Arseniy Yatsenyuk Арсеній Яценюк |
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15th Prime Minister of Ukraine | |
In office 27 February 2014 – 14 April 2016 |
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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 |
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President | Viktor Yushchenko |
Preceded by | Oleksandr Moroz |
Succeeded by | Oleksandr Lavrynovych (Acting) |
Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
In office 21 March 2007 – 4 December 2007 |
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Prime Minister | Viktor Yanukovych |
Preceded by | Volodymyr Ohryzko (Acting) |
Succeeded by | Volodymyr Ohryzko |
Minister of Economy | |
In office 27 September 2005 – 4 August 2006 |
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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 |
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Constituency | Independent, No.3 |
7th convocation | |
In office December 12, 2012 – February 28, 2014 |
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Constituency | Independent, No.2 |
8th convocation | |
In office November 27, 2014 – December 2, 2014 |
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Constituency | People's Front, No.1 |
Personal details | |
Born |
Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk 22 May 1974 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.