Raisa Bogatyrova
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Raisa Vasylivna Bogatyrova (born on January 6, 1953) is a Ukrainian
politician and the current Secretary of National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine
. In the past, Bogatyrova served as a People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada
(parliament) for the Communist
, Christian Democratic Party of Ukraine and more recently the Party of Regions
. Her last name might be sometime spelled as Bohatyryova, because of the transliteration issues from Cyrillic to Latin. Also Bogatyrova is homonym
with bogatyr
.
According to the Ukrainian magazine Фокус Bagatyrova has placed among the top 10 most influential women in Ukraine since 2006-2010 (five years). She was recognized as the second most influential woman in 2006-2008 after Yulia Tymoshenko
.
, Chelyabinsk Oblast
, of the Russian SFSR (then the Soviet Union
) to family of workers. She was born on the day of the Christmas Eve
according to the Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Her father is Vasyl Petrovych Laktionov (1912-1985) and mother - Hanna Markivna Laktionova (born 1918). Raisa has two older sisters Valentyna and Vira
. On her website she claims that her family is from village of Protopopivka in Kharkiv Oblast
. Bohatyriova also stated that her ancestors are from the Sloboda Ukraine
.
Her biography on the personal website is written kind of awkward. First she stated that she does not know any of her relatives in Ukraine, while later claims that her aunt still lives in Kharkiv Oblast
. After that Bohatyriova mentions her grandma whom she barely saw, yet her face she carries in herself as a depiction of honesty (Bohatyriova's website). Raisa's oldest sister is 13 years older than she is. Bohatyriova calls 1970 the proletarian year, the year of hardship.
Bohatyriova married her husband sometime in 1975. Her husband Ihor Oleksandrovych at that time was a student at the Kharkiv Aviation Institute. Bogatyrova sympathizes Margaret Thatcher
and reads Winston Churchill
and Anton Chekhov
.
In 1971 Bogatyrova enrolled into the Luhansk Medical Institute. In 1977 she graduated from Kharkiv
Medical Institute with merits gaining a doctorate qualification. In 1996 graduated from the Kiev University
, specializing in Jurisprudence, qualifications - Lawyer, Medical Doctor, professor. Her candidate dissertation Optimal System of Mass Ultrasound Screening of the Pregnant she defended in the Kharkiv National Medical University
in 1996. In 2000 Bogatyriova defended her doctorate dissertation Role of Inborn and Inherited Pathology in Reproductive Losses of a Family in the same university.
. She was elected to the Verkhovna Rada
by the members of the Kramatorsk
city hospital as a people's deputy, a duty of which she accepted on May 15, 1990. On her website Bohatyriova claims that during her initial experience in the Verkhovna Rada
let her to get a real sense of the Ukrainian language
. In March of 1994 Bohatyriova was not re-elected, yet was appointed as a Deputy of Minister of Health Security. She made a career in this position working her way up to be appointed as a Minister of the portfolio on January 27, 1999. On January 12, 2000 Bohatyriova was deposed as a Minister of Health Security when the Prime Minister of Ukraine
was appointed Viktor Yushchenko
, however in few months she was appointed as a science adviser to the President of Ukraine
.
In July 2000 Bohatyriova was again elected to the parliament now as a member of the Christian Democratic Party of Ukraine. She left her faction once she became a people's deputy and was unaffiliated until March of 2001. In March 2001 Bahatyriova joined the Regions of Ukraine group and in November its faction. In April 2002 she was re-elected by the United Ukraine block as the leader of the Party of Regions
. Bohatyriova was re-elected once again in April of 2006 as the Party of Regions member placing sixth on the party list. From July 2006 until February 2007 she was a member of the Budget Committee.
In November 2007 during the all-national reelections Bohatyriova again became a member of the Verkhovna Rada
from the Party of Region. On December 24, 2007 she received an appointment from the President of Ukraine
to head the Secretariat of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine
. On January 28, 2008 the administration of Party of Regions excluded her out the party's list.
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
politician and the current Secretary of National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine
National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine
National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine , locally referred by its abbreviation RNBO, is an organizational state body in Ukraine tasked with developing national security policy on domestic and international matters in advising the President of Ukraine .The Council was originally created in...
. In the past, Bogatyrova served as a People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada
Verkhovna Rada
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine is Ukraine's parliament. The Verkhovna Rada is a unicameral parliament composed of 450 deputies, which is presided over by a chairman...
(parliament) for the Communist
Communist Party of Ukraine
The Communist Party of Ukraine is a political party in Ukraine, currently led by Petro Symonenko.The party fights the Ukrainian national self-determination by identifying any Ukrainian national parties as the National-Fascist ones The Communist Party of Ukraine is a political party in Ukraine,...
, Christian Democratic Party of Ukraine and more recently the Party of Regions
Party of Regions
The Party of Regions is an Ukrainian political party created on October 26, 1997 just prior to the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary elections under the name of Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine. It was reformed later in 2001 when the party united with several others...
. Her last name might be sometime spelled as Bohatyryova, because of the transliteration issues from Cyrillic to Latin. Also Bogatyrova is homonym
Homonym
In linguistics, a homonym is, in the strict sense, one of a group of words that often but not necessarily share the same spelling and the same pronunciation but have different meanings...
with bogatyr
Bogatyr
The bogatyr was a medieval heroic warrior of Kievan Rus' and the Novgorodian Republic, akin to a Western European knight errant.- Kievan Rus' :...
.
According to the Ukrainian magazine Фокус Bagatyrova has placed among the top 10 most influential women in Ukraine since 2006-2010 (five years). She was recognized as the second most influential woman in 2006-2008 after Yulia Tymoshenko
Yulia Tymoshenko
Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko , née Grigyan , born 27 November 1960, is a Ukrainian politician. She was the Prime Minister of Ukraine from 24 January to 8 September 2005, and again from 18 December 2007 to 4 March 2010. She placed third in Forbes Magazine's List of The World's 100 Most Powerful...
.
Biography
Bogatyrova was born on January 6, 1953 in the city of BakalBakal
Bakal is a town in Satkinsky District of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located on the western slopes of the Ural Mountains west from Chelyabinsk, on the Chelyabinsk–Ufa railroad branch...
, Chelyabinsk Oblast
Chelyabinsk Oblast
-External links:*...
, of the Russian SFSR (then the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
) to family of workers. She was born on the day of the Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve refers to the evening or entire day preceding Christmas Day, a widely celebrated festival commemorating the birth of Jesus of Nazareth that takes place on December 25...
according to the Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Her father is Vasyl Petrovych Laktionov (1912-1985) and mother - Hanna Markivna Laktionova (born 1918). Raisa has two older sisters Valentyna and Vira
Vira
Vira may refer to:* Virus — plural of virus in some Latin pluralizations** Phylum vira, part of the LHT Virus classification scheme* Vira , a municipality in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland...
. On her website she claims that her family is from village of Protopopivka in Kharkiv Oblast
Kharkiv Oblast
Kharkiv Oblast is an oblast in eastern Ukraine. The oblast borders Russia to the north, Luhansk Oblast to the east, Donetsk Oblast to the south-east, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to the south-west, Poltava Oblast to the west and Sumy Oblast to the north-west...
. Bohatyriova also stated that her ancestors are from the Sloboda Ukraine
Sloboda Ukraine
Sloboda Ukraine was a historical region which developed and flourished in the 17th and 18th centuries on the southwestern frontier of the Tsardom of Russia....
.
Her biography on the personal website is written kind of awkward. First she stated that she does not know any of her relatives in Ukraine, while later claims that her aunt still lives in Kharkiv Oblast
Kharkiv Oblast
Kharkiv Oblast is an oblast in eastern Ukraine. The oblast borders Russia to the north, Luhansk Oblast to the east, Donetsk Oblast to the south-east, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to the south-west, Poltava Oblast to the west and Sumy Oblast to the north-west...
. After that Bohatyriova mentions her grandma whom she barely saw, yet her face she carries in herself as a depiction of honesty (Bohatyriova's website). Raisa's oldest sister is 13 years older than she is. Bohatyriova calls 1970 the proletarian year, the year of hardship.
Bohatyriova married her husband sometime in 1975. Her husband Ihor Oleksandrovych at that time was a student at the Kharkiv Aviation Institute. Bogatyrova sympathizes Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990...
and reads Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a predominantly Conservative British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice...
and Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics...
.
In 1971 Bogatyrova enrolled into the Luhansk Medical Institute. In 1977 she graduated from Kharkiv
Kharkiv
Kharkiv or Kharkov is the second-largest city in Ukraine.The city was founded in 1654 and was a major centre of Ukrainian culture in the Russian Empire. Kharkiv became the first city in Ukraine where the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed in December 1917 and Soviet government was...
Medical Institute with merits gaining a doctorate qualification. In 1996 graduated from the Kiev University
Kiev University
Taras Shevchenko University or officially the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv , colloquially known in Ukrainian as KNU is located in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. It is the third oldest university in Ukraine after the University of Lviv and Kharkiv University. Currently, its structure...
, specializing in Jurisprudence, qualifications - Lawyer, Medical Doctor, professor. Her candidate dissertation Optimal System of Mass Ultrasound Screening of the Pregnant she defended in the Kharkiv National Medical University
Kharkiv National Medical University
Kharkiv National Medical University , formerly known as Kharkov Medical Institute and Kharkov State Medical University, is a medical university in Kharkiv, Ukraine.At present, over 700 teachers work at the departments of the university...
in 1996. In 2000 Bogatyriova defended her doctorate dissertation Role of Inborn and Inherited Pathology in Reproductive Losses of a Family in the same university.
Political affiliation
Bohatyriova was a member of the Communist Party of Soviet Union and a member of the organizational committee in the creation of the Socialist Party of UkraineSocialist Party of Ukraine
The Socialist Party of Ukraine is a Socialist political party in Ukraine and part of the Verkhovna Rada from 1994 to 2007.It is one of the oldest parties and was created by the former members of the Communist Party of Ukraine in late 1991 when the Communist Party was banned...
. She was elected to the Verkhovna Rada
Verkhovna Rada
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine is Ukraine's parliament. The Verkhovna Rada is a unicameral parliament composed of 450 deputies, which is presided over by a chairman...
by the members of the Kramatorsk
Kramatorsk
Kramatorsk is a city in the eastern Ukraine within Donetsk Oblast. Its population is about 200,000 people, including surrounding settlements under Kramatorsk City Council government....
city hospital as a people's deputy, a duty of which she accepted on May 15, 1990. On her website Bohatyriova claims that during her initial experience in the Verkhovna Rada
Verkhovna Rada
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine is Ukraine's parliament. The Verkhovna Rada is a unicameral parliament composed of 450 deputies, which is presided over by a chairman...
let her to get a real sense of the Ukrainian language
Ukrainian language
Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet....
. In March of 1994 Bohatyriova was not re-elected, yet was appointed as a Deputy of Minister of Health Security. She made a career in this position working her way up to be appointed as a Minister of the portfolio on January 27, 1999. On January 12, 2000 Bohatyriova was deposed as a Minister of Health Security when the Prime Minister of Ukraine
Prime Minister of Ukraine
The Prime Minister of Ukraine is Ukraine's head of government presiding over the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, which is the highest body of the executive branch of the Ukrainian government....
was appointed Viktor Yushchenko
Viktor Yushchenko
Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko is a former President of Ukraine. He took office on January 23, 2005, following a period of popular unrest known as the Orange Revolution...
, however in few months she was appointed as a science adviser to the President of Ukraine
President of Ukraine
Prior to the formation of the modern Ukrainian presidency, the previous Ukrainian head of state office was officially established in exile by Andriy Livytskyi. At first the de facto leader of nation was the president of the Central Rada at early years of the Ukrainian People's Republic, while the...
.
In July 2000 Bohatyriova was again elected to the parliament now as a member of the Christian Democratic Party of Ukraine. She left her faction once she became a people's deputy and was unaffiliated until March of 2001. In March 2001 Bahatyriova joined the Regions of Ukraine group and in November its faction. In April 2002 she was re-elected by the United Ukraine block as the leader of the Party of Regions
Party of Regions
The Party of Regions is an Ukrainian political party created on October 26, 1997 just prior to the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary elections under the name of Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine. It was reformed later in 2001 when the party united with several others...
. Bohatyriova was re-elected once again in April of 2006 as the Party of Regions member placing sixth on the party list. From July 2006 until February 2007 she was a member of the Budget Committee.
In November 2007 during the all-national reelections Bohatyriova again became a member of the Verkhovna Rada
Verkhovna Rada
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine is Ukraine's parliament. The Verkhovna Rada is a unicameral parliament composed of 450 deputies, which is presided over by a chairman...
from the Party of Region. On December 24, 2007 she received an appointment from the President of Ukraine
President of Ukraine
Prior to the formation of the modern Ukrainian presidency, the previous Ukrainian head of state office was officially established in exile by Andriy Livytskyi. At first the de facto leader of nation was the president of the Central Rada at early years of the Ukrainian People's Republic, while the...
to head the Secretariat of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine
National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine
National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine , locally referred by its abbreviation RNBO, is an organizational state body in Ukraine tasked with developing national security policy on domestic and international matters in advising the President of Ukraine .The Council was originally created in...
. On January 28, 2008 the administration of Party of Regions excluded her out the party's list.
Career
| 1970-1971 | Seamstress at Kramatorsk Garment Factory |
| 1977-1979 | Internship at the City Hospital #2 in Horlivka Horlivka Horlivka is a city in the Donetsk Oblast of eastern Ukraine. As of 2001, the city's population was 292,000. It is a coal mining and chemical industry centre... |
| 1979-1980 | Obstetrician-gynecologist at the 3rd Medico-Sanitary Department at the Novokramatorsk Engineering Plant in Kramatorsk Kramatorsk Kramatorsk is a city in the eastern Ukraine within Donetsk Oblast. Its population is about 200,000 people, including surrounding settlements under Kramatorsk City Council government.... |
| 1980-1990 | Obstetrician-gynecologist; Head of Trade-Union Committee; Deputy Head Physician at the Kramatorsk Central Municipal Hospital |
| 1990-1994 | People’s Deputy |
| 1994-2000 | Associate; First Associate; the Minister of Health of Ukraine |
| 2000 | Consultant on Science to the President of Ukraine President of Ukraine Prior to the formation of the modern Ukrainian presidency, the previous Ukrainian head of state office was officially established in exile by Andriy Livytskyi. At first the de facto leader of nation was the president of the Central Rada at early years of the Ukrainian People's Republic, while the... |
| 2000-current | Deputy of Verkhovna Rada Verkhovna Rada The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine is Ukraine's parliament. The Verkhovna Rada is a unicameral parliament composed of 450 deputies, which is presided over by a chairman... of Ukraine |
| 2002-2008 | Leader of the Party of Regions Party of Regions The Party of Regions is an Ukrainian political party created on October 26, 1997 just prior to the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary elections under the name of Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine. It was reformed later in 2001 when the party united with several others... faction in Verkhovna Rada Verkhovna Rada The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine is Ukraine's parliament. The Verkhovna Rada is a unicameral parliament composed of 450 deputies, which is presided over by a chairman... , and the party's executive committee member |
Public work
In 1997-2003, Bogatyrova was the Secretary of the Supervisory Board at the National Fund of Social Protection for Mothers and Children Ukraine to Children.Awards and titles
- Order of Princess OlgaOrder of Princess OlgaThe Order of Princess Olga is a Ukrainian civil decoration, featuring Olga of Kiev and bestowed to women for "personal merits in state, production, scientific, educational, cultural, charity and other spheres of social activities, for upbringing children in families"...
, III class (2002) - Awardee of the State Prize of Ukraine in science and technology (1999)
- Honored Doctor of Ukraine (2001)
- Order of Saint StanislausOrder of Saint StanislausThe Order of Saint Stanislaus , also spelled Stanislas, was an Order in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and The Kingdom of Poland between 1765 and 1831 and of Russian Empire from 1831 to 1917.-History of the Order of Saint Stanislaus:Stanisław August Poniatowski, King of Poland, established the...
(1999) - Honorary citizen of Donetsk OblastDonetsk OblastDonetsk Oblast is an oblast of eastern Ukraine. Its administrative center is Donetsk. Historically, the province is an important part of the Donbas region...
(2007)
See also
- Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2007Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2007Early parliamentary elections in Ukraine took place on 30 September 2007. The date of the election was determined following agreement between the President Viktor Yushchenko, the Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Moroz on 27 May 2007, in an attempt...
- List of Ukrainian Parliament Members 2007
- National Security and Defense Council of UkraineNational Security and Defense Council of UkraineNational Security and Defense Council of Ukraine , locally referred by its abbreviation RNBO, is an organizational state body in Ukraine tasked with developing national security policy on domestic and international matters in advising the President of Ukraine .The Council was originally created in...
External links
- Raisa Bogatyrova — Personal website
- Party of Regions — Official Web site of the Party of RegionsParty of RegionsThe Party of Regions is an Ukrainian political party created on October 26, 1997 just prior to the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary elections under the name of Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine. It was reformed later in 2001 when the party united with several others...