Natalia Korolevskaya. The second "Lady U" or the first "Lady N"?
Last week Kyiv's Pechersky District Court has reopened the criminal investigation into the case of former Social Policy Minister Natalia Korolevska's "fake diploma" of higher education.According to the court's verdict, the decision of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to close the case was unlawful, and the fact that the current member of parliament from the Opposition Bloc had a diploma should be properly investigated. According to preliminary investigation data, Natalia Korolevska received her "fake" diploma in 1997. This was discovered back in April 2013, but due to the politician's influential patrons, the investigation into this scandalous fact was stalled. As Minister of Social Policy in the government Mykola AzarovNatalia Yuryevna has profited handsomely from the protection of the Party of Regions' leadership, helping them plunder Ukraine's state budget with the help of the Ministry of Social Policy, which she controls. What circumstances led Natalia Korolevska to this?
Natalia Korolevskaya: a businesswoman from an early age
Was born Natalya Yuryevna Korolevskaya She was born in May 1975 in Krasny Luch, Luhansk Oblast. According to her official biography, she graduated from the East Ukrainian National University in 1997 (this is currently under investigation by law enforcement). In 2002, she also studied organizational management at the Donetsk State Academy of Management.
At 18, Korolevskaya was hired by ETKO, a company in which her older brother, Konstantin, was a shareholder. Starting as a manager, she was soon appointed its CFO (note: After the company was renamed META). In 1998, Korolevskaya became the Commercial Director of META-Company, which she and her brother founded and owned.
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"Criminal Brother"
Konstantin Korolevskiy, a Doctor of Economics, worked in the Department of Technical Regulation at the Moscow State University of Civil Engineering. His crowning achievement was serving as Deputy Minister of Regional Development of the Russian Federation. However, his tenure was short-lived. The Russian Prosecutor's Office opened a criminal case against him and his colleagues in the Moscow Department of Urban Development Policy, Development, and Reconstruction. They were accused of misappropriating 130 million rubles. Despite this criminal case, Konstantin Yuryevich managed to avoid prosecution and even remain in Russian politics. Apparently, this resourcefulness runs in his family, as does his sister. Today, Korolevskiy is an Honored Builder of the Russian Federation, an Honorary Worker of Education of the Russian Federation, and a recipient of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland, 2nd Class."
In 2001, she became head of the supervisory board of the Luhanskholod company. In this position, she managed to launch her own brand, "Royal Ice Cream" (a bit selfishly, but she was proud of it). She later became a member of the Luhansk Regional Council and executive director of the "My" Association of Luhansk Oblast Manufacturers. During the 2004 presidential election, she campaigned in support of Viktor Yanukovych.
Smuggled elephant
Around the same time, a scandalous incident occurred involving Natalia Korolevska's detention at Boryspil Airport. Airport customs officers removed her from the plane and interrogated her for nearly six hours over a small gold elephant statue. Natalia Yuryevna claimed the statue was a gift from her husband. Despite this, the statue was confiscated and had to be purchased at auction.
Lugansk Yulia
Despite Viktor Yanukovych's support, Korolevska didn't run for the Party of Regions (and no one invited her to). Instead, she won a seat as a member of parliament in 2006 from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc party. Her entry into the Verkhovna Rada marked the beginning of the most interesting phase of her life. With the rise to power of the "orange" team and Yulia Tymoshenko Political life in Ukraine is seething with intrigue and political betrayal.
In this regard, Natalia Korolevska was no exception. Despite being dubbed the second "Lady U" in the Luhansk region, she worked diligently to cultivate her own image as a politician, even laying the groundwork for replacing Tymoshenko in power. While she did, of course, publicly call Yulia Volodymyrivna her "best friend," behind her back, she was plotting. Natalia Korolevska even commissioned a sociological study. Its purpose was to determine how voters would react if she took Tymoshenko's place in power (copies of this study were widely distributed through Ukrainian media).
Natalia Korolevskaya and Yulia Tymoshenko
After entering the Verkhovna Rada, Natalia Korolevska actively lobbied for the appointment of the controversial Minister of Coal Industry, Viktor Poltavets. At the time, he had already served twice as the minister, but had been dismissed due to the decline of the industry and numerous miners' strikes. Being "lifelong" indebted to Natalia Yuryevna, Poltavets assisted her in her "coal scams" at the Sverdlovantratsit plant, which, incidentally, was headed by a man close to Korolevska's husband's business. The essence of these scams was that coal mined from illegal "kopanki" (pits) controlled by Korolevska was delivered to the mines, and from there, after being diluted with waste rock, it was sold to the state-owned enterprise "Coal of Ukraine." As a result of these scams, the "legal" coal mined by the miners remained in warehouses. The workers simply weren't receiving wages because the coal they mined wasn't being sold, and as a result, there wasn't enough money for new equipment or for improving mine safety (which, in turn, led to an increase in miner mortality). This is the "butterfly effect" named after Natalia Korolevskaya.
Incidentally, Poltavets had his own vested interest in the coal scams, as his son, together with Korolevskaya, owned a company through which money received from the illegal coal trade was channeled.
Leaving the BYuT for the "Levochkin project"
An ambitious person, Natalia Korolevska initially set her sights on Yulia Tymoshenko's role, and then, when it became clear that the BYuT would soon be destroyed, she became the founder of the "Forward" social movement, which ostensibly defended the interests of medium-sized businesses and fought against the government. It was during this time that the "Korolevska brand" began to be actively promoted. Her face appeared everywhere it logically could. She appeared at every social event, criticized reforms, supported pensioners and Chernobyl victims, and so on. After Yulia Tymoshenko's arrest, Korolevska sincerely hoped to take the helm of Batkivshchyna, but she was not brought to trial, as Tymoshenko's ardent allies saw her as a threat.
It was financed by everyone and their dog - from РђС ... метовР°, Klyueva and, they say, even Pinchuk (Read more about it in the article Viktor Pinchuk: Ukraine's richest son-in-law). But her team consisted of poorly trained technologists (take Alexey Golobutsky, for example). Therefore, the main "issues" were resolved through the security branch, while her "technologists" were squandering budgets on useless and incompetent outdoor advertising.
Natalya Korolevskaya has mastered the "Azirovka" and talks about the "gut shop"
Realizing she had no prospects in the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, she became the leader of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party (formerly a member of the BYuT faction) in December 2012. The USDPU left the BYuT on the same day that Natalia Korolevska was expelled from the faction. It's worth noting that her move to the USDP sparked a storm of indignation among her former colleagues. This is due to the USDP's traditional reputation as one of the projects of the "gray cardinal" of Viktor Yanukovych's era. Sergei LevochkinIt's worth mentioning here that Korolevska's husband, Yevhen Suslov, left Batkivshchyna for the USDP along with her, as did Oleksiy Logvinenko, who is directly connected to the now-deceased adviser to Levochkin and Klyuev, Yuriy Levenets (the Party of Regions' chief political strategist).
Natalia Korolevskaya. "Efremova's Mistress"
There are well-founded rumors in the media that Natalia Korolevskaya is a protégé of one of the key figures in the Party of Regions, Alexander Yefremov.Some even call them lovers. According to one theory, Yefremov is the biological father of Natalia Yuryevna's second son, Yaroslav. If this is true, it's unsurprising that Yefremov's wife simply and openly hates her. This is confirmed by an incident that occurred at the Luhansk drama theater. It so happened that Yefremov's wife attacked Korolevskaya, pulling her hair and insulting her. The theory that they are lovers would also explain why she deliberately sabotaged Yulia Tymoshenko's presidential campaign in the Luhansk region. Then the idea that she was a "Party of Regions agent" in Batkivshchyna also has merit. In that case, even her appointment as head of the Ministry of Social Policy becomes logical (for which no expert has been able to find an explanation).
It's also worth noting that Korolevska is also related to former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka. Along with his son Artem, she baptized the son of former Kyiv Oblast Prosecutor Serhiy Mishchenko. She's got some good connections, huh?
His achievements as head of the Ministry of Social Policy:
Natalia Korolevska is currently a member of parliament representing the Opposition Bloc party. This alliance is one of the last strongholds of the Party of Regions in the Verkhovna Rada, one of whose leaders, incidentally, is Serhiy Lyovochkin. In the so-called "alternative Cabinet" of the Opposition Bloc, Korolevska holds the post of Deputy Prime Minister for Social Policy. Considering these metamorphoses in her political preferences, one is reminded of her words to the publication Glavred in 2007: "I believe that the most important thing is the goal. And achieving this goal depends on our willpower, and how much of it we have." It seems that Natalia Yuryevna truly operates by the principle that "all means are fair in the struggle for power." Apparently, she has memorized all the principles of "fox" and "lion" governance from her favorite book, Niccolò Machiavelli's "The Prince."
Dmitry Samofalov, for Skelet.Org
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