High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Raisa Vasylivna Bogatyrova (Ukrainian: Раїса Василівна Богатирьова; Russian: Раиса Васильевна Богатырёва) (born on January 6, 1953) is a Ukrainian politician and the current Secretary of National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. In the past, Bogatyrova served as a People`s Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) for the Communist, Christian Democratic Party of Ukraine and more recently the Party of Regions. Her last name might be sometime spelled as Bohatyryova, because of the transliteration issues from Cyrillic to Latin. Also Bogatyrova is homonym with bogatyr.