Arseniy Yatsenyuk

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Arseniy Yatsenyuk
Арсеній Яценюк
Arseniy Yatsenyuk

Arseniy Yatsenyuk in November of 2006.
Incumbent
Assumed office 
December 4, 2007
Preceded by Oleksander Moroz
In office
March 21, 2007 – December 4, 2007
Preceded by Volodymyr Ohryzko
Succeeded by Volodymyr Ohryzko
In office
September 27, 2005 – August 4, 2006
Born May 22, 1974 (1974-05-22) (age 34)
Chernivtsi, Ukrainian SSR
Political party Independent[1]
Spouse Tereziya Victorivna (1970)[2]
Children Hrystina, Sofia[3]
Occupation Politician, economist, and lawyer
Website http://chairman.rada.gov.ua/

Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk (Ukrainian: Арсеній Петрович Яценюк) (born May 22, 1974 in Chernivtsi, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian politician, economist, and lawyer. He is the current Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, having been elected to that post on December 4, 2007.

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[edit] Early life

Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk was born on May 22, 1974 in Chernivtsi. After he began studiying at the Chernivtsi University in 1992, Yatsenyuk set up a student law firm.[3] He graduated from the university in 1996, and later attended the Chernivtsi Trade-Economics Institute of the Kiev National Trade-Economics Institute in 2001.[4]

From December 1992 to September 1997 he was the president of "Yurek Ltd." law firm, based in Chernivtsi.[4] From January 1998 until September 2001, Yatsenyuk worked in the postal and pension "Aval" bank, based in Kiev.[4]

[edit] Political career

From September until November 2001, Arseniy served as an "acting" Minister of Economy of Crimea, and from November of the same year until January 2003, served as the official Minister of Economy of Crimea.[4]

From November 2003 to February 2005, Yatsenyuk served as the first vice-president of the head of the National Bank of Ukraine under Serhiy Tyhypko.[3] After Tyhypko left the National Bank, Arseniy Yatsenyuk was put in charge of the National Bank.[3]

After Vasyl Tsushko was appointed as the new Governor of Odessa Oblast, Tsushko asked Yatsenyuk to serve as his vice-governor, which he served from March 9 to September 2005.[3][4] From September 27, 2005 to August 4, 2006, he served as the Minister of Economy of Ukraine in the Yuriy Yekhanurov-led government.[3][5] Arseniy Yatsenyuk then headed talks about Ukrainian membership in the World Trade Organization. Yatsenyuk also heads the Ukraine-European Union commission.

From September 20, 2006, he served as the first vice-president of the Head of Government of the President of Ukraine, and the representative of the president in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.[6]

Arseniy Yatsenyuk was proposed for the post of Foreign Minister by the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko. Yatsenyuk was chosen for the post by the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) on March 21, 2007[7] with 426 votes (from 450 maximum),[8] but only after the Ukrainian parliament twice denied the post to Volodymyr Ohryzko.

[edit] Speaker of the Parliament

In the early parliamentary elections held on September 30, 2007, Yatsenyuk was elected to the parliament from Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc (number 3 in the bloc's member list). On December 3, 2007, he was nominated for the position of the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada from the democratic coalition formed from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc.[9] On December 4, 2007, Yatsenyuk was elected the Chairman of the Parliament.[10] His candidacy was the only in the ballot, and he obtained 227 votes in favor (from the democratic coalition; opposition abstained from the voting).[11]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Election list of the party (bloc). Central Election Commission of Ukraine. Retrieved on 2007-12-04.
  2. ^ Arseniy Yatsenyuk. New millioner in Yanukovich's Cabmin (Russian). Ukrayinska Pravda (2007-03-21).
  3. ^ a b c d e f Biography from Radio Svoboda (Russian). Radio Svoboda (2007-03-21).
  4. ^ a b c d e Yatsenyuk Arseniy Petrovych. Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. Retrieved on 2007-03-28.
  5. ^ Laws of Ukraine. Presidential decree No. 1372/2005: On the appointment of A. Yatsenyuk as the Minister of Economics of Ukraine. Passed on 2005-09-27. (Ukrainian)
  6. ^ Laws of Ukraine. Presidential decree No. 765/2006: On the appointment of A. Yatsenyuk as the First Vice-president of the Head of Administration of the President of Ukraine - Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. Passed on 2006-09-20. (Ukrainian)
  7. ^ Laws of Ukraine. Order of Verkhovna Rada No. 792-V: On appointment of Arseniy Yatsenyuk as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Passed on 2007-03-21. (Ukrainian)
  8. ^ Result of voting on appointment as Minister of Foreign Affairs (Ukrainian) (2007-03-21).
  9. ^ "Ukraine minister gets "orange" OK for speaker job", Reuters, 2007-12-03. 
  10. ^ Laws of Ukraine. Order of Verkhovna Rada No. 5-VI: On the Head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Passed on 2007-12-04. (Ukrainian)
  11. ^ "Yatsenyuk - Speaker", Ukrayinska Pravda, 2007-12-04. (Ukrainian) 

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Political offices
Preceded by
Volodymyr Ohryzko		 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
2007		 Succeeded by
Volodymyr Ohryzko
Preceded by
Oleksandr Moroz		 Chairman of Verkhovna Rada
2007–		 Succeeded by
Incumbent
v • d • e
Foreign Ministers of Ukraine (since 1990)

Anatoliy Zlenko • Hennadiy Udovenko • Borys Tarasyuk • Anatoliy Zlenko • Kostiantyn Hryshchenko • Borys Tarasyuk •
Volodymyr Ohryzko¹ • Arseniy Yatsenyuk • Volodymyr Ohryzko

¹ denotes acting

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Persondata
NAME Yatsenyuk, Arseniy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Politician, economist, and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Chernivtsi, Ukraine
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH