Maryna Anatolyivna Poroshenko is the First Lady of Ukraine and the wife of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
Background
Maryna Poroshenko was born as Maryna Perevedentseva (Ukrainian: Марина Анатоліївна Переведенцева) in 1962 in Kiev, Ukraine. Her father Anatoly (born 1933) was Deputy Minister of Health of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Her mother Lyudmyla worked at Kiev Arsenal.
Education
Bogomolets National Medical University.
Career
While studying at the Bogomolets National Medical University, she met Petro Poroshenko at a disco. She participates in the activities of the Petro Poroshenko Charity Foundation. Late June 2014 she met with Iryna Herashchenko, an envoy to the Peace plan for Eastern Ukraine and a mediator in the 2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine.
They discussed possible assistance to the people in Eastern Ukraine.
The family continues to live in their private home in the historic neighborhood of Koncha-Zaspa. Olexiy is a representative in the regional parliament of Vinnytsia Oblast.
The Ukrainian people are proud to have Maryna Poroshenko as their First Lady and consider her to be "a breath of fresh air." According to a discussion on the Ukrainian television show 1+1, Marina is charming, well spoken, educated, and represents a modern, democratic Ukraine. The Ukrainian people expect the First Lady to serve as a liaison between the common people and the political, male dominated Ukraine.
Politics
She does not take part in public life and does not discuss politics with her husband. In a June 2014 televised interview, Maryna said that she plans to engage in social and cultural issues currently facing Ukraine.