Arseniy Yatsenyuk is a political and statesman of Ukraine. In February 2014, he was appointed prime minister. Prior to that, he held key positions in the Ukrainian government for several years. Repeatedly got into the top lists of the most influential personalities of Ukraine, occupying quite high positions in them.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk's fortune is estimated at several million dollars. According to his recent statements, he has about three million Ukrainian hryvnias in Ukrainian bank accounts. However, the Prime Minister tactfully kept silent about how many dollars he had in foreign accounts. The real estate of Arseniy Yatsenyuk as of 2013 is also impressive: a country house, a plot, a garage, three apartments in Kyiv. How did he come to all this?
Biography
May 22, 1974 in the city of Chernivtsi, located in the south-west of Ukraine, Yatsenyuk Arseniy Petrovich was born. The parents of the future Ukrainian politician were teachers. His father, Pyotr Ivanovich Yatsenyuk, taught the history of Russia, Latin America and Germany. Mother, MariaGrigorievna Yatsenyuk, who was born in the Ukrainian city of Kolomyia, was a French teacher. Such a pedigree of Arseniy Yatsenyuk, no doubt, provided him with a bright future. The boy studied at a specialized English-speaking school No. 9 named after Panas Mirny, which he graduated in 1991 with a silver medal. In 1989 he became a law student at the Chernivtsi National University. Arseniy Yatsenyuk's older sister, Alina, studied there, at the Faculty of Foreign Philology and graduated two years before her younger brother entered there.
Students and first experiences in business
After entering the university, Yatsenyuk quite successfully combined his studies and business activities. He and the son of the governor of the Chernivtsi region, Valentin Gnatyshyn, created the law firm YurEl Ltd in the city.
Having received a diploma in 1996, the future prime minister heads the firm mentioned above. Further, the business of Arseniy Yatsenyuk gradually began to expand. The future politician successfully privatized several different industrial and agricultural enterprises.
Two years later, in 1998, Yatsenyuk moved to Kyiv. There he got the position of consultant of the credit department in the Joint Stock Postal-Pension Bank "Aval". Already in December 1998, he became an adviser to the chairman of the board of this bank, and after that his deputy.
After that, the biography of Arseniy Yatsenyuk takes an important turn: Chairman of the Crimean Council of Ministers Valery Gorbatov invites him to becomeMinister of Economy of the region.
Five years after receiving his first diploma, in 2001, at the age of 27, Arseniy Yatsenyuk received a diploma of a second higher education in the speci alty "Accounting and Audit", after studying at the Chernivtsi Institute of Trade and Economics.
As Crimean Minister of Economy
In September 2001 Arseniy Yatsenyuk's political career began. On the 19th, he takes over as acting head of the Crimean Ministry of Economy, and two months later he officially takes office, in accordance with the decision of the parliament.
In April 2002, the entire Council of Ministers of Crimea resigned due to the beginning of the work of the newly elected Crimean Verkhovna Rada. And despite the fact that Valery Gorbatov was replaced by a new prime minister, Sergei Kunitsyn, Arseniy Yatsenyuk managed to retain his position and in May became the full-fledged head of the Crimean Ministry of Economy for the second time.
However, he was destined to work in this position for a little over six months. At the beginning of 2003, he is transferred to a new job and moves to Kyiv.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk and the National Bank of Ukraine
January 2003 becomes another important date in Yatsenyuk's life: he is appointed First Deputy to Serhiy Tigipko, Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine. Later, Tigipko himself recalled this, describing his deputy as a normal team player. How old was Arseniy Yatsenyuk at that time? Then he turned 29.
A year later, at 30, he defendsPhD thesis on the topic: "Organization of the system of banking supervision and regulation in Ukraine" and becomes a candidate of economic sciences.
In the same 2004, Yatsenyuk was entrusted with the duties of chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine, since the current head, Sergei Tigipko, headed the election headquarters of Viktor Yanukovych, a candidate for the presidency of Ukraine. Yatsenyuk was supposed to be at the head of the NBU until the end of the election campaign, but the political crisis and other circumstances left him at the helm until mid-December. After the Verkhovna Rada accepted the resignation of Sergei Tigipko and appointed a new leader, Volodymyr Stelmakh, Yatsenyuk left the post.
During the crisis, Arseniy Yatsenyuk adopted a decree providing for a temporary ban on early withdrawals of bank deposits, which helped to prevent possible negative consequences that political confrontation could lead to. According to Ukrainian politician and businessman Yevgeny Chervonenko, Yatsenyuk at that time managed to keep both the bank and the currency afloat.
In 2005, in February, Arseniy's resignation was accepted, and he resigned from his post.
A month later, in March, Yatsenyuk was appointed First Deputy Chairman of the Odessa Regional Administration Vasily Tsushko, under whom he worked until he was appointed Ukraine's Economy Minister in late September. From that moment on, the biography of Arseniy Yatsenyuk acquires a bright political coloring, and hebecomes a prominent figure in big politics.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk at the head of the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine
September 2005 was marked for Yatsenyuk by taking office as the Minister of Economy of Ukraine in the government headed by Yuriy Yekhanurov.
In May 2006, the entire government was dismissed by the newly elected Verkhovna Rada. At the same time, Arseniy Yatsenyuk was left to perform his duties. He worked for more than two months until he was fired in early August.
As economy minister, Yatsenyuk led negotiations regarding Ukraine's accession to the WTO (World Trade Organization). He also headed the Ukraine-European Union Committee. He also served on the Foreign Investment Advisory Council and headed the board of the Black Sea Trade and Development Bank from late December 2005 to early March 2007.
Yatsenyuk - Deputy Head of the Presidential Secretariat
In September 2006, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, by decree of the then President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko, was appointed First Deputy Head of the Ukrainian Presidential Secretariat. Since that time, he has been the president's representative in the Cabinet of Ministers.
This time was difficult for Yushchenko, since it was then that the Verkhovna Rada fired almost all the ministers who did not share the views of the president. At the same time, since September 2006, Yatsenyuk was included in the board of the NBU (National Bank of Ukraine) and in the supervisory board of the State Export-ImportBank of Ukraine. He vacated these positions in mid-March 2007.
A few days later he was approved for the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs, after which his activities in the Presidential Secretariat were over. This moment, without a doubt, is the date of birth of Arseniy Yatsenyuk as a major, promising, political figure who entered the international arena.
Yatsenyuk at the helm of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry
In 2007, Arseniy Yatsenyuk was approved as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine by a vote of the Verkhovna Rada. His candidacy was proposed by President Viktor Yushchenko, when the parliament twice rejected the candidacy of Vladimir Ohryzko, who also applied for the post of minister. At this time, a question began to be raised, which still haunts everyone who does not like Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Biography, the nationality of the politician began to interest his opponents, who openly called him a Jew in their questions, although he always denied this.
Applying for the position, he spoke about the importance of the economy in the framework of Ukraine's foreign policy. He proposes to keep the course towards European integration and strive to enter the markets of Europe. A realistic, pragmatic and predictable Ukrainian foreign policy, in his opinion, would be ideal for the country. He describes cooperation with Russia, speaking of this country as an extremely important partner, with which it is dangerous to conduct an unpredictable dialogue.
According to the former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yuriy Yekhanurov, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, in the absence of both professional diplomatic experience and special education,extensive and rich experience in international work. According to Andriy Shevchenko, a member of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, made after Yatsenyuk took office, he is more likely to be perceived as a pro-Western person, rather than a pro-Russian one.
Together with his appointment as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yatsenyuk becomes a member of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council.
At this time, the political biography of Arseniy Yatsenyuk again coincided with the instability of the government, as he had to observe an acute political crisis for almost his entire term in office, which began in early April 2007, when the Ukrainian parliament was dissolved.
In early July of the same year, Yatsenyuk was nominated to the post of deputy of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada by the Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense party bloc, which actively supported the policy of the Ukrainian president. Because of these events, Arseniy went on unpaid leave, however, in order to control the ministry still under his control, he interrupted his “rest” several times.
In December, he again took a vacation, a couple of days after he became the head of the Verkhovna Rada. And in the middle of the month, Yatsenyuk was dismissed from his ministerial post. This saved him from combining two posts: head of the Foreign Ministry and chairman of the Verkhovna Rada.
At the head of the Ukrainian government
November 2007 was marked for Yatsenyuk by taking the oath of the deputy of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada, and a month later by secret ballothe was elected as the eighth speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament with 227 votes in his favor.
Yatsenyuk was expelled from the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council, as his new position did not imply membership in this authority. But almost immediately, on the same day, he again became a member of the National Security and Defense Council - Ukrainian politics is not constant.
In September 2008, he resigned. The reason was the demise of the ruling party.
In November, deputies accepted Yatsenyuk's resignation by secret ballot. The Prime Minister was the first to drop his ballot into the ballot box. But the vote was declared invalid, as there were not enough deputies present.
The next day, Yatsenyuk was removed from the chairmanship by the Verkhovna Rada for a two-day period, after which the secret ballot was replaced by an open one. After the introduction of this innovation, the resignation of Arseniy Yatsenyuk was accepted by a majority of votes.
A few days later he was also expelled from the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council.
Even when Yatseniuk was chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, he initiated the development of a system called "Rada-3", which provided for the prevention of the ability to vote for their colleagues. But the introduction never happened.
And at the end of 2011, as a people's deputy, Arseniy Yatsenyuk came up with a bill amending the regulations of the Ukrainian parliament. According to the document, MPs register and vote using only the touch button and nothing more.
Yatsenyuk and the Front for Change
In mid-December 2008, Yatsenyuk announced the possible creation of a party based on the public initiative "Front for Change". In one of his interviews in February 2009, he said that none of the politicians is his ally. At that time, he was often compared to Viktor Yushchenko. And they perceived Yatsenyuk as nothing more than a political clone of the Ukrainian president.
In the spring of 2009, in April, Arseniy Yatsenyuk (whose nationality has already been discussed in every corner) openly declares his desire to nominate himself as a candidate for the post of head of state. The presidential campaign of the former head of the Ukrainian government was allegedly estimated at around $60-70 million. On the posters that appeared in the country in the summer of 2009, Yatsenyuk was depicted as a militarist. This was fundamentally different from the image of the “young liberal”, which has already become familiar to everyone. According to some analysts, such a change in image had a negative impact on his campaign. In January 2010, Yatsenyuk said that the campaign had cost him 80 million hryvnias and his publicity was much less than that of his rivals in the race for the presidency. He also said that most of the budget was spent on television advertising and participation in debates.
At the end of the elections, Yatsenyuk intended to achieve the dissolution of the Verkhovna Rada, which, in his opinion, would be an obstacle to his activities. In addition, he did not share the Party of Regions and the Yulia BlocTymoshenko , calling them almost one.
According to the results of the presidential elections, he became the fourth with a result of almost 7% of the votes of Ukrainian citizens. There is evidence that the wife of the current head of state, Katherine-Claire Yushchenko, took an active part in Yatsenyuk's election campaign. This is explained by the fact that, while still working in the presidential secretariat, Arseniy supported the financing of the fund, which was managed by the wife of the head of state.
In the winter of 2010, Yanukovych proposed three candidates for the post of prime minister, among whom was Arseniy Yatsenyuk. The latter rejected his candidacy, not approving the new law, which allowed not only parliamentary factions, but also the majority of individual deputies to form their own personal coalitions.
After these events, he began to call for early presidential elections, as he considered it impossible for himself to be a prime minister in a coalition with the communists.
According to journalist Yulia Mostovaya, in the summer of 2010 a sociological survey was conducted, the results of which revealed that Arseniy Yatsenyuk had every chance of winning the second round of presidential elections and bypassing Viktor Yanukovych. Perhaps, if this actually happened, the political biography of Arseniy Yatsenyuk would become even more vivid.
Political views and beliefs
Arseniy Yatsenyuk does not support the privatization of state property and advocated the simplification of the state administration system. He also believes that corruption will be defeated only when the system changes.governance of the country. I am convinced that only the Ukrainian language should be the state language, but he is against the infringement of the rights of Russian-speaking citizens. According to experts, based on what Arseniy Yatsenyuk says, he does not consider the nationality of citizens to be the dominant factor, for which the majority of both Ukrainians and Russians are ready to express support for him. He also advocates the abolition of the visa regime with the countries of the European Union.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk and his family
Currently, his father is the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of History at the Chernivtsi National University, his mother teaches French.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk's sister, Alina Petrovna Steele, lives in America, where she moved in 1999, after her brother's marriage. Lives in California. She was married three times, in the third marriage she is raising a daughter and a son. Her current husband is in the real estate business, she helps him. Fluent in several languages, sometimes working as a translator.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk's wife Teresia, daughter of professor of philosophy Viktor Gur and candidate of philosophical sciences Svetlana Gur. They met in 1998 at a New Year's corporate party at Aval Bank. There Teresia worked as a referent. After the wedding, she takes care of her business, and she also takes care of the family on her shoulders.
What, like any public person, Arseniy Yatsenyuk is reluctant to talk about - children. It is known that he has two of them: the eldest daughter Christina, who was born in 1999, and the youngest daughter Sofia, who is five years younger than her sister and was born in 2004.
Today the mainreal estate of Arseniy Yatsenyuk is a country house with a plot of 30 acres, adjacent to the residence of Viktor Yanukovych.
Nationality
During the 2009 presidential election campaign, the issue that Arseniy Yatsenyuk himself had never been the first to raise was repeatedly discussed both by society and the media. Biography, nationality - this question haunted even prominent political figures in Ukraine and gave rise to anti-Semitic statements against Yatsenyuk from the mayor of Uzhgorod Serhiy Ratushnyak.
According to the vice-president of the Jewish community of Ukraine Yevgeny Chervonenko, made in 2009, Yatsenyuk is not a Jew. But many do not agree with this and "dig" the prime minister's biography deeper and deeper.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk himself, whose year of birth is 1974, is recorded in his passport as a Ukrainian, his parents are of the same nationality. He repeatedly said that he had nothing to do with the Jews and was proud that he professed the Greek Catholic faith. But no matter what Yatsenyuk says, there are two opposing camps: one of them will stubbornly classify the prime minister as a Jewish nation, the other will prove the opposite. Circumstances in Ukraine have now developed so that ordinary and ordinary things in another time become the cause of numerous scandals, condemnation, and sometimes even violence.
After the election of the new president, who became Poroshenko, Yatsenyuk retained the chair of the prime minister. However, in Ukraine, few doubted that it would be otherwise. According tohead of state, Arseniy Yatsenyuk is the most suitable head of the Cabinet of Ministers today. The prime minister's main goals are to bring Ukraine into the European Union, to establish full control over all regions. Settle all internal and external conflicts. Then bring the country out of the crisis, both financial and political.
