Then-opposition leader and former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko caused a stir by publishing an article entitled " Containing Russia " in the May – June 2007 issue of Foreign Affairs accusing Russia under Vladimir Putin of expansionism and urging the rest of Europe to stand against him.

Yulia Tymoshenko disagreed with Yushchenko's condemnation of Russia and preferred to stay neutral on the issue.

Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov ( former official of the Russian Ministry of Defense ) said that Russia has long since forgiven this debt and has closed the case against Yulia Tymoshenko: " The new criminal case – it's cheating ".

Then Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko | Tymoshenko meeting with the Russia n President of Russia | President Dmitry Medvedev | Medvedev ( October 2008 ).

The latter party switched from the " Orange Coalition " with Our Ukraine, and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc.

Manuel participated in the 3rd Season of the Ukrainian Dancing With the Stars ( so-called International League of Champions ) where he danced with the Ukrainian ballroom dancer, Eurovision Dance Contest's silver medallist Yulia Okropiridze.

* a pro-Western and pro-European general liberal national democrats who from time to time featured individual politicians with a nationalist past ( for example Andriy Shkil, Andriy Parubiy and Levko Lukyanenko ) with the Our Ukraine Blocs and Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko as its frontrunners

The Socialist Party of Ukraine was expected to form a governing governing coalition with Yulia Tymoshenko and Our Ukraine.

The party is often associated with the 2004 Orange Revolution ( the party's leader Yulia Tymoshenko was one of the leaders of the Orange Revolution ) and thus named an Orange Party in media publications.

The party also has some prominent members who used to be associated with the opponents of the Orange Revolutions ( the Blue camp ) like the former faction leader of the Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko ( BYuT ) faction in the Ukrainian Parliament Ivan Kyrylenko.

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe noted at the time that there were physical assaults and harassment of candidates and campaign workers associated with the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc as well as other opposition political parties prior to the March election.

On 18 December 2007 Yulia Tymoshenko, with a margin of two votes, was elected Prime Minister.

During the 2008 Ukrainian political crisis the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc ( BYuT ) and Our Ukraine – People's Self-Defense Bloc ( OU-PSD ) coalition was haltered and among the negations with a. o.

On 15 March 2012 the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party was expelled from the bloc for alleged " cooperation with the presidential administration and the ruling regime "; the day before the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party party-leader Natalia Korolevska had been expelled from the “ Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko-Batkivschyna ”- faction ( formerly BYuT faction ) in the Verkhovna Rada ( Ukrainian parliament ).

However, his government, particularly Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, soon became embroiled in a confrontation with influential leaders of the coal mining and natural gas industries.

A 2010 study by the Institute of Social and Political Psychology of Ukraine found that in general, Yulia Tymoshenko supporters are more optimistic compared with Viktor Yanukovych supporters.

Brodskyy allied himself with Yulia Tymoshenko before and during the Orange Revolution ( in 2006 he was elected as a deputy of the Kiev City Council representing the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc ), but broke with her before the snap parliamentary elections of September 2007.

In 1988, as part of the perestroika initiatives, Yulia and Oleksandr Tymoshenko borrowed 5000 Soviet rubles and opened a video rental cooperative, perhaps with the help of Oleksander's father Gennadi Tymoshenko, who presided over a regional film distribution network in the provincial council.

Yulia Timoshenko and Vladimir Putin ( 19 March 2005 ); in November 2009 Putin stated he found it comfortable to work with Tymoshenko and also praised her political choices.

On 29 November, a coalition was signed between the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and Our Ukraine – People's Self-Defense Bloc, which was associated with President Yushchenko.

On 3 March 2010 the Ukrainian Parliament passed a motion of no confidence in the second Tymoshenko Government in which the cabinet was dismissed with 243 lawmakers voting in favour out of the 450 ( including seven lawmakers of Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko ).

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has stated ( in November 2009 ) he found it comfortable to work with his ( then ) Ukrainian counterpart Yulia Tymoshenko and also praised her for strengthening Ukrainian sovereignty and building stable ties with Moscow and called the second Tymoshenko Government " efficient and a force for stability ".

" ( in interview by Yulia Lytvynenko at Poza ochi on Inter ( Ukraine ), 2009 )

* BBC Audio & Video about Yulia Tymoshenko including an audio interview with Yulia Tymoshenko from 15 April 2005

On July 2, 2004 Our Ukraine and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc established the Force of the people, a coalition which aimed to stop " the destructive process that has, as a result of the incumbent authorities, become a characteristic for Ukraine ", at the time President Kuchma and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych where the incumbent authorities in Ukraine.

On her 51st birthday ( 27 November 2011 ) an action called " Flowers for Yulia " happened in front of the Lukyanivska Prison where she was held at that time.

On 29 February 2012 the European People's Party demanded " immediate release of Yulia Tymoshenko, Yuriy Lutsenko and other political prisoners ; it also insisted the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union should not be signed and ratified until these demands where met.

According to an opinion poll carried out between February 3 and February 12, 2009 by the " Sofia " Center for Social Studies some 59. 1 % of those polled believed that the activities of ( then ) Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko where aimed at the defense of her own interests and that of her entourage, some 4. 2 % said her activities where aimed at the defense of interests of foreign states and some 23. 9 % believed that Tymoshenko worked for the sake of national interests.

On 29 February 2012 the European People's Party demanded " immediate release of Yulia Tymoshenko, Yuriy Lutsenko and other political prisoners ; it also insisted the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union should not be signed and ratified until these demands where met.

Publicist Yulia Latynina in her article in Novaya Gazeta claimed that she only staged a role of a democratic opponent to provide more legitimacy to the election of Vladimir Putin, a role that Grigory Alexeyevich Yavlinsky refused to play.

Yushchenko's most prominent ally, the politician and businesswoman Yulia Tymoshenko, stated that she would like to be appointed prime minister if Yushchenko wins.

Haifa Deputy Mayor Yulia Shtraim, a member of the party's municipal faction, said she would not allow the journalists to enter the hall " because of the Arabs ' demonstration and what demonstrators say about Lieberman.

As of 2011, Yulia is signed to Gala Records and goes by the more Western adaptation of her name, " Julia Volkova ".

used playback for Yulia Volkova because of her vocal fold cyst in 2003 when performing " Not Gonna Get Us ".

In 2010, when the outpatient forensic-psychiatric examination of Yulia Privedyonnaya, a member of a youth organization, was carried out in the Sebsky Center, its experts asked her the question " What do you think of Putin?

After her dismissal by President Leonid Kuchma in January 2001 as Deputy Prime Minister for fuel and energy sector in the cabinet of Viktor Yushchenko and during the Ukraine without Kuchma-protests Yulia Tymoshenko initiated the loose organization the National Salvation Committee on 9 February 2001.

His task is to slander Yulia Tymoshenko every day and prevent her from winning presidential elections ".

Viktor Yanukovych ( and his Party of the Regions ) and Yulia Tymoshenko ( and her party Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko ) have been since about 2005 the main players in Ukrainian politics.

The National Salvation Committee () was a loose organization led by Yulia Tymoshenko from February 9, 2001 .; after her dismissal as Deputy Prime Minister for fuel and energy sector in the cabinet of Viktor Yushchenko in January 2001 and during the Ukraine without Kuchma-protests.

Prior to her political career, Yulia Tymoshenko was a successful but controversial businesswoman in the gas industry, becoming by some estimates one of the richest people in the country.

Yulia Tymoshenko entered politics in 1996, and was elected to the Verkhovna Rada ( the Ukrainian parliament ) from the Kirovohrad Oblast, winning a record 92. 3 % of the vote in her constituency.

Tymoshenko and her party, Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko, boycotted the inauguration ceremony of President Yanukovych ( on 25 February 2010 ).

About her ethnicity, Yulia Tymoshenko herself has said: " On my father ’ s side – everyone is Latvian for ten generations, and on my mother's side – everyone is Ukrainian for ten generations.

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko stated on March 17, 2009 that her bloc was ready to join efforts with the Regions Party to pass certain bills in the Ukrainian parliament ( Verkhovna Rada ).

Ukrainian Social Democratic Party was long a member of Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko ( BYuT ) but its leader Korolevska fell out with the BYuT's new leaders and they expelled her party from the bloc.

After meeting Yulia at a reception, Yakov fought with her second husband, NKVD officer Nikolai Bessarab, and arranged her divorce.