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11:41 10 Facts from the Life of Yulia Timoshenko
It seems everything has been written and said about Yulia Timoshenko.
However, it might be prudent to remember 10 outstanding facts from her
biography.
1. Legends are being composed about Yulia Timoshenko's real net worth.
However, the declaration of revenue and the assets that the leader of BYT
published during the presidential elections of 2010, caused overt taunts on
part of her opponents. Yushchenko publicly called her "a hobo."
The last official declaration was published by Timoshenko in 2011 - before
imprisonment. According to it, in 2010 Timoshenko had an apartment of 58
square meters, she did not have any bank investments.
2. In 1995 the first charges were drawn up against Yulia Timoshenko - for
contraband of $26 thousand. Timoshenko was detained in Zaporizhya airport.
The one who freed her from the detainment cell for the first time, by the
way, was Victor Pinchuk. Similar charges were pressed in Moscow - $20
thousand were found among Timoshenko's family things. It is unlikely the
couple was considering contraband. They just took a wallet with money. In
2001, after the new Criminal Code was established, the accusations were
dropped.
3. In 1995-1997 she was head of the industrial-financial corporation
"Universal Energy Systems of Ukraine." The activities of this company
became the object of investigation of the Office of the Prosecutor General
and investigators from the US, and Timoshenko was anointed "gas queen" by
the mass media. More than 500 volumes of the case were gathered by the
Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine. Among the main charges are
bribery of Lazarenko and representatives of the Russian Ministry of
Defence; abuse of power; tax evasion in especially big quantities;
contraband of Russian gas etc. In 2001 the Office of the Prosecutor General
asked the Parliament's permission to hold Timoshenko criminally
responsible, however the MP's refused. Nonetheless, because of this case,
her husband Olexander and business partner and childhood friend Valeriy
Falkovich were put behind bars, the majority of the company's leadership
were announced wanted, later - arrested.
4. In 1997-1999 Timoshenko was Pavlo Lazarenko's first deputy in the party
"Hromada." She headed the "shadow" Cabinet of Ministers. In 1999 Olexander
Turchynov and her accused Lazarenko in "voluntarism" and left "Hromada."
5. At the parliamentary elections in 2006 and 2007, those who are called
oligarchs in Ukraine went to the Verkhovna Rada on BYT's lists: Bogdan
Gubskiy, Tariel Vasadze, Sergiy and Olexander Buryak, Mikola Bagrayev,
Kostiantin Zhevago. In 2010 after Yulia lost the presidential elections,
all of them, except for Zhevago, fled to the Party of Regions.
6. In 2008 BYT, headed by Yulia Timoshenko, initiated the early elections
of the Kyiv Mayor and City Council. The goal was to depose Leonid
Chernovetskiy. As a result Chernovetskiy was re-elected Mayor of Kyiv.
7. In 2008-2009 BYT and the Party of Regions conducted talks about the
formation of a parliamentary coalition (PRiBYT), whose goals would be
amending the Constitution and redistributing power. In June 2009 the text
of the project of the Constitution by PRiBYT was published. However the
coalition never happened. It is said that Yanukovich refused to side with
Timoshenko at the last moment.
8. Among those who in 2009 helped Timoshenko write the new Constitution was
Vladimir Putin's friend - Victor Medvedchuk. As the former head of the
President Yushchenko's Administration Victor Baloga recently stated,
Timoshenko lobbied for Medvendchuk to become ambassador of Ukraine in
Russia.
9. On August 5th, 2011, the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv arrested Yulia
Timoshenko. In three months, on October 11th, 2011, the same Court deemed
her guilty of abuse of power when signing the gas contracts in 2009 and
condemned her to seven years of imprisonment, as well as voiding her of the
right to hold posts in the government for three years. Yulia Timoshenko was
found guilty of the crime presumed in part 3 of article 365 of the Criminal
Code ("abuse of power which led to serious consequences"). The Court also
approved the civil plaint of NAK "Naftogaz Ukrayini" regarding the payment
by Yulia Timoshenko of the losses the company had suffered - 1,516 million
UAH. On February 22nd, 2014 the Parliament affirmed the decision regarding
the freeing of Yulia Timoshenko.
10. It is ironic: with Leonid Kuchma, Victor Yushchenko, and with Victor
Yanukovich, Yulia Timoshenko tried to play her own game. She tried to
settle with Kuchma, actively supported Yushchenko during the Orange
Revolution in 2004, and conducted talks about parliamentary coalition with
Yanukovich.
The conclusion: with President Kuchma - the appointment and deposition from
the post of Vice Prime Minister of the Fuel-Evergy Complex and 42 days in
detainment; with President Yushchenko - the appointment and deposition from
the post of Prime Minister in 2005 and life-long rivalry; with President
Yanukovich - imprisonment between August 2011 and February 2014. - TVi
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