Lyudmila Denysova

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Lyudmila Denisova Людмила Денісова
Lyudmila Denysova at the meeting of the government after the first 100 days of activity.
Minister of Labor and Social Policy of Ukraine
Incumbent
Assumed office December 18, 2007

Born	July 6, 1960 (1960-07-06) (age 47) Arkhangelsk, Russian SFSR
Political party	All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" as part of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc
Spouse	Aleksander Denysov^[1]
Children	Two daughters
Residence	Kiev, Ukraine
Occupation	Politician, teacher, lawer and economist

Lyudmila Leontiyivna Denisova^[2] (Ukrainian: Людмила Леонтіївна Денісова) (born July 6, 1960, Arkhangelsk, Russian SFSR) is a Ukrainian politician and current Minister of Labor and Social Policy in the government of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. She is married, and the couple has two daughters.

1 Professional career
2 Political career
3 Minister
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Professional career

Lyudmila Denysova graduated from Arkhangelsk Pedagogical School (1978), the Leningrad State University (1989) and the Tavria Institute of Enterprise and Law in (1995). She was also a teacher at a preschool in the Russian city of Arkhangelsk (school №78, 1979-80). Then nine years different posts in the Arkhangelsk provincial law court. In 1989, she moved to Ukraine and she became the legal adviser of the Crimean Provincial Committee of Ukraine (1990-91). From 1991, she worked in the Republic of Crimea's Administration of the pension fund until 1998. In 1998, she became the Minister of Economy and Finances in the Crimean government.^[3]

[edit] Political career

In Ukraine's Autonomous Republic of Crimea, she served as Minister of Economy, Minister of Finance and head of the Treasury Department. For her service, she was named Politician of the Year in 2001. In 2000 Mrs. Denysova was detained charged with power abuse, this criminal case was soon closed.^[4] Member of party Batkivshchina (BYUT) since 2005. In 2006 and 2007 parliamentary elections, she was elected as a deputy to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc.