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KIEV, February 9 (RIA Novosti) - A monument to Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is to be unveiled in the west of the country on Tuesday, a local artist told Ukraine's UNIAN news agency on Monday. In commenting on his project, Anatoly Fedirko said he was inspired by the thought that "a simple Ukrainian woman, who is beautiful and an economist by education, must survive as a politician in a hostile male environment." "It is no exaggeration to say that Yulia Tymoshenko is a goddess who needs to change her wardrobe every day regardless of the world economic crisis," he said. The monument is to be unveiled in Ukraine's western "cultural capital" of Chernovtsy on the city's Main Street. Before becoming Ukraine's first female prime minister, Tymoshenko was one of the key leaders of the 2004-2005 Orange Revolution, during which some Western media publications dubbed her "Joan of Arc of the Revolution." Prior to her political career, Tymoshenko was a successful but controversial businesswoman in the gas industry. She first became prime minister in 2005, and was named to the post for a second time in late 2007. She is also widely expected to be one of the frontrunners in presidential polls due in the former Soviet republic in 2010.