Minister of Health Security when the Prime Minister of Ukraine was appointed, Viktor Yushchenko.

In July 2000, Raisa Bohatyriova was again elected to the parliament as a member of the Christian Democratic Party of Ukraine.

Raisa Bohatyriova left her faction once she became a people's deputy and was unaffiliated until March 2001.

In March 2001, Raisa Bohatyriova joined the Regions of Ukraine group and, in November, its faction.

Raisa Bohatyriova was re-elected in April 2006 as the Party of Regions member, placing sixth on the party list.

In November 2007, during the all-national reelections, Raisa Bohatyriova again became a member of the Verkhovna Rada from the Party of Region.

On February 14,2012, Raisa Bohatyriova was removed from the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine and appointed Minister of Health.

Raisa Bohatyriova was released from the pre-trial detention center two days later after Vadym Novynskyi had posted bail for her.