Yulia Tymoshenko is from a Cossack family, her relatives say. “Yulia’s father’s relatives were from the Zaporozhye region. We saw documents that her great-grandfather Erofei Nelipa is a Cossack,” said Antonina Ulyakhina, aunt. True, she could not tell us family legends about her Cossack ancestor, nor about the origin of Timoshenko’s maiden name - Grigyan.
In 1984 she graduated with honors from the Faculty of Economics of Dnepropetrovsk State University with a degree in cybernetics economist. Tymoshenko is a candidate of economic sciences, the author of more than 50 scientific works. After graduating from the university, I was assigned to work as an engineer-economist at the Dnepropetrovsk Machine-Building Plant named after Lenin.
After graduating from the university, I was assigned to work as an engineer-economist at the Dnepropetrovsk Machine-Building Plant named after Lenin. In 1988, he and his husband began a business career: they opened a network of video salons. From 1989 to 1991 holds the post of commercial director of the Dnepropetrovsk youth center "Terminal".
Since 1991, Yulia Tymoshenko has been the general director of the Ukrainian Gasoline (KUB) corporation, which trades fuels and lubricants. In 1995, he became president of the Unified Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU) corporation, created on the basis of KUB.
In January 1997, the non-partisan general director of the UESU for the first time occupied the post of people's deputy of Ukraine, having won the mid-term elections in the majoritarian district in the Kirovograd region.
In 1998, Yulia Tymoshenko was elected as a people's deputy for the second time. In December 1999, he became the leader of the All-Ukrainian Association "Batkivshchyna". And almost immediately he left the Verkhovna Rada to take the post of Deputy Prime Minister for Fuel and Energy Issues in the government of Viktor Yushchenko. Its activities do not suit many major politicians and businessmen. Tymoshenko falls into disgrace. In August 2000, her husband, one of the leaders of the UESU, was arrested. On January 15, 2001, the Prosecutor General's Office charges the curator of the fuel and energy complex with smuggling and official forgery. After another four days, Tymoshenko was dismissed. On February 13, she was arrested and spent more than a month in a pretrial detention cell.
During this difficult period, Tymoshenko completely immersed herself in the political struggle - against the regime of Leonid Kuchma and for her place in power. Becomes the leader of the National Salvation Forum, which consisted of several opposition parties and soon renamed the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. At the head of BYuT in March 2002, Tymoshenko received the mandate of people's deputy for the third time. In September of the same year, he became one of the leaders of the “Ukraine without Kuchma” campaign.
In 2004, BYuT and the Our Ukraine bloc created the Power of the People coalition to support the candidacy of Viktor Yushchenko in the presidential elections in Ukraine. In November-December of the same year, Tymoshenko took an active part in the “Orange Revolution,” which raised her already high popularity among the population even higher.
After the victory of the opposition candidate in February 2005, he heads the first “orange government”. Seven months later he loses the post of Prime Minister. One of the main reasons is tense relations with people from the president’s inner circle. Simultaneously with the resignation, Yu. Tymoshenko received the title “Person of the Year of Central-Eastern Europe” at the Economic Forum in Krinitsa Górska (Poland).
In March 2006, BYuT received 129 deputy mandates out of 450 in the elections to the Verkhovna Rada (second place after the Party of Regions). Yulia Tymoshenko (member of the Legal Policy Committee) counted on creating a democratic (“orange”) majority in parliament and regaining the post of Prime Minister. However, negotiations between BYuT and Our Ukraine and the SPU reached a dead end, and the coalition of these forces did not take place. Tymoshenko almost immediately became the formal and informal leader of the parliamentary opposition. Almost from the very beginning of the work of the Verkhovna Rada of the fifth convocation, it announced the need to hold early elections, since the transition of the socialists into a coalition with the “regionals” and communists disappointed the expectations of the majority of voters. It is no coincidence that in the spring of 2007, Yulia Tymoshenko actively supported Viktor Yushchenko’s initiative to dissolve parliament early.
On September 30, 2007, in early elections, the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc surpassed the 2006 result, taking 156 mandates (27 more). On November 29, BYuT and the pro-presidential bloc "Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense" (despite the opposition of several of its members), as promised to voters, entered into an agreement to create a democratic coalition. After which it was decided to nominate “Nuns member” Arseniy Yatsenyuk for the post of Speaker of Parliament, and Yulia Tymoshenko for the post of Prime Minister. When voting for Tymoshenko's candidacy, the required minimum of 226 votes was collected on the second attempt.
In 2010, Yulia Tymoshenko ran for the presidency of Ukraine. According to the results of the second round of voting, she lost to her counterpart Viktor Yanukovych with a gap of 3.48%. After the elections in the Verkhovna Rada, a new coalition was created and Tymoshenko lost the post of prime minister.
During the presidency of Viktor Yanukovych, several criminal cases were initiated against Yulia Tymoshenko, which concerned, first of all, the activities of the UESU (in 1996-1997), as well as criminal cases about “Kyoto money” and “rural medicine cars” (2007-2010 of the year). But the greatest resonance was caused by the “gas case,” which consisted of accusations against Yulia Tymoshenko of drawing up a gas agreement with Russia in 2009 that was enslaving to Ukraine. In October 2011, after lengthy trials, the Pechersky District Court sentenced Tymoshenko to imprisonment for 7 years and payment of UAH 1.5 billion to Naftogaz for causing financial losses.
The verdict caused a wide international outcry; world politicians supported the position about the political motives for the imprisonment of the opposition leader. Despite the resonance, in 2011 Yulia Tymoshenko was placed in Kachanovskaya colony No. 54 to serve her sentence. During her stay in the colony, Tymoshenko had serious health problems; she demanded treatment in foreign clinics, but this was denied to her. Yulia Vladimirovna was treated at the Ukrainian Railways Pulp and Paper Hospital in Kharkov.
| Reference: On April 30, 2013, the European Court of Human Rights unanimously ruled in the case of Yulia Tymoshenko that the arrest and detention of Yulia Tymoshenko is illegal and politically motivated. The corresponding decision was read by the President of the European Court of Human Rights, Dean Spielman. He noted that on April 9, 2013, the chamber of judges of the European Court in the case of Yulia Tymoshenko made a unanimous decision that the arrest and detention of Yulia Tymoshenko is illegal and was carried out for political reasons. “Today, for the first time, a European organization made a legal assessment of the case of Yulia Tymoshenko. Based on Article No. 18 of the European Convention on Human Rights, the court unanimously decided that Tymoshenko was detained and detained illegally, and that she is being persecuted politically,” said Yulia Tymoshenko’s lawyer Sergei Vlasenko |
After the tragic events in the center of Kyiv on February 18-20, 2014 and the flight of President Yanukovych, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a resolution “On the fulfillment of Ukraine’s international obligations on the release of Yu.V. Tymoshenko.” On February 22, 2014, Yulia Tymoshenko appeared on the stage of Independence Square, speaking to activists.
On April 14, 2014, the Supreme Court of Ukraine closed Tymoshenko’s “gas case” due to the lack of corpus delicti.
As a result of the 2014 presidential elections, she took 2nd place among all candidates with a result of 13.13%.
According to the results of early elections to the Verkhovna Rada in October 2014, the Batkivshchyna party led by Yulia Tymoshenko entered the Ukrainian parliament, showing a result of 5.68%.
Family
Alexander Timoshenko with his daughter Zhenya
While studying at the university, an incident occurred that changed her whole life. One evening the phone rang, the young man had the wrong number, but decided to continue communicating. This is how Julia met her future husband. At the age of 19, she married 18-year-old Alexander Timoshenko, the son of a party functionary at the district level (the last Soviet position of Gennady Afanasyevich Timoshenko in 1991 was chairman of the Kirov regional executive committee of Dnepropetrovsk).
As a sociological survey by KIIS showed, Yulia Tymoshenko is the leader of Ukrainian electoral sympathies. If the presidential elections had taken place in February 2018, 24.6% of voters would have voted for Yulia Tymoshenko in the first round.
According to a sociological survey conducted in May 2017, Yulia Tymoshenko has the highest level of electoral support among Ukrainian politicians. If the Ukrainian presidential elections had taken place at the end of May 2017, Tymoshenko would have won the first round with 15% of the vote.
Award for contribution to the defense of democracy, freedom
The Spanish political party Unio Democratica de Catalunya awarded Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko the Manuel Carrasco Formiguera Medal for her contribution to the defense of democracy, freedom and the fight to restore the rule of law in Ukraine.
The ceremony, which took place in Barcelona, was attended by the daughter of Yulia Tymoshenko, Evgenia, and the deputy chairman of the Batkivshchyna party, chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on European Integration
As you can learn from the short biography of Yulia Tymoshenko, thanks to this woman, Ukraine found its first female prime minister. Currently, Yulia is the first woman in the CIS to achieve such a high political status. Many predict success in the upcoming elections for her. Yulia is rightly considered one of the most powerful and promising Ukrainian politicians, and even experienced analysts do not undertake to predict her career.
How it all began
The date of birth of the famous politician is November 27, the year of birth is 1960. The girl was born in Dnepropetrovsk. Family members are considered indigenous residents of the locality. Yulia's mother's name is Lyudmila, her father's name is Vladimir. It is known that the father left his relatives when the child was only two years old. It is known that Julia’s grandmother’s name was Maria, and her grandfather’s name was Abram. The man served as a senior lieutenant in signalmen and died during combat at the end of 1944.
As the politician herself says, on the paternal side all relatives are Latvians, and the father’s true surname was Grigyanis, while on the maternal side the woman is Ukrainian. However, official information about the politician’s origins is quite contradictory; it is difficult to find reliable data in open sources, and his ethnic origin is disputed by many. As the compilers of the biography of Yulia Tymoshenko say, the woman’s nationality is Ukrainian, but the ethnic origin of the father is controversial, and there is almost no information about the mother’s relatives. This provokes doubters to argue about who Julia herself is.
Youth
As you can learn from sources telling about the biography of Yulia Tymoshenko from birth to the present day, in 1977 the girl graduated from high school No. 75 in her hometown. At this time, my mother worked in a taxi fleet as a dispatcher. Then the woman will tell you that life was not easy in those days; you had to save on literally everything.
Remembering her childhood, Yulia says that she preferred to hang out with boys - it seemed boring with girls. While still a little girl, the future promising politician already showed her strong-willed and strong character. She was not attracted to dolls, and was not interested in role-playing games a la mother-daughter games. For the first time, seeing performances in rhythmic gymnastics, the girl became interested in this sport and was interested in it for a long time. As you can find out from her biography, Yulia Tymoshenko (maiden name Grigyan) was a good student and an excellent student at different times; she never had C grades.
The granite of science always has a place in life...
After school, it was decided to continue receiving education at the university here in Dnepropetrovsk. The girl successfully passed the Faculty of Economics and took up economic cybernetics. The university was graduated in 1984 with a diploma with honors. From this moment on, Yulia is a certified engineer-economist.
15 years later, the woman, who by this time had already gained fame as a talented politician and successful businessman, again defended her diploma, this time at the capital’s university, which also teaches economics. This time the level taken is candidate level. Yulia Tymoshenko (family name - Grigyan) chose regulation of the taxation system at the state level as her topic. After successful defense, she was awarded the academic degree of Candidate of Sciences.
...like love
The girl entered into her marriage during her university studies. As you can learn from an interview with a famous politician, the story of meeting the chosen one was very romantic. She says that one day her future husband made the wrong number and called not his friend, but her. The voice of the girl who answered sank into his soul so much that he insisted on meeting - and from this their romance began. The wedding took place in 1979. The following year, their daughter Zhenya was born.
Business and profit
As the biography dedicated to Yulia Vladimirovna Tymoshenko says, having received her first higher education, the woman got a job in her specialty. Having seen the potential in an energetic girl, she was hired to work at a machine-building plant. Here Yulia worked as an engineer-economist from 1984 to 1988.
In 1989, she had the opportunity to take the position of commercial director at Terminal, a center dedicated to working with youth.
O times!
If it weren’t for perestroika, who knows what they would have written in the biography about Yulia Vladimirovna Tymoshenko. Nationality and age, career and family - perhaps all these issues would not attract anyone's attention. But then the perestroika period broke out and a promising, strong-willed woman quickly realized how she could use it to her advantage. Amazing opportunities opened up for her in the field of entrepreneurship.
The Tymoshenko spouses first opened their own business in 1988 - renting videocassettes. The husband's father, who at that time worked in the regional council and was responsible for film distribution, came to their aid. In 1989, together with the regional committee of the Komsomol, Terminal was formed, in which the position of commercial director remained with Yulia until 1991.
Continuing development
According to the biography of Yulia Tymoshenko, in 1991, with the participation of her husband, she established the Ukrainian Gasoline enterprise. At first she held the post of commercial director, and later - general director. On the basis of the enterprise, the UESU was formed, where Yulia dominated in 1995-96.
As experts learned, in those days the company made huge profits. Mostly transactions were concluded in the form of barter. To obtain energy resources, the corporation sold products from Ukrainian manufacturers. Russia became the main partner.
Politics and power
As president of the UESU, Tymoshenko at that moment controlled almost a quarter of the Ukrainian economic sector. Despite the interest of journalists who were concerned with questions about Yulia Tymoshenko’s nationality, how the woman lives and what her personal relationships are, it was decided to take a new step in her public career. The direction chosen was politics. It was then that Yulia first became a candidate in the by-elections. The place where his career started was the Kirovograd region. The result shown by the woman turned out to be one of the most impressive - 92.3%. Julia began to have the mandate of a deputy.
Finding herself a parliamentarian, the woman soon chose the Constitutional Center, a party that supported the president’s line. As a people's deputy, she concentrates on party work. Since 1997, Yulia Tymoshenko’s biography has had a new achievement - membership in the “Gromada”. That was the name of the party formed by Lazarenko at that moment. At that moment, the man served as prime minister, but in the future it turned out that his political career was accompanied by criminal activity, and the court decided to imprison the man for corruption. Some believe that Lazarenko unofficially and bypassing the laws transferred about $320 million to America. There are also sources whose estimates exceed this figure.
Continuing work
As described in the biography of Yulia Tymoshenko (we are talking about her family and political career today), in 1998 a woman became the head of the Rada and was responsible for budget policy. She personally manages the “One Hundred Weeks of Dignified Life” project. True, the media were never able to get an answer from government officials: why exactly one hundred weeks was chosen and why they decided to stop there. Two years later, Kuchma, at that moment being the president of the country, considers Potebenko’s petition, in which the petitioner proposes to remove the woman from her position. A year later, the promising politician forms a bloc named in her honor.
Since 2004, Yulia, on behalf of her own bloc, has entered into an official documented agreement with Yushchenko. This is how “Power of the People” appears, designed to support Yushchenko in the upcoming election campaign. At the same time, the possibility of a new career growth for Yulia was discussed - she had a chance to become the head of government. However, the first election round did not give Yushchenko the desired victory. Yulia coordinated her supporters and called on them to gather on Kyiv’s Independence Square in order to defend their will. It was Yulia who was the inspirer, center and leader of the protests that swept across the country - they gradually grew into a real revolt against falsification. This period will be recorded in the history of the country as the Orange Revolution.
New Prime Minister
It is not difficult to find out from the biographies of Yulia Tymoshenko how many years she was in power as prime minister: she has held this post since February 2005, retaining it until September of the same year. The woman received her status, as it followed from the previously concluded agreements, when Yushchenko won the elections - and for this the first popular protest was enough. In addition, in defiance of the law, they organized a third round of elections, during which Yulia finally received the desired post. Out of 450 members, 375 people voted for her candidacy.
What I can?
Having received maximum opportunities in her hands, Tymoshenko began to pursue her own policy. A distinctive feature of this period was the sharp increase in wages, pensions and student benefits. The woman decided to increase the benefit given to the family when a child is born by 12 times.
Through the efforts of the new prime minister, a program to combat smuggling and the re-privatization of three thousand production facilities began. The state took control of the Krivorozhstal metal plant, which in October of the same year will be sold at 2.4 times the starting price.
Not everything goes so smoothly
As you can learn from the biography of Yulia Tymoshenko, already at the end of the spring of 2005 it became clear that the policies she was promoting were not producing the results that the people expected - a crisis began, which would be called first the gasoline crisis, then the sugar crisis. In just a few weeks, the cost of the products that gave their name to the crises doubled. The prime minister began to be criticized, and the president of the state did not ignore her failure.
At the end of August, celebrating National Independence Day, the head of the country publicly announced that the cabinet of ministers of the current prime minister was the best possible. Very little time passed, and on September 8, by presidential will, the entire government was dissolved. The reason for the resignation was given as internal conflicts. At the same time, Presidential Secretary Poroshenko, the hero of a corruption scandal, was left without his post.
Truth and falsehood and ways to prove them
From 2005 to the next two years, as stated in the biography of Yulia Tymoshenko, the woman was an active oppositionist. In general, her entire career, as experts say, is a continuous series of rapid ups and no less rapid falls. Russian and Ukrainian prosecutors have launched several criminal cases against her. The task of the authorities was to consider the activity of the UESU in 96-97. Somewhat later, they began to investigate the incidents that occurred in 2007-2010. However, the so-called gas case brought the greatest fame to the scandalous person. In 2009, representatives of the Ukrainian and Russian authorities drew up an agreement on gas supplies, under which Ukraine found itself in catastrophically unfavorable conditions. A little time passed, and it was Tymoshenko who was accused of drawing up the official paper.
In 2010, Tymoshenko participated in the elections, but lost to Yanukovych. Having taken the presidential post, the politician immediately raised the documentation that determined the cost of gas. Lengthy court hearings began. In 2011, Tymoshenko was found guilty and imprisoned for seven years. In addition, the woman was ordered to compensate the losses of the Naftogaz enterprise, estimated at one and a half billion local currency. The politician found guilty was taken to the Kachanovskaya colony. The court's decision and the conclusion itself became the object of international gossip. Many European politicians insisted on the need to free the woman.
A new broom sweeps in a new way
A new coup d'etat and new faces at the helm of the state - this could not but affect the fate of the prisoner. At the beginning of 2014, it was decided to release the woman, and on February 22 she spoke on Independence Square, sitting in a wheelchair. Wasting no time, she again took up politics. In the 2014 elections, her result was 13.13% - second place after the winner Poroshenko. As many believed, the transition to the shadows was deliberate; Tymoshenko anticipated the onset of a difficult time for the country, when it would be more profitable to be with the opposition.
About personal life
In the biography of Yulia Tymoshenko there is information that her wife’s name is Alexander. The man is successfully engaged in entrepreneurial activity. A girl born in marriage studied at an economics school in the British capital; she chose philosophy and economics as her area of specialization. Currently specializes in domestic folk crafts. Previously, the daughter was married to Sean Carr, thanks to which references to star relatives appeared in the sections about the family in the biographies of Yulia Tymoshenko. Carr, a musician, also owns several retail outlets. At the beginning of 2012, the marriage ended, and even earlier, at the end of 2011, Evgenia returned her maiden name. A few years later, the woman married again - to Arthur Chechetkin. In the summer of 2016, a girl appeared in the family.
Amazing and impressive
Many say that Yulia Tymoshenko's fame and success are ensured by her approach to politics: she is one of those few who adheres to maximalism. Many journalists call her "Lady Yu". They say that Julia was the most important and important political prisoner in the history of her country. Many agree that the secrets with which the biography is replete will never be fully revealed. And yet no obstacles stop her on her way to the top. Julia is fighting for power with all her might, promising her country a new course, a new life and new successes.
Curious facts
It is known that her passion for rhythmic gymnastics and success in this area were quite significant, so many assumed that the girl would have a luxurious future as a world-famous athlete.
As a high school student, the girl decided to change her last name. In graduation documents she is recorded as Yulia Telegina - this is her mother's surname.
At first, Yulia decided to study at a mining institute, and entered the mining faculty. Higher mathematics at this educational institution turned out to be an insurmountable obstacle for her, and after a year the student was expelled.
04/20/2008, Between Ukraine, Armenia, Latvia and...:
Yulia Tymoshenko hides her origin
Much has been written and said about the ethnic roots of one of the main characters in the Ukrainian political field - Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who in every possible way emphasizes her “Ukrainianness” (although she admits that she learned the Ukrainian language only in 1999). Today, when almost no one doubts Tymoshenko’s claims to the highest post of the Ukrainian state, we should expect an intensification of the discussion around this topic. At one time, one of the Ukrainian sources prefaced his article about Yulia Tymoshenko:
“A native of Dnepropetrovsk, Yulia Tymoshenko is of mixed Russian-Armenian origin. The surnames of her parents are Telegina and Grigyan. Like many future powers that be, Tymoshenko had a rather difficult childhood. Her father abandoned the family when her daughter was only two years old. However, already distinguished by her strong character in her youth, the girl was able to quickly solve her personal problems and married the son of the Dnepropetrovsk regional boss Gennady Timoshenko, Alexander, and almost immediately became the real head of the family..."
In a more acute form, the topic of the ethnicity of the Ukrainian prime minister was raised by the then Minister of Transport and Communications of Ukraine Yevgeny Chervonenko. Commenting on the beating of a Jewish youth in Kyiv, he suggested that Tymoshenko could have been more quick in condemning anti-Semitism, since she herself “has a Jewish mother and an Armenian father”: “I am very surprised that there was no such reaction from the government itself and the prime minister.” Moreover, Yulia Tymoshenko’s mother is Jewish, and her father is Armenian. It was Armenians and Jews who were historically subjected to genocide,” Chervonenko said.
Indeed, for a long time it was believed that Tymoshenko had Armenian blood flowing in her veins, because her maiden name was Grigyan. However, the BYuT leader herself denied these rumors. “On my father’s side, everyone is Latvian up to the tenth generation, and on my mother’s side, everyone is Ukrainian,” she said. According to Tymoshenko, “due to a mistake by the passport office employees, Vladimir Grigyanis turned into Grigyan.”
Meanwhile, finding the origins of the Grigyanis surname in Latvia turned out to be a complex matter. As we found out, in Latvia there is a surname Grigjanis, in this case pronounced in Russian as “Grigyanis”. But such a surname is extremely rare in Latvia. There are simply no direct analogies with “Grigyanis” in Latvia. On the other hand, if the prime minister’s words are true that on her father’s side all are Latvians up to the tenth generation, then such a surname would be quite common in small Latvia. Otherwise, we can assume that only girls were born in the Grigyanis (Grigyanis) family for all ten generations. More often in Latvia the variant Grigjans is found - “Grigjans”, but in this case it is translated into Russian as again “Grigyan”, that is, if not a typically Armenian, then, in any case, definitely not a Latvian surname, but Latvianized.
At one time, the Ukrainian resource “Fraza”, in an article devoted to the ethnic roots of Tymoshenko, wrote: “As it turned out, Tymoshenko’s father, who she passes off as a Latvian, is named Vladimir Abramovich Grigyan. We are ready to bet 5 kilos of fat that we can go around the whole of Latvia (yes and the entire Baltic region in general) and not a single Baltic named Abram Grigyan (the name of Timoshenko’s grandfather) can be found..." And indeed, Latvian philologists who study surnames unanimously insist that this form of surname is not independent, but a derivative of the Armenian surname Grigyan. If the Ukrainian prime minister’s grandfather’s name was Abram, then during the approximate period of Yulia Tymoshenko’s grandfather’s life, that is, in pre-war Latvia, there was a policy of total Latvianization of the population, when almost everyone was given Latvian names and surnames. Moreover, if these people were “native Latvians of the tenth generation.” Thus, Tymoshenko’s grandfather simply could not be called Abram: he was either not Latvian, or he himself is a fiction.
The search for the ethnic roots of the Ukrainian prime minister in Armenia also did not yield tangible results. As we found out, today only one family with the surname Grigyan is registered in the capital of the republic, Yerevan. However, it is important that in this case we have an absolutely clear coincidence with Yulia Vladimirovna’s maiden name appearing in official documents. Surprises await us in the process of clarifying the origins of the Grigyan surname in Nagorno-Karabakh. Local ethnographer Lev Azatyan says that the Grigyans are a famous “gerdastan” (clan) in Karabakh, which is of aristocratic origin. “Representatives of the Grigyan family, mainly settled in the Askeran region, valiantly participated in the fight against the Ottomans, contributed to the defense of Karabakh in 1918 - 1921, took part in the political resistance to the subordination of Karabakh to Azerbaijan in 1923 and were repressed for this during the period of Stalinism ", Azatyan said. Today there are several dozen Grigyan families in Nagorno-Karabakh.
At the same time, some sources in the scientific circles of Armenia claim that the surname Grigyan is often found among Bessarabian Jews or Gypsies, just like the surnames Kopelyan, Muntyan, Pomerlyan. So it is not excluded that the originators of the Grigyan surname could be Bessarabian gypsies. To be fair, it is worth noting that in Moldova it was also not possible to find contemporaries of Tymoshenko by the last name Grigyan.
The original version is put forward by the same Ukrainian resource “Phrase”. Developing the idea of the ethnic roots of Tymoshenko’s father, Vladimir Abramovich Grigyan, the publication writes: “Such a name is quite typical for Armenian Jews. Armenian Jews (like Georgian and mountain Jews) are people very committed to tradition, and it is unlikely that he (Yulia Tymoshenko’s father) "I would have married Tymoshenko's mother if she had not been Jewish." Meanwhile, attempts to check the grandmother - that is, the mother of Tymoshenko’s mother - were unsuccessful: “What is the real name of Maria Iosifovna - that, according to our (and not only our) information, is the name of grandmother Tymoshenko, a candy factory technologist, is shrouded in the darkness of the unknown... But, it seems, we managed to establish Maria Iosifovna’s surname from her husband. This surname sounds strange - Nelepova... apparently, Maria Iosifovna’s maiden name sounded so strange, to put it mildly, that she had to change it.”
Yulia Vladimirovna Tymoshenko is the first woman prime minister in the history of Ukraine, as well as the first woman to hold this post in the CIS countries. Remains one of the most influential politicians in Ukraine. She became a presidential candidate in the 2019 elections, but unexpectedly lost her rating in recent months and failed to make it to the second round, losing out to showman Vladimir Zelensky and President Poroshenko.
Family of Yulia Tymoshenko
Yulia Tymoshenko was born on November 27, 1960 in Dnepropetrovsk, where her parents were native residents. Timoshenko's mother is Lyudmila Nikolaevna Telegina (b. 1937, Dnepropetrovsk). Tymoshenko’s father is Vladimir Abramovich Grigyan (b. 1937, Dnepropetrovsk). He left his family when Yulia was two years old.
Grandmother - Grigyan Maria Iosifovna (b. 1909). Grandfather - Abram Kelmanovich Kapitelman (b. 1914), died at the front on November 8, 1944 with the rank of senior lieutenant of the signal forces.
According to Tymoshenko herself, in her family, on her father’s side, all are Latvians up to the tenth generation, and on her mother’s side, all are Ukrainians. Great-grandfather Joseph Iosifovich Grigyan, according to Yulia, was actually Grigyanis.
Yulia Tymoshenko in childhood
It should be noted that the Wikipedia article is silent about Tymoshenko’s mother and her Ukrainian ancestors, and there is almost no information about this in open sources; there is conflicting information on the Internet about the ethnic origin of her father. There is debate about Yulia Tymoshenko's nationality.
Youth, education of Yulia Tymoshenko
In 1977, Yulia Tymoshenko graduated from secondary school No. 75 in Dnepropetrovsk. Yulia Tymoshenko's mother worked as a dispatcher in a taxi company. As Yulia Vladimirovna recalls, they lived modestly, in conditions of strict economy.
Julia was friends mainly with boys. Yulia Grigyan was bored with the girls. She didn't play with dolls. I studied at school without grades. Julia was fond of rhythmic gymnastics.
After school, Yulia Vladimirovna entered the Dnepropetrovsk State University, the Faculty of Economics, choosing the specialty “economic cybernetics”, and in 1984 she graduated with honors, specializing in engineer-economist.
In 1999, Tymoshenko, already a businesswoman and politician, defended her PhD thesis on the topic “State regulation of the tax system” at the Kiev National Economic University. Received an academic degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences.
Big business and Yulia Tymoshenko
After graduating from university, Yulia Tymoshenko worked as an engineer-economist at the Dnepropetrovsk Machine-Building Plant (1984−1988).
Yulia Tymoshenko got married while still studying at the university. Her version of meeting her future husband Alexander Timoshenko is very romantic. One day Alexander called her by accident - he just got the wrong number. He liked the voice of the girl who answered, and they began dating. And in 1979, the young couple celebrated their wedding. In 1980, Julia and Alexander had a daughter, Evgenia.
In 1989, Yulia Timoshenko became commercial director of the Dnepropetrovsk youth center "Terminal"
With perestroika, Yulia Vladimirovna’s successful march along the difficult roads of business began. In 1988, Yulia and Alexander Timoshenko opened their own business - a “video rental point” - with the help of her husband’s father, Gennady Timoshenko, who headed the “film distribution department” in the Dnepropetrovsk regional council. In 1989, Yulia and Alexander, with the support of the Dnepropetrovsk Regional Komsomol Committee, created the Terminal youth center. Yulia Timoshenko became its commercial director (1989−1991).
In 1991, Yu.V. Tymoshenko and her husband founded the Ukrainian Gasoline corporation. Since this year, Yulia Vladimirovna has been commercial, then general director of the joint venture “Ukrainian Gasoline Corporation” (KUB). 1995−1996 headed the corporation “Unified Energy Systems of Ukraine” (UESU), created on the basis of KUB.
The company earned enormous money from barter transactions - it sold products of Ukrainian enterprises (mainly to Russia) in exchange for energy resources.
Political career of Yulia Tymoshenko
At the beginning of 1997, Yulia Tymoshenko, as president of the UESU, according to various estimates, controlled up to 25% of the Ukrainian economy.
In the same year, Tymoshenko decided to go into politics and nominated herself for the by-election in the Bobrinetsky majoritarian constituency No. 229 of the Kirovograd region. Yulia Vladimirovna showed one of the best results - 92.3% of the votes. In January 1997, Yulia Tymoshenko received a deputy mandate.
In the parliament of S.V. Tymoshenko joined the pro-presidential party Constitutional Center. Having become a people's deputy, Tymoshenko is actively involved in party work - in mid-1997 she signed up for membership in "Gromada" - a party that was created four years ago by Pavel Lazarenko (at that time the prime minister, later convicted in the USA for corruption - he illegally transferred to this country, according to Ukrainian information, more than 320 million dollars).
In 1998, Yulia Tymoshenko headed the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Budget Issues. Under the leadership of Yulia Vladimirovna, the Budget Committee of the Verkhovna Rada developed the “100 weeks of decent life” program. Why only 100 weeks were allocated is a mystery.
2001 President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma considers the recommendation of the country's Prosecutor General Mikhail Potebenko to remove Yulia Tymoshenko (pictured) from the post of Deputy Prime Minister for fuel and energy issues (Photo: Yuriy Ilyenko/TASS)
In 2002, Yulia Tymoshenko created a bloc named after herself - the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT).
On July 2, 2004, Tymoshenko, on behalf of BYuT, signed an agreement with Viktor Yushchenko on the creation of the “Power of the People” coalition in support of Yushchenko in the presidential elections, and the opportunity was provided for Tymoshenko to head the future government.
When Viktor Yushchenko did not win in the first round, Yulia Tymoshenko called on opposition supporters to gather on the Independence Square in Kyiv on November 21-22 to defend the results of their expression of will. Tymoshenko became one of the leaders of mass protests against the “falsification” of the presidential elections, which were called the “Orange Revolution”.
Premiership of Yulia Tymoshenko
After the victory of Viktor Yushchenko as a result of the first Maidan and the illegal third round of elections, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on February 4, 2005 approved Yulia Vladimirovna as Prime Minister of the country - 375 votes in favor (out of 450).
2005. President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko during an extended meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers (Photo: Alexander Prokopenko/TASS)
The main points that characterized the internal economic activities of the Cabinet of Ministers of Yulia Tymoshenko were the increase in salaries, pensions, scholarships (one and a half to two times), a 12-fold increase in the lump sum benefit for the birth of a child, the “Smuggling - Stop” campaign, the reprivatization of 3,000 enterprises, including control over the largest iron and steel plant, Krivorozhstal, was returned to the state (which was resold in October 2005 for $4.8 billion, 2.4 times more than the starting price). In April-May 2005, the so-called “gasoline crisis” and “sugar crisis” occurred, when prices for sugar and gasoline rose by 30-50% in 2-3 weeks. For this, Prime Minister Tymoshenko was criticized, including by President Yushchenko.
2005 Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko during the celebration of the anniversary of the Orange Revolution on Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Photo: Alexander Prokopenko/TASS)
On August 24, on Ukraine's Independence Day, speaking on the Maidan, President Yushchenko called Tymoshenko's Cabinet the best. But soon, on September 8, 2005, he dismissed the government of Yulia Tymoshenko due to conflicts and scandals within the government. At the same time, Yushchenko fired NSDC Secretary Petro Poroshenko, who found himself at the epicenter of a corruption scandal.
Criminal cases against Yulia Tymoshenko
Yulia Vladimirovna's political life is filled with ups and downs. In 2005-2007, Tymoshenko was in opposition.
The Prosecutor's Office in Ukraine and the Military Prosecutor's Office of Russia opened several criminal cases that related primarily to the activities of the UESU (in 1996-1997), as well as criminal cases regarding “Kyoto money” and “rural medicine vehicles” (in 2007-2010 years).
2007 Leader of the Ukrainian Party of Regions Viktor Yanukovych and BYuT leader Yulia Tymoshenko during a meeting (Photo: Vladimir Sindeev/TASS)
But the “gas case” caused the greatest resonance. Yulia Tymoshenko was accused of drawing up a gas agreement with Russia that was enslaving for Ukraine in 2009.
When Yulia Tymoshenko lost the 2010 presidential campaign to Viktor Yanukovych, the new president remembered the high price of gas under the agreement that Yulia Vladimirovna had concluded, and in October 2011, after long trials, the Pechersky District Court sentenced Tymoshenko: 7 years in prison and compensation of 1.5 billion UAH. financial losses of Naftogaz.
2010 Propaganda poster depicting Ukrainian presidential candidate Yuri Tymoshenko on one of the city streets (Photo: Vladimir Sindeev/TASS)
Yulia Tymoshenko was placed in Kachanovskaya colony No. 54 in Kharkov to serve her sentence. Tymoshenko’s imprisonment caused a significant international outcry, and European politicians continually demanded that Yanukovych release Yulia Vladimirovna.
Rally of opposition deputies in support of former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko near the building of the Verkhovna Rada (Photo: Maxim Nikitin/TASS)
After the coup d'etat in February 2014, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a resolution “On the fulfillment of Ukraine’s international obligations on the release of Yu.V. Tymoshenko.” And already on February 22, 2014, the free Yulia Tymoshenko appeared in a wheelchair on the stage of Independence Square and again joined the political struggle.
2014 Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko, released by decision of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, during a speech on Independence Square (Photo: Mikhail Pochuev/TASS)
However, as a result of the 2014 presidential elections, she took 2nd place with a result of 13.13%, losing to Petro Poroshenko. According to many, Yulia Tymoshenko deliberately stepped into the shadows in order to play in the opposition field in extremely difficult times.
Ukrainian presidential elections 2019
Yulia Tymoshenko has been gathering strength for revenge and, according to experts, is one of the favorites in the Ukrainian presidential elections in 2019.
According to one of the polls at the end of 2018, Petro Poroshenko ranks third in the ranking of candidates with 8.6%. In first place is the leader of “Batkivshchyna” Yulia Tim Oshenko with 14.2%, in second place is comedian-showman Vladimir Zelensky - 9% of respondents are ready to vote for him.
Poroshenko has no chance in the presidential elections in Ukraine, believes the leader of the Batkivshchyna party, Yulia Tymoshenko, based on the results of regional elections in this country.
“Local elections showed the entire distribution of votes. Deputies of the Batkivshchyna party received 34 percent, Petro Poroshenko’s bloc received 23 percent, and then for a long, long time there was no one. The choice of people suggests that in the second round of elections our team and Poroshenko’s team will meet with approximately the same result, 34 percent to 23 percent. That is why I can firmly say that my opponent does not have a single chance in the second round,” Ukraine news quoted Tymoshenko as saying.
Blushing and laughing nervously, Tymoshenko explained to those gathered that everything that happened had not been planned in advance. After a short pause she laughed again.
10/01/2008, Photo: AP
The real name of Yulia Tymoshenko is Kapitelman
The real family name of the Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko is Kapitelman. Such data was announced at a press conference in Kyiv today, October 1, by a former ally of the head of the Ukrainian government, Dmitry Chobit, reports a REGNUM correspondent.
“I was prompted to investigate by Yulia Tymoshenko herself, who stated that on her paternal side all Latvians up to the tenth generation, and on her maternal side only Ukrainians. But when I started looking for information about Yulia Vladimirovna’s ancestors, I found documents that show her lies. According to the data I verified, Yulia Tymoshenko’s ancestors independently changed their surname to Grigyan, and her real family surname Kapitelman was called Abram Kelmanovich Kapitelman,” said Dmitry Chobit.
Tymoshenko admitted that she had also previously paid Chobot for such “nasty”
Tymoshenko's family secret: her grandfather was Abram Kelmanovich Kapitelman
On Friday, October 3, Dmitry Chobot’s scandalous book “Makukha” should go on sale, which was advertised by Yulia Tymoshenko on Wednesday, suggesting that no one should read it. The Segodnya newspaper managed to get hold of this book and find out what the prime minister didn’t like.
The main sections of “Makukha” are devoted to three topics: the secret war of the prime minister against the President, the secrets of the biography of Yulia Tymoshenko and the prime minister’s personnel - his personal guard, financiers and satellites. Among the most offensive for the prime minister and previously unknown to the general public in this book, only the author’s research into the prime minister’s pedigree can be highlighted.
“The father of Vladimir Grigyan, and therefore the grandfather of Yulia Vladimirovna Tymoshenko, was Abram Kelmanovich Kapitelman,” writes Chobot.
“I have nothing against Jews, I don’t like lies. After all, Tymoshenko says that her father is Latvian,” explained the author, whom the newspaper contacted for comment.
The book contains a certificate issued to Vladimir Grigyan stating that his father died in the war, where his first name, surname and patronymic are given (however, it is not clear how reliable this certificate is).
Tymoshenko has already called this book a custom book and admitted for some reason that she had previously also paid its author for such “muck.”
“I don’t read all these dirty emissions. As a rule, such people are paid money and they write. We also once paid money to Chobot, he also wrote nasty things there, unfortunately,” the prime minister said.
Let us remember that Chobot previously became famous for his equally evil book about Viktor Medvedchuk “Narcissus”.
["Ukrainian Truth", 10.16.2008, Information war, holy war: We are indignant at Russian intrigues: Moscow is planting the image of an anti-Semitic Ukrainian in the West! But what can you do if anti-Semitism is really developed in Ukraine? Domestic politicians and PR technologists are well aware of the prejudice of many Ukrainians towards Jews.
And now Yulia Tymoshenko’s opponents are already ordering a book with damning revelations from the scandalous author. Ukrainians, know: UVT’s grandfather’s name was Abram Kelmanovich Kapitelman!
And a year earlier, a reputable pro-presidential newspaper pleased its readers with incriminating evidence on Svyatoslav Piskun: it turns out that his real name is Furman! In Europe, such “black PR” would only harm customers. In our country it is quite effective. - K.Ru insert]
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© "APN North-West", 10/31/2008, The surname of Timoshenko’s grandfather is Kapitelman!
[...] Commentary from APN North-West: Ukrainian nationalists have traditionally blamed all their troubles exclusively on “Muscovites and Jews.” Until very recently, senior partners from the West did not agree to use the second part of the magic formula. Looks like it's now allowed.