The Official Prime Minister Of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko Picture Thread!

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http://thepotvinreport.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/yulia-tymoshenko2.jpg

http://perles.effisk.net/blog/images/misc/yuliatymoshenko/yulia-tymoshenko-collier.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2190/1805125498_d5b91a5db2.jpg

http://www.peteykins.com/sparklepics4/YuliaTymoshenko012808.jpg

http://blog.kievukraine.info/4512.jpg

http://www.nato.int/multi/2008/080129b-pm-ukraine/photos/images/080129b-006.jpg

http://blog.kievukraine.info/uploaded_images/5274-725116.jpg

http://cnbceb.com/images/2007/nov/29.jpg

Why does she have a challah on her head?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Julija_tymoschenko_2002.jpg

no challah:

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd172/Hoodtan/yulia-tymoshenko-017.jpg

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0egZbuK2HP6qm/610x.jpg

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_vztKb0FtsO8/RnTN7nPh-1I/AAAAAAAAAH8/gmTGxjNRX2w/Tymoshenko+oil+on+hardboard+50+x+38+cms+Feb+2005.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Timoshenko-bez-kosy.JPG/200px-Timoshenko-bez-kosy.JPG

in U Crane, wall bomb U:

http://images.worshiptheglitch.com/yulia_tymoshenko.jpg

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00645/news-graphics-2007-_645895a.jpg

i would like to have an orange revolution with her all night long

IT curls around her head like a golden crown, a rococo flourish that sets her far apart from the jowly men she has challenged. Out of power for two years, the Ukrainian firebrand Yulia V. Tymoshenko has plotted a comeback that culminated in a strong showing in parliamentary elections last week.

And part of her strategy is her hairstyle, or rather “the Braid.”

Ms. Tymoshenko’s plait first attracted wide notice in the Orange Revolution of 2004, when, fairly or not, her beauty was commented upon nearly as often as her role in bringing down the post-Soviet government that reigned in Kiev.

In the United States, hair, whether Hillary Rodham Clinton’s latest cut or Rudolph W. Giuliani’s eschewing of a comb-over, has often been a distraction for politicians.

In the Tymoshenko camp, there are no such worries. The braid has become such a staple of her persona that her Web site unabashedly features articles about it, including some claiming that the braid has influenced designers like Narciso Rodriguez and celebrities like Sienna Miller.

Yet the braid is not just a fashion statement. It is a calculated political tool with significant cultural resonance, one that has helped turn her into more than a candidate. To her supporters at least, she is regarded as a kind of Lady Liberty.

A braid is a traditional Ukrainian hairstyle, and by adopting it, Ms. Tymoshenko, 46, has been able to underline her nationalist credentials, drawing a contrast with her main opponents, who are more closely linked to the onetime overlord to the East, Russia.

Wrapped up in Ms. Tymoshenko’s nationalism are religious overtones. She has often tried to capitalize on the revival of the church in Ukraine, and the braid echoes the halos found in representations of Orthodox Christian icons. Imagine the effect at political rallies, where she often calls for moments of prayer.

The success of her look can be seen in one of her strongholds, central Ukraine. In a tiny village home last week, an elderly woman named Praskovya Teplyuk posted a photo of Ms. Tymoshenko right next to that of a traditional Orthodox icon. Ms. Teplyuk seemed to regard both with equal fervor.

What did she think of the other candidates? “They are all gangsters,” Ms. Teplyuk said.

Ms. Tymoshenko has tried to play up that view with her other signature look, white clothing, which is intended to show her purity in the face of what she has called a corrupt political and business culture. (Her rivals are quick to point out that Ms. Tymoshenko was once an energy oligarch in Ukraine.)

Ms. Tymoshenko’s hair color, by the way, has varied over the years, from dark to blond, but lately, she seems to be keeping it almost as light as her clothing.

Ms. Tymoshenko’s advisers acknowledge that using a hairstyle as a campaign symbol could trivialize her. But they say she is such an electrifying leader and speaker that no Ukrainian would consider her a hollow candidate.

Still, she is regularly asked that most frivolous of questions: Is the braid real?

“Everything that I have is natural — braid, nails — I practically never use cosmetics,” she once said at a news conference. “They often ask me in the provinces about my braid. Now, once and for all, I am going to lay to rest these rumors.”

With that, in front of the cameras, she let her hair down, Rapunzel-like, for all the world to see.

http://www2.pravda.com.ua/archive/2004/november/24/images/juliaberkut.jpg

http://www.tulipgirl.com/mt/archives/PeaceYulia.jpg

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http://www.ibyut.com/getinvolved_files/blocks_image_1_1.png

http://vogelblog.de/bilder/Thomas.Vogel.Tengen.Presse-Yulia-Tymoshenko-new.jpg

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41137000/jpg/_41137370_101timrevolution203.jpg

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00645/news-graphics-2007-_645895a.jpg

Z S PLEASE ANIMATE THIS ONE

http://blog.kievukraine.info/uploaded_images/5427-732886.jpg

semi-shocking early years photos:

http://www.tymoshenko.com.ua/img/photos/0/132_small.jpg

http://www.tymoshenko.com.ua/img/photos/0/133_small.jpg

http://www.tymoshenko.com.ua/img/photos/1/1203_small.jpg

getting blonder.....

http://www.tymoshenko.com.ua/img/photos/0/98_small.jpg

this woman ages like foine woine

http://newsfromrussia.com/img/idb/tymoshenko-2.jpg

hm, which is natural? the black looks more like a dye job to me, strangely

http://www.tymoshenko.com.ua/img/photos/0/233_small.jpg

I reckon her natural hair color is dark blond

http://www.tymoshenko.com.ua/img/photos/0/711_small.jpg

excellent hairdo progression on her website:

http://www.tymoshenko.com.ua/eng/photo/

Some of the first few pics in this thread look like "When Alison Goldfrapp rules the world."

someone submit this to hotchickswithdouchebags:

http://www.tymoshenko.com.ua/img/photos/1/1395_small.jpg

(it's yulia's daughter, by the by)

Am I the only one who finds the hairdo sinister and frightening?

(OTOH, her daughter is lovely, esp. in the pictures on the website when she's smiling.)

I was just trying to think of the Ukrainian Prime Minister's name yesterday! One of my customers came in yesterday with this hairdo.

i find it sinister and frightening, but still attractive

i did this hairdo all the time in high school. now my hair is too thin to make a really good braid.

it is i believe a tradition ukrainian style

looks to be an attempt to ground her cosmopolitan image w/a more proletariat hair-symbol

it's a bit Star Wars + a smidge of The Handmaid's Tale or something. basically, sci-fi nun. not to mention the whole Aryan thing...but she pulls it off!

"it is i believe a tradition ukrainian style"

yeah, but she is totally going for mod too. one of the people + the future. it's not easy to do. dubya did it with the whole modern cowboy thing.

x-post! exactly!

this hairdo is the most awesome thing going in world politics.

why did she let her daughter marry k-fed

because he look intrsting

its a great hairdo-as-political-move

When she's a brunette she looks like she's in a Michael Haneke movie.

she's got a kind of angie dickinson thing going on
http://static.flickr.com/54/119208967_16e268afeb_o.jpg

i can't remember, is she good or evil these days? ukrainian politics makes my head hurt.

i can't remember, is she good or evil these days? ukrainian politics makes my head hurt.

Unclear. Everything got thrown up in the air after the Georgia/Ossetia anthill was kicked over. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Ukrainian_political_crisis has a run down.

i would cause an international incident with all this prime ministers

this woman is 47 years old? you are kidding me

her skin looks pretty great

http://jcm.org.uk/pics/tymoshenko.jpg

Yulia Tymoshenko vs. Christina Fernandez de Kirchner FITE!!

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lol cupcakehead

Tudor chic

http://slapclap.com/wp-content/gallery/ukranian-prime-minister/2539575122_b991ebd575_o.jpg
http://www.jedi-academy.com/film/leia_anh01.jpg

http://www.discoveringbristol.org.uk/400images/5/1491.jpg

it's such a good look. i'm making her my new style icon.

http://www.pravda.com.ua/en/files/9/_News_image_large_9571.jpg

haha best google images result:

http://www.goprocks.com/GOPBabesII.html

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<3

SHE'S 48

I mean I knew she was doing well but bloody hell.

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The Braid is magnificent.

I wore my hair like this ^^ just the other day.

http://cnbceb.com/images/2007/nov/29.jpg

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/images/2009/02/05/tymoshenkosergeisupinskygetty.jpg

hot is not even the word

http://www.tymoshenko.com.ua/img/photos/0/133_small.jpg
Since she's basically already a superhero in any case let's just assume that this is DARK YULIA, when she was possessed by Putin's necromancers or something.

http://i42.tinypic.com/2ij446s.jpg

heyooooo

Bet the AP is gonna want some of that action.

ukraine was founded by vikings ... and yulia looks vaguely viking-chickish. i could definitely see varg vagernes wacking off to pictures of her.

Is there a thread for German socialist MP Julia Bonk yet?

What does Tymoshenko think of I Am The Large Cat couple?

I am the large cat (mildly NSFW)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_o8IYMUN48HY/R7UOh5QU8EI/AAAAAAAAB_8/wlBvd5I2XOM/s400/yulia%2Belle.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40795000/jpg/_40795717_yuliaevita.jpg

http://en.for-ua.com/files/newsfoto/kad8.jpg

http://en.for-ua.com/files/newsfoto/bel7.jpg

http://www.peteykins.com/sparklepics4/Yulia011908a.jpg

<3. Thinking I should probably make her my new style icon.

http://www.bittenandbound.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/prime-minister-of-ukraine-yulia-tymoshenko.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmdIc-n9qyU

http://www.tymoshenko.com.ua/img/photos/1/1828_small.jpg

Not feeling the white fur. It's a departure from her usual level of class. Hair down is always good though.

lil kim looks better as a brunette imho

Lips are a bit much (xp)

http://cnbceb.com/images/2007/nov/29.jpg

This picture is making me want to eat a pie for lunch.

Yeah it does look like she fucked up her lips which is sad. Why Yulia, why?!

The eternal golden braid.

on that vid, at 0:28, lol at the girls expression to the left (as we look at it)

the lips/fur pic is from 3 years ago

I think this thread provided some inspiration for this piece...

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have you written her a fan letter yet? she might send you an autographed picture back.

http://blog.kievukraine.info/uploaded_images/5114-724702.jpg

to velko, with love, yulia

: D

http://blog.tymoshenko.ua/assets/2112/thumbs/550/pr_b1978.jpg

posting on ilx

http://blog.kievukraine.info/uploaded_images/5114-724702.jpg

this is how you know her job isnt important - obama would never have time to sign autographs for some scrubs on the street

http://blog.tymoshenko.ua/assets/1363/thumbs/550/1474_small.jpg

ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

knew you would like that!

Happy Birthday. 49 today.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-11/23/xin_0411022310439201105711.jpg

Download the 2010 calendar!

http://viryu.tymoshenko.ua/images/viryu.png

she's what sarah palin wishes she could be

http://www.tymoshenko.ua/assets/6446/thumbs/600/_dsc1207.jpg

Cankles?

I can clear see ankles, even at this distance.

she's what sarah palin wishes she could be

this x1000

roaring tiger cub shot from the calendar will be my laptop's background image for quite some time, i'm guessing.

On her way out?

http://www.tymoshenko.ua/assets/6512/thumbs/600/pr_a2678.jpg

missin u already

love her

damn

Ousted!

http://www.tymoshenko.ua/assets/6736/thumbs/600/_dsc7324.jpg

NO!!!!

she'll be back

http://www.tymoshenko.ua/assets/6367/thumbs/600/pr_a8598.jpg

YES.

http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2009/07/23/alg_joe-yulia.jpg

Come here and be our Prime Minister!

Biden's single, he should totally hit that

no he isn't! but yeah.

http://archive.tymoshenko.com.ua/img/photos/1/1828_small.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8645847.stm

Would Yulia throw eggs at people?

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2be7f7qq21qz6f9yo1_500.jpg

Guys who stare really ostentatiously at a girl's ass after she passes him on the sidewalk - C/D

this guy

Pretty sure I saw David Cameron checking out Nick Clegg's arse in much the same way at that press conference yesterday

Bribery probe vs former Ukrainian leader reopened

(AP)

KIEV, Ukraine — Ukrainian prosecutors say they are reopening a bribery investigation involving former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko that was suspended in 2005.

Tymoshenko helped spearhead the Orange Revolution that brought the Western-leaning Viktor Yushchenko to the presidency in 2005. She became his first prime minister.

Thereafter, prosecutors ceased investigating whether she had tried to bribe a judge to end court proceedings against a former associate from the now-defunct Unified Energy Systems.

Tymoshenko headed the company before becoming deputy prime minister in 1999.

Prosecutors said Wednesday the case against her has been reopened, and Tymoshenko, who lost to Viktor Yanukovych in this year's presidential race, said the move is politically motivated.

she looks pissed
http://www.tymoshenko.ua/assets/7958/thumbs/600/pr_b1251.jpg
http://www.tymoshenko.ua/assets/7962/thumbs/600/dsc_0427.jpg

http://englishrussia.com/images/double_meaning/14.jpg

http://blog.tymoshenko.ua/assets/8776/thumbs/600/pr_b0662.jpg

hope she doesn't get arrested

ukrainian politics

not a good scene

her daughter

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/9288/665small2xa.jpg

Ukraine ex-PM faces new charges over vehicles purchase
http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE70Q58X20110127

http://af.reuters.com/resources/r/?m=02&d=20110127&t=2&i=318991173&w=450&fh=&fw=&ll=&pl=&r=2011-01-27T152821Z_01_BTRE70Q16ZE00_RTROPTP_0_OUKWD-UK-UKRAINE-TYMOSHENKO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKgyCjWye-I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jqgQPa5zag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=416apD8dX4g

I have at least three Yulia t-shirts lying around somewhere. She's fascinating and repellent in almost equal measure.

great video buzza pause NOT

oh, buzzapause

wow, it's easy to pick out the word for 'hair' when you know they're talking about her

http://i.imgur.com/5Uyb4.jpg

Somewhat crumpled.

http://i.imgur.com/NhPxj.jpg

For the sake of balance.

http://af.reuters.com/resources/r/%3Fm%3D02%26d%3D20110127%26t%3D2%26i%3D318991173%26w%3D450%26fh%3D%26fw%3D%26ll%3D%26pl%3D%26r%3D2011-01-27T152821Z_01_BTRE70Q16ZE00_RTROPTP_0_OUKWD-UK-UKRAINE-TYMOSHENKO

... HUGE tracts of land.

Stupid Reuters, that was in reference to this photo.

She's in choky!

Someone make free Yulia shirts. Would wear.

Unless, of course, she's done something horrific. Then maybe would not wear. Didn't read the article.

it sounds nakedly political

It's political, but she's probably guilty as charged. Also guilty of stealing $10bn in gas before entering politics, but that's not mentioned much these days.

On the other hand, Yanukovich is allegedly a convicted rapist so nobody comes out of this looking too shiny.

allegedly convicted?

also both rape juice and gas are shiny

what kind of politician is she? like liberal, nationalist, what? don't know a thing about ukraine, except one 'side' is pro-moscow and the other not

One of my friends here at work is an American but grew up in Ukraine and her dad still lives there so I just went and asked her. This is what I got in about 4 mins.

She's anti-socialism.
She bribed her way into office.
Generally well liked.
Pushes heavily for a return to traditional Ukrainian identity and is pro-isolationism.
The awesome hairdo is based on traditional styles and probably ties into the above.

her party was called "fatherland" and is now just named after her which is bad vibes imo

thx for asking your friend!

ha np

I ask her stuff about Ukraine all the time - I find it really interesting especially hearing about what I was like growing up as an American there (pretty boring apparently!). She's going to teach me how to make Russian baked things. Oh this is funny - she's fluent in Russian but I think I'm the only one who knows that. We have about 5 Russian scientists who talk to one another only in Russian and she eavesdrops all the time. She is a valuable resource tbh.

allegedly convicted?

He did jail time for something but there are questions over exactly what it was. He claims it was assault, other people say it was rape. the records have mysteriously vanished so it's impossible to prove either way. He's a thug, though.

She's anti-socialism.
She bribed her way into office.
Generally well liked.
Pushes heavily for a return to traditional Ukrainian identity and is pro-isolationism.
The awesome hairdo is based on traditional styles and probably ties into the above.

She's anti-socialism, for sure. She's very popular in the nationalist West of the country and has pockets of support in Kyiv and other places but is loathed in the East and South where most of the people are Russian-speaking - a language she claims to no longer understand. She's pro-EU and anti Russian influence.

As with most Ukrainian politicians though, the policies are entirely secondary to the influence of her backers. She represents business interests in the West, Yanukovich represents business interests in the East. Everyone else is an afterthought.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/55962000/jpg/_55962968_tymoshenkograb.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15250742

;_;

I didn't know anything about this. I'm really shocked - the charges seem to be exceeding powers and signing a bad deal i.e. anywhere else that's a political matter. Seven years, crikey.

She deserves to be in jail. Not 100% sure she deserves to be in jail for this.

What's the backstory here? I've not been paying attention recently - was assuming Ukraine's been muddling along like something approaching a normal country.

Ukraine's never been a normal country. The competing factions are less interested in policy or national identity (Russian vs Ukrainian) than protecting the interests of their dodgy business contacts, Yulia in the West, Yanukovich in the East. One guy ran on a platform of 'i'm so rich i don't need to be corrupt!' a few years ago but didn't get far. All the key politicians are enormously corrupt and the economy has stagnated as they bicker.

Yulia's billions were built on the back of (literally) stealing gas from Russia so it's always been a sensitive policy area for her, particularly when her role was negotiating treaties with companies across the border.

;_;

― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, October 11, 2011 6:28 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

She may be stylish, and I love her for that, but she's just another European far-right kleptocrat, anf the Ukraine is better off without her. Except for her prettiness/stylishness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjXwlIb25O0

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/10/yulia-tymoshenko.html

British rocker and biker Sean Carr has denied reports that he plans to divorce Yevheniya Carr, the daughter of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, the Segodnya newspaper wrote on Wednesday.

"This is nonsense. We're not getting divorced," the newspaper quoted Carr as saying.

Earlier, the 1+1 TV Channel, citing its own sources, reported that the couple's marriage could fall apart.

According to the channel, Yevheniya Carr no longer lives with the 43-year-old leader of the British band Death Valley Screamers, although on Oct. 1, they were expected to mark the sixth anniversary of their marriage.

The court sentenced Tymoshenko to seven years in prison on abuse of power charges in signing a gas contract with Russia in 2009.

Sean Carr earlier came to Lukyanivska jail on a motorbike to support Tymoshenko and attended several court sessions.

http://i.imgur.com/BiLxA.jpg

The message is pretty stark - either free Tymoshenko or have your access to the Crocs store hampered for the forseeable future.

They have a decent little camp of 30-40 people set up on Kreschatik with lots of anti-Yanukovich propaganda but it's not going to cause anyone in government sleepless nights.

Saaaaaaay

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/files/tymoshenko_0.jpg

http://img.ezinemark.com/imagemanager2/files/30006024/2011/10/2011-10-12-09-55-46-6-tymoshenko-and-her-daughter-yevgenia-tymoshenko-a.jpeg

Wau... Evgenia looks like nun from a Jesus Franco film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvXGI4MXuuA

I was at the same university as Yevhenia at the same time (i think) but never ran into her. Might have been interesting. Most of my friends loathed her mother with a burning passion, though.

I wonder if the camp is still going now the weather has hit -23 degrees.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/world/europe/ukraines-jailed-ex-premier-tymoshenko-goes-on-hunger-strike.html?hpw

no pictures since, i guess, she's in jail still.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/27/ukraine-bomb-blasts-scores-injured?newsfeed=true

There's been a series of bomb blasts in Dnipropetrovsk. Difficult to know what might be behind it but i doubt it's connected to high-level politics.

Ending hunger strike after 19 days. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17995846

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/images/stories/large/2012/07/12/148195770-590x460.jpg

http://www.tymoshenko.ua/assets/13150/thumbs/600/061-tim_hosp-a.jpg

Ukraine's Tymoshenko release hangs in balance

Freed

More context from FP along with many popups

She’s got a gun.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CacS3JmgYpM/