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Yulia Tymoshenko
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Ukrainian politician, former Prime Minister
Yulia Tymoshenko is a prominent Ukrainian politician who served as Prime Minister and has been a significant figure in Ukrainian politics for decades. She matters because she has played key roles in major events in Ukraine's recent history, including involvement in the Orange Revolution and conflicts with Russia, making her influence important to understanding modern Ukraine.
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- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Ukraine
- Place of birth
- Dnipro
- Child
- Yevheniya Tymoshenko
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- Prime Minister of Ukraine
- Educated at
- Oles Honchar Dnipro National University
- Political party
- Batkivshchyna
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Native language
- Russian
- Religion
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Participant in
- 2019 Ukrainian presidential election
- Image
- EPP Political Assembly, 13 & 14 January 2025 (54265908219) (cropped).jpg
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- Yuliya Tymoshenko
- date of birth
- 1960-11-27
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- Юлія Тимошенко
- place of detention
- Lukyanivska Prison
- name in native language
- Ю́лія Володи́мирівна Тимошенко
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Ukraine
- birth name
- Юлія Володимирівна Грігян
- P10632
- Yulia Tymoshenko
- candidacy in election
- 2014 Ukrainian presidential election
- social media followers
- 158000
- start of work period
- 2007-12-18
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Encyclopedic overview
Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko (née Hrihyan; born 27 November 1960) is a Ukrainian politician, who served as Prime Minister of Ukraine in 2005, and again from 2007 until 2010; the first woman in Ukraine to hold that position. She has been a member of the Verkhovna Rada as People's Deputy of Ukraine several times between 1997 and 2007, and presently as of 2014, and was First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for the fuel and energy complex from 1999 to 2001. She is a Candidate of Economic Sciences.
Tymoshenko is the leader of the Batkivshchyna (Ukrainian: Батьківщина) political party. She supports Ukraine's integration into the European Union and strongly opposes the membership of Ukraine in the Russia-led Eurasian Customs Union. She supports NATO membership for Ukraine.
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