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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.
尤利婭·季莫申科是烏克蘭總理，她也是全球少有的女性領導人。她是烏克蘭聯盟，“祖國”新黨團的領袖，之后成立了季莫申科聯盟。她出生于1960年，青年時期參加蘇聯青年團。她擁有經濟學博士學位，論文數量超過50篇。
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.
進入政壇之前，季莫申科是一名成功的女商人。1989年，她開設了錄像帶租賃連鎖店，這讓她腰纏萬貫。蘇聯解體之后，她在烏克蘭石油和天然氣產業擔任諸多要職，這讓她列入了烏克蘭最富排行榜之列。她的財產也足以讓她建立自己的政黨。
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.
在烏克蘭的橙色革命期間，西方媒體將她稱為烏克蘭的圣女貞德。2005年1月，她被任命為臨時總理，9月份失去政權，同年烏克蘭總統解散了季莫申科政府。2006年6月，國家大選之后，季莫申科重新掌權。她一步步成為了國家總理。
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”.
季莫申科的生活多姿多彩。2001年，她被投票選為政壇最美女性。她的辮子發型也已經成為了她的標志，在橙色革命期間，辮子發型開始聲名大噪，并一直保持到今天。她曾經開玩笑說她的辮子是驅動國家前進的方向盤。
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