Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko is a Ukrainian politician, people's Deputy of Ukraine, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine for the fuel and energy complex, Prime Minister of Ukraine from February to September 2005 and from December 2007 to March 2010.
195 Facts About Yulia Tymoshenko
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Yulia Tymoshenko was the first and so far the only woman to serve as prime minister of Ukraine.
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Yulia Tymoshenko has the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences.
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Yulia Tymoshenko co-led the Orange Revolution and was the first woman twice appointed and endorsed by parliamentary majority to become prime minister, serving from 24 January to 8 September 2005, and again from 18 December 2007 to 4 March 2010.
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Yulia Tymoshenko placed third in Forbes magazine's list of the world's most powerful women in 2005.
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Yulia Tymoshenko finished second in the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election runoff, losing by 3.5 percentage points to the winner, Viktor Yanukovych.
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Yulia Tymoshenko again finished second in the 2014 Ukrainian presidential election, this time to Petro Poroshenko.
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Yulia Tymoshenko's mother, Lyudmila Telehina, was born on 11 August 1937, in Dnipropetrovsk.
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Yulia Tymoshenko's father, Volodymyr Hrihyan, who according to his Soviet Union passport was Latvian, was born on 3 December 1937, in Dnipropetrovsk.
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Yulia Tymoshenko abandoned his wife and young daughter when Yulia was between one and three years old; Yulia used her mother's surname.
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Yulia Tymoshenko's paternal grandfather, Abram Kapitelman, was born in 1914.
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In 1978, Yulia Tymoshenko was enrolled in the Automatization and Telemechanics Department of the Dnipropetrovsk Mining Institute.
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Yulia Tymoshenko was placed third in Forbes magazine's List of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women 2005.
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In 1991, Yulia Tymoshenko established "The Ukrainian Petrol Corporation", a company that supplied the agriculture industry of Dnipropetrovsk with fuel from 1991 to 1995.
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Yulia Tymoshenko served as the president of United Energy Systems of Ukraine, a privately owned middleman company that became the main importer of Russian natural gas to Ukraine, from 1995 to 1 January 1997.
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Yulia Tymoshenko was accused of "having given Pavlo Lazarenko kickbacks in exchange for her company's stranglehold on the country's gas supplies", although Judge Martin Jenkins of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, on 7 May 2004, dismissed the allegations of money laundering and conspiracy regarding UESU, Somoli Ent.
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Yulia Tymoshenko had to deal with the management of the Russian corporation, Gazprom.
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When Yulia Tymoshenko made her initial foray into national politics, her company became an instrument of political pressure on her and on her family.
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Since 1998, Yulia Tymoshenko has been a prominent politician in Ukraine.
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Yulia Tymoshenko was not included in the list of "100 richest Ukrainians" in 2006.
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In late 1997, Yulia Tymoshenko called for impeachment and the next Ukrainian Presidential elections to be held not in 1999, but in the fall of 1998.
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Former Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was in the opposition to President Leonid Kuchma.
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Yulia Tymoshenko was re-elected in 1998, winning a constituency in the Kirovohrad Oblast, and was number six on the party list of Hromada.
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Yulia Tymoshenko became an influential person in the parliament, and was appointed the Chair of the Budget Committee of the Verkhovna Rada.
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From late December 1999 to January 2001, Yulia Tymoshenko was the Deputy Prime Minister for the fuel and energy sector in the cabinet of Viktor Yushchenko.
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Yulia Tymoshenko scrapped the practice of barter in the electricity market, requiring industrial customers to pay for their electricity in cash.
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Yulia Tymoshenko terminated exemptions for many organizations which excluded them from having their power disconnected.
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Yulia Tymoshenko's reforms meant that the government had sufficient funds to pay civil servants and increase salaries.
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On 18 August 2000, Oleksandr Tymoshenko, CEO of United Energy Systems of Ukraine and Yulia Tymoshenko's husband, was detained and arrested.
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Yulia Tymoshenko herself stated that her husband's arrest was the result of political pressure on her.
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On 19 January 2001, President Leonid Kuchma ordered Yulia Tymoshenko to be dismissed.
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Yulia Tymoshenko has been head of the Batkivshchina political party since the party was organised in 1999.
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On 13 February 2001, Yulia Tymoshenko was arrested and charged with forging customs documents and smuggling gas in 1997.
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Once the charges were dropped, Yulia Tymoshenko reassumed her place among the leaders of the grassroots campaign against President Kuchma for his alleged role in the murder of the journalist Georgiy Gongadze.
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At the time, Yulia Tymoshenko wanted to organise a national referendum to impeach President Kuchma.
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On 11 August 2001, civilian and military prosecutors in Russia opened a new criminal case against Yulia Tymoshenko accusing her of bribery.
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In March 2004, Yulia Tymoshenko announced that leaders of "Our Ukraine", BYuT and Socialist Party of Ukraine were working on a coalition agreement concerning joint participation in the presidential campaign.
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Yulia Tymoshenko decided not to run for president and give way to Viktor Yushchenko.
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Yulia Tymoshenko was actively campaigning for Yushchenko, touring and taking part in rallies all over Ukraine.
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On 6 November 2004, Yulia Tymoshenko asked people to spread the orange symbols.
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Yulia Tymoshenko called Kyiv residents to gather on the square and asked people from other cities and towns to come and stand for their choice.
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On 23 November 2004, Yulia Tymoshenko led the participants of the protest to the President's Administration.
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On 24 January 2005, Yulia Tymoshenko was appointed acting prime minister of Ukraine under Yushchenko's presidency.
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Yulia Tymoshenko is the first woman appointed Prime Minister of Ukraine.
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However, in the magazine's list published on 1 September 2006, Yulia Tymoshenko's name was not among the top 100.
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In September 2005, Yulia Tymoshenko received the "Person of the Year of Central and Eastern Europe" award according to the 15th International Economic Forum in Krinitsa Gurska.
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Yulia Tymoshenko said that Tymoshenko was serving interests of some businesses, and the government decision to re-privatize the Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant "was the last drop" that made him dismiss the government.
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Yulia Tymoshenko has repeatedly stated that the mentioned amount was not a debt, but fines imposed by the Tax Inspection from 1997 to 1998, and that all the cases regarding UESU had been closed before she became prime minister.
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Yulia Tymoshenko blamed Yushchenko's closest circle for scheming against her and undermining the activities of her Cabinet.
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Yulia Tymoshenko criticised Yushchenko, telling the BBC that he had "practically ruined our unity, our future, the future of the country", without rooting out corruption as he pledged to do and that the president's action was absolutely illogical.
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At the time, Yulia Tymoshenko saw a rapid growth of approval ratings, while president Yushchenko's approval ratings went down.
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Yulia Tymoshenko soon announced that she wanted to return to the post of prime minister.
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Yulia Tymoshenko again reiterated her stance in regard to becoming prime minister.
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Yushchenko and oligarchs from his narrow circle were trying to impede Yulia Tymoshenko from returning to the office of prime minister.
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Yulia Tymoshenko's nomination was preconditioned on the election of her long-time rival Petro Poroshenko from "Our Ukraine" to the position of speaker of the parliament.
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Yulia Tymoshenko stated that she would vote for any speaker from the coalition.
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On 3 August 2006, Yulia Tymoshenko refused to sign the "Universal of National Unity" declaration initiated by president Yushchenko.
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In September 2006, Yulia Tymoshenko announced that her political force would be in opposition to the new government.
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On 31 March 2007, Yulia Tymoshenko initiated a "100 thousand people Maidan" aimed to urge the president to call an early parliamentary election.
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Yulia Tymoshenko had no intention of resigning until a new coalition was formed.
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On 18 December 2008, for the first time Yulia Tymoshenko accused the National Bank of Ukraine in the conscious manipulation of the hryvnia, and President Yushchenko of colluding with the leadership of the NBU, which led to depreciation of the national currency to the level of 8 UAH per US dollar.
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Yulia Tymoshenko's government launched an anti-corruption campaign and identified it as one of its priorities.
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When Yulia Tymoshenko resumed her prime minister duties in 2007, she initiated direct relations between Ukraine and Russia with regard to gas trading.
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Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko stated that it was the "RosUkrEnergo" company that was responsible for the debt, rather than the state of Ukraine.
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Yulia Tymoshenko called for an end to corruption in the gas trade area and the establishment of direct contracts with the Russian Federation.
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On 18 January 2009, after five-day-long talks, prime ministers Putin and Yulia Tymoshenko came to agreement on the renewal of gas delivery to Ukraine and other EU countries.
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Yulia Tymoshenko was a candidate in the Ukrainian presidential elections of 2010, but lost that election to Viktor Yanukovych.
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In 2007, Yulia Tymoshenko argued for a direct contract for gas supplies from Russia to Ukraine.
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Yulia Tymoshenko stated that if she lost the presidential election she would not challenge the results.
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On 12 September 2009, a tour in support of Yulia Tymoshenko's candidacy, called "With Ukraine in Heart", began on Kyiv's Maidan Nezalezhnosti.
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The Yulia Tymoshenko candidacy was endorsed by prominent Ukrainian politicians such as Borys Tarasyuk, Yuriy Lutsenko, former President Leonid Kravchuk, the Christian Democratic Union, the European Party of Ukraine and others.
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Yulia Tymoshenko expected early parliamentary elections after the 2010 presidential election if Yanukovych won the vote, but she was against this.
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On 1 December 2009, Yulia Tymoshenko urged "national democratic forces" to unite around the candidate who garnered the largest number of votes after the first round of the presidential elections.
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Yulia Tymoshenko complained of flaws in the election legislation, and expressed her certainty that attempts were being made by her opponents to carry out vote rigging.
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Yulia Tymoshenko did not receive endorsement from other candidates who had not survived the first round of voting.
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Yulia Tymoshenko won 17 of 27 constituencies in the western, central and north regions of Ukraine and in Kyiv.
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However, Yulia Tymoshenko herself did not issue a statement about the election until a live televised broadcast on 13 February 2010, in which she said that she would challenge the election result in court.
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Yulia Tymoshenko alleged widespread fraud and said Yanukovych was not legitimately elected.
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Yulia Tymoshenko withdrew her appeal on 20 February 2010, after the Higher Administrative Court in Kyiv rejected her petition to scrutinize documents from election districts in Crimea and to question election and law-enforcement officials.
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On 22 February 2010, Yulia Tymoshenko announced in a televised speech that she believed the presidential election to have been rigged and did not recognize its results.
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Yulia Tymoshenko called on the democratic parliamentary factions to not seek "political employment" at the Party of Regions and to "quit arguing and create a united team that would not let an anti-Ukrainian dictatorship usurp the power".
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Yulia Tymoshenko resigned from the prime minister post on 4 March 2010.
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On 9 and 15 March 2010, Yulia Tymoshenko called on "all of the national patriotic forces" to unite against Yanukovych.
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On 10 May 2010, the People's Committee to Protect Ukraine was established, of which Yulia Tymoshenko is one of the representatives.
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Yulia Tymoshenko was against the 2010 Ukrainian-Russian Naval Base for Natural Gas treaty, as she believes the agreement harms Ukraine's national interests.
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On 12 May 2010, Ukraine's prosecutor's office illegally re-opened a 2004 criminal case, which had been closed by the Supreme Court of Ukraine in January 2005 against Yulia Tymoshenko regarding accusations that she had tried to bribe Supreme Court judges.
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Yulia Tymoshenko claimed that she was told by "all the offices of the Prosecutor General's Office" that President Yanukovych had personally instructed the Prosecutor General's Office to find any grounds to prosecute her.
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On 15 December 2010, the General Prosecutor's Office instituted a criminal case against Yulia Tymoshenko, alleging that she misused funds received by Ukraine within the framework of the Kyoto Protocol.
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Yulia Tymoshenko denied the money had been spent on pensions, insisting it was still at the disposal of the environment ministry.
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On 7 August 2014, the Chairman of the State Treasury service Tatiana Slyuz confirmed that the Yulia Tymoshenko government has never spent "Kyoto money", the funds were on special accounts and in 2010 were transferred to the Yanukovych government.
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Yulia Tymoshenko was not arrested, but ordered not to leave Kyiv while the inquiry was under way.
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New corruption charges against Yulia Tymoshenko were filed on 27 January 2011.
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Yulia Tymoshenko was accused of using 1,000 medical vehicles for campaigning in the presidential elections of 2010.
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In May 2010, the Ukrainian General Prosecutor's office started a number of criminal cases against Yulia Tymoshenko which prevented her from normal political activity and from international travel to her allies in the West.
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Yulia Tymoshenko was charged with abuse of power and embezzlement, as the court found the deal anti-economic for the country and abusive.
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Yulia Tymoshenko was convicted for exceeding her powers as prime minister by ordering Naftogaz to sign the gas deal with Russia in 2009.
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Yulia Tymoshenko did appeal the sentence, which she compared to Stalin's Great Terror, on 24 October 2011.
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Yulia Tymoshenko was charged for these cases on 10 November 2011.
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Yulia Tymoshenko was re-arrested on 8 December 2011, after a Ukrainian court ordered her indefinite arrest as part of the investigation of alleged tax evasion and theft of government funds by United Energy Systems of Ukraine.
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On 23 December 2011, Yulia Tymoshenko lost her appeal against her sentence for abuse of power.
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On 30 December 2011, Yulia Tymoshenko was transferred to the Kachanivska penal colony in Kharkiv.
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Yulia Tymoshenko refused to attend the trial, citing problems with her health.
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From 29 October to 16 November 2012, Yulia Tymoshenko was again on a hunger strike to protest vote rigging in the October 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election.
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On 18 January 2013, Yulia Tymoshenko was notified that she was a suspect in the murder of businessman and lawmaker Yevhen Shcherban, his wife and two other people in 1996.
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From 25 November to 6 December 2013, Yulia Tymoshenko was again on a hunger strike in protest of "President Yanukovych's reluctance to sign the DCFTA" on 6 December.
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On 24 October 2011, Yulia Tymoshenko filed an appeal to the decision of Pechersk district court of Kyiv regarding the "gas case".
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Yulia Tymoshenko herself was not present in the courtroom because of her health condition.
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At the very end, Yulia Tymoshenko's defense boycotted the court session.
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On 26 January 2012, Yulia Tymoshenko's defense submitted a cassation appeal to the High Specialized Court for Civil and Criminal Cases regarding the "gas case" verdict.
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Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has adopting a resolution on "Keeping political and criminal responsibility separate" in which former prime minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko is recognized as a political prisoner.
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The campaign was designed to make Yulia Tymoshenko look like a supporter of anti-Semitism.
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On 28 February 2014, the parliament rehabilitated Yulia Tymoshenko and restored her rights.
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Immediately after her release from prison on 22 February 2014, Yulia Tymoshenko travelled to Kyiv, where she attended a makeshift memorial to the first slain protesters on Hrushevskogo Street and gave a speech on Maidan stage.
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Yulia Tymoshenko addressed the European Union, leaders of western democracies and of countries which guaranteed Ukraine's territorial unity according to the Budapest Memorandum; she called for action to stop what she called the "Russian aggression".
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On 27 March 2014, at a press conference in Kyiv, Yulia Tymoshenko stated that she would run in the 2014 presidential election.
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On 30 August 2014, Yulia Tymoshenko announced her Batkivshchina party would start gathering signatures to trigger a referendum on NATO accession.
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Yulia Tymoshenko is a member of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on issues of European integration in the 8th convocation of parliament.
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On 21 April 2015, Yulia Tymoshenko initiated a working group to check the validity of utility tariffs.
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On 6 April 2016, Yulia Tymoshenko thanked Angela Merkel for her help in establishing peace in eastern Ukraine.
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Yulia Tymoshenko is in favor of extending the moratorium on land sales and supporting farmers.
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Yulia Tymoshenko considers negotiations in the format of the Budapest Memorandum to be an effective way to resolve the issue of the war in Donbass.
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On 20 June 2018, Yulia Tymoshenko announced that she would take part in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election.
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Yulia Tymoshenko was a heavy favorite in the polls until early 2019.
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Yulia Tymoshenko became a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Social Policy and Protection of Veterans' Rights.
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At the start of the term, Yulia Tymoshenko's party supported a number of measures put forward by the ruling Servant of the People party.
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However, in November 2019, after the parliament passed a bill to lift the moratorium on land sales, Yulia Tymoshenko announced her transition to opposition to the ruling Servant of the People party.
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On 18 November 2019, Yulia Tymoshenko appealed to the Constitutional Court to immediately consider the petition for the bill on the "land market".
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In December 2019, Yulia Tymoshenko united more than 40 political and public organizations that oppose the sale of land in the National Headquarters for the Protection of Native Land.
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On 11 January 2021, Yulia Tymoshenko called on the authorities to provide Ukrainians with gas at a price no higher than the purchase price.
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Yulia Tymoshenko signed a memorandum of cooperation with the public movement SaveFOP.
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In June 2021, Yulia Tymoshenko took part in a meeting of the All-Ukrainian People's Council on holding a referendum against the sale of agricultural land.
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On 21 July 2021, Yulia Tymoshenko announced that the Batkivshchyna party had drafted a new Constitution of Ukraine, which provided for the division of power into four branches of government: legislative, executive, judicial, and control.
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On 28 September 2021, Yulia Tymoshenko registered in the Verkhovna Rada a Draft Resolution "On the Creation of a Temporary Investigative Commission to Investigate the Activities of NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine".
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On 23 October 2021, Yulia Tymoshenko registered in the Verkhovna Rada a draft resolution "On urgent measures to overcome an emergency level crisis that has developed as a result of an increase in energy prices" and a draft law "On Amendments to the Tax Code of Ukraine on the introduction of a reduced value added tax rate on energy carriers and related services".
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On 26 October 2021, Yulia Tymoshenko handed over medical equipment for patients with coronavirus to the Oleksandrivska Clinical Hospital in Kyiv.
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On 27 January 2022, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a resolution initiated by Yulia Tymoshenko to establish a Temporary Commission of Inquiry to investigate possible corruption that caused significant losses to the revenue side of the state budget, in particular as a result of NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine.
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On 20 June 2022, in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Batkivshchyna faction, led by Yulia Tymoshenko, did not support the ratification of the Istanbul Convention.
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Yulia Tymoshenko believes that the Istanbul Convention is not included in the package of requirements of the European Union for granting Ukraine a candidate.
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Yulia Tymoshenko noted that the Verkhovna Rada went against the will of the Ukrainians, because such an important issue should be determined at a national referendum.
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On 19 July 2022, deputies of the Batkivshchyna faction led by Yulia Tymoshenko prevented the theft of 264 billion hryvnias from the budget, which Naftogaz of Ukraine was supposed to spend on an opaque scheme for financing the purchase of natural gas for the next heating season.
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In late February 2022, French news channel France24 reported that Yulia Tymoshenko urged NATO and the United Nations to protect Ukraine by closing Ukrainian airspace and deploying United Nations peacekeeping forces to her country.
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On 1 March 2022, Yulia Tymoshenko took custody of the Okhmatdyt children's hospital.
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Yulia Tymoshenko helped to take sick children out of Kyiv and the region to continue treatment and medical care abroad and in the western regions of the country.
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Yulia Tymoshenko created the Center for Humanitarian Aid in the central office of her political party "Batkivshchyna" to help vulnerable groups of the population and the Ukrainian military.
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On 31 May 2022, Yulia Tymoshenko spoke at the Congress of the European People's Party in Rotterdam.
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Yulia Tymoshenko urged those present to contribute in every possible way to granting Ukraine membership in the EU and NATO.
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Also during the visit, Yulia Tymoshenko discussed with the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Stella Kyriakidis the humanitarian situation in Ukraine and the issue of global food security.
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On 6 July 2022, Yulia Tymoshenko discussed with the Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee, David Harris, joint actions to counter Russian disinformation and propaganda, ways to restore Ukraine's economy, and the possibility of providing specialized medical care to Ukrainians who suffered as a result of the Russian war.
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On 7 July 2022, Yulia Tymoshenko discussed with the Vice President of the European Commission, Margaritis Schinas, the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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On 19 July 2022, in an interview for the American magazine Time, Yulia Tymoshenko said that due to Russian aggression, Ukraine and Africa should stick together to prevent genocide.
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On 2 September 2022, the Yulia Tymoshenko scholarship was introduced for talented Ukrainian entrants to the most prestigious Nova School of Business and Economics in Portugal.
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On 19 October 2022, as part of the participation in the 18th annual Cyprus Summit of The Economist, Yulia Tymoshenko discussed with the President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades the strengthening of assistance to Ukraine.
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Also at the Summit, Yulia Tymoshenko met with the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany Joschka Fischer.
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On 27 September 2022, as part of a working visit to Geneva, Yulia Tymoshenko discussed the situation in Ukraine with Guy Ryder, Director-General of the International Labour Organization.
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On 29 September 2022, as part of a working visit to Paris, Yulia Tymoshenko met with representatives of the French Democratic Confederation of Labor.
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On 30 October 2022, Yulia Tymoshenko visited the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson Oblast.
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On 27 January 2023, a video emerged of Yulia Tymoshenko spending New Year's Eve on the private beach of a five-star Dubai hotel.
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Yulia Tymoshenko opposes the introduction of Russian as a second official state language.
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The first Yulia Tymoshenko Government was in favor of transparent and honest re-privatization of 3,000 enterprises, as with the case of the Kyvorizhstal steel mill.
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Yulia Tymoshenko is against privatization of the gas transportation system in Ukraine.
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Yulia Tymoshenko wants to raise the general level of social standards by equalizing salaries in the industrial and social spheres, and pledged in November 2009 to revamp Ukraine's hospitals and health system within two years.
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Yulia Tymoshenko wants to cut the number of taxes by a third to simplify the system, and wants to cut the Value Added Tax and offer tax breaks to importers of new technologies to poor regions to boost investment there.
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In December 2009, the second Yulia Tymoshenko Government proposed creating independent anti-corruption bureaus in Ukraine.
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Yulia Tymoshenko believes Ukraine can gain energy security and independence, and she wants to speed up exploration and extraction of oil and natural gas from the Black Sea shelf.
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Yulia Tymoshenko suggested a 10-year tax break for enterprises that would develop alternative energy sources in Ukraine.
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Yulia Tymoshenko is for the cancellation of Verkhovna Rada deputies' immunity from prosecution.
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For Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko prefers the proportional representation voting system with open lists.
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Yulia Tymoshenko wants to reform the forming of state executive bodies, and favours giving parliamentary opposition "real instruments of influence on the authorities".
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Yulia Tymoshenko wants Ukrainian court system reforms and wants devolution of executive power to local authorities.
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Together with representatives of regional governments, Yulia Tymoshenko expanded a Law that aimed to empower local authorities.
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In November 2009, Yulia Tymoshenko called Ukraine "an absolutely ungovernable country" due to the changes to the Constitution of Ukraine as a part of a political compromise between the acting authorities and opposition during the Orange Revolution.
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Tymoshenko has characterised those reforms as "incomplete", and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc voted against them in December 2004.
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In January 2010, Yulia Tymoshenko called for urgent amendments to the Constitution via the majority of the Verkhovna Rada after a survey or plebiscite is conducted.
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On 21 May 2016, Yulia Tymoshenko expressed hope that the EU will provide Ukraine a visa-free regime.
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Yulia Tymoshenko stressed that the Ukrainian state is there to protect the world all over Europe, continuing to fight the Russian aggression.
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Yulia Tymoshenko's father, Volodymyr Abramovych Hrihyan, was born on 3 December 1937, in Dnipropetrovsk.
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Yulia Tymoshenko's mother was Maria Yosypivna Hrihyan, born in 1909.
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Yulia Tymoshenko has said that, like most Soviet citizens, she spoke only Russian in her childhood.
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Yulia Tymoshenko has declared she never used and will never use or move into a state-owned summer house, in contrast with all former-Presidents and many high-ranking officials of Ukraine, who live in state-owned dachas in Koncha-Zaspa.
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In March 2014, Yulia Tymoshenko opened the door of her house to public activists and guided them around.
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Yulia Tymoshenko stated that she watched the Tunisian Revolution and Egyptian Revolution of 2011 "with joy and admiration".
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Yulia Tymoshenko's critics have suggested that, as an oligarch, she gained her fortune improperly.
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When Yulia Tymoshenko joined the Yushchenko government, she did not speak Ukrainian.
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Yulia Tymoshenko has been ranked three times by Forbes magazine among the most powerful women in the world.
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Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin has stated he found it comfortable to work with his Ukrainian counterpart Yulia Tymoshenko and praised her for strengthening Ukrainian sovereignty and building stable ties with Moscow and called the second Tymoshenko Government "efficient and a force for stability".
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Yushchenko has repeatedly accused his former ally turned rival Yulia Tymoshenko of acting in the interests of Russia, although she firmly denied the allegations.
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On 31 May 2010, Yushchenko stated that Yulia Tymoshenko was his "worst mistake", "The most serious mistake was to give the power to her twice".
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Yulia Tymoshenko only has the right to work and to serve Ukraine.
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Yulia Tymoshenko will have the right to criticize when he joins the opposition.
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Party of Regions Deputy Head Borys Kolesnykov stated on 11 February 2010, "Yulia Tymoshenko was the most effective politician during the entire period of Ukraine's recent history".
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In some newspapers and television programs, Yulia Tymoshenko has been referred to as Lady Yu.
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Yulia Tymoshenko, Focus magazine, 200 the most influential Ukrainians, 2nd place.
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Yulia Tymoshenko, Focus magazine, the most influential women of Ukraine, 1st place.
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Yulia Tymoshenko, Focus magazine, TOP 200 the most influential politicians of Ukraine, 1st place.
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Between 2007 and 2013 in Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko was the most popular politician on the Internet, in blogs and social networks.