Who is who in Ukraine

Oleh Tiahnybok (Oleg Tyagnybok): official biography

2009-11-02T03:48:00.000-08:00

41 y. o. Politician, Chairman of the “All-Ukrainian Union “Svoboda” (ukr. Freedom)” political party. Candidate for the post of the President of Ukraine in 2010.

Family and childhood:
Born on 17.11.1968 in Lviv (Ukraine) in a medical family. His grandfather, Ukrainian priest, was deported to Siberia for his convictions.
Married with 3 children (two daughters and son). Wife – Olga – doctor-epidemiologist.

Education and Academic background:
1993 – graduated from Lviv State Medical Institute, surgeon.
1999 – graduated from Ivan Franko Lviv State University, lawyer.

Work Experience and Political Life:
1989 – 1990 – nurse at Lviv Regional Clinical Hospital, First Surgery Department.
1990 – December 1991 – paramedic at Lviv Regional Clinical Hospital, Neurosurgery Department.
February 1990 – December 1991 – Head of the Medical Institute chapter of Students’ Brotherhood of Lviv.
Since 1991 – member of the Social-Nationalist Party of Ukraine.
1992 – 1995 – Head of the Students’ Brotherhood of Lviv. Member and co-Head of famous students’ hunger strikes of 1990 and 1992.
1993 – 1996 – internship training at the Urological and First Surgery Department at the Lviv City Clinical Emergency Hospital.
1994 – 1998 – Member of the Lviv Regional Council.
May 1995 – March 1999 – envoy of the Social-Nationalist Party of Ukraine on organizational work.
Since 1997 – Head of the Lviv Regional Organization of the Social-Nationalist Party of Ukraine.
1998 – elected as a Member of Parliament of Ukraine, 3rd convocation (Lviv region, by the majority voting system). Member of Budget Committee of the Parliament of Ukraine.
2002 – 2006 – Member of Parliament of Ukraine of 4th convocation (Lviv region, majority voting system).
July 2004 – expelled from the “Our Ukraine” faction of Viktor Yushchenko “for anti-Semitic and xenophobic statements”.
Since February 2004 – Chairman of the political party All-Ukrainian Union “Svoboda”.

Inna Bogoslovska: official biography

2009-10-27T08:13:00.000-07:00

49 years old. Politician and lawyer. Member of Parliament. Candidate for Presidential election – 2010.

Family and childhood:
Born: August 5, 1960. Place of Birth: Kharkiv, Ukraine. Father – career military man, university lecturer; mother – lawyer.

Marital status:
Married with one daughter.

Education:
1982 – graduated with distinction from the Kharkiv Law Academy.
Honored lawyer of Ukraine.

Work Experience and Political Life:
1982 – 1992 – trainee lawyer, lawyer at the Kharkiv Regional Bar Association.
1990 – 1992 – part-time lawyer at the Vybir-89 law firm.
1993 - 1997 – lawyer, Director at the International Legal Service, LLC.
1997 – 1998 – Director at the International Auditor Service, LLC.
1998 – elected as a member of Parliament of Ukraine (3rd convocation), member of the parliamentary Committee on Finance and Banking.
2000 – 2002 – First Deputy Chairman of the parliamentary Committee on Budget.
2002 – 2003 – Chief Auditor at the International Auditor Service, LLC. President (founder) at the Consulting Group Prudence, LLC. One of the leaders of the Ozyme Pokolinnya Team (political block).
2003 – 2004 – Head of the State Committee on Regulatory policy and Entrepreneurship.
From February 2004 - President at the Consulting Group Prudence, LLC.
2007 – Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine.
From December 2007 – Member of Parliament of Ukraine (6th convocation), faction of the Party of Regions (No 4 in the electoral list). First Deputy Head of the parliamentary Committee on Culture and Religion.

Who is Oleh Riabokon: the biography of a presidential candidate.

2009-10-27T02:32:00.000-07:00

36 y.o. Lawyer. Candidate at the Presidential election – 2010. Not widely known in Ukraine except of legal and administrative circles. Founder of the Magisters (formerly Magister and partners) law firm. While the Constitution of Ukraine states that the presidential candidate should live in Ukraine permanently, international legal websites are the Moscow address and phone number as his contact details.

Family and childhood:
Born in 1973 in Vinnitsa, Ukraine.

Marital status:
Married with two children.

Education and Academic Background:
1995 - graduated from Taras Shevchenko University in Kyiv, Institute of International Relations, International Law Faculty.
1996 – obtained a LL.M. degree at Georgetown University, Washington, USA.
Professional Membership: American Bar Association; International Bar Association; Ukrainian Bar Association; Georgetown University European Law Alumni Advisory Board.

Work Experience and Political Life:
1995-1996 – co-founder and managing partner of the Bars and partners law firm.
1995-1996 – work in the Washington office of O’Melveny & Myers law company.
Since 1997 - Founder and Managing partner at the Magisters and partners law firm, chairing the Real Estate & Construction, and the International Trade & Customs Practices in Russia and Ukraine.
2004 – Counsel to the High Level Group for the formation of the Single Economic Space between Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. The same time – member of the inter-Ministerial Committee on Ukraine's Accession to the WTO.
2006 – together with Garry N Horlick, lawyer from Washington, represented the interests of Ukrainian metallurgic companies and the Government of Ukraine at the US department of Commerce (Market economy status for Ukraine in antidumping cases in the US and EU).
According to his legal CV, the recent cases of Mr. Riabokon include the representation importers in safeguard investigations in the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Russia.
He also serves as a counsel to UEFA with regard to the final round of European Football Championship to be held in Ukraine and Poland in 2012, and advises Microsoft on intellectual property in Russia.
In September 2009 Mr. Riabokon declared that he leaves the Magisters to dedicate himself to politics.

Political preferences and connections:
It is beyond debate that Oleh Riabokon is soi-disant “technical candidate”. According to the open information of Ukrainian media, Mr. Riabokon is sympathizing to Yulia Tymoshenko. The ex-Partner of his law company Magisters – Evgen Korniychuk, current Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine, and a son-in-law of Vasyl Onopenko, Head of the Supreme Court of Ukraine, – was elected as a member of Parliament thanks to the BYT list, and, by the way, was strongly associated with the activities of Privat business group. Another ex-Parnter of Magisters – Sergey Vlasenko – is currently an MP of Yulia Tymoshenko’s Block.

Anatoliy Hrytsenko: official biography

2009-10-23T14:17:00.000-07:00

52 years old. Member of Parliament of Ukraine (Our Ukraine – People Self-Defense faction). Ex-Minister of Defense, Candidate for the post of the President of Ukraine.

Family and childhood:
Born on 25.10.1957 in village Bagachivka, Zvenygorodsky district of Cherkassy region, Ukraine.
Married, wife – Yulia Mostova, journalist, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Zerkalo nedeli weekly newspaper (http://www.zn.ua/), with 2 children.

Education and Academic background:
1979 – graduated from Kyiv Air Force Engineering High School.
1993 – Institute of Foreign languages of the US Department of Defense.
1994 – United States Air Force University (operation-strategical faculty).
1995 – Academy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
PhD in Technical Sciences.
Reserve Colonel of Ukrainian Army.

Languages spoken:
Ukrainian, Russian, English.

Work Experience and Political Life:
1979 – 1984 – Service in regular military units of Soviet Army.
1984 – 1992 – lecturer at the Kyiv Air Force Engineering High School.
1992 – 1994 – Head of the Analytical Department of the Research Center of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
1996 – 1997 – Head of the Directorate of Military Security and Military Construction at the National Research Center of Defense Technologies and Military Security of Ukraine.
1997 – 1999 – Head of the Analytical Service of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.
December 1999 – February 2005 – President of Razumkov Centre of Economic and Political Studies.
2005 – 2007 – Minister of Defense of Ukraine.
November 2007 – Member of Parliament of Ukraine (Our Ukraine – People’s Self-Defense faction). Head of the parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense.

Sergey Tigipko: official biography

2009-09-11T07:17:00.000-07:00

49 years old. Politician, businessman, banker. Potential candidate for the post of the President of Ukraine. In 2004 – Head of the Presidential campaign headquarters of Viktor Yanukovych.

Family and childhood:

Born on 13.02.1960 in village Dragoneshty of the Lazovsky district of Moldova. Married. Has 4 children.

Education and Academic background:

1982 – graduated from Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute; specialization – engineer metallurgist.

Doctor of Economics.

Languages spoken:

Ukrainian, Russian, English.

Work Experience and Political Life:

1982 – 1984 – Military service in Soviet Army, tank forces.

Since 1984 – Deputy Director of Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Secondary Technical School for Studies and Pedagogical Work.

1986 – Head of the Department of Propaganda and Agitation of Dnipropetrovsk Komsomol (Young Communist League)Regional Committee.

1989 – First Secretary of Dnipropetrovsk Komsomol Regional Committee.

1991 – Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of the Dnipro commercial bank.1992 - Chairman of the Management Board of the PrivatBank.

1994 – 1997 – Outside Consultant to the President of Ukraine (Leonid Kuchma) for Monetary Policy.

1997 – Vice-Prime-Minister of Ukraine for Economy.

1997-2001 – Deputy Head of the State Commission for the Administrative Reform of Ukraine, member of the Supreme Economic Council of the President of Ukraine.

1999 – Minister of Economy of Ukraine.

2000 – Member of Parliament of Ukraine.

2002 – Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine.

2005 - Chairman of the Management Board of the TAS Financial Industrial Group.

Since 2007 - Chairman of the Management Board of the LLC Svedbank (ex-TAS-CommerceBank).

2008 – Outside Councilor to the Prime Minister of Ukraine, co-Chair of the Council of Investors at the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.

On 16 June 2009 left all the business positions, and concentrated on his political activities.

Vira Ulyanchenko: official biography

2009-05-25T12:45:00.000-07:00

51 y.o. Head of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine (since May 2009). Ex-secretary and personal assistant to the President of Ukraine. Very close adviser and family friend of Viktor Yushchenko.

Family and childhood:
Born on 1 February 1958 in village Ozeryany of Chernigiv region. Married with Viktor Ivchenko, currently Head of the State Agency of Ukraine for Investments and Innovations. Has a daughter Maria, teenager.

Education and Academic background:
1980 – graduated from Kyiv Taras Shevchenko State University, specialization - philosophy.

Languages spoken:
Ukrainian, Russian.

Work Experience and Political Life:
1980 – 1981 – Teacher of Ukrainian language and literature at Kyiv vocational school N4.
1981 – 1987 – District Komsomol (young Communist League) Committee of Radyanskyi district of Kyiv.
1987 – 1990 – Deputy Head of Radyanskyi Executive Committee. Member of local Council of Radyanskyi district of Kyiv.
1990 – District Committee of Communist Party of Radyanskyi district of Kyiv.
1991 – 1993 – Secretariat of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, publishing department.
1993 – Administration of the President of Ukraine (Leonid Kravchuk) – assistant to Valentyn Symonenko, the Adviser to the President of Ukraine.
1993 – 1994 – General Representation office of Blasco joint stock company (shipping of cargoes, etc) in Kyiv.
1994 – 1999 – maternity leave in United States.
1999 – Head of the Department of organization and information support of the connections with state institutions and enterprises of Ukrsoyuzservice.
From March 2000 – assistant to Viktor Yushchenko (Prime Minister of Ukraine), Office of the Prime Minister of Ukraine.
2002 – Head of the Secretariat of the “Our Ukraine” faction in Parliament of Ukraine.
March 2005 – May 2006 – Member of Parliament of Ukraine, member of “People’s Union “Our Ukraine” party.
June 2006 – May 2009 – Head of Kyiv Region State Administration.

Viktor Baloha: official biography

2008-12-19T04:12:00.000-08:00

46 y.o. ex-Head of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine (since May 2009).

Family and childhood:
Born on 15.06.1963 in village Zavydovo of the Mukachev district of Zakarpatska region.

Education and Academic background:
1984 – graduated from Lviv Trade and Economic Institute; specialization – merchandizing and food products trade settlement; Merchandiser of the highest category.

Languages spoken:
Ukrainian, Russian – fluent.

Work Experience and Political Life:
January 1986 – February 1987 – Senior Merchandiser at district consumer’s trade company, Beregovo, Zakarpatska region.
February 1987 – May 1987 – Deputy Director at Kosynsky trade company, Kosyno village, Beregovo district, Zakarpatska region.
May 1987 – October 1992 – Senior Merchandiser at the Mukachevo warehouse, Zakarpatska region.
October 1992 – March 1997 – Director of the “Rey-Promin” Limited Liability Company, Mukachevo, Zakarpatska region.
April 1997 – April 1998 – Head of the board of “Barva” LLC, Mukachevo, Zakarpatska region.
April 1998 – May 1999 – Head of the city of Mukachevo.
May 1999 – June 2001 – Head of the Regional State Administration of Zakarpatska region.
January 2002 – April 2002 – Head of the board of “Barva” LLC, Mukachevo, Zakarpatska region.
May 2002 – September 2005 – Member of Parliament of Ukraine.
September 2005 – Head of the Regional State Administration of Zakarpatska region.
September 2005 – October 2006 – the Minister of Emergency Situations of Ukraine.
Since September 2006 – Head of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine.

Borys Tarasyuk: official biography

2008-12-17T09:13:00.000-08:00

60 y.o. Member of Parliament of Ukraine of IV, V and VI convocations (from 2002). Deputy Head of the Our Ukraine – People’s Self-Defence (OU-PSD) parliamentary faction. Chairman of the People’s Movement of Ukraine (Narodny Rukh). Founder and Director of the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation. Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (1998-2000; 2005-2007).

Born on January 1, 1949 in Zhytomyr region, Ukraine.

Education and Academic background:
1968 – Kyiv Polytechnic College of Communication Service
1975 – National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, specialization – International Relations and International Law

Languages spoken:
Ukrainian, Russian, English and French – fluent.

Work Experience and Political Life:
1967 – laboratory assistant at the Kyiv Polytechnic College of Communication Service
1968-1970 – Military service at the frontier troops
Since 1975 – work in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, starting from the attaché position
March 1992 – September 1995 – Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
1995 – 1998 – Ambassador of Ukraine in Belgium, Luxembourg, and Netherlands
1997 –1998 – Permanent Representative of Ukraine to NATO
April 1998 – September 2000 – Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
2000 – foreign relations adviser to Viktor Yushchenko (who was the leader of opposition)
Since 3 May 2003 – Chairman of the People’s Movement of Ukraine (Narodny Rukh)
February 2005 – January 2007 – Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (served in the Cabinets of Yulia Tymoshenko, Yuriy Yekhanurov, and Viktor Yanukovych)

Hryhoriy Nemyria: official biography

2008-11-19T02:58:00.001-08:00

49 years old. Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine for European and International Integration.
Born on 5 April 1960.

Language skills:
English – fluent, Polish – basic, Ukrainian, Russian – native.

Education and Academic Background:
1982 – MA in History from Donetsk State University.
1988 – PhD from Kyiv Taras Shevchenko University.
1992-1995 – Research Fellow, Department of Social Problems of National Security, Institute of Sociology, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.
1994 – National Forum Foundation Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington, D.C. Since 1994 – Adjunct Fellow.
September 1997 – American Political Science Association International Fellow, Washington D.C.
January-February 1998 – visiting Professor at the Institute for Political Studies in Bordeaux, France.
Since 1999 – visiting Lecturer at the NATO Defence College in Rome.
Diploma, International Relations Summer School, Oxford.
University and Central European University, Prague, Czech Republic (July – August 1992).
A graduate of the Harvard Ukrainian National Security Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Work Experience and Political Life:
1992-1996 – Founder and Director of the Centre for Political Studies (CPS); Associate Professor, Department of Political Science at Donetsk State University.
1996-1998 – Vice-Rector and Dean of the Graduate School at the National University of Kyiv’s Mohyla Academy.
1996-2005 – Chairman of the International Renaissance Foundation (IRF).
1998 – Coordinator at Kyiv Political-Economic and Security Task Force, American-Ukrainian Advisory Committee (AUAC).
Since 1998 – Member, Central and East European Advisory Committee, Freedom House.
2000-2001 – Academic Advisor, “Nations in Transit”, Freedom House, 2000.
2005 – Foreign Policy Advisor to Yulia Tymoshenko, when she served as Ukraine’s Prime Minister.
2006 – Co-Director and Euro‑Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) Coordinator for the NATO Forum on Energy Security (Prague, 2006).
2006-2007 – Member of Parliament of the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko (BYuT). Deputy Head of the Permanent Parliamentary Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and the Ukrainian delegation to the Committee on Parliamentary Cooperation between Ukraine and the European Union.
2007 – Present – Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine for European and International Integration.

Petro Symonenko: official biography

2008-10-25T08:45:00.000-07:00

57 years old. The leader (First Secretary) of the Communist Party of Ukraine.
Member of the Soviet Communist Party since 1978, party chairman since 1993. The Chairman of the Communist Party Faction in Parliament of Ukraine. Candidate for the Presidential race of 2010.

Family and childhood:
1 August 1952 – born in Donetsk. Father, Mykola – tractor driver, mother, Maria – nurse in hospital.

Marital status:
Married. Has two sons, grandson and granddaughter.

Education:
1974 – graduated (with a distinction as a best student) from the Donetsk Polytechnic Institute as an mining engineer-electrician.
1987-1991 – studied at the Kiev Political Science Institute, graduated.

Work Experience and Political Life:
1974-1975 – engineer-constructor in “Donuglemash” project institute.
From 1975 – activist of the Soviet youth movement Komsomol in Ukraine (LKSMU). Instructor, head of Department of Donetsk City Committee of Komsomol.
From 1978 – member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1982-1988 – the Secretary of the Central Committee of the LKSMU.
January 1988 – August 1991 – served in a Communist Party apparatus as a Secretary of Mariupol (Donetsk region) City Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, Secretary of Donetsk Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.
1991-1993 – after the prohibition of the Communist Party in Ukraine worked as a Deputy Director of “Ukruglemash” (Ukrainian cool mining machines) corporation.
June 1993 – elected as a first Secretary of Central Committee of the renewed Communist Party of Ukraine.
March 1994 – elected as a member of Parliament of Ukraine by majority vote from the Chervonoarmijsk district No 150.
1999 – took part in the Presidential elections and lost to Leonid Kuchma at the second round of election with 37.8% of votes.
2004 – lost at the Presidential elections with only 5% of the votes and fourth place in a first electoral round.
September 2007 – re-elected to the Parliament of Ukraine of 6th convocation.

Volodymyr Lytvyn: official biography

2008-10-25T07:22:00.000-07:00

53 y.o. Speaker of Parliament of Ukraine. Chairman of People's party of Ukraine. Head of Lytvyn Bloc faction in Parliament of Ukraine. Speaker of Parliament of Ukraine (currently, and during 4th convocation, 2002). Candidate for a presidential race of 2009-2010.

Family and Childhood:
9 April 1956 – born in Sloboda Romanivska village in Novograd-Volynsky district of Zhytomyr region. His parents, Mykhaylo (b. 1930) and mother Olga (b. 1929) were peasants.

Marital status:
Married, wife Tetyana (b. 1960) is an economist. They have two children, Olena (b. 1982) and Ivan (b. 1989).

Education and Academic Achievements:
1978 - graduated from Taras Shevchenko University in Kyiv with a history degree.
1995 - Doctor of Science in History (the Taras Shevchenko University in Kyiv).
Vice-President of National Academy of sciences of Ukraine.

Work Experience and Political Life:
1978-1991 – worked in the principal’s office of the Taras Shevchenko University in Kyiv, was a lecturer and a chief lecturer, at the same time had his postgraduate studies.
1986-1989 – head of the Directorate of Ministry of high and professional education of Ukraine.
1989-1991 – worked in Soviet Ukraine’s Communist Party apparatus.
1991-94 – associate professor of the Taras Shevchenko University in Kyiv, writing a doctor’s theses.
July 1994 – aide of the President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma in questions of internal politics.
November 1995 – the President’s administration deputy chief.
1996-1999 – served as President’s first assistant and chief speechwriter.
November 1999 – Chief of President’s administration.
March 2002 – elected as Member of Parliament of Ukraine of 4th convocation as a leader (No 1 in a list) of political block “For United Ukraine” (“За єдину Україну”).
28 May 2002 – elected as Head of Parliament of Ukraine.
March 2006 – People’s Block of Lytvyn won 2.44 % of the popular vote and no seats in the Parliament of 5th convocation.
2007 – in the early parliamentary election held on September 30, 2007, the Lytvyn Bloc (renamed from Lytvyn's People's Bloc) consisted of the People's Party and the Labour Party was placed in fifth place. It won 20 out of 450 seats in the Parliament of Ukraine of 6th convocation.

Presidential election – 2010 (registered candidates as to 04.11.2009)

2008-10-23T12:13:00.000-07:00

The list of the candidates to the post of the President of Ukraine, registered by the Central Election Commission of Ukraine:

Oleh RIABOKON (RYABOKON)
Registration number: 1.
Registration date: 23.10.2009
36 y. o. lawyer, founder of the “Magisters and partners” law firm.
Biography>>
Official website of the candidate: -

Anatoly HRYTSENKO (GRYTSENKO)
Registration number: 2.
Registration date: 23.10.2009
Member of Parliament, “Our Ukraine – People’s Self-Defense” faction. Ex-Minister of Defense of Ukraine.
Official biography>>
http://www.grytsenko.com.ua/

Arseniy YATSENIUK
Registration number: 3.
Registration day: 23.10.2009
Member of Parliament, “Our Ukraine – People’s Self-Defense” faction.
Ex-Minister of Economy, ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs and ex-Speaker of Parliament of Ukraine.
Official biography>>
http://www.arseniy.org/

Petro SYMONENKO
Registration number: 4.
Registration day: 23.10.2009
Member of Parliament, the Communist Party faction.
Head of the Communist Party of Ukraine.
Official biography>>
http://www.kpu.net.ua/

Volodymyr LYTVYN
Registration number: 5.
Registration day: 26.10.2009
Chairman of the Parliament of Ukraine, Head of People's Party of Ukraine.
Official biography>>
http://narodna.org.ua/
http://chairman.rada.gov.ua/

Sergiy TIGIPKO (TYGYPKO)
Registration number: 6.
Registration day: 27.10.2009
Businessman, banker, politician, ex-Head of the National Bank of Ukraine.
Official biography>>
http://tigipko.com/
http://tigipko.org.ua/

Inna BOGOSLOVSKA
Registration number: 7.
Registration day: 27.10.2009
Lawyer, politician. Member of Parliament of Ukraine (the Party of Regions' faction).
Official biography>>
http://inna.com.ua/

Viktor YANUKOVYCH
Registration number: 8.
Registration day: 28.10.2009
Head of the Party of Regions of Ukraine. Member of Parliament of Ukraine.
Official biography>>
http://yanukovych.com.ua/
http://www.partyofregions.com.ua/

Viktor YUSHCHENKO
Registration nubber: 9.
Registration day: 29.10.2009
President of Ukraine. Leader of "People's Union Our Ukraine" political party.
Official biography>>
http://www.president.gov.ua/
http://www.razom.org.ua/

Oleh TIAHNYBOK (TYAGNYBOK)
Registration number: 10.
Registration day: 30.10.2009
Leader of the Ukrainian Nationalist NGO "Svoboda" (ukr. Freedom).
Official biography>>
http://www.tiahnybok.info/
http://www.svoboda.org.ua/

Yuriy KOSTENKO
Registration number: 11.
Registration day: 30.10.2009
Member of Parliament of Ukraine (Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense Faction), Head of Ukrainian People's Party.
Official biography>>
http://kostenko.unp-ua.org/

Yulia TYMOSHENKO
Registration number: 12.
Registration day: 31.10.2009
Prime Minister of Ukraine.
Official biography>>
http://tymoshenko.com.ua/

Mihailo BRODSKYI (Mikhail BRODSKIY)
Registration number: 13.
Registration day: 02.11.2009
Politician, businessman, Leader of the Party of Independent Democrats, Director-Consultant of the Ukrainian Italian joint venture Veneto.
Biography>>
http://mihailobrodskiy.livejournal.com/

Oleksandr PABAT
Registration number: 14.
Registration day: 02.11.2009
Politician, Member of Kyiv City Council, President of the Civil Active of Kyiv NGO Alliance.
Biography>>

Arseniy Yatseniuk: official biography

2008-10-21T04:24:00.000-07:00

35 years old. Ex-Head of Parliament of Ukraine (also Ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs). Head of the Front zmin (The Front of Changes) political party (since 27.10.2009). Candidate for the Presidential electionof 2010.

Family and childhood:
Born: May 22, 1974
Place of Birth: Chernivtsi

Marital status:
Spouse: Tereziya Yatseniuk. Children: Hrystina and Sofia.

Education:
1992-1996 – Chernivtsi University.
1996-2001 – Chernivtsi Trade-Economics Institute of the Kiev National Trade-Economics Institute.

Foreign languages spoken:
English.

Work Experience and Political Life:
12.1992-09.1997 – President of "Yurek Ltd." law firm, based in Chernivtsi.
01.1998-12.1998 – Consultant of the post-pension "Aval" bank, based in Kiev.
12.1998-08.2001 – Advisor to the Chairman of board of directors of the post-pension "Aval" bank, based in Kiev.
08.2001-09.2001 – Deputy Chairman of board of directors of the post-pension "Aval" bank, based in Kiev.
09.2001-11.2001 – "acting" Minister of Economy of Crimea.
11.2001-01.2003 – official Minister of Economy of Crimea.
01.2003-02.2005 – First Vice-President of the National Bank of Ukraine, an acting Head of the National Bank of Ukraine.
03.2005-09.2005 – Vice-Governor of Odessa Oblast.
09.2005-08.2006 – Minister of Economy of Ukraine
09.2006-03.2007 – First Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine, authorized representative of the President of Ukraine in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, authorized representative of the President of Ukraine in charge of the Security Service control, member of the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine.
03.2007-12.2007 – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.
23.11.2007 – Member of Parliament of Ukraine, elected by multi-mandate national district with the Bloc "Our Ukraine – People's Self-Defence" (People's Union "Our Ukraine", Political party "Forward, Ukraine!", People's Movement of Ukraine (Rukh), Ukrainian People's Party, Ukrainian Republican Party "Sobor", Christian-Democratic Union Party, European Party of Ukraine, Civic party "PORA", Party of Motherland Defenders).
Sequence number in the party list – 3.
Head of Parliament of Ukraine.
12 November 2008 – dismissed from the post of the Head of Parliament.
04.12.2007 the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

Viktor Yanukovych: official biography

2008-10-18T19:15:00.000-07:00

59 years old. Member of Parliament of Ukraine. Head of the "Party of Regions" and its parliamentary faction. Candidate for a presidential race of 2009-2010.

Family and childhood:
Born on July 9, 1950 to a working class family in Yenakiyevo, Donetsk region.

Marital status:
Married to Lyudmyla Yanukovych, they have two sons: Oleksandr and Viktor.

Education:
A graduate of Donetsk Polytechnical Institute (now Donetsk State Technical University) as a mechanical engineer.
MA in international law from the Ukrainian Academy of Foreign Trade.
Doctor of Economics, professor, Full Member of the Academy of Economic Sciences of Ukraine, Member of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Work experience and political life:
1969 – Gas-fitter in the Yenakiyevo metallurgical plant, then Mechanic at a motor enterprise. Than worked as a top executive for 20 years – the General Director of the Production Association "Donbastransremont," "Ukrvuglepromtrans", and Donetsk Regional Territorial Association of Motor Transport.
1996 – Deputy Chairman, then Vice-Chairman of Donetsk Regional State Administration.
1997-2002 – Chairman of Donetsk Regional State Administration, a member of Donetsk Regional Council and Chairman of Donetsk Regional Council.
21 November 2002 – Prime Minister of Ukraine.
4 July 2004 – presidential candidate nominated by the "Party of Regions".
4 August 2006 – Prime Minister of Ukraine.
23 November 2007 – Member of Parliament of Ukraine, elected by multi-mandate national district (head of the "Party of regions" faction).

Yulia Tymoshenko: official biography

2008-10-18T19:11:00.001-07:00

48 years old. Prime Minister of Ukraine. Leader of the political party “All-Ukrainian Union "Batkivshchyna" ("Fatherland") and of the parliamentary Block of Yulia Tymoshenko (BYT). Candidate for a presidential race of 2009-2010.
Family and childhood:
Born on 27 November 1960 in Dnipropetrovsk.

Education:
Graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk State University as an economist-cyberneticist, candidate of economic science.

Work experience and Political life:
Worked as an economy engineer at the machine-building plant in Dnipropetrovsk.
1989-1991 – chaired the Youth Center “Terminal”.
1991-1995 – Commercial and then General director of the corporation “Ukrainian petrol”.
1995-1997 – headed the "United Energy Systems of Ukraine" corporation.
Member of Parliament of Ukraine of five convocations.
1999 – elected as a leader of the political party “All-Ukrainian Union "Batkivshchyna" ("Fatherland").
December 1999-January 2001 – Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine.
July 2004 – Co-Chairman of the electoral commission "Power of the People", one of the leaders of the “Orange Revolution” as a protest against falsification of results of the presidential elections.
February-September 2005 – Prime Minister of Ukraine
18 December 2007 – elected as Prime Minister of Ukraine of the democratic coalition of BYT and OU-PS parliamentary factions.

Viktor Yushchenko: official biography

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55 y. o. The President of Ukraine. Honorary Chairman of "Our Ukraine" political party. Potential candidate for a presidential race of 2009-2010.

Family and childhood:
Born on 23 February 1954 in the village of Khoruzhivka, Sumy region (Ukraine), in a family of teachers. Father – Andriy Yushchenko (1919-1992), took part in the Second World War; after the war taught English at a local school. Mother – Varvara Yushchenko (1918-2005), a Physics and Math teacher.

Marital Status:
Married, with five children and two grandchildren; sons Andriy and Taras, daughters Vitalina, Sofia and Christina, grandchildren Yarynka and Victor.
Wife – Kateryna Yushchenko.

Education and Academic Background:
1975 – graduated from the Ternopil Finance and Economics Institute.
Candidate (doctor) of Economic Sciences. The topic of the thesis – “Development of Money Demand and Supply in Ukraine”.
Member of the National Academy of Economic Sciences and the Academy of Economic Cybernetics of Ukraine.

Work Experience and Political Life:
1975 – Chief accountant assistant, collective farm “40th Anniversary of the October Revolution.” 1975-1976 – Service in the Soviet Army (frontier troops, the Soviet-Turkish border near Leninakan).
1976-1985 – Acting economist, chief of the Ulyanovsk department of the State Bank.
1985-1987 – Deputy Director of the Administration at the Ukrainian Republican Office of the USSR State Bank.
1988-1990 – Head of Department, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Ukrainian Agro-Industrial Bank.
1990-1993 – Deputy, First Deputy Chairman of the Board at the Republican Bank “Ukraina.”
1993-1999 – Chairman and Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU).
1999-2001 – Prime Minister of Ukraine.
2001-2002 – Director of the Borys Yeltsin Ukrainian-Russian Institute of Management and Business.
2002-January 2005 – Member of Parliament of Ukraine, member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee for Human Rights, National Minorities and International Relations. Leader of the “Our Ukraine” parliamentary faction.
2003-January 2005 – Chairman, All-Ukrainian “Our Ukraine” civil organization. Head of the Supervisory Council of the “Ukraine 3000” International Foundation (Victor Yushchenko Foundation).
December 2004 – Elected as the President of Ukraine.