Kateryna Yushchenko

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kateryna Yushchenko
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Sep 1, 1961(1961-09-01)
Age	63
Birthplace	Chicago
Country	United States
Birth City	Illinois
Horoscope	Virgo

Kateryna Yushchenko Biography

Kateryna Yushchenko is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on September 1, 1961 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The father of Yushchenko’s, Mykhailo Chumachenko, was born in the village of Zaitsivka, Kharkiv Oblast, in 1917, and was a member of an extensive farming family. He was among one or two members of his family who survived his family’s hardships during the Soviet Famine of 1932-1933.

Kateryna shares three daughters from her marriage to Viktor Yushchenko: Sofia, Khrystyna and Taras. Yushchenko also has two sons from the previous union: Vitalyna (b. in 1980) as well as Andriy (b. 1985).

She later worked in the White House in the Office of Public Liaison during the administration of Ronald Reagan. Subsequently, she worked at the U.S. Treasury in the executive secretary’s office during the administration of George H. W. Bush. After leaving that position, she was on the staff of the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress. After Ukraine declared its freedom, she was a co-founder and the vice-president of Ukraine-USA Foundation. She was also the director of Pylyp Orlyk Institute. In 1993, she joined KPMG Peat Marwick/Barents Group as a consultant in its Bank Training Program and Country Manager, where she met Viktor Yushchenko, whom she subsequently married. She left her job in August 2000, when she was expecting her second child.

Opponents of her husband criticized her for remaining a U.S. citizen. During the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election campaign, she was accused of exerting the influence of the U.S. government on her husband’s decisions, as an employee of the U.S. government or even a Central Intelligence Agency agent. She had earlier been accused by Russian television journalist Mikhail Leontyev of leading a U.S. project to help Yushchenko seize power in Ukraine; in January 2002, she won a libel case against him. Ukraine’s pro-government Inter television channel repeated Leontyev’s allegations in 2001, but in January 2003 she won a libel case against the channel as well. She became a citizen of Ukraine in 2005.

Kateryna Mykhaylivna (Ukrainian: Katerina Mikhailivna Iushchenko born on September 1st 1961, in Chicago) is spouse of the former Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko and a former First Lady of Ukraine.

Kateryna Yushchenko Net Worth

Kateryna Yushchenko is one of the richest Politician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kateryna Yushchenko 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Chumachenko was a student of electrical engineering at Lysychansk, Luhansk Oblast. He was part of the Soviet Army and was later captured from Nazi forces and transported to Germany in 1942.

In 1956 in 1956, the Chumachenko family moved from Russia to United States on an invitation from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Chicago. Mykhailo Chumachenko was employed as an electrician Chicago until his retirement in 1984. The Chumachenkos relocated from Chicago to Florida after 1987. Chumachenko visited his home in Ukraine three times: 1991 1994, 1993 and 1995. His goal was to go back to his home village and establish an agricultural farm. He passed away in 1998 and is burial in Kiev.

Kateryna Yushchenko was born Catherine Claire Chumachenko in Chicago to immigrants from the Left-bank Ukraine. She is a former U.S. State Department official. She worked as a special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. She holds a bachelor’s degree in International Economics from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University (1982), and an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (1986).

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Who is Kateryna Yushchenko Dating?

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Kateryna Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Kateryna Yushchenko celebrates birthday on September 1 of every year.