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Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko (Ukrainian: Юлія Володимирівна Тимошенко, pronounced [ˈjulijɑ ʋɔlɔˈdɪmɪriʋnɑ tɪmɔˈʃɛnkɔ]), née Grigyan[6][7] (Ukrainian: Ґріґян),[8] born 27 November 1960, is a Ukrainian politician. She was the Prime Minister of Ukraine from 24 January to 8 September 2005, and again from 18 December 2007 to 4 March 2010.[9][10] She placed third in Forbes Magazine's List of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women 2005.[11] Tymoshenko is the leader of the All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" party and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. She has been a practising economist and academic. 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. Before becoming Ukraine's first female Prime Minister in 2005,[12] Tymoshenko co-led the Orange Revolution.[13] Tymoshenko was a candidate in the Ukrainian presidential elections of 2010,[14] but lost this election to Viktor Yanukovych (Tymoshenko received 45.47% of the votes in the second and final round[15] of this election[16][17]). At first Tymoshenko challenged the election results, claiming the vote was rigged,[18][19] but withdrew her appeal on 20 February 2010, stating, "It became clear that the court is not out to establish the truth".[20] Since May 2010 a number of criminal cases have been opened against Tymoshenko.[21] On 11 October 2011, a Ukrainian court sentenced Tymoshenko to seven years in <b>...</b>