"November 2004, Tymoshenko led the participants of the protest to the President's Administration. On Bankova Street, special riot police prevented the procession from going any further, so people lifted Tymoshenko up and she walked on the police's shields to the Administration building. On 3 December 2004, the Supreme Court of Ukraine invalidated the results of the runoff and scheduled the re-run for 26 December 2004. After the cancellation of Viktor Yanukovych's official victory and the second round of the election, Viktor Yushchenko was elected president with 51.99% of votes (Yanukovych received 44.2% support). During the protests, Tymoshenko's speeches on the"
"education, youth and sport of Ukraine), Petro Poroshenko (Ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Head of the Supervisory Board of the National Bank of Ukraine), Viktor Yushchenko (Ukrainian state and political figure, the third President of Ukraine), Leonid Kravchuk (1st President of Ukraine, Chairman of the Scientific Expert Group on the preparation of the Constituent Assembly), Oleksandr Moroz (3rd and 7th Chairman of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine), Anatoliy Kinakh (Head of the Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, National Deputy of Ukraine), Ilya Yemets (cardiac surgeon, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Honored Doctor of Ukraine, ex-Health Minister of Ukraine), Natalia Narochnitskaya"
"The Bloc consisted of: KUCHMA Electoral Bloc of Political Parties The KUCHMA Electoral Bloc of Political Parties, () is a political alliance in Ukraine. KUCHMA, the name of former president Leonid Kuchma, is a backronym that stands for ""Конституція – Україна – Честь – Мир – Антифашизм"", which is translated as Constitution – Ukraine – Honour – Peace – Antifascism. The bloc had been organized for participation in the 2007 parliamentary election by Oleksandr Volkov, a businessman and former chief of staff to former president Leonid Kuchma. At that elections the bloc failed to enter the parliament winning only 0,10%"
"exist on December 26, when the presidents of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia (the founding members of the USSR) met in Belovezh Pushcha to formally dissolve the Union in accordance with the Soviet Constitution. And with this Ukraine's independence was formalized de jure and recognised by the international community. Poland and Canada were the first countries to recognize Ukraine's independence (both) on 2 December 1991. The history of Ukraine between 1991 and 2004 was marked by the presidencies of Leonid Kravchuk and Leonid Kuchma. This was a time of transition for Ukraine. While it had attained nominal independence from Russia, its"
"KUCHMA Electoral Bloc of Political Parties The KUCHMA Electoral Bloc of Political Parties, () is a political alliance in Ukraine. KUCHMA, the name of former president Leonid Kuchma, is a backronym that stands for ""Конституція – Україна – Честь – Мир – Антифашизм"", which is translated as Constitution – Ukraine – Honour – Peace – Antifascism. The bloc had been organized for participation in the 2007 parliamentary election by Oleksandr Volkov, a businessman and former chief of staff to former president Leonid Kuchma. At that elections the bloc failed to enter the parliament winning only 0,10% of the national vote."
"Leonid Kuchma and joined the pro-government For United Ukraine alliance during the parliamentary elections on 30 March 2002. Its electoral and financial base has always been located primarily in the east and south-east of Ukraine, where it got wide popular electoral support. In the eastern Ukrainian Donetsk Oblast the party claimed in 2010 to have over 700,000 members. The party was always supported mostly by people older than 45 years. In 2010, the party candidate Viktor Yanukovych won the presidential elections. The party won 185 seats in the Ukrainian parliament in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election. On 12 December 2012"
"Salvation Committee and became active in the ""Ukraine without Kuchma"" protests. The movement embraced a number of opposition parties, such as Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, ""Fatherland"", Ukrainian Republican Party, Ukrainian Conservative Republican Party, ""Sobor"", Ukrainian Social-Democratic Party, Ukrainian Christian-Democratic Party and Patriotic Party. On 9 February 2001, Tymoshenko founded the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (the National Salvation Committee merged into it), a political bloc that received 7.2% of the vote in the 2002 parliamentary election. She has been head of the Batkivshchina (Fatherland) political party since the party was organised in 1999. On 13 February 2001, Tymoshenko was arrested and charged with"
"February 7, 2010. Ukraine's incumbent president, Viktor Yushchenko, with 5.45% support, came in fifth place behind Serhiy Tihipko and Arseniy Yatsenyuk who had each respectively received 13.05% and 6.69% of the vote. Peter Simonenko, Volodymyr Lytvyn, Oleh Tyahnybok and Anatoliy Hrytsenko all scored between 4 and 1% of the votes. The remaining nine candidates for the presidency gained less than 1% of the votes. The second round of voting between Viktor Yanukovych and Yulia Tymoshenko took place on February 7, 2010. Exit polls indicated that Yanukovych had been elected, with the National Election Poll placing him first at 48.7% of"
"2014 parliamentary elections, these elections were not held in Crimea and also not held in parts of Donetsk Oblast and Luhansk Oblast. The most popular presidential elections were the first one in 1991 where nearly 30.6 millions people voted and in the 2004 election which gathered some 28 millions. There were only three presidential candidates who have gathered over 10 millions votes: Leonid Kravchuk (1991 - 19.6, 1994 - 10.0), Viktor Yushchenko (2004 - 11.1), and Viktor Yanukovych (2004 - 11.0). The 10 million voters mark was almost reached by Leonid Kuchma in 1999, but he only gained the trust"
"stay in detention during the preliminary investigation"". The General Prosecutor of Ukraine's Office cancelled its resolution to deny opening of criminal cases against former President Leonid Kuchma and other politicians within the Gongadze-case on 9 October 2010. On 24 March 2011 Ukrainian prosecutors charged Kuchma with involvement in the murder. The decision prompted mixed reaction among the public. Former Prime Minister and the leader of the main opposition party Yulia Tymoshenko argued that Kuchma's arrest was no more than a PR stunt designed to distract people from their economic woes and prop up President Viktor Yanukovych's sagging popularity. Another theory"
"home to the Yuzhmash, a major space and ballistic missile design bureau and manufacturer. Because of its military industry, it was a closed city until the 1990s. On 19 May 2016 the official name of the city was changed from Dnipropetrovsk to ""Dnipro"". Dnipro is a powerhouse of Ukraine's business and politics as the native city for many of the country's most important figures. Ukraine's politics are still defined by the legacies of Leonid Kuchma, Pavlo Lazarenko and Yuliya Tymoshenko whose intermingled careers started in Dnipro. Over time, Dnipro has been known by a number of names: The spellings ""Katerynoslav"""
"all Ukrainians trusted the media and 38.5% didn't. After the (only) term of office of the first Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk ended in 1994, the freedom of the press worsened. During the presidency of Leonid Kuchma (1994–2004) several news-outlets critical to the him were forcefully closed. In 1999 the Committee to Protect Journalists placed Kuchma on the list of worst enemies of the press. In that year the Ukrainian Government partially limited freedom of the press through tax inspections (Mykola Azarov, who later became Prime Minister of Ukraine, headed the tax authority during Kuchma's presidency), libel cases, subsidization, and intimidation"
"the main candidates who sought election in the poll stated that: ""We will not challenge any election returns to avoid tremors, which may bring about instability in this country. If the people elect their president, and this is not Yulia Tymoshenko, I will take this choice easy, for sure"" Former President Leonid Kuchma also excluded the possibility of a third round ballot. According to Kuchma, ""during the election campaign in 2004 the decision about holding the third round was political and it will not be repeated. The 2004 decision was an exclusion from a rule"". Viktor Baloha, former presidential secretary"
"Yulia Tymoshenko dated 2011-2014. After Yanukovych's ouster, and return of the 2004 Constitution, a ruling coalition was formed, which included Batkivshchyna, UDAR and Svoboda. This coalition put together a coalition government headed by Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Yulia Tymoshenko began to reform the party following the revolution. In early August 2014 Batkivshchyna expelled more than 1,500 members, including more than 700 deputies, in a lustration campaign. The party has its own Batkivshchyna Battalion that has fought in the War in Donbass since May 2014. Nadiya Savchenko Yulia Tymoshenko Ihor Lutsenko Serhiy Sobolev Alyona Shkrum<br> Vadym Ivchenko Hryhoriy Nemyria Ivan Krulko Oleksiy Ryabchyn"
"Viktor Yushchenko the winner. Five days later, Yanukovych resigned from office and his cabinet was dismissed on January 5, 2005. During the Yushchenko term, relations between Russia and Ukraine often appeared strained as Yushchenko looked towards improved relations with the European Union and less toward Russia. In 2005, a highly publicized dispute over natural gas prices with Russia caused shortages in many European countries that were reliant on Ukraine as a transit country. A compromise was reached in January 2006. By the time of the presidential election of 2010, Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko — allies during the Orange Revolution —"
"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. Turchynov is an old ally of Yulia Tymoshenko, another prominent Ukrainian"
"Ukraine without Kuchma campaign. At the parliamentary elections on 30 March 2002, the party won 6.9% of the popular vote, and 24 out of 450 seats in the Verkhovna Rada. The party had limited access to media in the campaign. And the youth wing of the party had left it and had endorsed Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) in the election. Late 2002 Moroz, Viktor Yushchenko (Our Ukraine), Petro Symonenko (Communist Party of Ukraine) and Yulia Tymoshenko (Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc) issued a joint statement concerning ""the beginning of a state revolution in Ukraine"". The communists stepped out of the"
"by Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov, received less than 14% of the national vote, taking third place behind the Party of Regions and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. In a poll by the Sofia Social Research Centre between July 27 and August 7, 2007 more than 52% of those polled said they distrusted Yushchenko. In 2004, as President Kuchma's term came to an end, Yushchenko announced his candidacy for president as an independent. His major rival was Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. Since his term as prime minister, Yushchenko had slightly modernized his political platform, adding social partnership and other liberal slogans to"
"two terms. After Kravchuk's presidency, he was active in Ukrainian politics, serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine in the Verkhovna Rada and the leader of Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united)'s parliamentary group (from 2002 to 2006). He is currently retired from politics. At age , he is the oldest living former Ukrainian president. Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk was born in 1934 in the village of Velykyi Zhytyn (""Żytyń Wielki"") to a peasant family. At that time the village was located in Aleksandrija gmina, Rowno powiat in Poland. The village became part of Rivne Oblast in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist"
"In December 2009, during the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election campaign Turchynov accused President Viktor Yushchenko and opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych of coordinating their actions in their attempts to topple the Second Tymoshenko Government. From December 2009 till March 2010, the adviser to Turchynov in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine was Andriy Slyusarchuk, a Ukrainian fraudster. On 4 March 2010, after the fall of the second Tymoshenko Government, former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko resigned from that post on 4 March 2010 and Turchynov was empowered to fulfill the Prime Minister's duties until a new government was formed. On 11 March"
"Yulia Tymoshenko Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko (, ; born Hrihyan, Грігян, 27 November 1960) is a Ukrainian politician. She is the leader of the All-Ukrainian Union ""Fatherland"" political party. She strives for Ukraine's integration into the European Union and strongly opposes the membership of Ukraine in the Eurasian Customs Union. She supports NATO membership for Ukraine. Tymoshenko co-led the Orange Revolution and was the first woman appointed Prime Minister of Ukraine, serving from 24 January to 8 September 2005, and again from 18 December 2007 to 4 March 2010. She placed third in ""Forbes"" magazine's list of the world's most powerful"
"Family of Yulia Tymoshenko The family of Yulia Tymoshenko, a Ukrainian politician and former Prime Minister of Ukraine, is made up of people of Ukrainian and Latvian ancestry. Tymoshenko has claimed her mother has Ukrainian roots and her father Latvian roots ""both for ten generations"". Tymoshenko's parents were both born in Ukraine and are, therefore, Ukrainian as defined by the Law on Citizenship of Ukraine and by the Ukrainian Constitution. Yulia Tymoshenko is married to Olexandr Tymoshenko (born 11 June 1960). A businessman, he married Yulia Telehina in 1979, and she took his name. During the early years of her"
"Vasyl Stus (1938-1985) poet and journalist 14. Mykhailo Hrushevskyi (1866-1934) academician and historian 15. Vitaliy Klychko (1971-) politician and former professional boxer and Volodymyr Klychko (1976-) professional boxer from 1996 to til' 2017 16. Volodymyr I of Kyiv (958-1015) prince and grand prince 17. Serhiy Korolov (1907-1966) rocket engineer for Soviet Union 18. Mykola Hohol (1809-1852) dramatist 19. Andrey Sheptytskyi (1865-1944) Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church 20. Viktor Yushchenko (1954-) President of Ukraine 2005-2010 21. Yuliya Tymoshenko (1960-) politician and the first woman appointed Prime Minister 22. Oleksandr Dovzhenko (1894-1956) film producer 23. Volodymyr Lenin (1870-1924) communist"
"of Ukraine in the electoral district in Donetsk region, lost, taking 2nd place. Mr. Lovochkin has worked in administration of President Leonid Kuchma (1999-2004) where he leaded Group of advisors and economy reforming staff. In the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election he had failed to do so for Lytvyn Bloc (Lytvyn Bloc had won no seats). In the 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election Lovochkin was elected into the Ukrainian parliament for Party of Regions. During his tenure as Head of Administration for President Victor Yanukovich (2010–2013), Mr. Lovochkin had implemented significant government initiatives, including Program for economy reforms, Chernobyl new sarcophagus Program,"
"place after Petro Poroshenko who won the election. Tymoshenko was born Yulia Hrihyan on 27 November 1960, in Dnipropetrovsk, Soviet Ukraine, Soviet Union. Her mother, Lyudmila Telehina (""née"" Nelepova), was born on 11 August 1937, also in Dnipropetrovsk. Yulia's father, Volodymyr Hrihyan, who according to his Soviet passport was Latvian, was born on 3 December 1937, also in Dnipropetrovsk. He abandoned his wife and young daughter when Yulia was between one and three years old; Yulia used her mother's surname. Yulia's paternal grandfather, Abram Kapitelman (), was born in 1914. After graduating from Dnipropetrovsk State University in 1940, Kapitelman was"
"corporation Yevgen Shago, Antonina Bolyura, Lydia Sokolchenko (under the UESU case on supply of construction materials to Russia in 1996–1997). In January 2011, Oleksandr Tymoshenko requested asylum in the Czech Republic due to «increasing pressure being put on the opposition leader through her family» and Jan. 6, 2011 Oleksandr Tymoshenko granted Czech asylum. 33) In November 2012, the Procurator's Office informed about the criminal cases opened against the well-known ex-Deputy from the BYuT faction Andriy Shkil (a supporter of Ukrainian nationalist organizations UNA-UNSO and, also, one of the organizers of the protest action «Ukraine without Kuchma» held in March 2001."
"All-Ukrainian Union ""Fatherland"" The All-Ukrainian Union ""Fatherland"" or Batkivshchyna (, ) is a political party in Ukraine, led by Yulia Tymoshenko. The party has been an observer member of the European People's Party (EPP) since 2008. As the core party of the former Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, Batkivshchyna has been represented in the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) since Yulia Tymoshenko set up the parliamentary faction of the same name in March 1999. Since 2008, Batkivshchyna has been an associate member of the European People's Party. After the November 2011 banning of the participation of blocs of political parties in parliamentary elections,"
"and southern regions, as well as from Crimea. For United Ukraine block, which included Victor Yanukovych's Party of Regions, got most of its votes from eastern regions of Ukraine. Donetsk Oblast was the stronghold of the block, where it received more than twice the number of votes (36.83%) compared to the next highest supporting region: Sumy Oblast with 17.05% of the region's voters. Yulia Tymoshenko's block's support came predominantly from western regions, while the Socialists were most supported in the central regions. While the Tymoshenko block received more of the national vote compared to the Socialist Party, it did not"
"issued a conclusion which said that it was a cartel monopoly with a participation of Petro Poroshenko, then-head of the National Council of Security and Defense. In May 2005, at the height of the petrol crisis, Viktor Yushchenko publicly, sharply criticized Tymoshenko for “pressure on oil traders”. First Tymoshenko government The first Tymoshenko Government was appointed on February 4, 2005 by 373 Parliamentarians of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament). It was supported (also by) opposition factions' Parliamentarians, including three Communists, 18 Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) members, 46 Regions faction members. On September 8, 2005, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko"
"a repeat runoff ballot, President Kuchma visited Moscow to discuss the crisis with Russia's President Vladimir Putin. Putin supported Kuchma's position of desiring wholly new elections, rather than just a repeat of the second round. The final results of the rerun ballot recorded Viktor Yushchenko receiving 52.00% of the votes, with Viktor Yanukovych on 44.19% which represented a change in the vote by +5.39% to Yushchenko and -5.27% from Yanukovych. Viktor Yanukovych conceded defeat on December 31, 2004 and subsequently resigned as Ukraine's Prime Minister the same day. Despite Yushchenko's victory in the second round of voting, the regional voting"
"under Viktor Yushchenko stated: Candidates Victor Yanukovych and Yulia Tymoshenko both accused the other of intending to use vote rigging to win the election during the election campaign. Early January 2010 Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko warned that there is a real threat of ""administrative pressure"" being applied during the counting of votes at the presidential election. Viktor Yushchenko without providing any details has alleged that the highest threat of falsification in the first round will be applied by Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc; ""because candidate Viktor Yanukovych will enter the second round in any case"". Allegations were made that Viktor Yushchenko had"
"the Ukrainian parliament on 22 February voted to remove Yanukovych from power (on the grounds that his whereabouts were unknown and he thus could not fulfil his duties), and to free Yulia Tymoshenko from prison. The same day Yanukovych supporter Volodymyr Rybak resigned as speaker of the Parliament, and was replaced by Tymoshenko loyalist Oleksandr Turchynov, who was subsequently installed as interim President. Yanukovych had fled Kiev, and subsequently gave a press conference in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. In March 2014, the Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation resulted in Crimea being annexed by Russia. Though official results"
"legislation, as it is totally unacceptable in a democratic country."" First Ukrainian President Kravchuk proposed on 9 December a meeting, to discuss ""important issues facing Ukraine"", of the four Ukrainian presidents (Kravchuk, Kuchma, Yuschenko and incumbent President Viktor Yanukovych) to take place on 10 December. On 9 December (current) President Yanukovych stated he would discuss the crisis with the above-mentioned three former presidents on 10 December to try to find a compromise. Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations Yuriy Serheyev called the 30 November violent actions of the Ukrainian police ""an encroachment on the constitutional rights of citizens"