Chervonenko, your ex-wife is strong!
Margarita Chervonenko is taking all divorced women under her wing
Valeria Chepurko
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City: Kyiv
Newspaper Blik [Hotspot]
Daily paper
Date: February 21, 2008
Circulation: 90,300 |
In a bright-red jacket, with a golden smile and impeccable make-up, business lady Margarita Chervonenko has appeared in public for the first time after the scandalous divorce with Yevhen Chervonenko, a well-known politician. She is not concealing that getting over the break-up was difficult. And she had such strong feelings about it that she decided to head a new civil movement ‘I’m strong enough!’. Its mission will be to provide psychological and legal aid to women left by their husbands.
Margarita herself (45 years old) asserts that she was left penniless after the divorce. This summer, Blik reported that the Appellate Court of the capital upheld the ruling of the Obukhiv District Court, which deprived her of the property rights for three land plots, a cottage in Koncha-Zaspa, and apartment in Yalta. At present, the case is being considered by the Supreme Court. “After the marriage was destroyed, I had only my strength left. My relatives and friends helped me to live through these events. And then I decided to help others,” Margarita explains her initiative. She managed to establish cooperation with a number of foreign NGOs that promised to allocate grants. The work will be carried out in the form of seminars, consultations as well as in the interactive mode.
Now already, as the Project General Manager Marina Skomorokhova has promised, anyone, who wants to receive legal aid concerning the issues of divorce and division of property, may visit the ‘I’m strong enough!’ website: www.iamstrong.org.ua.
In the concluding interview Margarita shared some secrets with Blik and gave some advice.
Blik: Are you still engaged in the old business?
— Certainly not. Everything that had been in the past was taken away by my husband. Absolutely everything, including the Orlan concern, is in the hands of Zhenia. While he was engaged in politics, I was building up the family business and I was forced to leave it with “the poor clerk.” Today, I have a new business. So far, it is like a little child. That is why I don’t want to tell what it is, I’m afraid to speak too soon.
Blik: But you can no longer feel that you are a well-to-do woman?
— Yes, I can. For me, earning my living and for myself has never been a problem. I need no personal airplanes, I don’t care if I have a new fur coat and of what season my clothes are. I buy little by little and wear what I like.
Blik: You are looking gorgeous! Have you undergone plastic surgery?
— Not yet. I constantly ask my friends about it, and the more I get to know the more I think this will never happen. That is to say, I haven’t done this, and, perhaps, will never do.
Blik: Do you have personal relations with anybody?
— I am a conservative by nature. For me love and relations is the same thing. Until love dawns on me, there will be no relations.
Blik: Can you advise what a divorced woman should be actively occupied with: appearance, search for a new companion or work and career?
— First of all, she should preserve her inner world. The rest is individual. If a woman has three children, what career can there be? She has to pay more attention to her looks and search for a new companion. Women, who are more self-sustained, like me, should try to keep what they have and get down to their careers. And a companion can be attracted by himself.
Reference of Blik:
Margarita got acquainted with Yevhen Chervonenko in Lviv. They were dating for two years before they started living together, and married seven years after they had met for the firs time. Margarita Chervonenko has two higher education degrees. In 2000-2007, she headed the Orlan concern, which deals in production of beverages and cargo transportation.
Caption: Margarita has confessed that she bought her red jacket, whose colour suits to the logo of the ‘I’m strong enough!’ initiative, when she was still married.