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Arseniy Yatseniuk

Arseniy Yatsenyuk
Арсеній Яценюк
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15th Prime Minister of Ukraine
In office
27 February 2014 – 14 April 2016
President Petro Poroshenko
Deputy
Preceded by Oleksandr Turchynov (Acting)
Succeeded by Volodymyr Groysman
7th Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada
In office
4 December 2007 – 12 November 2008
President Viktor Yushchenko
Preceded by Oleksandr Moroz
Succeeded by Oleksandr Lavrynovych (Acting)
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
21 March 2007 – 4 December 2007
Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych
Preceded by Volodymyr Ohryzko (Acting)
Succeeded by Volodymyr Ohryzko
Minister of Economy
In office
27 September 2005 – 4 August 2006
Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov
Preceded by Serhiy Teryokhin
Succeeded by Volodymyr Makukha
People's Deputy of Ukraine
6th convocation
In office
November 23, 2007 – December 12, 2012
Constituency Independent, No.3
7th convocation
In office
December 12, 2012 – February 28, 2014
Constituency Independent, No.2
8th convocation
In office
November 27, 2014 – December 2, 2014
Constituency People's Front, No.1
Personal details
Born Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk
(1974-05-22) 22 May 1974 (age 43)
Chernivtsi, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Political party Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense Bloc (Before 2007)
Front for Change (2008–2013)
Batkivshchyna (2013–2014)
People's Front (2014–present)
Other political
affiliations
Dictatorship Resistance Committee (2011–2014)
Spouse(s) Tereziya Victorivna Hur (2000–present)
Children Khrystyna
Sofia
Alma mater Chernivtsi University
Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics
Religion Ukrainian Greek Catholicism
Signature
Website Official website

Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk (Ukrainian: Арсеній Петрович Яценюк, Ukrainian pronunciation: [ɐrˈsɛnʲij pɛtˈrɔvɪt͡ʃ jɐt͡sɛˈnʲuk]; born May 22, 1974) is a Ukrainian politician, economist and lawyer who served as the 15th Prime Minister of Ukraine from 27 February 2014 to 14 April 2016.

Yatsenyuk's first government post was as Minister of Economy from 2005 to 2006; subsequently he was Foreign Minister of Ukraine in 2007 and Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) from 2007 to 2008. Yatsenyuk was one of the leaders of Ukraine's second biggest party All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland", and former leader of its parliamentary faction. He became the Prime Minister of Ukraine following the 2014 revolution that removed Viktor Yanukovych from power. In September 2014 Yatsenyuk started the new party People's Front. On 16 February 2016, the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, asked Yatsenyuk to resign saying he had lost the support of the coalition and the same day, the Ukrainian parliament voted the cabinet's work unsatisfactory but rejected a call for a vote of no confidence. On 10 April 2016, Yatsenyuk announced that he would report to parliament on 12 April and resign as Prime Minister. On 14 April 2016, Yatsenyuk was replaced by new Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman.

Yatsenyuk was born on May 22, 1974, in the Ukrainian SSR's Chernivtsi. His father, historian Petro Ivanovich Yatsenuk, was a professor at the Faculty of History at Chernivtsi National University and has since become deputy dean of its history faculty. Arseny's mother, Maria Grigoriievna Yatsenyuk (née Bakaj), has long been a French teacher at area high schools and now teaches in the French Department of Foreign Languages at Chernivtsi University. Yatsenyuk also speaks Russian and English as well as having some knowledge of Romanian.


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