Yulia Tymoshenko - biography, family and political activity "Lady Yu"

Today, her name is known all over the world.In 2005, she was one of the three most influential women in the world.The fate of the millions raised her above her, then threw in jail.Surely many have not managed to figure out who this Yulia Tymoshenko?Biography it is so saturated, that it can not write a novel.

Childhood

most famous Ukrainian born 27 November 1960 in the city of Dnepropetrovsk.Consequently, the question of how many years of Yulia Tymoshenko, one can say with certainty: "It '54".Julia recalls that her childhood was not cloudless, as her father - Vladimir Grigyan - very early left the family.Mother - Lyudmila Telegin - from two years raised my daughter alone.They lived in a small two-bedroom apartment in a five-storey block.Moreover, Ludmila took care of his sick mother, and worked late into the night manager in a city taxi pool.Naturally, their single-parent family had hard times.They tried to save on everything, the girl grew up in modest surroundings.

School years

Almost all school life Julia took in high school №37 in Dnepropetrovsk.She was a good student, quickly absorbed by the material covered, I had no difficulties in math.Even at school Yulia Tymoshenko stands out for its strong character.She never played with dolls, I was friends with the boys only.The last two classes she had to gain knowledge in another school - №75.Her student memories are connected with this school.As a teenager, Julia seriously fascinated by gymnastics, she was even going to continue career.Who is she

nationality?

Many people are surprised by the fact that Yulia Tymoshenko's maiden surname wore Grigyan.This raises a number of questions.End of "yang" sometimes gives some food for thought about not whether Tymoshenko Armenian.Initially, however, the ancestors of the women wore paternal surname Gigaryanis and nationality were Latvians.Until graduation, Julia bore the name of his father.Becoming an adult, she took the name of the parent himself - Telegin.By the way, her mother is a purebred Ukrainka.

Student years

After school Yulia Telegina submit documents in Dnepropetrovsk Mining Institute.However, a few days before the exams she changes her mind and comes to the economic faculty of Dnepropetrovsk State University on a specialty "Economic Cybernetics".Study it is easy, it is pleased to comprehend the basics of economics.Teachers are surprised a strong character and a clear mind of the young beauty.

new stage.Yulia Tymoshenko: biography and personal life

the first year Yulia Tymoshenko met with Alexander - her future husband, who was a year younger than her.Between the young people began an affair, and by the end of the first course Julia married Alexander married, and a year later they had a daughter.Yulia Tymoshenko was then only nineteen years old, and a young father - eighteen.Girl young parents named Eugene.After birth, the young mother for a while, all went to the care of their baby, rarely met with friends.However, Julia and Alexander did not have the problems that occur in the young couple, a family at such a young age.Sasha's father was a powerful man in Dnepropetrovsk.He helped the young family.

Mastering the profession

Despite all the worries about her husband and young daughter, Julia still able in 1984 to graduate with honors.She deservedly received the red diploma.Then she was sent to work in Dnipropetrovsk Machine-Building Plant named after Lenin as an economist, where she worked until 1990.This completes the Soviet period in the life of the Iron Lady.Yulia Tymoshenko, whose biography is full of difficult moments, embarking on the path of development of big business and the political arena.

end of the Soviet period

said that during the reign of Julius Gorbachev opened a co-op, and then, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, in the blink of an eye from a small business into a large moved.This stage of life Julia Tymoshenko does not like to talk, and in the press there is little reliable information.However, there are facts that prove that the head of the clan stood Gennady Timoshenko (Alexander's father) and his brother's wife Julia - two very strong and strong-willed person.

Yulia Tymoshenko and her father in law was originally engaged in the sale and distribution of large batches of video tapes with foreign films, and then organized concerts of rock bands who collected huge halls.However, Julia it all seemed frivolous and marginally profitable.She dreamed of a large-scale business - trade and production of petroleum products.

beginning of a new period

After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the proclamation of the independent republic of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko was able to implement his plan.Already in 1991 she became CEO of the corporation "Ukrainian Oil" (KUB).A few years later AFB began to cooperate with the United Kingdom and became a Ukrainian-British joint industrial and financial corporations, which has become known as "United Energy Systems of Ukraine".The company's turnover amounted to 11 billion dollars a year.Soon, the corporation has a monopoly on the trade of natural gas on the territory of the Russian Federation in Ukraine and Yulia Tymoshenko became the president of this company.As early as 1997 it became to control a quarter of the entire economy of Ukraine.

fame and success

By the end of the 90s Tymoshenko is gaining popularity not only in Ukraine but also abroad.Many see it as her favorite and savior.About her relieve transmission, her photographs adorn the covers of magazines, she dedicate a collection of fashionable clothes, even a football club Bobrinetska "Innovator" is renamed "Julia and innovators."

"Lady Yu" and politics

In late 1996, the Ukrainian political horizon lit up the star by the name of Julia Tymoshenko.Biography of the young politician was smoothly to the top.She pushes herself as a candidate for deputy of the Kirovograd region.Julia was able to score 92%.At the beginning of 1997, she became a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada and immediately joined the faction "constitutional Centre".

She soon became one of the leaders of the party "Hromada".Yulia Tymoshenko in the shortest possible time could raise the rating of the party so high that none of the former leaders did not even dare to dream about it.Ukrainian Orthodox Church sided with Julia and awarded her the Order of St. Barbara the Great Martyr.A year later, Lady Yu is already chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance (budget).In this period of its activity is the project "One Hundred weeks to a decent life."In 1998, Tymoshenko is elected and continues to guide the work of the Budget Committee.However, a year later she resigned from this position, and after the opening of the new faction "Fatherland" Tymoshenko together with other "Gromadtsov" goes under its auspices.

One step to premiere

In 1999, Viktor Yushchenko, Yulia Tymoshenko has made an offer to become deputy prime minister for fuel and energy issues.Naturally, she did not miss this chance.

Bondage

Against Yulia Tymoshenko has repeatedly criminal proceedings.The reasons were the facts of smuggling, theft of state property, and others. A more serious accusation hanging over it in 2001, when the Prosecutor General's Office filed against her two things at once.At the same time it was removed from the post of deputy prime minister in February 2001, she was arrested.She was placed in jail Lukyanovka in Kiev, but just two weeks Yulia Tymoshenko - in freedom.But not to his home went to prison after the woman, and the clinic "Medicom".Two weeks of detention in prison have undermined her health, so I had to go to the clinic for the treatment of stomach ulcers.But freedom did not last long.In just three days before her chamber convoy appeared, turning the hospital ward in a prison cell.But in April of that year, a detention order was canceled.Two years later, again against Yulia it was a criminal case.

Tymoshenko and the Fund for National Salvation (FNS)

In February 2001, the efforts of Julia Timoshenko was created by the Foundation for National Salvation (FNS).It was a public association, the members of which were intended to remove from office the President Leonid Kuchma.Then it was created the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, which got in the parliamentary elections with 20 seats in parliament.In 2002, Julius and some opposition leaders headed by the action "Ukraine without Kuchma" protest against the power of the incumbent.

Orange Revolution

Two years later, the two opposition blocs - Yushchenko and Tymoshenko - combine to create a coalition "Power of the People", which is to support the candidacy of Yushchenko in the presidential election.Tymoshenko herself is elected by majority vote in the Verkhovna Rada Head of "orange" government.In 2005, according to the rating of the magazine "Forbes", Yulia Tymoshenko among the ten most influential woman in the world, and it occupied the third step in this list.However, in the same year she left the post of prime minister.From 2007 to the year 2010 Block of Yulia Tymoshenko strengthens its position in the parliament, and in 2010 it received more than 45% of the votes in the presidential election.

Again bondage

In 2010 Yulia Tymoshenko was charged with having committed a number of criminal offenses.In August 2011, she was arrested.She was sentenced to 7 years.From Kiev prison prisoner was transferred to a hospital for health reasons, but she was under the strictest security.In 2013 the European Court ruled that the content of Yulia Tymoshenko in custody is lawlessness, and that it has the right to demand compensation for non-pecuniary damage.

Yulia Tymoshenko

Despite the fact that Y.Tymoshenko was arrested in late 2012, the party "Batkivshchyna" (United Opposition) nominated its single candidate for the presidency of Ukraine during the elections in 2015.In view of this situation, elections are postponed to May 25, 2014, where it will also be one of the main candidates.By the way, the daughter of Yulia Tymoshenko has been the attraction of foreign investment in Ukraine.