英語名人堂：尤利婭·季莫申科

　　尤利婭·弗拉基米羅芙娜·季莫申科(烏克蘭語：Юл?я Володимир?вна Тимошенко，拉丁拼寫：Julia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko)，1960年11月27日出生于烏克蘭第聶伯羅彼得羅夫斯克，烏克蘭著名政治人物。

　　出身貧寒，個性堅韌，擁有精明的商業(yè)頭腦，曾壟斷烏克蘭的天然氣供應(yīng)，身家超過百億元，被譽為“烏克蘭的天然氣公主”、“石油女皇”和“烏克蘭鐵娘子”。

　　1999年至2001年任烏克蘭副總理，2005年2月至9月任烏克蘭總理。2007年9月議會選舉后，她再次出任政府總理。2011年10月11日，季莫申科因反對派起訴被判7年監(jiān)禁后提起上訴。12月30日，季莫申科進入哈爾科夫州卡恰洛夫斯基女子監(jiān)獄服刑。2014年2月22日晚，亞努科維奇倒臺，季莫申科被最高行政議院無罪釋放。[1] 并在首都基輔獨立廣場發(fā)表演講，呼吁獨立廣場上的支持者們在沒有達到所有預(yù)期目標(biāo)之前一定要堅守信仰，[2] 此后由于身體不適赴德治療。

　　Yulia Tymoshenko is Ukraine’s prime minister and one of the world’s few female leaders. She is head of the All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" party and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. She was born in 1960 and spent her teenage years rising through the Soviet Communist Youth Organization. She has a Ph.D. in economics and has written over 50 research papers.

　　Before she entered politics, Tymoshenko was a successful businesswoman. In 1989, she started a chain of video rental stores, which made her quite rich. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, she had several high positions in Ukraine’s oil and gas industries and became one of Ukraine’s richest people. Her newly found fortune allowed her to start up her own political party.

　　During Ukraine’s Orange Revolution, the Western media dubbed her as the nation’s Joan of Arc. She was appointed as acting prime minister in January 2005, but lost power in September that same year when Ukraine’s president dismissed her government. She returned to power in June 2006, following national elections. She is widely tipped to one day become President of Ukraine.

　　There are many other sides to Tymoshenko’s life. In 2001, she was voted as one of the most beautiful women to ever enter politics. She is also known for her trademark plaited hairstyle, which became iconic during the Orange Revolution, and which she keeps to this day. She once joked her hairstyle was “a steering wheel to drive the state”.