The Conflict between Russia and Ukraine has lasted for many days, and so far there is no sign of a truce, and the third round of negotiations between the two sides has ended, but the negotiations still have not reached the expected results.
The political game between the great powers has plunged the Ukrainian people into a deep and fierce situation. If Zelenskiy's government chooses to step down, the war may be quelled. So who is best suited to become the next President of Ukraine? It is estimated that many people will first think of the former Ukrainian beauty Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
Tymoshenko has been elected prime minister of Ukraine twice, has a high popularity in Ukraine, and has a good personal relationship with Putin, what is the origin of this ukrainian beauty prime minister who was born a civilian, went to prison twice, and ran for president three times?
Let's take you to know the magnificent legendary life of the Ukrainian Iron Lady - Tymoshenko.
People often say that you can't judge people by their appearance, but many times the appearance can really bring you good luck.
When it comes to Tymoshenko, the first thing that comes to mind is her beauty and delicate hairstyle, and although she has lost all three presidential bids, she is still the most glorious female politician in Ukrainian politics. Obviously, she can eat by appearance, but she uses her iron fist to become a strong woman in Ukrainian politics.
Tymoshenko famously said, "I want to introduce Beauty into politics." And she practiced it during her 40-year political career.
Born in 1960 to a peasant family in Ukraine, Tymoshenko grew up with divorced parents who grew up with her mother. Although he came from the bottom, Tymoshenko was not willing to accept fate and wanted to change his life by studying hard. Although she was a girl, she was as competitive as a boy, showing strong leadership skills and a desire to be a leader in school.
But the fairy tale of the crow turning into a phoenix is not so easy for ordinary people. And Tymoshenko, relying on his delicate appearance, successfully ushered in a major reversal in his life.
Tymoshenko and her husband
When Tymoshenko was 18 years old, a stranger who made a mistake called her unexpectedly met the local official Second Generation Alexander Tymoshenko, she seized the opportunity to quickly fall in love with each other, in 1979, Tymoshenko married into a rich family as she wished, to achieve a counterattack in life, after marriage Tymoshenko did not give up her studies, in 1984, the 24-year-old Tymoshenko graduated from university, obtained a doctorate in economics, and then she entered a machinery manufacturing factory to become an economist.
In 1989, the Soviet Union carried out economic reforms and began to allow private business, and the ambitious Tymoshenko quit his job and joined the tide of starting a business. With the help of her family, Tymoshenko founded a chain of Soviet Communist Youth League film rental stores, which were a huge success, and her excellent business skills were appreciated by her father-in-law, who began to slowly take over the family business and established the Ukrainian Oil Company, which was later reorganized into the Unified Energy Company.
With the support of the family, in 1995 Tymoshenko became president of Ukraine's united energy system, and by 1996, the company had become a major importer of natural gas imported from Ukraine to Russia, monopolizing the supply of gas across Ukraine, a period of privatization of Ukrainian industries, due to imperfect systems and lack of supervision, during which Tymoshenko made a lot of money by reselling stolen natural gas and avoiding trading taxes, becoming one of the richest oligarchs in Ukraine, known as "" Gas Princess", became a household name in Ukraine as a strong woman.
After gaining a lot of wealth and achieving fame, Tymoshenko began to step into the political arena, using his strong capital and the appearance of the country, Tymoshenko soon established a deep political network.
In 1996 she was successfully elected to the Ukrainian Parliament, in 1999 Tymoshenko founded a new political party called "Fatherland", and later joined forces with other domestic parties to form the Tymoshenko Union, which gave her a strong presence in Ukrainian politics.
In December of the same year, Tymoshenko became Ukraine's deputy prime minister, and in less than four years, he rose from a parliamentarian to deputy prime minister in charge of energy at a rocket speed.
But because Tymoshenko's reforms after coming to power touched the interests of Ukrainian industry oligarchs, Tymoshenko was dismissed by President Kuchma in January 2001, and she was accused of forging customs documents and smuggling natural gas while serving as president of Ukraine's United Energy System from 1995 to 1997, which brought her 42 days in prison.
Tymoshenko pointed out that these charges were all fabricated by The Kuchma government, but that her market-oriented reforms touched the interests of the oligarchs. In protest from a large number of supporters, Tymoshenko was released. Shortly after his release from prison, Tymoshenko launched a counterattack against Kuchima, serving as the leader of the "National Salvation Committee" and launching a protest campaign called "Ukraine without Kuchma" to demand a referendum to impeach President Kusima for stepping down.
He and Yushchenko, then governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, launched an Orange Revolution in the United States, forming a coalition of people's forces to fight president Kuchma, Tymoshenko canvassed votes for Yushchenko during the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, and Yushchenko promised to nominate Tymoshenko as prime minister if he won the 2004 presidential election.
But in the end, the pro-Russian Yanukovych won the presidential election, the Yushchenko camp believed that the election was fraudulent, and large-scale protests broke out in various ukrainian cities, and the protracted protests evolved into the famous "Orange Revolution".
In the end, Yanukovych's eligibility for victory was revoked, Ukraine resumed presidential elections, and eventually Yushchenko was elected president of Ukraine, and Tymoshenko became the prime minister of Ukraine.
Yanukovych
Her braided hair style became a symbol of the Orange Revolution, and since then her hairstyle changes have become a unique barometer in Ukrainian politics, with each haircut changing meaning something big is about to happen.
Tymoshenko also showed his ability to govern with both rigidity and softness after taking office, on the one hand, to curry favor with the Ukrainian people and the Western countries led by the United States at home, to cooperate closely with Russia on energy issues, and to meet the source left and right between major powers, and once it was rumored that her personal relationship with Putin was extraordinary.
Tymoshenko has been listed three times by Forbes Magazine as one of the most powerful women in the world. But soon, because of the conflict of interests and political opinions, the "political couple" alliance between Yushchenko and Tymoshenko soon collapsed, especially the two people's different attitudes towards Russia, Yushchenko is the president of the United States, the attitude towards Russia can be imagined, and Tymoshenko hopes to strengthen cooperation with Russia, and has met with Putin many times.
Just seven months after becoming prime minister, Yushchenko removed Tymoshenko from his post as prime minister on the grounds that the Tymoshenko government was ineffective and lacked team spirit. In parliamentary elections two years later, Tymoshenko was again prime minister.
In 2010, ukraine ushered in a new round of presidential elections, and Tymoshenko began to launch her first assault on the presidency. Former rival Yanukovych won the support of Russia, and in the end, Yanukovych narrowly defeated Tymoshenko with 48% of the vote and became the new president of Ukraine.
When Yanukovych took office, his first step was to take revenge on his political enemy Tymoshenko, who accused Tymoshenko of abusing his power in signing a gas deal with Russia in 2009 and causing heavy damage to Ukraine's national economy, and Tymoshenko was sentenced to seven years in prison and imprisoned for the second time.
After three years in prison, Tymoshenko was released early with Yanukovych's downfall. Three years in prison devastated Tymoshenko physically and psychologically, and Tymoshenko's daughter claimed to the outside world that her mother had been beaten by prison personnel after she was imprisoned, and she could only walk in a wheelchair when she was released.
Even so, he did not give up. On March 24 of the same year, she announced her re-election for the presidency when she was pushed in a wheelchair in the cold wind and appeared in Kiev's Independence Square to give a memorable presidential speech, but in the end she failed to do so, losing to her opponent Poroshenko.
In 2019, Tymoshenko, who had been silent for five years, ran for president again, and although she had a high support in the polls before the election, to her surprise, this time she did not even qualify for the second round of the final, and the Ukrainian people voted for their favorite comedian Zelensky.
After two prison sentences, she remained indomitable This steely willpower was admirable, and she was praised as the "undead bird" of Ukrainian politics.
The current situation in Ukraine does not know whether it will give this Iron Lady another opportunity to fulfill her long-cherished wish?
Yushchenko and Tymoshenko
How to meet each other left and right between the great power struggles, not to offend each other, not to become a tool of the great power game, and to let the people live a rich and stable life, this is a very superb technology. It is hoped that the fighting will cease as soon as possible and that the Ukrainian people will be given a peaceful and stable life.
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