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Yulia Tymoshenko was born on 27 November 1960 in Dnipropetrovsk.
Higher education, graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk State University as an
economist-cyberneticist, candidate of economic science. Worked as an economy engineer at the machine-building
plant in Dnipropetrovsk.
1989 – 1991 chaired the Youth Center “Terminal”.
1991 – 1995 commercial and then general
director of the corporation “Ukrainian petrol”. 1995 - 1997 headed the
"United Energy Systems of Ukraine" corporation. People’s deputy of
five convocations.
In 1999 was elected as a leader of the
political party “All-Ukrainian Union "Batkivshchyna"
("Fatherland").
December 1999 – January 2001 – Vice
Prime Minister of Ukraine.
July 2004 - co-chairman of the electoral
commission "Power of the People", one of the leaders of the “Orange
Revolution” as a protest against falsification of results of the presidential
elections.
February – September 2005 – Prime
Minister of Ukraine
On 18 December 2007 - elected as Prime
Minister of Ukraine of the democratic coalition BYT and OU-PS.
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