Natalia Korolevskaya. The second “Lady U” or the first “Lady N”?

Last week, the Pechersk Court of Kyiv resumed the criminal investigation into the case of the “fake diploma” of higher education of the former Minister of Social Policy Natalia Korolevska. According to the court’s verdict, the decision of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to close the case was illegal, and the fact that the current people’s deputy from the “Opposition Bloc” had one should be investigated accordingly. According to preliminary investigation data, Natalia Korolevska received her “fake” diploma in 1997. This was revealed back in April 2013, but due to the politician having influential patrons, the investigation of this scandalous fact was put on the back burner. As the Minister of Social Policy in the government of Mykola Azarov, Natalia Yuryevna “worked off” the patronage of the leadership of the “Party of Regions” well, helping them “divvy up” the state budget of Ukraine with the help of the Ministry of Social Policy, which was under her control. What life circumstances “drove” Natalia Korolevska to this?

Natalia Korolevskaya: a businesswoman from an early age

Born Korolevskaya Natalia Yuryevna in May 1975 in the city of Krasny Luch, Luhansk region. According to the official biography, in 1997 she graduated from the East Ukrainian National University (this fact is currently being verified by law enforcement officers). In 2002, she also studied for the specialty of organization manager at the Donetsk State Academy of Management.

At the age of 18, Korolevskaya was hired by the company “ETKO”, in which her older brother Konstantin was a shareholder. Having started in the company as a manager, she was soon appointed its financial director (note: After renaming, the company became known as “META”). In 1998, Korolevskaya became the commercial director of the enterprise “META-Company”, the founders and owners of which were she and her brother.

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“Criminal Brother”

Konstantin Korolevskiy is a Doctor of Economics, worked at the Department of Technical Regulation at the Moscow State University of Civil Engineering. His highest achievement is the post of Deputy Minister of Regional Development in the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism). However, he did not hold this position for long. The Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) opened a criminal case against him and his colleagues at the Department of Urban Development Policy, Development and Reconstruction of the City of Moscow. They were accused of “misappropriation” of 130 million rubles. Despite this criminal case, Konstantin Yuryevich managed to avoid responsibility and even remain in Russian politics. Apparently, he and his sister are a family man with this resourcefulness. Today, Korolevskiy is an Honored Builder of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism), an Honored Worker of Education of the Russian Federation (*country sponsor of terrorism) and a holder of the Order “For Services to the Fatherland, II degree”.

In 2001, she became the head of the supervisory board of the company “Luganskkholod”. In this position, she managed to launch her own brand “Royal Ice Cream” (a little selfishly, but she was proud of it). Later, she became a deputy of the Lugansk Regional Council, as well as the executive director of the Association of Manufacturers of the Lugansk Region “We”. During the presidential elections in 2004, she spoke out in support of Viktor Yanukovych.

Smuggled elephant

Around the same time, a scandalous episode occurred with the detention of Natalia Korolevska at the Boryspil airport. The airport customs service removed her from the plane and interrogated her for almost six hours because of a small golden statue of an elephant. As Natalia Yuryevna claimed, this statue was a gift from her husband. Despite this, the statue was confiscated and had to be bought back at auction.

“Lugansk Yulia”

Despite the support of Viktor Yanukovych, Korolevska did not go to the elections with the Party of Regions (and no one invited her). Instead, in 2006, she received a mandate as a people’s deputy from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc party. With her entry into the Verkhovna Rada, the most “interesting” stage in her life began. With the coming to power of the “orange” team and Yulia Tymoshenko, political life in Ukraine began to seethe with intrigues and political betrayals.

In this sense, Natalia Korolevska was not far behind the others. Despite the fact that in the Luhansk region she was called the second “Lady U”. She worked hard to create her own image as a politician, and even prepared the ground for taking Tymoshenko’s place in power. Of course, she called Yulia Vladimirovna “her best friend” for show, but behind her back she was plotting. A custom sociological study was even conducted by order of Natalia Korolevska. Its goal was to determine how voters would react if she took Tymoshenko’s place in power (copies of this study were actively distributed through the Ukrainian media).

Having entered the Verkhovna Rada, Natalia Korolevska actively lobbied for the appointment of the scandalous Minister of the Coal Industry Viktor Poltavets. At that time, he had already been the head of this department twice, but he was dismissed due to the decline of industry and numerous miners’ strikes. Being “lifelong” obligated to Natalia Yuryevna, Poltavets helped her to carry out “coal machinations” at the Sverdlovantratsit plant, which, by the way, was headed by a person close to the business of Korolevska’s husband. The essence of these machinations was that coal mined from illegal “kopankas” controlled by Korolevska was delivered to the mines, and from there, after diluting with waste rock, it was sold to the state enterprise “Coal of Ukraine”. As a result of such machinations, “legal” coal mined by miners remained in warehouses. The workers simply did not receive wages, since no one sold the coal they mined, and, as a result, there was not enough money for new equipment or for improving the safety level of the mines (in turn, this led to an increase in the mortality rate among miners). This is the “butterfly effect” named after Natalia Korolevskaya.

By the way, Poltavets had his own “selfish” interest in the coal machinations, since his son, together with Korolevskaya, owned a company through which the money received from the trade in “illegal” coal passed.

Leaving BYuT for the “Levochkin project”

Being an ambitious person, Natalia Korolevska first aimed for the role of Yulia Tymoshenko, and then, when it became clear that the BYuT would soon come to an end, she became the initiator of the public movement “Forward”, which allegedly defended the interests of medium-sized businesses, fighting against the government. It was at this time that they began to actively promote the “Korolevska brand”. Her face appeared everywhere where it could logically be present. She appeared at all social events, criticized reforms, supported pensioners and Chernobyl victims, etc. After the arrest of Yulia Tymoshenko, Korolevska sincerely hoped that she would be at the helm of “Batkivshchyna”, but she did not go to court, because Yulia Vladimirovna’s ardent allies saw her as a threat.

It was financed by anyone and everyone – from Akhmetov, Klyueva and, they say, even Pinchuk (Read more about him in the article Victor Pinchuk: Ukraine’s Richest Son-in-Law). But its team consisted of poorly professional technologists (take Alexey Golobutsky, for example). Therefore, the main “issues” were resolved through the power branch, while its “technologists” sawed up budgets on useless and talentless outdoor advertising.

Natalia Korolevskaya has mastered the “azirovka” and talks about the “gut shop”

Having realized that she had no chance in the “Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc”, in December 2012 she headed the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party (previously part of the BYuT faction). The USDPU left the BYuT on the same day that Natalia Korolevska was expelled from the faction. It should be noted that her move to the USDP caused a storm of indignation from her former colleagues. This is due to the fact that the USDP was traditionally called one of the projects of the “gray cardinal” of the times of Viktor Yanukovych, Serhiy Levochkin. Here it should be mentioned that along with Korolevska, her husband Yevhen Suslov left Batkivshchyna for the USDP, as well as Oleksiy Logvinenko, who is directly connected with the now deceased adviser of Levochkin and Klyuev, Yuriy Levents (chief political strategist of the Party of Regions).

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, Oleksandr Yefremov. Some even call them lovers. According to one version, Yefremov is the biological father of Natalia Yuryevna’s second son, Yaroslav. If this is true, then it is not surprising that Yefremov’s wife simply and openly hates her. This is confirmed by an episode that took place in the Luhansk drama theater. It so happened that Yefremov’s wife attacked Korolevskaya, starting to pull her hair and insult her. The version that they are lovers would also explain the fact that she deliberately ruined Yulia Tymoshenko’s presidential campaign in the Luhansk region. Then the idea that she was an “agent of the Party of Regions” in Batkivshchyna also has a right to exist. In this case, even her appointment to the post of head of the Ministry of Social Policy becomes logical (for which not a single expert could find an explanation).

Here, it should also be said that Korolevska is also related to the former Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Pshonka. Together with his son Artem, she baptized the son of the former prosecutor of the Kyiv region Sergey Mishchenko. She has good connections, doesn’t she?

Feats as head of the Ministry of Social Policy:

Today, Natalia Korolevska is a people’s deputy from the Opposition Bloc party. This association is one of the last strongholds of the Party of Regions in the Verkhovna Rada, one of the leaders of which, by the way, is Serhiy Levochkin. In the so-called “alternative Cabinet” of the Opposition Bloc, Korolevska holds the post of vice-premier for social policy. Looking at such metamorphoses in her political preferences, her words to the Glavred publication in 2007 come to mind: “I believe that the most important thing is the goal. And achieving this goal depends on our willpower, how much of it we have.” It seems that Natalia Yuryevna really acts on the principle of “all means are good in the struggle for power.” Apparently, she perfectly remembered all the principles of “fox” and “lion” management from her favorite book by Niccolo Machiavelli “The Prince”.

Dmitry Samofalov, for Skeleton.Info

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