Oleksandr Turchynov | |
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Олександр Турчинов | |
11th Secretary of RNBO of Ukraine | |
Assumed office 16 December 2014 |
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President | Petro Poroshenko |
Preceded by | Andriy Parubiy |
10th Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada | |
In office 22 February 2014 – 27 November 2014 |
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Preceded by | Volodymyr Rybak |
Succeeded by | Volodymyr Groysman |
President of Ukraine Acting |
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In office 23 February 2014 – 7 June 2014 |
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Prime Minister | Himself (Acting) Arseniy Yatsenyuk |
Preceded by | Viktor Yanukovych |
Succeeded by | Petro Poroshenko |
Prime Minister of Ukraine Acting |
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In office 22 February 2014 – 27 February 2014 |
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President | Himself (Acting) |
Preceded by | Serhiy Arbuzov (Acting) |
Succeeded by | Arseniy Yatsenyuk |
In office 4 March 2010 – 11 March 2010 |
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President | Viktor Yanukovych |
Preceded by | Yulia Tymoshenko |
Succeeded by | Mykola Azarov |
18th Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine | |
In office 18 December 2007 – 11 March 2010 |
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Prime Minister | Yulia Tymoshenko |
Preceded by | Mykola Azarov |
Succeeded by | Andriy Klyuyev |
7th Director of the Security Service | |
In office 4 February 2005 – 8 September 2005 |
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President | Viktor Yushchenko |
Preceded by | Ihor Smeshko |
Succeeded by | Ihor Drizhchanyi |
Personal details | |
Born |
Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
31 March 1964
Political party |
Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1987-1991) Hromada (1994–1999) Fatherland (1999–2014) People's Front (2014-present) |
Other political affiliations |
Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (2001–2012) Dictatorship Resistance Committee (2011–2014) |
Spouse(s) | Hanna Volodymyrivna |
Children | Kyrylo |
Alma mater | National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine |
Religion | Ukrainian Evangelical Baptist |
Signature | |
Website | Official website |
People's Deputy of Ukraine | ||||
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3rd convocation | ||||
May 12, 1998 – May 14, 2002 | ||||
Elected as: Hromada, No.12 | ||||
4th convocation | ||||
May 14, 2002 – July 7, 2005 | ||||
Elected as: Fatherland, No.7 | ||||
5th convocation | ||||
May 25, 2006 – June 15, 2007 | ||||
Elected as: Fatherland, No.2 | ||||
6th convocation | ||||
November 23, 2007 – December 19, 2007 | ||||
Elected as: Fatherland, No.2 | ||||
7th convocation | ||||
December 12, 2012 – November 27, 2014 | ||||
Elected as: Fatherland, No.4 | ||||
8th convocation | ||||
November 27, 2014 – Present | ||||
Elected as: People's Front, No.3 |
Oleksandr Valentynovych Turchynov (Ukrainian: Олександр Валентинович Турчинов; born 31 March 1964) is a Ukrainian politician, screenwriter, and economist. He is the current Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine.
Turchynov is a former acting President of Ukraine from the removal from power of President Viktor Yanukovych on 21 February 2014. until Petro Poroshenko was sworn in as Ukrainian President on 7 June 2014. He then became Chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament until 27 November 2014. Turchynov also served as acting Prime Minister in 2010 (when he was the First Vice Prime Minister in the absence of a prime minister after Yulia Tymoshenko's government was dismissed on 3 March 2010) until the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) appointed Mykola Azarov as Prime Minister on 11 March 2010.
Turchynov was the first deputy chairman of the political party Batkivshchyna (All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland") and a close associate of party leader Yulia Tymoshenko. He started the new political party People's Front in September 2014, now together with Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
Oleksandr Turchynov was born in Dnipropetrovsk. He graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute in 1986, after which he worked at Kryvorizhstal, a large Ukrainian steel producer. From 1987 to 1990, he served as head of the agitation and propaganda division of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Komsomol (Communist Youth League) Committee, which was led by Serhiy Tihipko. Tihipko and Turchynov became political advisers of Leonid Kuchma, then head of Dnipropetrovsk-based Pivdenmash missile manufacturer. Kuchma and his entire team, including Tihipko and Turchynov moved to Kiev in 1992, after Kuchma was appointed Prime Minister. In 1993 Turchynov was formally appointed an advisor on economic issues to Prime Minister Kuchma.