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Yulia Tymoshenko

Yulia Tymoshenko

What do you think, is Yulia Tymoshenko the best looking leader of a government / country?

Tymoshenko Yulia

I think so for me, but what I want to know is if other if the people think about her. Yes, I think she is.

Yulia Tymoshenko History & Civil Business Politics

Ukraine cheers, Lenin statues fall

THE Ukraine's former leader broke down in front of a cheering crowd of 50,000 after being freed from prison, as the nation's dictatorship fell. Ref. Source 8

Tymoshenko Yulia

Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko has been released from prison, her party spokesperson said.

Tymoshenko, who is a former Prime Minister, lost the 2010 presidential election to Viktor Yanukovych.

The following year, she was sentenced to seven years in prison after being convicted of abuse of authority over a natural gas deal negotiated with Russia in 2009.

She repeatedly called the trial a farce. The United States and Europe saw the punishment as politically motivated.

In 2012, after Tymoshenko was allegedly beaten unconscious by guards, she went on a hunger strike to draw attention to "Violence and lack of rights" In her country.

She is known as a hero of the country's 2004 revolution. Ref. CNN