Korolevska was born in the former USSR in 1975, her father was a
miner
A miner is a person who extracts ore, coal, chalk, clay, or other minerals from the earth through mining. There are two senses in which the term is used. In its narrowest sense, a miner is someone who works at the rock face; cutting, blasting, ...
, her mother a teacher. Korolevska graduated from the
East Ukraine Volodymyr Dahl National University
Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University (SNU) ( uk, Східноукраїнський національний університет імені Володимира Даля) is one of the leading establishments of higher education in ...
in 1997 and the
Donetsk state academy of management
Donetsk State University of Management ( uk, Донецький державний університет управління) is a Ukraine, Ukrainian University founded in 1992 as the Donetsk State Academy of Management (with 31 graduates) an ...
in 2002 (speciality "Manager of organizations").Biography who-is-who.ua From 1992 Korolevska worked in several management functions, starting in a company set up by her older brother Kostiantyn,A Royal Gift to the Government The Ukrainian Week (5 June 2012) earning a "Leader of middle business" award in 2004.
Political career
From 2002 until 2006 Korolevska was a deputy of the Luhansk regional parliament. During the Presidential election 2004 she supported
Victor Yanukovich
Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych ( uk, Віктор Федорович Янукович, ; ; born 9 July 1950) is a former politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 until he was removed from office in the Revolution of Di ...
.Народна депутатка з Луганська від БЮТу раніше підтримувала Віктора Януковича Gazeta.ua (March 23, 2007) Korolevska was a member of Council of Entrepreneurs under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in the years 2003, 2004 and 2005.
Korolevska became a member of All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" (a part of Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko) in autumn 2005 because "she is sure that the block of Yulia Tymoshenko is the future". Korolevska decided to enter national politics: "I knew the most complex problems of the Donbass and sincerely wanted to solve them, but saw and understood that it is impossible to do so at the level of the regional council. It is in this spirit that I arrived in the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) in 2006. Disappointment came quickly enough: it seems that everyone here is well aware of the difficulties, but nobody makes an attempt resolve them and to help the people."Наталья Королевская: «У нас в семье патриархат» VV news (March 23, 2010) During the
2006
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and
2007
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parliamentary elections, she was elected as a deputy to the Verkhovna Rada. Korolevska is the current chairperson of the committee on issues of industrial and regulatory policy and entrepreneurship in the Verkhovna Rada.Наталия Королевская: «Луганск - не Донецк…» , Остров (13 March 2008)
Korolevska represented her party early December 2011 at the Congress of the
European People's Party
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(party leader Tymoshenko was in custody at the time).
On 23 December 2011, Korolevska was elected the leader of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party (just like her former party, that party was also a member of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc). Hence she did not change faction in the Verkhovna Rada.
On 14 March 2012 Korolevska was expelled from her “Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko-
Batkivschyna
The All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" ( uk, Всеукраїнське об'єднання "Батьківщина", translit=Vseukrains'ke obiednannia "Bat'kivshchyna") referred to as Batkivshchyna (), is a political party in Ukraine led by Peo ...
impeachment
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In ...
2014 Ukrainian presidential election
Snap presidential elections held in Ukraine on 25 May 2014 resulted in Petro Poroshenko being elected President of Ukraine.Twenty-three candidates to run for Ukraine's presidency
Interfax-Ukraine
The Interfax-Ukraine ( uk, Інтерфакс-Україна) is a Kyiv-based Ukraine, Ukrainian independent news agency founded in 1992. The company does not belong to the Russian news corporation Interfax Information Services. The company pub ...
2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election
Snap elections to the Verkhovna Rada took place on 26 October 2014.
Petro Poroshenko, the President of Ukraine, had pressed for early parliamentary elections since his victory in the presidential election in May.Opposition Bloc
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Interfax-Ukraine
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Interfax-Ukraine
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(8 November 2014) In the same election her husband
Yuriy Solod
Yuriy Vasylyovych Solod ( uk, Юрій Васильович Солод, born 27 April 1972) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician.single-member districts seat in
Slovyansk
Sloviansk ( uk, Слов'янськ, Sloviansk ; russian: Славянск, Slavyansk or ; prior to 1784 – Tor) is a city in the Kramatorsk district of the Donetsk region of Ukraine, the administrative center of the Slovyansk urban commun ...
with 34.17% of the votes
On 17 January 2015 (during the
War in Donbass
War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, destruction, and mortality, using regular o ...
) the
Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine
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launched an investigation into Korolevska's alleged involvement in funding separatism.Ukraine crisis timeline BBC News
Korolevska was re-elected, placed 4th on the party list of Opposition Platform — For Life this time, in the
2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election
Snap elections to the Ukrainian parliament were held on 21 July 2019. Originally scheduled to be held at the end of October, these elections were brought forward after newly inaugurated President of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dissolv ...
. Her husband Yuriy Solod was also re-elected in constituency No. 47 for the same party.
Political positions
Korolevska political goal is "to create an efficient, transparent and stable economy" with less Government involvement.Королевская Наталия Юрьевна LІGA.net She claims to stand for political reforms to combat poverty and
corruption
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.Королевська стала обличчям модного журналу Tablo ID (September 1, 2010) Korolevska wants to involve the non-government sector more in decision-making. She is against re- privatization.
In February 2012 she accused the Azarov Government of being "amateurish" "and it doesn't seem to notice that the country is on the verge of
default
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Law
* Default (law), the failure to do something required by law
** Default (finance), failure to satisfy the terms of a loan obligation or failure to pay back a loan
** Default judgment, a binding judgment in favor of ei ...
".
In early March 2012, Korolevska called for the opposition to run the 2012 parliamentary elections on a single list. The day after she was expelled from the “Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko-
Batkivschyna
The All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" ( uk, Всеукраїнське об'єднання "Батьківщина", translit=Vseukrains'ke obiednannia "Bat'kivshchyna") referred to as Batkivshchyna (), is a political party in Ukraine led by Peo ...
”-faction (formerly BYuT faction) in the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) on 14 March 2012 she stated " Deputies from the so-called opposition have united with the majority factions; an anti-national majority consisting of representatives of the current and previous government has been formed in the Verkhovna Rada". Korolevska's Ukrainian Social Democratic Party left the
Dictatorship Resistance Committee
The Dictatorship Resistance Committee ( uk, Комітет опору диктатурі (''Komitet oporyu diktatyuri'')) was an alliance in Ukraine formed by several parliamentary factions, political parties and opposition activist groups that op ...
(the main vehicle where the opposition was negotiating forming joint electoral list of candidates in electoral districts in the 2012 parliamentary elections) on 14 March 2012.
Cultural and political image
Korolevska sees herself as a representative of the upcoming generation of political leaders of Ukraine. In 2007 " Focus" magazine placed Korolevska 66th in a survey investigating the most influential women of Ukraine.Фаворитка Тимошенко Tablo ID (December 20, 2006) In 2009 she reached the 9th spot in that survey (six places higher than the Minister of Labor and Social Policy Lyudmyla Denisova); "in 2009 she increased her presence in the coal market of Ukraine", according to ''Focus''.Наталья Королевская Focus
In February 2008 ''Focus'' placed Korolevska at the 93rd place in their ranking of the richest Ukrainians. Experts of the magazine assessed her assets to be worth US$ 243 million (in the
food industry
The food industry is a complex, global network of diverse businesses that supplies most of the food consumed by the world's population. The food industry today has become highly diversified, with manufacturing ranging from small, traditiona ...
). According to Korolevska she is no longer active in business and her husband controls her assets.Королевская Наталья ДОСЬЕ
According to media in Luhansk Korolevska was one of the most influential figures in that region.
According to experts Korolevska spend about $1.25 million on a spring 2012 national billboards campaign aimed at raising her profile; her press service did not give any figures about expenditures on this ad campaign, stating it was a “commercial secret”.Korolevska everywhere, but is she going anywhere? '' Kyiv Post'' (30 March 2012)