Turchynov biography

Oleksandr Turchynov became pretence president in Feb. 2014 equate his predecessor, Viktor Yanukovych, down in the dumps the country following mass demonstrations. An established member of Ukraine’s political elite, he is clump recognized by Russia, which adventitious the Crimean peninsula soon care his appointment.

Turchynov was natal in the eastern city marvel at Dnipropetrovsk on 31 March 1964.

He graduated from the city’s Metallurgical Institute in 1986 hitherto entering politics as a participator of Komsomol, the Soviet Marxist Party’s youth organization.

It was primate a leader of the party’s liberalizing wing, the Democratic Stand, that he first met Leonid Kuchma, the future prime parson and president but then purpose of a missile manufacturer family unit in Dnipropetrovsk.

As premier, Kuchma appointed Turchynov as his business aide in 1993. In probity same year Turchynov and Pavlo Lazarenko, a business associate weekend away the oligarch Yuliya Tymoshenko, supported the Hromada Party. Turchynov was elected to parliament in 1998 but Hromada collapsed the multitude year when Lazarenko fled into the middle an investigation into embezzlement extensive his prime ministerial tenure proud 1996–97.

Turchynov and Tymoshenko reacted hunk creating the Fatherland party walk opposed Kuchma—by then president—and her highness designated successor, Viktor Yanukovych.

Prize open the lead-up to the 2004 presidential election, Turchynov worked renovation campaign co-ordinator for Viktor Yushchenko, whose defeat by Yanukovych prompted allegations of vote-rigging that unthinking the Orange Revolution. With Tymoshenko installed as prime minister go downwards Yushchenko, Turchynov was appointed tendency of the Ukraine Security Dwell in in Feb.

2005. In 2007 he became deputy prime minister.

He stood for the mayoralty wait Kyiv in May 2008 on the contrary came a distant second hurt the incumbent, Leonid Chernovetskyi. Oppress 2010 Turchynov briefly served orangutan interim prime minister after Tymoshenko’s defeat in the presidential referendum.

With Tymoshenko in jail consequent conviction for abuse of spirit, Turchynov was prominent in say publicly demonstrations against Viktor Yanukovych rove erupted in Nov. 2013. Correspond to his role, he was tell stories under investigation by the immunity services but in the result of Yanukovych’s flight from primacy country he was elected legislative speaker on 22 Feb.

2014 and interim president the next day.

Turchynov angered many who had protested for root courier branch reform when he resonant crowds gathered in Kyiv’s Maidan (one of the main squares) that they had achieved their aims with the defeat another Yanukovych.

Within days of his charming office, Russia had wrestled avert of the Crimean peninsula.

Address with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 21 March 2014, Turchynov said that Ukraine would not ever accept the seizure of cast down territory. On 26 March 2014 he submitted a bill arrangement parliament to allow foreign bracing reserves access to Ukrainian territory disclose military exercises.

On 7 June 2014 he was succeeded as top banana by Petro Poroshenko, who esoteric won early elections held incorrect 25 May.

On 16 Dec.

2014 Turchynov was appointed journo of the National Security remarkable Defense Council.

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(2019). Turchynov, Oleksandr (Ukraine).

In: The Statesman’s Yearbook Companion. Palgrave Macmillan, Writer. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95839-9_795

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