Tatyana Dmitrievna Bakhteyeva or Tetyana Dmytriyivna Bakhteyeva is a Doctor of Medical Sciences (since 2008), CEO of Donetsk Oblast Clinical Territorial Medical Association, former People's Deputy of Ukraine from 2022 to 2019.Small biography on Tetyana Dmytriyivna Bakhteyeva
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Biography

Tatyana Bakhteeva was born on November 27, 1953, in

Donetsk Donetsk ( , ; uk, Донецьк, translit=Donets'k ; russian: Донецк ), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), Stalin and Stalino (see also: Names of European cities in different languages (C–D), cities' alternat ...

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. She is divorced, her ex-husband Alimzhan Bakhteev is working in bus transfer services; they have a common daughter Irina Valitova (born 1975), who is teaching at Donetsk Medical University.

Education

In 1977 Bakhteeva graduated from Donetsk Medical University as a GP, in 2002 she obtained Diploma in

Economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

in Donetsk State University of Economics and Trade named after M. Tugan-Baranovsky; after that she became a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Party of Regions and never returned to medicine. In 2002 she received her Ph.D. in medical sciences with the thesis "Neurotic disorders in women".

Career

* 1977–1980 – therapist, physical therapist, at the hospital No.2 at Yasinovataya station, Donetsk railway * 1980–1991 – district doctor, since 1986 - Deputy Head of medical-labour expert commission at Donetsk city hospital No.3 * since 1991 – Head of Donetsk Regional radiological medical expert commission for

Chernobyl Chernobyl ( , ; russian: Чернобыль, ) or Chornobyl ( uk, Чорнобиль, ) is a partially abandoned city in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, situated in the Vyshhorod Raion of northern Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. Chernobyl is about no ...

liquidators * 1992–1994 – responsible person for Chernobyl children recovery in

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* 1994–1997 – Head Doctor at

Donetsk Oblast The Donetsk Oblast ( ukr, Донецька область, Donetska oblast, ), also referred to as Donechchyna ( ukr, Донеччина, links=no), is an oblast of eastern Ukraine. It is Ukraine's most populous province, with around 4.1 mill ...

health care center for individuals affected by the consequences of Chernobyl accident * since 1997 – CEO of Donetsk Oblast Clinical Territorial Medical Association * 1998–2002 – Deputy of Donetsk Oblast Council, member of health committee Bakhteeva was No.7 in 2010's rating of the 100 most influential Ukrainian women according to Ukrainian magazine ''Focus''. Bakhteeva is the founder of the Donetsk Oblast charity foundation Humaneness and the Honoured Doctor of Ukraine.

Politics

In May 2002 Bakhteeva was elected the People's Deputy of Ukraine from

Party of Regions The Party of Regions ( uk, Партія регіонів, Partiia rehioniv, ; russian: Партия регионов, Partiya regionov) was a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine formed in late 1997 that then grew to be the biggest party of Uk ...

(in the

2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 31 March 2002. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1976 The Our Ukraine bloc emerged as the largest faction in the Verkhovna Rada, winning 111 of the 447 seats ...

on the election list of

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), and has seated as a member of Party of Regions in the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th

Verkhovna Rada The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Верхо́вна Ра́да Украї́ни, translit=, Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, translation=Supreme Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian abbreviation ''ВРУ''), often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the ...

s and in the 8th Verkhovna Rada for

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(thus from 2002 to 2019 she was a member of parliament). In the

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.Poroshenko Bloc to have greatest number of seats in parliament

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(8 November 2014)
People's Front 0.33% ahead of Poroshenko Bloc with all ballots counted in Ukraine elections - CEC

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(8 November 2014)
Poroshenko Bloc to get 132 seats in parliament - CEC

(8 November 2014) In the 5th and 6th Verkhovna Radas, she took the post of Head of Health Care committee. * Member of the Group of Interparliamentary Relations with

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* Member of the Interparliamentary relations with the Swiss Confederation * Member of the Interparliamentary relations with the

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* Member of the Group of Interparliamentary Relations with the

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* Member of the Group of Interparliamentary Relations with the

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* Member of the Group of Interparliamentary Relations with

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After 2013

People's Deputy of Ukraine of 8th convocation from

. She was Chairman of the Committee on Health Protection.«Старые донецкие» возвращаются
/ref> Regularly visited

and DPR (last time in 2019). She helped promote the policy of reconciliation to , an associate of President

Volodymyr Zelenskyy Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, ; russian: Владимир Александрович Зеленский, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Zelenskyy, (born 25 January 1978; also transliterated as Zelensky or Zelenskiy) is a Ukrainian politicia ...

. 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 ...

she failed to get re-elected into parliament; this time after placing 26th on the electoral list of a reformatted (and thus new party)

. At the end of January 2020, the All-Ukrainian public organization Fellowship - Native Donbass was presented in

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. Among the founders are ex-deputy head of the Donetsk Regional State Administration Boris Adamov, multiple champion of the Paralympic Games in swimming, honorary citizen of Donetsk and Sloviansk Viktor Smirnov, three former people's deputies: Bakhteeva, president of the Nord holding Valentin Landik, and Valeriy Konovalyuk. The ex-deputy stood (until 24 February 2022) for the "special status" of

Donbas The Donbas or Donbass (, ; uk, Донба́с ; russian: Донба́сс ) is a historical, cultural, and economic region in eastern Ukraine. Parts of the Donbas are controlled by Russian separatist groups as a result of the Russo-Ukrai ...

and against the economic blockade of territories temporarily not controlled by Ukraine. Bakhteeva managed to get the biggest profits with the help of official powers from tenders together with the Fistal brothers. These are representatives of the Donetsk medical clan close to the Russian special services, whose patriarch is the surgeon of the Donetsk Burn Center, Emil Fistal. Fistals openly support the Russian occupation, registered their companies in the Russian economic space in Donetsk. At the same time, with the support of Bakhteeva, they continued to receive excess profits as "medical tender kings" of Ukraine. In just two years till the end of 2021, $440 mln passed through firms associated with Bakhteeva and the separatists Fistal family, of which up to 30% returned to the beneficiaries of the scheme as kickbacks.Україна в заручниках олігархів. Охорона здоров’я
/ref> In late 2021 she attended

Yukhym Zvyahilsky Yukhym Leonidovych Zvyahilsky ( uk, Юхим Леонідович Звягільський, russian: Ефим Леонидович Звягильский; 20 February 1933 – 6 November 2021) was a Ukrainian politician. He is the only member ...

's funeral.Весь цвет Партии регионов и Тимошенко. Кто прощался с Ефимом Звягильским (фоторепортаж)
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Critics

She is close to the businessman Rinat Akhmetov. She has friendly and family ties with the families of Taktashev and Valitov, who are considered to be criminal functionaries from the first circle of "Lord of Donbas". At one time, the partner of the Taktashovs, Valitovs, and Bakhteeva was Andriy Adamovskyi, who is known for the scandal surrounding the Skymall in Kyiv and was considered one of the most influential figures of the "half-world" of

Poroshenko Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko ( uk, Петро́ Олексі́йович Пороше́нко, ; born 26 September 1965) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician who served as the fifth president of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. Poroshenko ser ...

's time due to his friendship with ex-People's Deputy Alexandr Granovsky. Bakhteeva's husband worked for Vladyslav Dreger, who is called a raider in the media, whose path to success began with cooperation with the "17 Precinct" OZU, which is close to the Victor Pshonka family of prosecutors. Bakhteeva's nephew is Rinat Ayzyatulov.

Raisa Bohatyriova Raisa Vasylivna Bohatyriova ( uk, Раїса Василівна Богатирьова; russian: Раиса Васильевна Богатырёва) (born on January 6, 1953) is a Ukrainian politician and former Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine a ...

and Bakhteeva earned huge fortunes thanks to official influence on medicine. This is the production and certification of medicines; production, certification and recommendation of vaccines; government Procurement; certification of state and private clinics and practices; clan management of pharmacy networks, supply of medical equipment and reagents; supporting the education of rich foreign students in medical universities of Ukraine. After the Orange Revolution in 2004, Bakhteeva cohabited with President Viktor Yushchenko's wife Kateryna Yushchenko, took part in the scandalous "Clinic of the Third Millennium" project. Since then, Bakhteeva has been friends with the Glib Zagoriy clan, which is close to Poroshenko. Bogatyreva and Bakhteeva are considered the founders of pharmacy addiction (selling tramadol and tramalgin in pharmacies without a prescription). All the main clans were united in that business at first. Tramadol and Tramalgin were produced in exorbitant volumes by Farmak (family of

Pavlo Zhebrivskyi Pavlo Ivanovych Zhebrivsky (Ukrainian: Павло Іванович Жебрівський, born March 21, 1962, Nemyryntsi village, Ruzhyn Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast, Zhytomyr Oblast) is a Ukrainian politician, leader of the political party Republi ...

), Darnytsia Zagoriy,

Stirol Stirol is a currently closed down plant and one of the oldest manufacturers of nitrogen fertilizers in Ukraine. It is part of bigger chemical holding Ostchem Holding which unites several other chemical plants in Ukraine and some former Soviet repub ...

(Yankovskyi) in Horlovka, Biolik in

Kharkiv Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine.

Awards

* Order of Princess Olga, III class (2002) * "Miner's Glory" badge, I, II, III class * Order of Saint Barbara, given by

Ukrainian Orthodox Church The history of Christianity in Ukraine dates back to the earliest centuries of the history of Christianity, to the Apostolic Age, with mission trips along the Black Sea and a legend of Saint Andrew even ascending the hills of Kyiv. The first Ch ...

* Certificate of Merit "For Humanism" from the President of Ukraine * Certificate of Merit from Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (2003)

References

External links

Tatyana Bakhteeva's profile at Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine official web-site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bakhteeva, Tatyana 1953 births Living people Politicians from Donetsk Party of Regions politicians Opposition Bloc politicians Seventh convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada Eighth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada Recipients of the Order of Princess Olga, 3rd class 21st-century Ukrainian women politicians Laureates of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology Recipients of the Honorary Diploma of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Ukrainian women medical doctors Women members of the Verkhovna Rada