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4 unusual facts about Viktor Yanukovych


Donetsk Metro

In 2012 the Vice-Prime-Minister Borys Kolesnikov informed the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych that Ukrzaliznytsia is starting to work on the project of ground-level metro in Donetsk.

Iryna Zhuravska

Vitaliy Zhuravsky who later became a presidential adviser for Viktor Yanukovych often attends the contest.

Ukrainian cruiser Ukrayina

In April 2010, sources from the Russian defense committee claimed that Russia had plans to buy the unfinished cruiser from Ukraine and in May 2010, after talks with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev in Kiev, Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych stated that they had come to an agreement to finish the ship together.

Ukrainian passport

However, the bill was vetoed by Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych on grounds of what he deemed failings in the bill's lack of provisions for personal data safeguards.


2006 Ukrainian political crisis

The 2006 Parliamentary crisis in Ukraine started in March 2006 as a result of inconclusive parliamentary elections, and ended on 3 August 2006 with Viktor Yanukovych (as part of the Alliance of National Unity) being chosen as a Prime Minister to replace Yuriy Yekhanurov, who resigned right after the parliamentary elections.

Hobart Earle

While conducting at the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation he received an invitation via e-mail from Viktor Yanukovych who presented him the People's Artist of Ukraine award on June 27, 2013.

Institut français des relations internationales

Guests from previous years have included, between others, Nicolas Sarkozy, Dmitri Medvedev, Hu Jintao, Jalal Talabani, Hamid Karzai, Vladimir Poutine, Mikheil Saakashvili, Abdoulaye Wade, Vaclav Klaus, Pervez Musharraf, Abdullah Gül, Boris Tadic, Viktor Yanukovych, Paul Kagamé, Herman Van Rompuy, José Manuel Barroso, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, etc.

Kiev City State Administration

Volodymyr Makeyenko was appointed Head of Kiev City Administration on 25 January 2014 by President Viktor Yanukovych.

Nataliya Dmytruk

She was a barely known sign language interpreter at the Ukrainian state-run channel UT1 but became instantly famous during the live news broadcast on November 24, 2004, when she refused to translate the official script that announced Viktor Yanukovych as the winner of the presidential election.

Oleksandr Panteleymonov

Editor in chief of TV-project "Dialogue with the country" marking the 3d anniversary of the inauguration of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych (February 22, 2013)

Editor in chief of TV-project "Straight talk with the country" marking the first anniversary of the inauguration of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych (February 26, 2011)

Petro Poroshenko

Swedish economist and one-time Ukraine national government advisor Anders Åslund has described Poroshenko as an "uncommonly courageous" man willing to challenge the Yanukovych family's near-stranglehold on Ukrainian economic power and support the pro-EU protest movement.

Serhiy Tihipko

According to a poll by Research & Branding Group, as of November 27 Tigipko was running fifth in polls at 4.4%, behind Viktor Yanukovych (32.4%), Yulia Tymoshenko (16.3%), Arseniy Yatseniuk (6.1%) and Volodymyr Lytvyn (4.5%), and ahead of Petro Symonenko (3.8%) and incumbent President Viktor Yushchenko (3.5%).


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