Yuliya Tymoshenko: Blonde pin-up with an iron will
Hers is the face that launched a thousand protests. Yuliya Tymoshenko was the inspiration for Ukraine’s Orange Revolution. The firebrand politician, with rousing rhetoric and golden hair braids (rumoured by rivals to be a clip-on) has long been the pin-up for Ukraine’s nationalists, street protesters and those yearning to escape the influence of Moscow. Her party – named after herself – has just made huge gains in Ukraine’s snap election. After 18 months of political turmoil, she is trying to reforge the broken alliance with President Yushchenko and take over as prime minister, ousting her pro-Moscow rival Viktor Yanukovych.
It will be sweet revenge for a woman who masterminded the 2004 revolution, defied Moscow and overturned the