First Yanukovych Government

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The first Yanukovych Government was the Ukrainian cabinet of ministers between 21 November 2002 and 5 January 2005, led by Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych had been elected Prime Minister of Ukraine with 234 votes, only 8 more than needed.[1]

On December 1, 2004 (during the Orange Revolution) the Ukrainian Parliament passed a vote of no-confidence.[2] The government supported NATO membership of Ukraine (2002) and sent Ukrainian troops to Iraq in 2003.[3]

Composition[4]

  • Viktor Yanukovych - Prime Minister
  • Mykola Azarov - First Deputy Prime Minister
  • Vitaly Hayduk - Deputy Prime Minister for fuel and energy complex
  • Ivan Kyrylenko - Deputy Prime Minister
  • Dmytro Tabachnyk - Deputy Prime Minister for humanitarian issues
  • Serhy Ryzhuk - Agricultural Policy
  • Yury Smirnov - Interior Affairs
  • Vasyl Shevchuk - Environment and Natural Resources
  • Valery Khoroshkovsky - Economy and European Integration
  • Anatoliy Zlenko - Foreign Affairs
  • Hryhory Reva - Emergency Situations and Chernobyl Cleanup
  • Yury Bohutsky - Culture and the Regions
  • General Volodymyr Shkidchenko - Defence
  • Vasyl Kremen - Education and Science
  • Andry Pidayev - Health
  • Oleksandr Lavrynovych - Justice
  • Serhy Yermilov - Fuel and Energy
  • Mikhail Papiyev - Labour and Social Policy
  • Anatoliy Myalytsya - Industrial Policy
  • Heorhiy Kirpa - Transport

References

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