Arseniy Petrovich Yatsenyuk (Ukrainian: Arseniy Petrovich Yatsenyuk). Born on May 22, 1974 in Chernivtsi (Ukrainian SSR). Ukrainian political and statesman. Prime Minister of Ukraine since February 27, 2014.

He held the posts of Minister of Economy in the government of Yekhanurov (2005-2006) and Minister of Foreign Affairs in the second government of Yanukovych (2007). In 2007-2008 he was Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

In 2009-2012 he headed the political party “Front of Change”. From June to December 2012 he headed the council of the “United Opposition”, from December 11, 2012 to March 4, 2014 - head of the faction of the All-Ukrainian Union “Batkivshchyna” in the Verkhovna Rada, from June 14, 2013 to April 27, 2014 - chairman of the political council of the party . Since September 10, 2014, he has headed the Popular Front party.

Born on May 22, 1974 in the Bukovina city of Chernivtsi in the family of a teacher of the history of Russia, Germany and Latin America Peter Ivanovich Yatsenyuk and teachers French Maria Grigorievna Yatsenyuk (ur. Bakai; b. 1943), native of Kolomyia.

In 1991 he graduated from the specialized English-language school No. 9 named after Panas Mirny with a silver medal. In the same year he entered the law faculty of Chernivtsi national university. He continued his studies at the Chernivtsi Trade and Economic Institute of the Kyiv National Trade and Economic University.

In December 1992, 18-year-old Arseniy, together with the son of the then governor of the Chernivtsi region, Valentin Gnatyshin, participated in the creation of the law firm "YurEk Ltd" in Chernivtsi. Thus, he combined university studies with entrepreneurial activity.

In 1996, he graduated from the university with a degree in jurisprudence, after which he headed his own company for more than a year. law firm, successfully engaged in the privatization of various industrial and agricultural enterprises.

Since January 1998, Yatsenyuk moved to Kyiv, where he became a consultant in the credit department of the Joint Stock Postal and Pension Bank Raiffeisen Bank Aval.

In December 1998, he took the position of advisor to the chairman of the board of Aval Bank. Arseniy Yatsenyuk spent his last month of work at Avala as deputy chairman of the bank’s board, after which he was invited by the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Crimea Valery Gorbatov to the post of Minister of Economy.

In 2001, 27-year-old Yatsenyuk graduated from the Chernivtsi Trade and Economic Institute - a branch of the Kyiv National Trade and Economic University - with a degree in accounting and auditing, receiving a second higher education.

On September 19, 2001, the political career of Arseniy Yatsenyuk began. On that day, the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea approved his appointment as acting Minister of Economy of Crimea in the government of Valery Gorbatov. On November 21 of the same year, by decision of the Crimean parliament, Yatsenyuk was confirmed as Minister of Economy.

On April 29, 2002, he resigned along with the entire government, as the newly elected Verkhovna Rada of Crimea began work. And although on the same day Sergei Kunitsyn became acting chairman of the Council of Ministers instead of Valery Gorbatov, Yatsenyuk retained his position. Already on May 15, he headed the Ministry of Economics for the second time, but remained in this position for less than a year, after which he moved to new job in Kyiv.

In January 2003, the chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine, Sergei Tigipko, appointed Yatsenyuk as his first deputy.

In 2004, Yatsenyuk received the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences, defending his dissertation on the topic “Organization of the system of banking supervision and regulation in Ukraine.”

When Sergei Tigipko headed the election headquarters of Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych on July 4, 2004, Yatsenyuk was assigned to serve as head of the NBU until the end of the election campaign. Because of the Orange Revolution, this stage of his activity lasted until December 16, until the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine accepted the resignation of Sergei Tigipko, appointing Vladimir Stelmakh as the new head of the NBU.

On November 30, 2004, acting as head of the NBU, Yatsenyuk issued Resolution No. 576/2004 on a temporary ban on early withdrawal of bank deposits, which prevented the possible negative consequences of political confrontation. Yevgeny Chervonenko noted in 2009 that Yatsenyuk “kept the currency and the National Bank during the revolution.”

In February 2005, Yatsenyuk resigned.

On March 9, 2005, the Chairman of the Odessa Regional State Administration Vasily Tsushko appointed Arseniy Yatsenyuk as his first deputy. He remained in this service until his appointment as Minister of Economy of Ukraine on September 27 of the same year.

On September 27, 2005, Yatsenyuk was appointed Minister of Economy in the government of Yuri Yekhanurov.

On May 25, 2006, the newly elected Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 5th convocation dismissed the government, instructing it to continue to fulfill its duties until a new one is elected. Due to the parliamentary crisis, Yatsenyuk was forced to work as a minister for more than two months, until on August 4 he was dismissed along with the entire cabinet of ministers.

While in this position, Yatsenyuk led negotiations on Ukraine’s accession to the World Trade Organization, headed the Ukraine-European Union Committee, was a member of the Advisory Council on Foreign Investment in Ukraine and a manager on the Board of the Black Sea Trade and Development Bank (December 28, 2005 - March 5, 2007).

On September 20, 2006, President of Ukraine Yushchenko appointed Yatsenyuk as the first deputy head of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine - the representative of the President of Ukraine in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.

In the government, Yatsenyuk represented the interests of the president at a difficult time for him, since the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, one after another, fired almost all the ministers loyal to Viktor Yushchenko. In addition, since September 25, 2006, Yatsenyuk was a member of the board of the National Bank of Ukraine, as well as a member of the supervisory boards of OJSC State Export-Import Bank of Ukraine and OJSC State Savings Bank of Ukraine. He was relieved of his last two positions on March 13, 2007.

On March 21, 2007, with 426 votes out of 450, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine approved Yatsenyuk for the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs. His candidacy was proposed by President Yushchenko after parliament twice rejected the candidacy of Vladimir Ohryzko.

Having become Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yatsenyuk also joined the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

Almost the entire tenure of Yatsenyuk as Minister of Foreign Affairs occurred during the acute political crisis that began on April 2, 2007 with the dissolution of the Ukrainian parliament.

On July 5, the party bloc “Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense” (NU-NS), which supported President Yushchenko, nominated Yatsenyuk as a candidate for deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Having become a deputy, in early December he was elected to the post of head of the Verkhovna Rada. On December 18, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine dismissed Yatsenyuk from his post as head of the Foreign Ministry.

On November 23, 2007, Yatsenyuk took the oath of office as a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, and on December 4, 2007, following a secret ballot, he became the eighth chairman of the Ukrainian parliament. 227 deputies voted for his candidacy.

On December 21, 2007, the President of Ukraine removed Yatsenyuk from the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, since the head of parliament, unlike the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, should not be a member of this government body. However, on the same day, Yatsenyuk was reintroduced to the NSDC.

On November 12, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine removed Yatsenyuk from presiding over plenary sessions for a period of two days. After this, the process of accepting the resignation of the head of parliament was changed - secret voting was replaced by open voting. The Verkhovna Rada immediately used the new method and accepted Yatsenyuk’s resignation with 233 votes in favor. The decision to resign was supported by 175 deputies from the Party of Regions faction, 10 from the NU-NS, 27 from the Communist Party of Ukraine, 20 from the Lytvyn Bloc and 1 from BYuT. There is an opinion that deputies from the pro-presidential party NU-NS refused to support Yatsenyuk on the instructions of Viktor Yushchenko, which led to Yatsenyuk losing this post.

On December 16, 2008, Yatsenyuk announced plans to create political party based on the public initiative “Front of Change”. In an interview with The Day newspaper on February 4, 2009, he stated that he has no allies among politicians. Yatsenyuk was called a political clone of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko.

On April 5, 2009, Yatsenyuk confirmed that he would nominate his candidacy for presidential elections 2010. The cost of his presidential campaign was estimated at 60-70 million dollars. Billboards of Yatsenyuk that appeared throughout Ukraine in late June 2009 depicted him in a militaristic style, whereas his previous image was of a “young liberal”. Some analysts believe this had a negative impact on the campaign's results.

In September 2009, at a meeting of the NBU Council, of which Yatsenyuk was then a member, at his proposal, the possibility of issuing money by the National Bank in the interests of the government was blocked.

In November 2009, Yatsenyuk was elected leader of the Front for Change party, and the party nominated him for president. In January 2010, Yatsenyuk stated that his election campaign cost 80 million hryvnia and that he had 10 times less advertising than all of his political opponents; Yatsenyuk said that most of the expenses went to television.

If he won, Yatsenyuk was going to dissolve the Verkhovna Rada, since, in his opinion, parliament would interfere with his activities.

Yatsenyuk, however, took only fourth place, receiving 6.96% of the votes.

Viktor Baloga testified about the active participation in Yatsenyuk’s presidential campaign by the wife of then Ukrainian President Yushchenko, Catherine-Claire. (It is interesting in this regard to note that when A. Morozov was the head of Oschadbank, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, being the first deputy head of the secretariat of the President of Ukraine, raised the issue of Oschadbank financing Katerina Yushchenko’s foundation, Morozov testified that this issue was considered at the level President of Ukraine Yushchenko.)

On February 21, 2010, President Yanukovych proposed three candidates for the post of Prime Minister of Ukraine: Yatsenyuk, Sergei Tihipko and Mykola Azarov. Yatsenyuk rejected the proposal after the Ukrainian parliament adopted an amendment on March 9, 2010, which allowed individual deputies, and not just parliamentary factions, to take part in forming a majority coalition; Yatsenyuk did not approve of this amendment and called for early parliamentary elections: “Unconstitutional attempts by parliamentarians to form a coalition and government will lead to a deepening of the political crisis and to a crisis of statehood as such.”

In April 2012, the leader of the Front for Change, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, and the imprisoned leader of Batkivshchyna, Yulia Tymoshenko, announced the formation general list to participate in parliamentary elections. In June 2012, Yatsenyuk was elected chairman of the council of the United Opposition.

On July 14, 2012, Yatsenyuk and other members of the Front for Change ceased membership in the party in order to take part in the parliamentary elections on the Batkivshchyna list as non-party members. The head of the party secretariat, Svetlana Voitsekhovskaya, was appointed acting party leader. Back in April, Yatsenyuk emphasized that “the Front for Change existed and will exist,” but also stated that uniting the opposition could lay the foundation for the creation of a single party.

As a result of the October parliamentary elections, the “United Opposition” received 62 seats (25.54% of the vote) on the party list and another 39 in majoritarian districts, receiving a total of 101 seats in parliament. On December 11, 2012, Yatsenyuk was elected chairman of the Batkivshchyna faction; the council of the United Opposition was headed instead by Alexander Turchynov.

On June 15, 2013, a unification congress took place in Kyiv, at which Yulia Tymoshenko was re-elected chairman of the VO “Batkivshchyna”, and Yatsenyuk was elected chairman of the party’s political council at her suggestion.

Since November 21, 2013, together with other opposition leaders Vitali Klitschko and Oleg Tyagnibok, he coordinated protests in the center of Kyiv, which began in response to the suspension by the Ukrainian government of the process of preparing for the signing of an association agreement between Ukraine and the European Union.

On December 20, 2013, Yatsenyuk informed the public that the SBU had opened a criminal case against him “for calling for a coup.”

In order to get out of the protracted political crisis, on January 25, 2014, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych offered Yatsenyuk the post of prime minister, but he refused.

On February 1, 2014, together with other opposition leaders, he took part in the Munich Conference, where he had meetings with US Secretary of State John Kerry and European officials.

On February 26, 2014, candidates for the government to be formed were presented on the Maidan, in which Yatsenyuk was offered the post of Prime Minister of Ukraine. The next day, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a resolution “On the appointment of A.P. Yatsenyuk as Prime Minister of Ukraine.”

Before his appointment, Yatsenyuk called his cabinet of ministers “a government of political kamikazes.” Under him, the government faced the Crimean crisis and armed conflict in eastern Ukraine, and under him the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union was signed.

On June 13, 2014, non-factional people’s deputy Roman Stadniychuk filed a lawsuit with the Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine (HACU), in which he demanded that the resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine No. 800-VII “On the appointment of A.P. Yatsenyuk as Prime Minister of Ukraine” be declared illegal and canceled. justifying his demand by the fact that, in his opinion, the adoption of the resolution contradicted a number of provisions of the Constitution of Ukraine8]. Having considered the presented materials, the Supreme Administrative Court decided to open administrative proceedings on the claim of R. Stadniychuk.

Yatsenyuk announced his resignation on July 24, 2014 due to the collapse of the parliamentary coalition and the blocking of government initiatives. After Yatsenyuk’s consultations with President Petro Poroshenko, the speaker and the leaders of parliamentary factions, it was decided to re-introduce the bills that became the reason for the resignation for consideration by parliament at an extraordinary meeting. At the same time, when re-submitting the bill on increasing tax fees, the conditions were relaxed in the interests of Igor Kolomoisky and other gas producers. On July 31, the Verkhovna Rada adopted two of the three bills and refused to accept Yatsenyuk’s resignation.

After holding early parliamentary elections in Ukraine, on November 27, 2014, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 8th convocation approved the candidacy of Arseniy Yatsenyuk for the post of Prime Minister. On December 2, 2014, the government was formed.

On September 10, 2014, Yatsenyuk and Verkhovna Rada Speaker Alexander Turchynov headed the new Popular Front party. Yatsenyuk was elected chairman of its political council. The party's political council also included: Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov, Minister of Justice Pavel Petrenko, ex-Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Andrey Parubiy, Maidan activist Tatyana Chernovol, people's deputies Vyacheslav Kirilenko and Liliya Grinevich. The party itself arose after the departure of a number of the above-mentioned politicians due to disagreements with the leadership of the political council of the Batkivshchyna party.

The party's military council included: Alexander Turchynov, Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov, people's deputy Sergei Pashinsky, ex-secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Andrei Parubiy, Dmitry Tymchuk, deputy battalion commander of the National Guard Sergei Sidoriny, commander of the Azov battalion and head of the neo-Nazi organization "Patriot of Ukraine" Andrei Biletsky, battalion commander of the "Dnepr-1" battalion Yuriy Bereza, battalion commander of the "Artemovsk" Konstantin Mateichenko, commanders of the battalions "Golden Gate", "Chernigov", "Peacemaker". The Military Council was created in accordance with Ukrainian legislation, since military personnel and law enforcement officers cannot be members of any party.

In the parliamentary elections, the party took first place with 22.16% (3,485,191 votes), after which on November 27, together with the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, Samopomich, Oleg Lyashko’s Radical Party and Batkivshchyna, it organized the “European Ukraine” coalition (comprising which included 302 deputies who created a constitutional majority in the Verkhovna Rada of the VIII convocation).

Family:

Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s father is Pyotr Ivanovich Yatsenyuk (born July 12, 1941 in the urban village of Kostrizhevka, Zastavnovsky district, Chernivtsi region), currently deputy dean of the history department of Chernivtsi National University. He is the nephew of the publicist, participant and historian of the OUN (b) Petro Mirchuk.

Mother, Maria Grigorievna Yatsenyuk (née Bakai, born November 22, 1943 in the village of Knyazhdvor, Kolomyia district, Ivano-Frankivsk region) is a French teacher in one of the Chernivtsi secondary schools (according to other sources, also at Chernivtsi University).

Sister - Alina Petrovna Yatsenyuk (later changed her surname to Jones and Steele by her husbands). Born on September 30, 1967, she graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Philology of Chernivtsi State University in 1989, knows English perfectly, speaks French, Polish and German languages, worked part-time as translations. In 1999, Alina moved to the United States with her 11-year-old daughter Ulyana from her first marriage. Lives in Santa Barbara in California (USA). The second husband is American Jones. The third husband is American John Steel, who is involved in real estate, and their son together is James (b. 2011).

Yatsenyuk is married, his wife Teresa Viktorovna Yatsenyuk (Gur) was born in 1970. They have two daughters - Christina (born 1999) and Sofia (born 2004). The Yatsenyuk family has been living near Kiev since 2003 (in the village of Novye Petrivtsi, Vyshgorod district), not far from the former residence of Mezhyhirya Viktor Yanukovych.

Religion: Greek Catholic.

Born on May 22, 1974 in Chernivtsi. In 1996 he graduated from Chernivtsi State University majoring in jurisprudence. In 2001, he received another diploma from the Chernivtsi Trade and Economic Institute of the Kyiv Trade and Economic University (specialty - "accounting and auditing"). Candidate of Economic Sciences.

In December 1992, he became president of the Chernivtsi law firm YUREK Ltd., which dealt with privatization issues. He headed the company until September 1997.
From January 1998 to August 2001, he worked at the main office of the Joint Stock Postal Pension Bank "Aval": as a consultant in the credit department, as an adviser to the chairman of the board and, finally, as deputy chairman.

A. Yatsenyuk leaves Aval for civil service. In September 2001, he was appointed acting. Minister of Economy of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, in November he becomes minister “without prefix”, and holds this post until January 2003. Then he moved to Kiev again and until February 2005 he worked as the first deputy chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine (from July to December 2004 - after the departure of his boss Sergei Tigipko, who headed the campaign headquarters of Viktor Yanukovych in the presidential elections - he even served as chairman). The next stage in the biography is a “business trip” to the province: from March to September 2005, A. Yatsenyuk worked as first deputy to the Odessa governor Vasily Tsushko.

Another return to the capital was associated with the appointment of Yuri Yekhanurov to the post of Minister of Economy in the government. He held this position from September 2005 to August 2006.

In the spring of 2006, after the parliamentary elections, A. Yatsenyuk was considered as one of the candidates for the post of Prime Minister from a possible “orange” coalition. After creating the anti-crisis coalition, Viktor Yushchenko in September 2006 appointed A. Yatsenyuk to the post of First Deputy Head of the Presidential Secretariat - the President's representative in the Cabinet of Ministers. Considering the confrontation that arose (“war of powers”) between the head of state and the parliamentary majority in alliance with the government headed by the “regional” V. Yanukovych, one can assume that A. Yatsenyuk was entrusted with a direction that was very responsible for V. Yushchenko. In addition, by separate decrees, the President appointed him a member of the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine and a member of the supervisory boards of the state-owned Oschadbank and Ukreximbank. He also instructed to monitor compliance constitutional rights citizens and legislation in the activities of the SBU.

After his appointment to the Presidential Secretariat, A. Yatsenyuk became even more talked about as V. Yushchenko’s new favorite. And a widespread statement about joining the People's Union Our Ukraine party (literally on the eve of the October congress) confirmed assumptions that his candidacy would be officially or unofficially proposed to party members as one of the possible new leaders of the NSNU (instead of Roman Bessmertny). Later it turned out that The young politician did not write an application to join the party. Since then, he has repeatedly emphasized that he is not constrained by any party obligations, which for him “is a positive thing.”

On March 21, 2007, parliament elected A. Yatsenyuk as head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It happened after two unsuccessful attempts The president should be promoted to this post by Vladimir Ohryzko, who served as first deputy head of the foreign policy department and was considered a firm follower of his boss, Boris Tarasyuk. At the same time, as head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the now former deputy head of the Presidential Secretariat was appointed a member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

In the early parliamentary elections of 2007, A. Yatsenyuk entered the Verkhovna Rada under No. 3 on the list of the Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense (NUNS) bloc. On December 4, the coalition created a few days earlier between the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and the NUNS cast 227 votes out of a possible 228 for the election of A. Yatsenyuk as speaker of parliament. The only member who did not vote was the former Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Ivan Plyushch, who advocated the creation of a “broad” coalition with the obligatory participation of the Party of Regions in it.

On November 12, 2008, the factions of the Party of Regions, Communists, the Lytvyn Bloc and the United Center group of the NUNS faction, with 233 votes, recalled A. Yatsenyuk from the post of chairman of parliament. This event was the next stage of a protracted political crisis, which was preceded by a permanent war between President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Tymoshenko, a split in the Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense faction, the collapse of the BYuT-NUNS coalition, unsuccessful attempts to form a new majority in the Verkhovna Rada and a constant search for enemies by the main political parties. players.

On April 23, 2012, the leader of the Front of Change, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, and the leader of the Batkivshchyna, Yulia Tymoshenko, signed a Declaration of Unity, according to which the parties go to the elections on the Batkivshchyna electoral list. The list will be headed by Yulia Tymoshenko and Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

On July 14, 2012, the Congress of the Front of Changes party adopted a unanimous decision that Arseniy Yatsenyuk and members of the Front of Changes would run for elections on the Batkivshchyna list as non-party members public organization"Front of change". According to the decision, membership in the party is terminated in connection with participation in the elections to the Verkhovna Rada within the framework of the United Opposition on the basis of the VO "Batkivshchyna". Thus, the chairman of the Council of the United Opposition “Batkivshchyna” Yatsenyuk is going to the parliamentary elections as a non-partisan, chairman of the public organization “Front of Change”. Other members of the “Front of Change” party are non-party members, members of the NGO “Front of Change”, the report notes.

Also, the Congress of the Front for Change decided to assign the duties of party leader during the campaign for the election of people's deputies to the head of the Party Secretariat, Svetlana Voitsekhovskaya.

Membership of candidates for deputies in the Front of Change party is terminated until the oath of a people's deputy of Ukraine is taken, the message emphasizes.

As the press service explained, decision is of a purely technical nature, since the Law “On Elections of People’s Deputies of Ukraine” does not provide for the formation of electoral blocs.

On February 27, 2013, he was elected Prime Minister of Ukraine. 371 deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine voted for the appointment.
On July 24, 2014, he resigned due to the dissolution of the ruling coalition and blocking of the Cabinet's initiatives.
On July 28, 2014, Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk returned to work.
On April 14, 2016, he resigned.

In September 2014, at the congress, he was elected head of the political council of the political party Popular Front.
In November 2014, he was elected as a people's deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the VIII convocation.
On November 27, 2014, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine reappointed Arseniy Yatsenyuk as Prime Minister of Ukraine. From the Petro Poroshenko Bloc - 138 votes in favor, from the Popular Front - 83, the Opposition Bloc - 1, "Samopomich" - 32, the Radical Party - 21, the "Power of the People" group - 19, "Batkivshchyna" - 18, the group " Economic development” - 16.

Private bussiness

At 24, Arseniy Yatsenyuk moved from hometown Chernivtsi to Kyiv.
24 years – Consultant of the credit department of the Joint-Stock Postal Pension Bank “Aval”, (01.1998-12.1998 Kiev).
At the age of 24 (from 12.1998) he became an adviser to the chairman of the board of the Joint-Stock Postal Pension Bank "Aval" (12.1998-08.2001 Kyiv).
At the age of 27 - Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Joint Stock Postal Pension Bank "Aval" (from 08-09.2001, Kyiv).
At the age of 27 - Minister of Economy of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (09.2001-11.2003 Simferopol).
At the age of 29 - First Deputy Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine (01.2003-02.2005).
At the age of 31 - Minister of Economy of Ukraine (09/27/2005-08/04/2006).
At 33 years old - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2007).
At 33 years old - Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (2007).
At 34 years old – Former Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (2008).

1. Last name, first name, patronymic. Yatsenyuk Arseniy Petrovich (the mother wanted to name her son Gosha at birth, but the father at the last moment, while registering the birth of his son at the registry office, named him Arseniy and confronted his wife with a fait accompli).

Photo from the family archive, 2007. Pyotr Ivanovich and Maria Grigorievna Yatsenyuki

3. Citizenship of Ukraine.

4. Nationality. Ukrainian.

5. Parents:

Father - Yatsenyuk Petr Ivanovich, born on July 12, 1941 in the village of Kostirzhivka, Zastavnytskyi district in Bukovina. In 1988 he defended his thesis, and until 2002 he worked as deputy dean of the Faculty of History at Chernivtsi University.

Mother - Yatsenyuk Maria Grigorievna, born on November 21, 1943 in the village of Knyazhvir, Kolomyia district, Stanislav (now Ivano-Frankivsk) region. Maiden name Bakai (in 1953 the Bakai family moved to Kolomyia). In 1962, Maria Bakai entered the faculty foreign languages Chernivtsi State University. On November 21, 1965, she became engaged to Pyotr Yatsenyuk (it is noteworthy that he was also 24 years old at the time!), a third-year student at the Faculty of History. In 1967 she began teaching French at the university.

6. Sister - Alina Petrovna (aka Steele, aka Jones), born on September 30, 1967, currently lives in the USA. According to her mother, Maria Grigorievna, Alina’s last name is Steele. Arseniy Yatsenyuk himself states that her current surname is Jones. In 1999, after Arseny’s marriage, Alina and her 11-year-old daughter Ulyana went to live in Santa Barbara (California, USA). Alina works as a manager, and Ulyana studies at the University of California.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk with his wife Teresia Viktorovna

7. Wife – Teresia Viktorovna, born in 1970. I met Arseniy Yatsenyuk in 1998 at the New Year celebration at Aval Bank. Now Teresia Viktorovna is in another maternity leave, last position - assistant at Avala. When they first met, Teresia gave her future father-in-law Pyotr Ivanovich substantial Swiss Watches, and Maria Grigorievna - expensive perfumes.

Teresia Viktorovna’s parents: father Viktor Illarionovich Gur is a professor of philosophy at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute, mother Svetlana Nikitichna is a candidate of philosophical sciences, now retired.

Viktor Illarionovich Gur

8. The wife’s father, Viktor Ilarionovich Gur, was born on December 1, 1931 in the Sumy region. The Gurov family, according to Viktor Illarionovich, is allegedly connected with the old Polish-Ukrainian Lebedinsky family. The philosopher's great-great-grandfather, the Krakow architect Sigismund Lebedinsky, was exiled by the tsarist government to Slobozhanshchina for supporting the interests of the Polish peasantry.

Teresia's father - Viktor Illarionovich Gur

In 1949, Viktor Gur graduated from the Kiev Suvorov military school, in 1951 - Kiev Military Infantry School, in 1960 - Faculty of History and Philosophy of Kyiv University. During his postgraduate studies at KSU, under the influence of a number of Moscow and Leningrad scientists, in particular the author of the rather unorthodox monograph “Humanism” for Soviet times, Maria Petrosyan and her husband, Professor Khachik Momdzhyan, he became interested in the problems of social democratic theory. Since 1965 he taught ethics at the CPT. Since 1984 - Associate Professor, and since 1995 - Professor of the Department of Philosophy of the CPP. He is the author of a number of works on political theory, in particular the monograph The Ethical Concept of German Social Democracy: Bad Godesberg, 1959-1989, published in 1997 with the assistance of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

8. Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s grandfather, Grigory Dmitrievich Bakai, lived in the village of Knyazhvir, Kolomyia district of Stanislav (now Ivano-Frankivsk) region. In 1953, the Bakai family moved to Kolomyia.

9. Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s maternal aunt, Miroslava Grigorets, lives near Kolomyia.

10. Hobbies of Arseniy Yatsenyuk. During his school years, Arseniy Yatsenyuk collected stamps and match labels.

12. Nicknames. Senya. Rabbit. Senya Front-line soldier. Pisyay

Spheres of Influence 2014

“He looks like a nerd, but he knows his stuff and solves problems,” this is how one of the venerable Ukrainian officials described the new prime minister. Indeed, on political career At the time of his appointment to the post of head of government, experts gave up on Yatsenyuk - they say that he would have to solve too harsh and unpopular tasks. But since then, a lot of water has passed under the bridge, and Arseny Petrovich showed himself to be a man of acumen, who managed to form his own, very powerful, group of influence, which is now resolving a variety of issues in every sense of the word. First of all, it is worth noting that the post of prime minister in a parliamentary-presidential republic is key. The head of government distributes financial flows within the state and (which is especially important given the current financial famine in the country) negotiates financial flows from abroad, in order to then again distribute them within the country. All this is complemented by the presence of powerful personnel levers located in Yatsenyuk’s immediate sphere of influence: we're talking about and about the Chairman of the National Bank Kubiv, and about the Minister of Finance Shlapak, and about the head of the Ministry of Justice Petrenko, and about the Minister of Infrastructure Burbak (the latter two are generally long-time friends of Yatsenyuk since the days of his Bukovinian youth). Within this sphere of influence, the prime minister is able to resolve many issues without the consent of Tymoshenko - in particular, the issue of the hryvnia, as happened recently.

At the same time, Yatsenyuk himself is considered a figure who is seriously influenced by the main pro-government oligarch Kolomoisky (there is a persistent rumor in the Rada: the Dnepropetrovsk governor agreed with Poroshenko that under him the prime minister will remain the same; there are unverified rumors about a similar agreement with Tymoshenko). However, the prime minister still has quite a lot of freedom of action: there are enough areas not related to Kolomoisky’s interests in which Yatsenyuk makes decisions without his influence.

National question

The question of Arseniy Yatsenyuk's Jewishness was first raised in March 2007, when he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. It was then for the first time that it was stated that Arseniy Yatsenyuk, despite the slander of hostile forces, was a purebred Ukrainian.

When Yatsenyuk was elected speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, a representative of the Party of Regions asked him a question about his nationality: “Arseniy Petrovich, are you a Jew?” Yatsenyuk again replied that he was Ukrainian.

At the same time, finishing off the “message” to the hilt, Anna German, also a deputy from the Party of Regions, took the floor and apologized for her colleague, noting that the Party of Regions treats people with respect, regardless of their ethnic origin.

It's been that way ever since. Some call Yatsenyuk a Jew. And as a result, they conclude that he cannot occupy this or that leadership position. The second say: so what, he’s a Jew. Still others say that the bad thing is not that he is a Jew, but that he does not admit it.

On August 18, 2009, a certain gentleman in a kippah appeared on Kharkov TV channels, calling himself Yuri Duvinsky. He read out an appeal from the “Jews of Ukraine,” who, it turns out, are all “ready to support Yatsenyuk,” only demanding from him: “You should not shy away from Jewry and, finally, officially declare that you are a Jew and are proud of it.”

Then the man in the kippah explained what exactly the unfortunate Yatsenyuk should be proud of. It turns out that his mother’s maiden name is Bakai, she comes from “an ancient Jewish family,” and her ancestor “wrote the Talmud.” He also voiced the “appeal of the Jewish people” to Yatsenyuk, in which in a denunciatory and slanderous tone it is stated: “we have great respect for your wife Teresa, whose family roots come from the ancient family of Gore, Gur, I beg your pardon, who gave the world the first Israeli Defense Minister..."

Reference: Israeli political scientist Ilya Rosenfeld: “A message constantly passes through Ukrainian news agencies that Yatsenyuk’s mother comes from the Talmudic Bakaev family. Where did they get the Talmudic family of Bakaev from? From which Judeophobic leaflet? Who told them that the Bakai created the Talmud? The Talmud, a record of oral Jewish teaching, was created by generations of Jewish sages of the Land of Israel and Babylon. But your “Bakai” were not among the creators of the Talmud. What you could be convinced of if you did not limit yourself to absorbing Nazi propaganda, but at least opened the page of the Jewish encyclopedia on the Internet.

Gentlemen, Ukrainian black PR specialists! You yourself are children of the mountains! I understand that you don’t need to read books, your criminal customers, who confuse politics with banditry, eat up the nonsense that you ship. But minimal literacy wouldn't hurt you. Israel's first defense minister, for your information, was David Ben-Gurion. Ben-Gurion is a pseudonym. He was born with the surname Green in the city of Plonsk in 1886. We could have come up with something better!”

Yatsenyuk - Yushchenko

I think that the political climate would be better if Arseny had his own political platform

– You gave Arseniy Yatsenyuk a start in political life. How do you characterize his activities now and do you communicate with him?

“From time to time,” Yushchenko answers thoughtfully.

I have made many decisions in my life regarding his career. I thought these were the right steps. He's a smart man. But he had to take care of his own political strength, form his own party, and go with it to the end. He does not understand that politics is a marathon, and not just the spring of elections... I think that the political climate would be better if Arseny had his own political platform. She would have constrained him less. And it would be more natural and interesting. And he is in foster care, and he has many conscious and unconscious restrictions. I'm afraid it won't be used after all.

Rinat Akhmetov

Deputy Chairman of the Strong Ukraine party Alexandra Kuzhel said that MP and billionaire Rinat Akhmetov bought Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s project “Front of Changes”. She announced this on July 19, 2011 at a press conference at the MOST-DNEPR news agency.

In November 2014, people's deputy from the "Petro Poroshenko Bloc" Sergei Kaplin suspected the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk of running a large corruption scheme with budget funds. Kaplin sent parliamentary appeals to the Prosecutor General’s Office and the SBU to find out where the three billion hryvnia allocated by the government to finance mines in the occupied territories of Donbass were spent. The parliamentarian also has information that several million budget money were sent to some kind of research projects and design work in Makeyevka, which is under the control of terrorists. And another half of the total VAT was reimbursed to Renat Akhmetov.

The people's deputy suggested that this money could be divided in this way - Akhmetov received a third, Yatsenyuk received a third, and only the remaining third went to the mines.

Victor Yanukovich

On January 25, 2014, President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych agreed to the demands of the opposition and offered the leader of the Batkivshchyna faction, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the position of Prime Minister, and the leader of the UDAR party, Vitaliy Klitschko, as Deputy Prime Minister for Humanitarian Affairs.

Car scandals

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As Speaker Yatsenyuk himself said, on Saturday, February 16, 2008, he was driving along the highway unaccompanied by State Security officers. Breaking the rules traffic and creating an emergency situation, a Porsche Cayenne jeep blocked his way, after which “they showed the middle finger from the jeep.”

Yatsenyuk stated that he instructed the State Security Administration and the State Traffic Inspectorate to find this driver, which, however, was not done.

“They told me that the driver was found, and he refused to show documents. Therefore, the car was put on the wanted list and they couldn’t find it either. Later, I myself found the car and the driver, he turned out to be the deputy head of the Kyiv special forces Cobra, a certain Kozha, and the jeep was standing in the Cobra parking lot , Yatsenyuk said.

Elections 2015

It is known that Arseniy Yatsenyuk hired American PR specialists to prepare for the presidential campaign.

It is significant that at the Yalta YES-2013 meeting, the current US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt, introducing Arseniy Yatsenyuk to Hillary Clinton, described him as “the next president of Ukraine.”

It is known that the “military image” of 2009, which was developed for him by a group of Russian consultants, turned out to be unsuccessful for the main “front-line soldier”, therefore new image specialists from the USA will sculpt.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s new political and image mentor will be an American specialist who, in particular, developed Barack Obama’s campaign. This is Joe Goldberg, Managing Director of ASGK Public Strategies, BA in Political Science, Communications and theatrical arts, a graduate of Iowa State University.

It is known that Golberg worked for the CIA until 1993, and then specialized in the collection and analysis of confidential information at Motorola, was a member of the advisory board of the Palladin National Security Foundation, and in 2008 became chairman of the board of directors of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals.

It is believed that it was Goldberg who came up with Obama's "going to the people" or "home meetings" campaign, in which the US President visited fast foods and visited ordinary citizens. The same idea was tested on Arseny Yatsenyuk - he already took the metro and visited the Cheburechnaya.

Before the American, an employee of the National Democratic Institute managed to work with Arseniy Yatsenyuk international relations USA (NDI), Serbian Marko Ivkovic, who developed the strategy for the opposition election campaign in 2012.

On July 24, 2014, he resigned due to the dissolution of the ruling coalition and blocking of the Cabinet's initiatives.

On July 28, at a briefing, Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced that he had returned to work. He called on the Verkhovna Rada to adopt previously failed laws at an extraordinary meeting on July 31.

Awards

Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, V degree (February 7, 2008) - for significant personal contribution to ensuring the integration of Ukraine into the World Trade Organization.

Medal “For the Glory of Chernivtsi” (2008).

Distinction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine “Firearms” - Machine gun 56-P-421 caliber 7.62 mm, No. TsL 84 (May 20, 2015) - for special merits in the protection of constitutional rights and freedoms of man and citizen, exemplary performance of official and civic duty , displayed honor and valor.

Award of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine "Firearms" - 11.43 mm Thompson submachine gun No. S 506391 model 1928 complete with 203 rounds of ammunition (May 22, 2015) - for outstanding services in ensuring the country's defense capability, strengthening national security, exemplary performance of official duty and demonstrated high professionalism, honor and valor.

Subject Jewish roots Yatsenyuk has already set her teeth on edge. However, given the fact that recently it has become popular again, we could not ignore the latest publications on this topic in Ukrainian media. DailyUa

JEWISH SECRETS OF ARSENIY BAKAI-YATSENYUK

The topic of Yatsenyuk’s Jewish roots has already set teeth on edge. However, given the fact that recently it has become popular again, we could not ignore the latest publications on this topic in the Ukrainian media.

“How the hell does people’s deputy from the OU-NS Arseniy Yatsenyuk react to the topic of his nationality. As funny as it may be, looking at the face of Arseny Petrovich, who is panickingly denying his Jewishness, you remember the joke about “they hit you in the face, not the passport.” This begs the question: why does the obvious (you can see it) Jew Yatsenyuk so absurdly and so emotionally deny something that does not need proof?” - this is the question asked by the publication DailyUa . Attempts to answer this question are devoted to a publication entitled “Why does the Jew Yatsenyuk hide that he is a descendant of the most famous interpreter of the Talmud?”

Here’s what the newspaper writes, in particular: “Why does the Jew Yatsenyuk simply desperately insist that he is a third-generation Ukrainian, if the parental tribe closest to him is clearly of Jewish nationality. Moreover, Yatsenyuk’s mother, whose maiden name Bakai belongs to an ancient Jewish family, which is known to the world thanks to the most authoritative interpreter of the Talmud - Rabbi Bakai.

Maria Grigorievna with her husband Peter Ivanovich

As you know, the nationality of Jews is determined by their mother. Why? It's all about what determines this Halacha - traditional Jewish law, in the form of a set of laws and regulations of Judaism that regulate the religious, family and social life of believers (!) Jews. In a narrower sense, Halacha is the body of laws contained in the Talmud.

As we see, it is necessary to distinguish between Jews “by blood” and Jews “by spirit.” Arseniy Petrovich Yatsenyuk is afraid not so much to recognize his Jewishness in ethnic terms, but to carefully hide his Jewish worldview and the moral guidelines associated with it, which were so clearly and so easily understood even by non-Jews by his ancestor, the famous Rabbi Bakai.

Below are quotes from Yatsenyuk’s progenitor (with links to sources), who openly explains to the Jews how they should live, how to act towards the “goyim” (non-Jews) and what to be guided by. We deliberately present Bakai's mentoring excerpts without comment. Just read Yatsenyuk’s spiritual heritage, which is the same for him as the Bible is for any Christian:

“Hypocrisy is acceptable in the sense that a Jew should appear polite towards the wicked, let him show them respect and say: “I love you. This is permissible only if the Jew has a need for the wicked, or has reason to fear him; otherwise it is a sin." (Sepher Cadha-Kemach, folio 30, a)

“To better deceive the goyim, a Jew can even visit their sick, bury their dead, do good to their poor, but all this must be done in order to have peace, and so that the wicked do not do evil to the Jews.” (Traite gittin, folio 61, a)

“Just as one can kill a wild animal and take possession of its forest with a clear conscience, one can also kill or expel a goy and take possession of his property. The property of a non-Jew is like an abandoned thing, its real owner is the Jew who will be the first to seize it.” (Baba Bathra, folio 54, b; Choschen Michpot, 156, 1)

“So, if a goy steals even less than half a ruble, then he is liable to death for that too.” (Traite Jebammot, folio 47, b)

“A Jew is allowed to seize, at will, the property of a goy, for where it is written: “Do not harm your neighbor,” it does not say: “Do not harm a goy.” (Traite Sanhedrin, folio 57, a)

“If an ox belonging to a Jew hits a goyim’s bull, the Jew is not responsible for it, but if a goyim’s bull harms a Jew’s ox, the goyim must pay the Jew the entire loss, for God divided the land and gave the goyim to Israel.” (Traite Baba Kamma, folio 37, b)

“God ordered the goyim to lend money, but to give it only for interest; therefore, instead of helping them, we should harm them, even if this person can be useful to us, whereas with regard to a Jew we should not act in this way.” (Maimonide, Sepher Mizv., folio 73, 4)

"Their<гоев>life, O Jew, is in your hands, especially their money.” (Explic. du Pentat., folio 213, 4)

It gives me chills that “with a clear conscience you can kill a goy.”

In this regard, as noted Vlasti.net , Ratushnyak’s fears for the life of the “victim” Yatsenyuk apologist from Uzhgorod turn out to be quite reasonable.

Further in the text: “Well, attacks on their own agitators throughout the country, organized by Arseny Petrovich, are a complete nonsense. After all, at the same time, Yatsenyuk does not harm his neighbor, but uses the goyim as slaughtered animals “in order to have peace, and so that the wicked do not harm the Jews.”

And in order not to get dirty from the “wicked,” real Jews should marry exclusively real daughters of Israel. And in this regard, Yatsenyuk’s choice is simply impeccable. As the press dubbed Arseniy Petrovich’s wife, Teresia Gur, a “Hasidic princess,” since she is also a match for her husband. ancient Jewish family."

Arseniy Yatsenyuk with his wife Teresia Viktorovna

Now, as the publication notes, it becomes clear why the Jew Yatsenyuk so persistently proves his “Ukrainianness.” The problem is not that Yatsenyuk is Jewish by blood. There is and cannot be anything shameful in this. It would be ignorant in the 21st century to even raise this topic.

“But what is truly dangerous is what Arseny Petrovich believes in and is guided by, shamelessly hiding behind his supposed Greek Catholicism. True, it looks “shameless” to us non-Jews or goyim. But for Yatsenyuk, as we have seen, hypocrisy is quite acceptable and even obligatory. After all, in order to better deceive us goyim, he can even visit our sick, bury our dead, do good to our poor...” the publication sums up.

P.S. "fr Az A" is ready to provide the opportunity to express their own point of view to all persons mentioned in this publication.

Jews: Yatsenyuk is our President!

An ambiguous statement appeared online.

Edition "Phrase" reports that the publication "4post" published the Appeal of the Jewish community to the leader of the “Front of Change”, people's deputy Arseny Yatsenyuk.

Appeal from the Jewish community to Arseniy Petrovich Yatsenyuk

All Jews are ready to support you, Arseniy Petrovich, as a future candidate for President of Ukraine, as a pillar of our faith in a calm Ukraine. You should not shy away from Jewishness and, finally, officially declare that you are a Jew and proud of it.

We, representatives of the Jewish community of Ukraine, sincerely support the initiative of Arseniy Petrovich Yatsenyuk to run in the upcoming presidential elections in Ukraine.

Our nation has gone through difficult trials, we are proud of many of our fellow tribesmen, whose names the whole world knows.

As we know, you belong to the famous Jewish family of Bakai, which is officially recognized by Israel. After all, according to pedigree, in the case of mixed marriages, only the one whose mother is Jewish is considered a Jew. Your mother, Maria Grigorievna Bakai (nee), belongs to the oldest Jewish family of Bakai. Your ancestor, deeply respected among all Jews, Rabbi Bakai, is the most famous writer of the Talmud, a multi-volume set of legal, religious and ethical provisions of Judaism.

In addition, your wife Theresia also belongs to our nation and comes from the most ancient Jewish family of Gur.

It is common knowledge that Jews were repeatedly persecuted and humiliated. Cruel confirmation - millions of victims and tragedies. That time left a deep, unhealed wound in our memory. However, today is a different time, and we can openly, without fear, say: “Yes, we are Jews.” Therefore, we urge you to move away from negative stereotypes and look at the historical values of our nation. For many years, propaganda tried to discredit the Jewish nation. You, Arseny Petrovich, are a politician of a new time, a new generation. You should not be ashamed or hide your nationality. Today the Jewish people have national independence.

Ukraine has one of the largest Jewish communities. We support each other. We are grateful to you for expressing words of support and promises of protection to us, and we hope that in the future we will see that any prerequisites for the emergence of anti-Semitic manifestations and Judeophobia will be eliminated in Ukraine.

All Jews are ready to support you, Arseniy Petrovich, as a future candidate for President of Ukraine, as a pillar of our faith in a calm Ukraine. You should not shy away from Jewishness and, finally, officially declare that you are a Jew and proud of it.

From the publication “Our Century”: we look forward to the commentary of Arseniy Yatsenyuk himself.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk is known as a Ukrainian politician. He more than once held prominent government positions, and last years was one of the political leaders of the opposition. In 2014, he became Prime Minister of Ukraine.

Childhood and family of Arseniy Yatsenyuk

Arseniy Petrovich's hometown is Chernivtsi. His childhood passed in this beautiful Bukovinian town. Arseny has a sister Alina. Parents were teachers. Mom worked as a French teacher. My father taught history at the university and was a deputy dean.

Arseny studied at the ninth specialized school in the city, where the major language was English. It should be noted that studying was easy for him, and, as a school graduate, he received a silver medal. Young man after leaving school without special labor entered Chernivtsi University, choosing the specialty “legislation”. This was his first higher education.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk in business

After graduating from the first year of university, Arseny became one of the founders of a law firm called “YurEk Ltd.” Together with him, the son of the governor of the Chernivtsi region was a co-owner. The student successfully combined business and study.

After graduating from university in 1996, he worked as the head of his law firm for another year, all this time actively involved in the privatization of enterprises. Over the years, the future Ukrainian politician met prominent representatives of Ukrainian business and politics.

Yatsenyuk's move to Kyiv

In 1998, Yatsenyuk moved to Kyiv. There he worked as a consultant in the credit department at Aval Bank. Less than a year later, Arseny Petrovich took up the post of advisor to the chairman of the board at this bank. Very little time passed and he was invited to Crimea, where he became Minister of Economy.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk in the “Freedom of Speech” program

In 2001, Arseniy Petrovich received a diploma for the second higher education- a diploma from the Trade and Economic Institute with a specialty in Accounting and Audit, and three years later he became a candidate of economic sciences.

After the re-election of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea in the spring of 2002, Yatsenyuk remained in the same position, but less than a year later he again found himself in Kyiv, where he was invited to a new job.

Yatsenyuk’s work at the National Bank of Ukraine

At the beginning of 2003, Arseniy Petrovich became the first deputy of Sergei Tigipko, who at that time served as chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine. In 2004, from July to December, he performed the duties of Sergei Tigipko while he headed the campaign headquarters of Viktor Yanukovych during the presidential elections in Ukraine. In February 2005, Arseny Petrovich submitted his resignation from his post, which was granted.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk as Minister of Economy of the country

For several months in 2005, Yatsenyuk was the first deputy chairman of the state administration of the city of Odessa. Already in September he became Minister of Economy under Yuri Yekhanurov.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk spoke at the Kiev Security Forum

A year later, the minister, along with the government, was dismissed, but he served as acting minister for at least two months until he was elected new minister economy.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk in Ukrainian politics

Yatsenyuk represented the interests of Viktor Yushchenko, as the President of Ukraine, in the Cabinet of Ministers for about the next six months, being the first deputy of his Secretariat. In March 2007, he stopped working in this position, as he took up the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs, which he held almost until the end of 2007. The president himself proposed his candidacy. He held this position at a time when the country was experiencing an acute political crisis, which began with the dissolution of the country's parliament in April 2007.

At the end of 2007, Arseniy Petrovich became a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, and in December he was confirmed as Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, which he held for the next eleven months. After resigning from this position, Yatsenyuk organized his political force, calling it the “Front of Change.” A few months later, his political popularity increased significantly. The candidacy of Arseniy Petrovich seemed fresh to the citizens of the country and was considered, among other things, as a candidate for a possible future president of Ukraine. In May 2009, he announced that he intended to run for this post. His advertising campaign was considered a failure, and he took only fourth place in the elections, gaining almost seven percent of the vote.

At the end of 2012, Yatsenyuk took the post of chairman of the Batkivshchyna faction; six months later he was replaced in this post by Yulia Tymoshenko, at the same time Arseniy Petrovich became chairman of the political council of the party.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk - Head of the Government of Ukraine

Together with Ukrainian opposition leaders, Yatsenyuk was involved in coordinating protests in Kyiv that began after the country’s preparations for European integration were suspended at the end of 2013. President Yanukovych, wanting to lead the country out of the political crisis, invited Arseniy Petrovich to become prime minister, but he did not accept the offer.

A month later, on the Maidan, Yatsenyuk was presented as a candidate for the post of prime minister, and just a day later the Verkhovna Rada approved his candidacy.

During his tenure in this post, the Association Agreement with the European Union was signed, the armed conflict in the eastern regions of Ukraine, and the Crimean Crisis also occurred. At the end of July 2014, Arseny Petrovich announced his resignation.

Personal life of Arseniy Yatsenyuk

Yatsenyuk is married. His wife's name is Teresa Viktorovna. Together they are raising daughters – Sofia and Christina. Since 2003, the family has lived not far from Kyiv, namely in the village of New Petrivtsi. Yatsenyuk has a big one there two-storey house. His wife's parents are philosophy teachers. She is four years older than Arseny Petrovich.

Biography

Born on May 22, 1974 in Chernivtsi. Graduated with a silver medal high school. Arseniy's parents are teachers at Chernivtsi State University. As a child, my father quoted Stepan Rudansky to me: Vchisya, my son, vchisya richly, because you will become a fool, and I will become your tat. Which, in fact, is what I was doing,” recalls Arseniy Petrovich (Galician contracts, April, 2003). The Yatsenyuk family was friendly in Chernivtsi with the family of Nazariy Yaremchuk.

In 1996 he graduated from Chernivtsi State University. Fedkovich. By education he is a lawyer. As the teachers recall, from the second year Arseny practically did not appear in classes - he was busy with business. He wanted to write and defend his diploma in English. But Yatsenyuk was denied this - because the commission members did not speak this language well enough. In 2001 he graduated from the Chernivtsi Trade and Economic Institute of the Kyiv National Trade and Economic University. Specialty: accounting and auditing. In the early nineties, as Arseny Petrovich says, he and his friends traded cars on the market: And I’m not at all embarrassed about it!.. This is big life experience(Facts, June 1, 2007).

In December 1992, he founded the law firm YurEk Ltd., which dealt with privatization issues. They say that he ran his business together with the son of the then governor Ivan Hnatyshyn. According to Arseniy Yatsenyuk, organizational assistance in creating the company was provided to him by the head of the department of financial law at Kyiv State University, Lidia Konstantinovna Voronova. True, among the then patrons of Yatsenyuk they name the current Minister of Labor and social policy Mikhail Papiev, Igor Pluzhnikov, Victor Korol and Gennady Moskal. Then he was introduced to the chairman of the board of AKB Aval, Fedor Shpigu. This played a role in the fate of Arseniy Yatsenyuk decisive role. In January 1998, he came to work at the bank as a consultant and in three years managed to go from an ordinary employee to deputy chairman of the board of AKB Aval.

In September 2001, Yatsenyuk went to Crimea, where he received the post of acting Minister of Economy of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. The Crimean parliament failed the first vote on Yatsenyuk’s candidacy. As Arseniy Petrovich himself recalls, the chairman of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Leonid Grach, spoke out against him. But a few months later, parliament changed its attitude towards Yatsenyuk and gave the green light to his appointment as Minister of Economy. Since January 2003 - First Deputy Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine. In 2004, when Sergei Tigipko left to work in the headquarters of Viktor Yanukovych, Arseniy Yatsenyuk headed the National Bank. It was then that he showed his talents, preventing the national currency and the country's banking system from collapsing. I spent the night on the Internet trying to find a similar situation in world practice. There was nothing like that. In the morning, I issued an order to the National Bank of Ukraine, which prohibited early issuance of deposits, recalls Arseniy Petrovich (Strana.RU, March 21, 2007).

In February 2005, on the initiative of the new head of the NBU, Vladimir Stelmakh, Arseniy Petrovich resigned. The reason is the difference in views on the further development of Ukrainian banking. Then Yatsenyuk was forced to go to Odessa, where he received the post of first deputy chairman of the regional state administration Vasily Tsushko. According to socialist Ivan Bokiy, at that time Arseny Petrovich and Tsushko were like two wings of one body. In September 2005, after the appointment of Yuri Yekhanurov as Prime Minister, Yatsenyuk received the post of Minister of Economy of Ukraine. A year later, he is the first deputy head of the Presidential Secretariat, the president's representative in the government. At this time, Yatsenyuk supervised the Security Service of Ukraine. In 2006, in the Top 100 most influential people in Ukraine, determined annually by Korrespondent magazine, Arseniy Yatsenyuk took 28th position. At the end of 2006, Arseniy Petrovich was tipped to take the place of head of the People's Union Our Ukraine party. However, Yatsenyuk limited himself to only joining the NU-NS. In March 2007, when the candidacy of Vladimir Ohryzko was failed three times in the Verkhovna Rada, Arseniy Yatsenyuk was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs.

In 2007, in the Top 100 most influential people in Ukraine, determined annually by Korrespondent magazine, Yatsenyuk took 12th position. In the 2007 parliamentary elections, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada on the list of the Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense bloc (No. 3). During the election campaign, Arseniy Yatsenyuk was one of the seven speakers who were authorized to speak on behalf of the NUNS bloc. In November 2007, FOM-Ukraine conducted a survey to find out who they would like to see as speaker of parliament. Only 0.7% of respondents supported Arseniy Yatsenyuk. On December 4, 2007, he was elected Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Then Viktor Yushchenko said that he hoped that Arseniy Yatsenyuk would be able to unite the parliament. In 2007, in Focus magazine's ranking of the 200 most influential Ukrainians, Arseniy Yatsenyuk took 8th place.

In May 2008, Yatsenyuk’s name appeared among possible candidates for the post of chairman of the United Center party, to which Arseniy Petrovich replied: I am not going to head any political project. And if I ever have to head it, it will be only one that I create personally. In 2008, in the Top 100 most influential Ukrainians identified by Korrespondent magazine, Yatsenyuk took 8th place. On September 17, 2008, due to the collapse of the Orange coalition, he resigned from the post of Speaker of Parliament. At the same time, Yatsenyuk announced his intention to create his own political project.

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