Tymoshenko finished second in the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election runoff, losing by 3.5 percentage points to the winner, Viktor Yanukovych. She placed third in Forbes magazine's list of the world's most powerful women in 2005.
She co-led the Orange Revolution and was the first woman twice appointed and endorsed by parliamentary majority to become prime minister, serving from 24 January to 8 September 2005, and again from 18 December 2007 to 4 March 2010. She supports NATO membership for Ukraine. She supports Ukraine's integration into the European Union and strongly opposes the membership of Ukraine in the Russia-led Eurasian Customs Union. Tymoshenko is the leader of the Batkivshchyna ( Ukrainian: Батьківщина) political party. She has the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences.
She was the first and so far is the only woman to serve as prime minister of Ukraine. Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko ( Ukrainian: Юлія Володимирівна Тимошенко, IPA: née Hrihyan ( Грігян) born 27 November 1960) is a Ukrainian politician, people's Deputy of Ukraine (1997–2000, 2002–2005, 2006–2007, 2007, 2014–2019, and since 2019), Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for the fuel and energy complex (1999–2001), Prime Minister of Ukraine from February to September 2005 and from December 2007 to March 2010.
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