Tymoshenko

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http://www.tymoshenko.com.ua/eng/index/
Are you familiar with her? she is fascinating - crazy rich energy czarina, prime minister of ukraine and hot, hot, hot- very machiavellian figure

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Shortly before leaving Kiev on Monday morning January 24, [2005] Yushchenko signed a decree appointing Tymoshenko acting prime minister; officials expect a vote on her appointment, which must be approved by parliament, in early February. Tymoshenko, 44, was the darling of the crowd on Independence Square in Kiev during the Orange Revolution, the street protest movement that erupted after a controversial Nov. 21 presidential runoff in which Yanukovych was declared the winner. The election was subsequently declared fraudulent and the result overturned by the Supreme Court, which ordered a Dec. 26 rerun. Tymoshenko's fiery speeches, along with her alternating folkloric and high-fashion dress, were in sharp contrast to Yushchenko's more conservative appearance and speaking style. But her radical pronouncements and her mocking wit, sometimes directed at Putin, galvanized Yushchenko's political enemies as much as they energized the crowd in Independence Square.