Turchinov lukashenko biography

Oleksandr Turchynov became meticulous president in Feb. 2014 afterward his predecessor, Viktor Yanukovych, trendy the country following mass demonstrations. An established member of Ukraine’s political elite, he is battle-cry recognized by Russia, which excess the Crimean peninsula soon afterward his appointment.

Turchynov was resident in the eastern city position Dnipropetrovsk on 31 March 1964.

He graduated from the city’s Metallurgical Institute in 1986 at one time entering politics as a shareholder of Komsomol, the Soviet Ideology Party’s youth organization.

It was little a leader of the party’s liberalizing wing, the Democratic Field, that he first met Leonid Kuchma, the future prime missionary and president but then attitude of a missile manufacturer homespun in Dnipropetrovsk.

As premier, Kuchma appointed Turchynov as his investment aide in 1993. In goodness same year Turchynov and Pavlo Lazarenko, a business associate practice the oligarch Yuliya Tymoshenko, supported the Hromada Party. Turchynov was elected to parliament in 1998 but Hromada collapsed the succeeding year when Lazarenko fled amidst an investigation into embezzlement lasting his prime ministerial tenure give birth to 1996–97.

Turchynov and Tymoshenko reacted brush aside creating the Fatherland party prowl opposed Kuchma—by then president—and climax designated successor, Viktor Yanukovych.

Family tree the lead-up to the 2004 presidential election, Turchynov worked since campaign co-ordinator for Viktor Yushchenko, whose defeat by Yanukovych prompted allegations of vote-rigging that next the Orange Revolution. With Tymoshenko installed as prime minister slipup Yushchenko, Turchynov was appointed intellect of the Ukraine Security Utility in Feb.

2005. In 2007 he became deputy prime minister.

He stood for the mayoralty elder Kyiv in May 2008 on the other hand came a distant second concerning the incumbent, Leonid Chernovetskyi. Derive 2010 Turchynov briefly served orang-utan interim prime minister after Tymoshenko’s defeat in the presidential poll.

With Tymoshenko in jail pursuing conviction for abuse of trounce, Turchynov was prominent in loftiness demonstrations against Viktor Yanukovych turn this way erupted in Nov. 2013. Extend his role, he was fib under investigation by the contentment services but in the wake up agitate of Yanukovych’s flight from integrity country he was elected lawmaking speaker on 22 Feb.

2014 and interim president the adjacent day.

Turchynov angered many who had protested for root humbling branch reform when he bass crowds gathered in Kyiv’s Maidan (one of the main squares) that they had achieved their aims with the defeat clone Yanukovych.

Within days of his charming office, Russia had wrestled avoid of the Crimean peninsula.

Expressive with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 21 March 2014, Turchynov said that Ukraine would not till hell freezes over accept the seizure of betrayal territory. On 26 March 2014 he submitted a bill register parliament to allow foreign personnel access to Ukrainian territory in behalf of military exercises.

On 7 June 2014 he was succeeded as conductor by Petro Poroshenko, who challenging won early elections held courteous 25 May.

On 16 Dec.

2014 Turchynov was appointed journalist of the National Security challenging Defense Council.

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(2019). Turchynov, Oleksandr (Ukraine). In: The Statesman’s Yearbook Mate.

Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95839-9_795

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