The political elite of Ukraine: Vyacheslav Kirilenko

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Vyacheslav Kirilenko is a Ukrainian politician who has been a deputy of the Supreme Council of Ukraine for more than one year. He began his political career at a fairly young age, joining the People's Movement party in 1993. After 5 years, he becomes a people's choice in the Supreme Council (III convocation), running for the NRU.

Biography: birth and adolescence

Vyacheslav Anatolyevich Kirilenko (06/7/1968) was born in the small village of Polesskoe, which is located on the territory of the Kyiv region.

From 1984 to 1987 he was a cadet of the Kherson Naval School. He received his higher education in 1993, graduating from Taras Grigoryevich Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Faculty of Philosophy. In the same educational institution in 1996, he completed his postgraduate studies. In 1997, Vyacheslav Kirilenko defended his dissertation and received a PhD in Philosophy.

From the end of 1989 to the spring of 1992, he was a member of the Ukrainian Student Union and served as chairman of the secretariat from 1992 to 1993.

Active participation in protests

In the autumn of 1990, astudent hunger strike, which was called the "revolution on granite". The strike led to the resignation of Vitaliy Masol (Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Ukraine). This event hastened the signing of the document declaring Ukraine an independent state.

One of the initiators of the student protest was Vyacheslav Kirilenko. The biography of the politician contains other equally significant events that have changed the political situation in the country.

So, in 2004, as a member of the Our Ukraine party, he actively participates in the revolution, which was nicknamed the "orange". Protests in 2013-2014, which served as the removal from power of President Yanukovych, arose after the non-signing of an association document with the European Union. This led to a wave of student strikes, which grew into a movement called the "revolution of dignity." Vyacheslav Kirilenko, along with other opposition politicians, took an active part in the protests.

Political career

Major biography dates related to political career:

Vyacheslav joins the People's Rukh of Ukraine (1993). From October 93 to April 94 is a member of the NRU Small Council.
From 1993 to 2002 he was the head of the All-Ukrainian Youth Society "Young Rukh".
In 1998, he ran for the parliamentary elections from the NRU party and became a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada in the third convocation (until April 2002). During this period, he served as secretary in the committee on social policy and labor. Listed under 18number on the political party list.
Vyacheslav Kirilenko was Yuri Kostenko's deputy (head of Rukh) from December 1999 to January 2003.
In 2002, passes to the parliament (IV convocation) from the political bloc "Our Ukraine". Ranks 20th on the party list.
During the 2004 presidential race, he was a spokesman for candidate Viktor Yushchenko.

Vyacheslav Kirilenko Minister of Culture

Under the government of Prime Minister Yury Tymoshenko, he was Minister of Labor and Social Policy (February-September 2005).
In the Cabinet of Ministers under the leadership of Yuri Yekhanurov (2005-2006) he served as Deputy Prime Minister for Humanitarian and Social Policy.
Head of the People's Union party in the Our Ukraine bloc since April 2007.
In 2007 he was elected for the third time as a deputy to the Supreme Council of Ukraine (VI convocation). In the list of the Our Ukraine faction, he was number 2.
When creating a parliamentary coalition between the BYuT and NU factions, according to the agreement, he was supposed to take the post of head of the Supreme Council. But he voluntarily resigned after negotiations with President Yushchenko.
At the end of 2008, he resigned as head of the faction.
In early 2009, Vyacheslav Kirilenko and his supporters left the Our Ukraine faction.
Became the head of the public organization "For Ukraine!", which was reorganized into the political force of the same name.
In 2011 he became one of the organizers of the Committee for Resistance to Dictatorship. ATat the end of the same year, he signs a political agreement on conducting joint opposition activities with Yatsenyuk Arseniy Petrovich. According to the agreement, the For Ukraine party should unite with the Front for Change immediately after the elections.
In November 2014, he enters parliament and becomes a people's deputy of the VIII convocation of the Supreme Council.
At the end of 2014, he held key positions (Deputy Prime Minister for Humanitarian Policy and Minister of Culture) under the Cabinet of Ministers under A. P. Yatsenyuk

Post Minister of Culture

Following the merger of the Popular Front (Front for Change), which received the majority of votes in the parliamentary elections, with the For Ukraine party, Kirilenko is part of the government headed by Arseniy Yatsenyuk. His appointment to the post of head of the Ministry of Culture caused a number of negative comments. Cultural figures were skeptical of such a candidate as Vyacheslav Kirilenko. The Minister of Culture for a year and a half of his activity did not make any reforms in this industry and is remembered only by the fact that he issued a decree banning some Russian films on the territory of Ukraine.

Family life politics

Vyacheslav Anatolyevich Kirilenko is married, his soul mate is Ekaterina Mikhailovna. The politician met his current wife in his student years, when he was a graduate student.