Yulia Tymoshenko: Career Paths in Ukrainian Politics

The leader of the all-Ukrainian union Fatherland (Batkivschyna), opposition member and just a beautiful woman, Yulia Tymoshenko marked her 50th birthday on November 27.

Yulia Tymoshenko started her first career step in big politics in December 1999, when she became Ukraine’s deputy prime minister for the fuel and energy sector. Photo: 2000. Russian First Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Mikhail Kasyanov pays a working visit to Ukraine. He is met at the airport by Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

Between January 24 and February 4, 2005, Tymoshenko was an acting prime minister and between February 4 and September 8, 2005, she served as the Ukrainian prime minister. Photo: March 2005. Russian President Vladimir Putin meets Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

April 2007. Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) leader Yulia Tymoshenko and Our Ukraine party leader Vyacheslav Kyrylenko (from left to right) at a rally in support of the parliament’s dissolution at Ukraine’s central square.

July, 2006. Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) leader Yulia Tymoshenko at a session of Ukraine’s Supreme Rada.

August, 2007. Tymoshenko makes a speech at the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) session.

January, 2009. Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko at the ceremony of signing documents to resume the Russian gas supplies to European consumers via Ukraine. The ceremony was held at the Russian government’s building.

In mid-August 2008, conflicts between Yushchenko and Tymoshenko escalated. Photo: April 29, 2009. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko before signing documents following the session of a committee for economic cooperation of the Russian-Ukrainian intergovernmental commission.

June, 2009. Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko at the EU Cooperation Council-Ukraine meeting in Luxembourg.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko at the Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) in Kiev congratulates the nation on New Year 2010.

Yulia likes wearing elegant and expensive clothes. She prefers clothes made by Louis Vuitton, jewelry by Chanel, and perfume Silver Rain by La Prairie. Photo: August 2009. Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko takes part in the opening of the 200th theater season at the Odessa State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater.

Yulia was a brunette for a long time. This has now been forgotten. Photo: August, 2009. Yulia Tymoshenko at the 11th All-Ukrainian charity children’s festival Black Sea Games.

Tymoshenko likes cooking, especially the famous Ukrainian borscht soup, and also Russian pancakes. Photo: November, 2009. Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko congratulate agriculture workers on their professional holiday.

In July 2005, Yulia was ranked third in the list of the world’s most influential women by the Forbes magazine.