Leader of the public initiative "Front of Change" since December 2008. Previously - Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (from December 2007 to November 2008), Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2007), First Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine (2006), Minister of Economy of Ukraine (2005-2006), Deputy Chairman of the Odessa Regional State Administration ( 2005), First Deputy Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine (2003-2005), Minister of Economy of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (2001-2003). Candidate of Economic Sciences. In October 2009, he became a candidate for the post of President of Ukraine.

Arseniy Petrovich Yatsenyuk was born on May 22, 1974 in the city of Chernivtsi, Ukrainian SSR. He graduated from school with a silver medal and entered Chernivtsi State University, where his father taught in the history department and served as deputy dean. Yatsenyuk chose the Faculty of Law and majored in jurisprudence. In 1996, he graduated from the university and for more than a year headed his law firm, YurEk-LTD, which he created in his first year at university and successfully privatized various industrial and agricultural enterprises.

In January 1998, Yatsenyuk moved to Kyiv, where he got a job as a consultant in the credit department of the joint-stock postal pension bank Aval. In December 1998, he became an adviser to the chairman of the board of this bank, and in August 2001, deputy chairman of the board. In 2001, Yatsenyuk graduated from the Chernivtsi Trade and Economic Institute of the Kyiv Trade and Economic University with a degree in accounting and audit.

In September 2001, Yatsenyuk took the position of acting Minister of Economy of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, and in November 2001 he was confirmed as Minister of Economy. In January 2003, Yatsenyuk took the position of first deputy chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine. In fact, he became the acting chairman of the bank, since the head of the NBU, Sergei Tigipko, was busy leading the election headquarters of Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych. On March 9, 2005, Yatsenyuk was appointed deputy chairman of the Odessa Regional State Administration. From September 27, 2005 to August 4, 2006, Yatsenyuk served as Minister of Economy of Ukraine.

On September 20, 2006, Yatsenyuk became the first deputy head of the secretariat of the President of Ukraine and the representative of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko in the cabinet of ministers of the republic. On March 20, 2007, President Yushchenko nominated Yatsenyuk for the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs of the country. The next day, March 21, 2007, Yatsenyuk was confirmed as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, after 426 parliament members voted for his candidacy.

On September 30, 2007, Yatsenyuk took part in the elections of deputies to the Ukrainian Parliament, taking third place in the electoral list of the Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense bloc (NU-NS). According to the voting results, the NU-NS bloc gained 14.15 percent of the votes and 72 deputy mandates, taking third place. Despite the fact that Yanukovych’s Party of Regions formally won, it and its potential allies (the Communist Party of Ukraine and the Lytvyn Bloc) lacked several parliamentary mandates to form a parliamentary majority. After the first election results were announced, the formation of a coalition between the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and the Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense bloc was announced. On November 29, 2007, the democratic coalition NU-NS and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) was officially created.

On December 4, 2007, members of the BYuT and NU-NS factions at a joint meeting nominated Yatsenyuk for the post of head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. The coalition nominated Yulia Tymoshenko as a candidate for the post of prime minister of the country. On the same day, Yatsenyuk was elected speaker of the Ukrainian parliament by secret ballot on a non-alternative basis. Immediately after his election, representatives of the opposition factions - the Party of Regions, the Communist Party of Ukraine and the Lytvyn Bloc - left the session hall, later explaining their action as violations of the Verkhovna Rada regulations and the Constitution committed by their opponents during the election of the head of parliament.

On December 9, 2007, Yatsenyuk, in an interview with the Ukrainian TV channel Inter, stated that he practically excludes the possibility that Tymoshenko will not be elected Prime Minister of Ukraine. However, on the day of the first vote on her candidacy, parliamentarians did not elect Tymoshenko as prime minister of the country - she only needed one vote to win. However, on December 18, 2007, Tymoshenko was elected Prime Minister of Ukraine.

In mid-August 2008, the conflict between President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Tymoshenko escalated. Disagreements between the prime minister and the president over the conflict in South Ossetia, or rather the reluctance of Tymoshenko and her supporters to publicly give political assessments of the events taking place, were used as a reason for making public claims against her. On August 17, 2008, the presidential secretariat, without presenting any evidence, announced the existence of “shadow agreements” between the “Russian leadership” and the Ukrainian prime minister. On September 3, BYuT, the Party of Regions, the Communists and the Lytvyn Bloc voted for a number of bills that limited the powers of the president and transferred his key powers to the cabinet of ministers, and also simplified the procedure for impeachment of the head of state, which gave Yushchenko a reason to accuse Tymoshenko of organizing a coup and trying to establish a “dictatorship of the prime minister” ".

The consequence of a new round of the struggle for power in Ukraine was the collapse of the “Orange Coalition”: the first to leave was the Our Ukraine party, which regarded the results of the vote in parliament as a betrayal on the part of BYuT (the NU-NS bloc split, because among those who abstained or voted against leaving the coalition turned out to be deputies from "People's Self-Defense"). On September 16, 2008, at a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada, Yatsenyuk officially announced the cessation of the coalition’s activities. The next day, he resigned, stating that, in accordance with the requirements of the temporary regulations, he intended to continue to lead parliament until the issue of his resignation from the post of speaker was considered by the Rules Committee. The political forces represented in parliament were unable to form a coalition within the time limit allotted by the country’s Constitution. On October 8, 2008, Yushchenko signed a decree on the early termination of the powers of parliament and the appointment of early elections of deputies to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. However, later the president extended the terms of office of the Rada deputies, by his decrees postponing the date of early elections, first from December 7 to December 14, and later to 2009.

On the morning of November 12, 2008, the Verkhovna Rada voted to remove Yatsenyuk from chairing meetings. 231 deputies voted for this, with the required minimum of 226 votes. After this decision, deputies of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and the opposition Party of Regions staged a brawl, caused by a dispute over how to vote for the final resignation of the speaker. In the middle of the day, a vote was held on the issue of removing Yatsenyuk from office: 233 deputies voted for his resignation.

In December of the same year, Yatsenyuk published an article in the Ukrainian newspaper Den. In it, he announced the creation of the Front of Change initiative: “It is not a party yet. But there will be a party. It will be built from below, and will not have shareholders and a leader.” Discussing the state of affairs in the country, the politician identified priority tasks - “17 challenges over 17 years of Ukraine’s independence” - among which he named the preservation of democracy, overcoming the economic crisis, the creation of a national idea, the formation of national capital, land relations, the formation of a political nation and renewal political elite. According to Yatsenyuk, it is the “Front of Change,” which “already has initiative groups in many areas,” that should promote fundamental changes in the country.

In May 2009, Yatsenyuk announced that he intended to run for president of Ukraine. “I’m not participating in elections, I’m going to win them!” - he announced and expressed confidence that those who want changes in the country will vote for him. Yatsenyuk became an official candidate for the presidency of Ukraine in October 2009 (the politician decided to participate in the presidential elections as a self-nominated candidate).

Yatsenyuk has an academic degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences, owns English language. He is married and has two daughters - Christina and Sofia.

Arseniy Petrovich Yatsenyuk born on May 22, 1974 in Kyiv in the family of a history teacher and a French teacher. In 1991, Arseniy graduated from the specialized English-language secondary school named after Panas Mirny with a silver award. In 1996 - Faculty of Law of Chernivtsi National University named after Yuriy Fedkovich. And in 2001, he received a second higher education in the specialty “accounting and auditing” at the Chernivtsi Trade and Economic Institute of the Kyiv National Trade and Economic University.

Minister of Economy and Head of the National Bank

In December 1992, 18-year-old Arseniy, together with the son of the then governor of the Chernivtsi region, Valentin Gnatyshin, participated in the creation of the law firm "YurEk Ltd" in Chernivtsi, which dealt with privatization issues and headed it until 1997.

Since January 1998, Arseny moved to Kyiv, where he became a consultant in the credit department of the Joint Stock Postal and Pension Bank Raiffeisen Bank Aval. And in December 1998, he already took the position of adviser to the chairman of the board of Aval Bank. Yatsenyuk spent his last month of work at Avala as deputy chairman of the bank’s board, after which he was invited by the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Crimea, Valery Gorbatov, to the post of Minister of Economy.

On September 19, 2001, the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea elected Yatsenyuk as acting Minister of Economy of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in the government of Valery Gorbatov. On April 29, 2002, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, together with the entire government, resigned because the newly elected Verkhovna Rada of Crimea began work. And although on the same day Sergei Kunitsyn became acting chairman of the Council of Ministers instead of Valery Gorbatov, Arseniy Yatsenyuk retained his post. Already on May 15, he fully headed the Ministry of Economy of Crimea for the second time, but he remained in this position for less than a year, having been transferred to a new job in Kyiv.

In January 2003, the head of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), Sergei Tigipko, appointed Arseniy Yatsenyuk as his first deputy. When Sergei Tigipko became the head of the campaign headquarters of Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych on July 4, 2004, Yatsenyuk was assigned to act as head of the NBU until the end of the election campaign. This stage of his activity lasted until December 16, until the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine accepted the resignation of Sergei Tigipko and appointed Vladimir Stelmakh as the new head of the NBU. In February 2005, Arseniy Yatsenyuk resigned from this position.

And already on March 9, 2005, the chairman of the Odessa Regional State Administration Vasily Tsushko appointed Arseniy Yatsenyuk as his first deputy. He worked in this job until his appointment as Minister of Economy of Ukraine in the government of Yuri Yekhanurov, which took place on September 27, 2005. On May 25, 2006, the newly elected Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the fifth convocation dismissed the government, instructing it to continue to fulfill its duties until a new one is elected.

Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada

On September 20, 2006, President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko appointed Arseniy Yatsenyuk first deputy head of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine - representative of the President of Ukraine in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. Yatsenyuk also headed the Special Commission of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine on reforming the SBU, and from September 25, 2006, he was appointed a member of the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine, as well as a member of the supervisory boards of OJSC State Export-Import Bank of Ukraine and OJSC State Oschadny Bank of Ukraine.

He was relieved of the last two positions on March 13, 2007, and immediately on March 21, 2007 he was confirmed as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and ceased his activities in the Presidential Secretariat. Almost the entire tenure of Arseniy Yatsenyuk as Minister of Foreign Affairs occurred during an acute political crisis, which led to the dissolution of the Ukrainian parliament by decree of the President of Ukraine on April 2, 2007. On November 23, 2007, Arseniy Yatsenyuk took the oath of a people's deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, and on December 4, 2007, based on the results of a secret ballot, he became the 9th chairman of the Ukrainian parliament. Yatsenyuk worked as speaker until September 17, 2008 and resigned due to the cessation of the ruling coalition.

In 2010, Arseniy Yatsenyuk took part in the presidential elections in Ukraine: he took 4th place, receiving 6.96% of the votes. The political party of Arseniy Yatsenyuk “Front of Change” first took part in local elections on October 31, 2010, in which it took 3rd place in Ukraine, receiving the votes of 7% of Ukrainians. In April 2012, the leader of the Front for Change, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, and the leader of Batkivshchyna, Yulia Tymoshenko, announced the formation of a common list to participate in the parliamentary elections. In June 2012, Yatsenyuk was elected chairman of the council of the United Opposition “Fatherland”.

As a result of the parliamentary elections, the “United Opposition” received 62 seats (25.5% of the vote) on the party list and another 39 seats, winning in majoritarian districts - in total, receiving 101 seats in parliament. On December 11, 2012, Yatsenyuk was elected chairman of the Batkivshchyna faction. On June 4, 2013, the congress of the Front of Change party unanimously decided to merge with the VO “Batkivshchyna” through the liquidation and entry of members of the “Front of Change” into “Batkivshchyna”. On June 15, 2013, at the solemn congress of the United Opposition, Arseniy Yatsenyuk received a Batkivshchyna party card and was elected chairman of the party’s Political Council.

Prime Minister

Since November 21, 2013, Yatsenyuk, together with other opposition leaders Vitali Klitschko and Oleg Tyagnibok, coordinated protests in the center of Kiev, which began in response to the suspension by the Ukrainian government of the process of preparing for the signing of an association agreement between Ukraine and the European Union. In order to overcome the protracted political crisis, On January 25, 2014, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych offered Yatsenyuk the post of prime minister, but he refused. On February 27, 2014, the Verkhovna Rada nevertheless voted 371 votes in favor of the appointment of Arseniy Yatsenyuk as Prime Minister of Ukraine, but this was already after the president’s escape to Russia.

On July 24, 2014, as a result of the collapse of the parliamentary coalition after the Udar and Svoboda parties left it, Yatsenyuk, during a speech from the podium, announced his removal from the post of Prime Minister of Ukraine, expressing his reluctance to enter into an alternative coalition with the remnants of the Party of Regions and the Communist Party party of Ukraine. Already on July 28, 2014, Yatsenyuk returned to his duties as Prime Minister of Ukraine. On November 4, 2014, after the parliamentary elections, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko supported the candidacy of Arseniy Yatsenyuk for the post of Prime Minister of Ukraine. On November 27, the Verkhovna Rada supported the re-election of Yatsenyuk as head of government with 341 votes. On April 10, 2016, Yatsenyuk, in a weekly video message, announced the decision to resign as Prime Minister of Ukraine, which the Verkhovna Rada supported on April 14 with 257 votes.

Apartments, houses, cars and money

Arseniy Yatsenyuk filed an electronic declaration for 2016, in which he declared more than $1 million, UAH 4 million in banks, $475 thousand, UAH 300 thousand in cash, collections of paintings, coins, books and a gun. According to the e-declaration, Yatsenyuk owns a land plot in Novi Petrivtsi (Kiev region) with an area of ​​3 thousand 031 square meters. m, a residential building in the same area with an area of ​​343.5 sq. m. m, two apartments in Kyiv with an area of ​​83.35 sq. m, 224.9 sq. m, the third apartment in Chernivtsi with a total area of ​​104.9 sq. m. m, a garden (country) house with an area of ​​114.5 sq. m in Novi Petrivtsi, a parking space in Kyiv with an area of ​​13.4 sq. m.

The wife of ex-prime minister Teresia Yatsenyuk declared free use of her mother’s apartment in Kyiv with an area of ​​185.2 square meters. m and the use, on a loan from the mother of the head of the Popular Front, Maria Yatsenyuk, of non-residential premises in Kyiv with an area of ​​172.5 square meters. m. Yatsenyuk also declared valuable movable property: a Blazer hunting rifle, a collection of 10 paintings by Ukrainian and foreign artists, a collection of Ukrainian and foreign coins from non-banking and banking metals, a Breguet watch, a library of ancient and modern books of Ukrainian and foreign publications by different authors, antique mantel clock with candlesticks (two sets).

The ex-premier has a 2010 Mercedes S car (for 610 thousand UAH), a rental car for a 2010 Toyota Sequoia, and his wife has a 2012 Range Rover Sport (for 828.2 thousand UAH). Yatsenyuk has 100 war bonds with a nominal value of UAH 100.1 thousand, a share of 6.045% in the Chernivtsi Plant of Reinforced Concrete Products and Structures. He also has copyrights to the book “Banking Secret of the Orange Revolution” and a number of trademarks and commercial names: Union of Democratic Forces, SDS, Union of Democratic Forces, Front of Change, FZ, FP, Arseniy, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Arseniy Yatsenyuk Bloc, Novy course, New course, Change your future, Change your future. As prime minister in 2016, Yatsenyuk received a salary of 117.5 thousand UAH, he also received interest in Oschadbank in the amount of 5.2 thousand UAH, Raiffeisen Bank Avale - 37.2 thousand UAH, Fortuna Bank » - 1.4 million UAH, income from renting out property in the amount of 600 thousand UAH.

Teresia Yatsenyuk declared income from business activities in the amount of UAH 1 million, interest in the International Investment Bank - UAH 320.5 thousand. The ex-premier has $500 thousand on deposit in Oschadbank, in Raiffeisen Bank Avale - 64.7 thousand dollars, Bank Forum - 3.5 million UAH, Fortuna Bank - 486 thousand dollars, 909.5 thousand UAH In addition, 475 thousand dollars and 300 thousand UAH were declared in cash. Yatsenyuk has 141.4 thousand dollars on deposit with the International Investment Bank, 10.91 thousand UAH in Fortuna Bank, as well as 130 thousand UAH and 180 thousand euros in cash. Yatsenyuk also declared a preliminary agreement (option) for the purchase of corporate rights with Larisa Knyazhytskaya (the wife of People's Deputy from the Popular Front Nikolai Knyazhytsky) in the amount of UAH 3.7 million.

World News

In 2007, Yulia Tymoshenko visited Israel. During a conversation with Zeev Belsky (chairman of the Jewish Agency (Sokhnut), Tymoshenko noted that her political force “sincerely supports Israel and seeks cooperation with the Jewish state in all spheres: political, economic and in the field of absorption of repatriates.”

Israeli journalist Chaim Graetz, in the article “Halachic Jew Tymoshenko, revolution and hyper-Zionism” (“Fraza”, 09.16.05) stated that hyper-Zionists allegedly have documents confirming that Yulia Tymoshenko is a halachic Jew.

In another article - "Tymoshenko's Jewish roots. Continuation of the investigation" ( “Phrase”, 11/26/05) - the following was reported: “As it turned out, Tymoshenko’s father, who she pretends to be a Latvian, is named Vladimir Abramovich Grigyan (this information, by the way, can also be found on the Internet). We are ready to bet 5 kilos of fat that you can walk around the whole of Latvia ( and indeed the entire Baltic), and you can’t find more than one Baltic named Abram Grigyan ( grandfather's name Tymoshenko). But such a name is quite typical for Armenian Jews. Armenian Jews ( like the Georgian ones, like the mountain ones) are people who are very committed to tradition, and it is unlikely that he (YuVT’s father) would have married Tymoshenko’s mother if she were not Jewish.”

Maternal grandmother - Maria Iosifovna. Mother's last name is Kapitelman. Father: Vladimir Abramovich Grigyan.

Some sources in the scientific circles of Armenia claim that the surname Grigyan is often found among Bessarabian Jews or Gypsies, just like the surnames Kopelyan, Muntyan, Pomerlyan.

The grandfather of ex-Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko, Abram Kapitelman, before World War II worked as the director of the third Jewish school in the city of Sniatyn, which until 1939 was part of Poland. Deputy of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council, honorary local historian of the Carpathian region Zinoviy Boychuk told Ukrainian journalists about this.

The real family name of the Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko is Kapitelman. Such data was announced at a press conference in Kyiv by a former ally of the head of the Ukrainian government, Dmitry Chobit.

“I was prompted to investigate by Yulia Tymoshenko herself, who stated that on her paternal side all Latvians up to the tenth generation, and on her maternal side only Ukrainians. But when I started looking for information about Yulia Vladimirovna’s ancestors, I found documents that show her lies. According to the data I verified, Yulia Tymoshenko’s ancestors independently changed their surname to Grigyan, and her real family surname is Kapitelman,” said Dmitry Chobit.

Yulia Tymoshenko hides her origins between Ukraine, Armenia, Latvia and...:

Like many future powers that be, Tymoshenko had a rather difficult childhood. Her father abandoned the family when his daughter was only two years old.

The easiest way is to be attentive and remember, for example, the correspondent of the Israeli Russian-language newspaper Vesti Shimon Briman, a direct eyewitness of the Orange Revolution, who said: “In two Jewish communities they told me in great confidence that Yulia Tymoshenko is a halakhic Jew. Nothing surprising. If the orange synagogue helps the rebels, then why shouldn’t a Jewish woman lead the Ukrainian national movement?”

Arseniy Yatsenyuk

The second, an ardent patriot, a representative of the Ukrainian opposition, foaming at the mouth, disowning his Jewish roots, Arseniy Petrovich Yatsenyuk, generally calls himself an ethnic Pole. For all his inadequacy and absurdity, he is also a representative of the Jewish nation. Upon closer examination of his roots, it becomes clear that Arseniy Petrovich is by no means a third-generation Ukrainian. Yatsenyuk’s mother, whose maiden name is Bakai, belongs to an ancient Jewish family, which is known to the world thanks to the most authoritative interpreter of the Talmud, Rabbi Bakai. You yourself understand what kind of funding entails reaching the top of the Zionist movement, promoting their interests in the highest circles of power.

N true Jews should marry only true daughters of Israel. And in this regard, Yatsenyuk’s choice is simply impeccable. As the press dubbed Arseniy Petrovich’s wife, Theresia Gur, a “Hasidic princess,” since she, like her husband, also represents an ancient Jewish family.

In September 2009, Yatsenyuk was included in the publication “50 Famous Jews of Ukraine,” compiled by Professor of the Academy of Jewish History and Culture named after Shimon Dubnov, President of the Lviv Regional Jewish Community Rudolf Mirsky and Executive Director of the Academy of Jewish History and Culture Alexander Naiman.

Appeal from the Jewish community to Arseniy Petrovich Yatsenyuk:

“All Jews are ready to support you, Arseniy Petrovich, as a future candidate for President of Ukraine, as a pillar of our faith in a calm Ukraine. You should not shy away from Jewry and, finally, officially declare that you are a Jew and are proud of it,” the appeal says.

“We, representatives of the Jewish community of Ukraine, sincerely support the initiative of Arseniy Petrovich Yatsenyuk to run in the upcoming presidential elections in Ukraine.

Our nation has gone through difficult trials, we are proud of many of our fellow tribesmen, whose names the whole world knows.

As we know, you belong to the famous Jewish family of Bakai, which is officially recognized by Israel. After all, according to pedigree, in the case of mixed marriages, only the one whose mother is Jewish is considered a Jew. Your mother - Maria Grigorievna Bakai ( as a girl) belongs to the oldest Jewish family of Bakai. Your ancestor, deeply respected among all Jews, Rabbi Bakai, is the most famous writer of the Talmud, a multi-volume set of legal, religious and ethical provisions of Judaism.

In addition, your wife Theresia also belongs to our nation and comes from the most ancient Jewish family of Gur.

It is common knowledge that Jews were repeatedly persecuted and humiliated. Cruel confirmation - millions of victims and tragedies. That time left a deep, unhealed wound in our memory. However, today is a different time, and we can openly, without fear, say: “Yes, we are Jews.” Therefore, we urge you to move away from negative stereotypes and look at the historical values ​​of our nation. For many years, propaganda tried to discredit the Jewish nation. You, Arseny Petrovich, are a politician of a new time, a new generation. You should not be ashamed or hide your nationality. Today the Jewish people have national independence.

Ukraine has one of the largest Jewish communities. We support each other. We are grateful to you for expressing words of support and promises of protection to us, and we hope that in the future we will see that any prerequisites for the emergence of anti-Semitic manifestations and Judeophobia will be eliminated in Ukraine.

All Jews are ready to support you, Arseniy Petrovich, as a future candidate for President of Ukraine, as a pillar of our faith in a calm Ukraine. You should not shy away from Jewry and, finally, officially declare that you are a Jew and are proud of it,” the appeal says.

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Vitaliy Klichko

“But one situation really touched my soul, and from a person whom I respected immensely and a person who is going to power. This story made me look at him from a different perspective. Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but the only thing you can't renounce is your parents. The person I want to talk about below stooped to this very point in order to win the election. This man's name is Vitali Klitschko.

Yes, that same Vitaliy Klitschko - the hero of Ukraine, the world boxing champion, the pride of Ukraine, etc. A man who for many has become the symbol they look up to, a hero of our time, a man who made us proud of our country. But the desire for power, along the way, can radically change a person, or simply reveal his true essence.

This summer, while on vacation, I accidentally came across Vitaly’s Wikipedia page. In addition to many awards and achievements, I was attracted by information related to Vitaly’s family. There was a lot of interesting information, but special attention was attracted by the fact that his paternal grandmother, Tamara Efimovna Etinzon, was of Jewish nationality. But then the election campaign had not yet started.

Later, Vitaly decided that having a Jewish grandmother was not good for his image. And he cleared the entire Internet space as much as possible of information about his origin. For the sake of ratings, Vitaly disowned his history and the community that supported him all his life. It’s interesting how the Jewish community reacted to such a removal, but more interesting is how his late Father would react to the understanding that he is his son’s main disgrace.

Vladimir Rodionovich’s mother and grandmother of world-famous boxers is Tamara Efimovna Etinzon, a native of Smila, Cherkasy region. Shortly before the war, Tamara graduated from the Korsun Pedagogical College and was assigned as a teacher. primary classes to the school in Vilshany village. There she met Rodion Klitschko. Soon the lovers got married and settled in Smela with Tamara’s parents.

In May 1941, Rodion Klitschko was sent to Dnepropetrovsk for courses for management personnel, and his wife and son went on vacation to their parents in Smela. There the war found them.

Very soon the Nazis occupied Smela, and for many months Rodion, at the risk of his life, hid his Jewish wife, whose relatives had died at the hands of the Nazis, under the floor. After the war, as those who were under occupation, Rodion and Tamara were exiled to Kazakhstan, where their son Vladimir, Vitaly’s father, was born.

And this is a historical fact, documented, by historian Boris Kremenetsky, who is actively involved in searching for dead and missing Jewish soldiers during the Second World War, 1941-1945.

Moreover, his great-uncle Anatoly Efimovich Etinzon was a war hero who died heroically on November 30, 1943. He was buried in the village of Bandurovka, Kirovograd region.

And his father is Jewish, Vladimir Rodionovich - Hero liquidator of the nuclear power plant. The consequence of the liquidation was cancer, which he struggled with for a long time. And before that, a successful officer-pilot.

It is interesting that the Jews themselves, on the contrary, treat Vitaly with great warmth and understanding. The famous Jewish lobby helped Vitaly not only become a great athlete, but also quickly achieve results in business. For example, it’s no secret what kind of financial support Klitschko received from ex-mayor of Odessa Eduard Gurvits; in addition, it was Gurvits who brought Klitschko together with his main sponsor Valery Khoroshkovsky.

Jewish magazines, such as Lechaim in Ukraine, have long written about great pride for the Jewish people. For Jews, Klitschko has long become a national hero. The story of the Klitschko family has long been published in Israel.

But Klitschko promotes himself as an honest and open politician, a politician of the new generation. This is funny, because in our country there are no honest politicians, with very rare exceptions. I understand perfectly well that the same Klitschka will have to earn back the money invested in him, and this does not surprise me, all politicians do this. But renouncing one’s parents, one’s roots, is really low, even for our political reality.”

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Klitschko's grandfather - Etinzon Anatoly Efimovich 1918 ( 1917 ) year of birth. Born in Smela (from .Shabotino or village Zhabotino), Kyiv oblast. Kamensky district, lieutenant, non-party, Jew.

Marat Prigozhin, RIA Novosti Ukraine

Yatsenyuk’s fortune has not yet been assessed by Forbes magazine; the Prime Minister is not yet included in its ranking of the richest Ukrainians. However, talk about the prime minister's first billion dollars has long left the sidelines and smoking rooms and moved into the realm of public discussion.

Ukrainian racing driver and volunteer Alexey Mochanov, that in July Arseny Petrovich celebrated his first “yard” at a closed party. In his opinion, the war allowed him to earn a billion in one of the poorest countries in Europe.

Koreiko of our days

The newly minted oligarch still prefers a non-public status, but he has been working towards this title for many years, just like the well-known underground millionaire and book hero Alexander Koreiko.

Yatsenyuk took his first step on the path to a billion in the early 1990s, as a student. Then he founded the company YurEk Ltd., so that, together with the son of the then governor of the Chernivtsi region, Ivan Gnatyshyn, he could participate in the privatization of former socialist property and not without the help of Gnatyshyn, the elder.

The turning point in Yatsenyuk’s biography was his marriage to Theresia Gur, with whom his further career rise was associated. He met his future wife upon his arrival in Kyiv from Chernivtsi. In the capital, he got a job at Aval Bank, and ended up in the same department with his future wife. According to her, he attracted her attention.

The pinnacle of Yatsenyuk’s banking career was post of advisor to the chairman of the board of JSPPB "Aval", which he held for exactly a month, from August to September 2001, in order to then head the management of the economy of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, to whose government he was appointed to the position of relevant minister.

The next step in Yatsenyuk’s career is position of first deputy chairman of the NBU, from January 2003 to February 2005. At the beginning of 2005, he was elected President of Ukraine in the third round. Victor Yushchenko, and the team comes with him. NBU heads Vladimir Stelmakh, who quickly “cleaned out” the boy without a suitable “roof.” Arseniy Petrovich occupied the chair of the deputy head of the Odessa regional state administration for several months, so that in September 2005, after the first corruption scandal in the “orange team” along the Poroshenko-Tymoshenko line, he became Minister of Economy in the government of Yuri Yekhanurov.

Yatsenyuk’s political rise is not least due to the support of the State Department. When it turned out that the “Yushchenko project” did not fulfill the objectives of American policy in Ukraine due to banal laziness, they began to look for a replacement. Compared to other, broken cards from the deck of Ukrainian politics, Yatsenyuk looked quite fresh and promising. It is possible that the testing of the future Prime Minister of Ukraine began at the time of his first term in the Ukrainian government.

“Chernivtsi” origin allowed him to occupy the chair of the first deputy head of the administration (secretariat) under the leadership Victor Baloga. And the next step in the career of the young “erudite” of the executive branch was the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government Viktor Yanukovych in 2007. The early parliamentary elections of 2007 added a parliamentary dimension to Yatsenyuk's career. He found himself in a new position - Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

And he spent the next six years in the legislative “field,” until the “revolution of dignity.”

All this time he could not be called a very rich politician, but he also could not be considered a poor one.

In 2013, the media visited Yatsenyuk's estate reported that the house of the opposition leader consists of two floors, its living area is 160 square meters. m, and the total is 298 sq. m. Yatsenyuk's cottage is located in Novi Petrivtsi. At that time Yatsenyuk owned three apartments with a total area of ​​342 sq. m - two in Kyiv, and one in Chernivtsi. Yatsenyuk has UAH 5.5 million in his bank account. “I understand that when 80% of people live below the poverty line in Ukraine, it is not very popular to even have a house with 160 sq. m of living space. But, the truth is more expensive for me - this is my property, and I paid taxes on it.”, Yatsenyuk said then.

Later, having headed the Cabinet of Ministers, Yatsenyuk gave a tour and one of their Kyiv apartments. The apartment, at least the part that was captured by the camera, is unlikely to capture the imagination of wealthy people, and for the rest, any official apartment will be an irritant. According to him, he earned money for the mansion while still being the Minister of Economy of Crimea and deputy head of the NBU. But, knowing Ukrainian realities, the question always hangs in the air: how could one make money in a poor country with an average salary of $300?

Political investments

The heyday of Yatsenyuk’s career came as a speaker in the Verkhovna Rada, and later - leadership in the opposition to President Viktor Yanukovych “Batkivshchyna”, which Arseniy “adopted” after the deprivation of Yulia Tymoshenko’s freedom.

The image of an opposition politician did not prevent Yatsenyuk from taking control of the market and several objects in the center of Chernivtsi, but all these incomes are rather “small” and will be enough for a comfortable life, but not for the title of oligarch.

Moreover, at one time Yatsenyuk financed political projects Dmitry Firtash, in particular, "Front of Change". In addition to Ukrainian investments, Western “investors” did not ignore Yatsenyuk’s projects. Just how much is the composition of Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s charitable foundation “Open Ukraine” worth? The site lists partners, including the US State Department, the NATO Information and Documentation Center, as well as organizations promoting opposition coups in third world countries. For example, the Black Sea Fund for Regional Cooperation (a project of the Marshall Fund "Germany - USA"), "Chatham House" (Royal Institute of International Affairs, Great Britain), the National Endowment for Democracy (USA), the investment company "Horizon Capital" (USA) and " Swedbank", Victor Pinchuk Foundation and simply LLC "Tsentrokomplekt".

According to experts, this is what the structure looks like through which finances are poured not so much to support the opposition, but to organize a forceful option for changing power in the country.

In a dialogue with US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt in early 2014, US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland called Yatsenyuk “our man.” Her short phrase “F..k EU” from an intercepted conversation became an Internet hit for a long time. In the same conversation, Nuland clearly said who will be prime minister after Yanukovych is ousted. That's him. Yatsenyuk. Political investments have finally reached the right place - the prime minister's chair.

Cabinet of Ministers of oligarchs

In the first “season” of leading the government, Yatsenyuk emphasized in every possible way the modesty of his requests. Although the image of a “simple guy” sometimes clashed with reality. For example, during the presidential campaign, Yatsenyuk said that he had a Casio watch for only 612 hryvnia. Although still during speaker wore a Swiss Breguet watch, which at that time cost at least 12 thousand dollars. Then there were touching stories about how the prime minister travels around the world on regular airline flights. But then the campaign to establish the prime minister’s modest lifestyle fizzled out.

Instead, talk about the size of Yatsenyuk’s wealth began to come up for discussion. First the oligarch Dmitry Firtash stated that Yatsenyuk is the first oligarch in the Ukrainian government.

"Probably the first (oligarch - Author.) - Yatsenyuk, further - according to the list. I don’t want to talk now, because then we have to prove to each other who is right. But if we get this far, then I will clearly show them: where, who, what and how they are doing. If they want to talk, we'll talk. Because it’s one thing to declare from the rostrum, another thing to sort it out.”, he noted.

By that time, Firtash was with Yatsenyuk about control over the OPP, and he did not hide his attitude towards the prime minister. “I think that the oligarchs are sitting on Grushevsky, because in my understanding, oligarchization is the use of power and all the means by which these processes can be controlled. I have no power.”, said the oligarch.

Then racer and volunteer Alexey Mochanov reported about Yatsenyuk’s first “yard”. He also named the likely source of income for the “young oligarch”—war.

According to the journalist Oleg Eltsov, known for his investigations, Yatsenyuk and Arsen Avakov made good money on sewing uniforms for police officers. The idea was valued at almost a billion hryvnia, but the cost of the “suit” did not cause any complaints from the usually tight-fisted prime minister. Moreover, the new uniform for the police is our everything at this stage.

Another source of Yatsenyuk’s permanent income may be control over Naftogaz of Ukraine. All summer, Naftogaz purchased gas not from its monopoly supplier Gazprom, but on Western spot markets and at a price that was slightly higher than the offer of the Russian monopolist. Experts estimate the overpayment at millions of dollars, and believe that this did not happen out of thoughtlessness, but out of a desire to “cut down” the amount of overpayment. At the very least, it is difficult to assume that Ukraine’s choice of gas from Western suppliers, who bought it from the Russian Gazprom and included their own benefit in the price, is based solely on sober economic calculations.

According to the director of the Institute for Policy Analysis and Management Ruslana Bortnik, Yatsenyuk is following the path of concentrating financial resources in order to then manage politics from behind the scenes.

“I think that Yatsenyuk is trying to maneuver between the oligarchs, situationally reaching an agreement either with Kolomoisky, then with Akhmetov, or with the president’s entourage. And there is no need to talk about any kind of subordination of Yatsenyuk to one oligarch. It cannot be said that everyone especially listens to Yatsenyuk and he stands at the head of this pyramid. Obviously, situational cooperation of the prime minister can be traced in the sphere of dividing up economically attractive objects, establishing control over those areas where money is made.", Bortnik noted.

The expert recalled that the “yard” story has not been refuted.

“And before that there was a story with the ex-head of the State Financial Inspectorate, who also accused Yatsenyuk of corruption and documented it. Judging by this story with the yard, Yatsenyuk understands that he has no personal political future. With his ratings, with that economic failure "he personally will not be able to be present in politics for the next five to ten years. But having accumulated financial resources, he will always be able to influence politics from behind the scenes, installing the people he needs, financing the necessary political forces", the political scientist suggested.

“It seems to me that Yatsenyuk has an ambition to remain in politics, but to remain in the form of an oligarch. To become on par with Kolomoisky and other oligarchs who pull political strings from behind the scenes.”, Bortnik emphasized.

Not many people in Ukraine managed to go from a promising politician to a young oligarch. Most likely, Yatsenyuk will be the standard and measure of success for new politicians who follow his path. The main thing to achieve success is to secure American support in time. Then your career will take shape on its own. True, for all American "pupils" sooner or later there comes a bitter moment of realizing their own uselessness to their former owner.

Born on May 22, 1974 in Chernivtsi. In 1996 he graduated from Chernivtsi State University with a degree in jurisprudence. In 2001, he received another diploma from the Chernivtsi Trade and Economic Institute of the Kyiv Trade and Economic University (specialty - "accounting and auditing"). Candidate of Economic Sciences.

• In December 1992, he became president of the Chernivtsi law firm YUREK Ltd., which dealt with privatization issues. He headed the company until September 1997.
• From January 1998 to August 2001, he worked at the main office of the Joint Stock Postal Pension Bank "Aval": as a consultant in the credit department, as an adviser to the chairman of the board and, finally, as deputy chairman.

• A. Yatsenyuk leaves Aval for civil service. In September 2001, he was appointed acting. Minister of Economy of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, in November he becomes minister “without prefix”, and holds this post until January 2003. Then he moved to Kiev again and until February 2005 he worked as the first deputy chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine (from July to December 2004 - after the departure of his boss Sergei Tigipko, who headed the campaign headquarters of Viktor Yanukovych in the presidential elections - he even served as chairman). The next stage in the biography is a “business trip” to the province: from March to September 2005, A. Yatsenyuk worked as first deputy to the Odessa governor Vasily Tsushko.

• Another return to the capital was associated with the appointment of Yuri Yekhanurov to the post of Minister of Economy in the government. He held this position from September 2005 until August 2006.

• In the spring of 2006, after the parliamentary elections, A. Yatsenyuk was considered as one of the candidates for the post of Prime Minister from a possible “orange” coalition. After creating the anti-crisis coalition, Viktor Yushchenko in September 2006 appointed A. Yatsenyuk to the post of First Deputy Head of the Presidential Secretariat - the President's representative in the Cabinet of Ministers. Considering the confrontation that arose (“war of powers”) between the head of state and the parliamentary majority in alliance with the government headed by the “regional” V. Yanukovych, one can assume that A. Yatsenyuk was entrusted with a direction that was very responsible for V. Yushchenko. In addition, by separate decrees, the President appointed him a member of the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine and a member of the supervisory boards of the state-owned Oschadbank and Ukreximbank. He also instructed to exercise control over compliance with the constitutional rights of citizens and legislation in the activities of the SBU.

• After his appointment to the Presidential Secretariat, A. Yatsenyuk became even more talked about as V. Yushchenko’s new favorite. And a widespread statement about joining the People's Union Our Ukraine party (literally on the eve of the October congress) confirmed assumptions that his candidacy would be officially or unofficially proposed to party members as one of the possible new leaders of the NSNU (instead of Roman Bessmertny). Later it turned out that The young politician did not write an application to join the party. Since then, he has repeatedly emphasized that he is not constrained by any party obligations, which for him “is a positive thing.”

• On March 21, 2007, parliament elected A. Yatsenyuk as head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This happened after two unsuccessful attempts by the President to appoint Vladimir Ohryzko to this post, who held the post of first deputy head of the foreign policy department and was considered a firm follower of his boss, Boris Tarasyuk. At the same time, as head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the now former deputy head of the Presidential Secretariat was appointed a member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

• In the early parliamentary elections of 2007, A. Yatsenyuk entered the Verkhovna Rada under No. 3 on the list of the Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense (NUNS) bloc. On December 4, the coalition created a few days earlier between the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and the NUNS cast 227 votes out of a possible 228 for the election of A. Yatsenyuk as speaker of parliament. The only member who did not vote was the former Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Ivan Plyushch, who advocated the creation of a “broad” coalition with the obligatory participation of the Party of Regions in it.

• On November 12, 2008, the factions of the Party of Regions, Communists, the Lytvyn Bloc and the United Center group of the NUNS faction, with 233 votes, recalled A. Yatsenyuk from the post of chairman of parliament. This event was the next stage of a protracted political crisis, which was preceded by a permanent war between President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Tymoshenko, a split in the Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense faction, the collapse of the BYuT-NUNS coalition, unsuccessful attempts to form a new majority in the Verkhovna Rada and a constant search for enemies by the main political parties. players.

• On April 23, 2012, the leader of the Front of Change, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, and the leader of the Batkivshchyna, Yulia Tymoshenko, signed a Declaration of Unity, according to which the parties go to the elections on the Batkivshchyna electoral list. The list will be headed by Yulia Tymoshenko and Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

• On July 14, 2012, the congress of the Front of Change party adopted a unanimous decision that Arseniy Yatsenyuk and members of the Front of Change would run for elections on the Batkivshchyna list as non-party members of the public organization Front of Change. According to the decision, membership in the party is terminated in connection with participation in the elections to the Verkhovna Rada within the framework of the United Opposition on the basis of the VO "Batkivshchyna". Thus, the chairman of the Council of the United Opposition “Batkivshchyna” Yatsenyuk is going to the parliamentary elections as a non-partisan, chairman of the public organization “Front of Change”. Other members of the “Front of Change” party are non-party members, members of the NGO “Front of Change”, the report notes.

Also, the Congress of the Front for Change decided to assign the duties of party leader during the campaign for the election of people's deputies to the head of the Party Secretariat, Svetlana Voitsekhovskaya.

Membership of candidates for deputies in the Front of Change party is terminated until the oath of a people's deputy of Ukraine is taken, the message emphasizes.

As the press service explained, the decision made is of a purely technical nature, since the Law “On Elections of People’s Deputies of Ukraine” does not provide for the formation of electoral blocs.

• On February 27, 2013, he was elected Prime Minister of Ukraine. 371 deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine voted for the appointment.
• On July 24, 2014, he resigned due to the dissolution of the ruling coalition and blocking of the Cabinet's initiatives.
• On July 28, 2014, Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk returned to work.
• On April 14, 2016, he resigned.

• In September 2014, at the congress, he was elected head of the political council of the political party Popular Front.
• In November 2014, he was elected as a people's deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the VIII convocation.
• On November 27, 2014, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine reappointed Arseniy Yatsenyuk as Prime Minister of Ukraine. From the Petro Poroshenko Bloc - 138 votes in favor, from the Popular Front - 83, the Opposition Bloc - 1, "Samopomich" - 32, the Radical Party - 21, the "Power of the People" group - 19, "Batkivshchyna" - 18, the "Economic" group development” - 16.

Private bussiness

• At the age of 24, Arseniy Yatsenyuk moved from his hometown of Chernivtsi to Kyiv.
• 24 years – Consultant of the credit department of the Joint-Stock Postal Pension Bank “Aval”, (01.1998-12.1998 Kiev).
• At the age of 24 (from 12.1998) he became an adviser to the chairman of the board of the Joint-Stock Postal Pension Bank "Aval" (12.1998-08.2001 Kyiv).
• At the age of 27 - Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Joint Stock Postal Pension Bank "Aval" (from 08-09.2001, Kyiv).
• At the age of 27 - Minister of Economy of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (09.2001-11.2003 Simferopol).
• At the age of 29 - First Deputy Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine (01.2003-02.2005).
• At the age of 31 - Minister of Economy of Ukraine (09/27/2005-08/04/2006).
• At 33 years old - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2007).
• At 33 years old - Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (2007).
• At 34 years old – Former Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (2008).

1. Last name, first name, patronymic. Yatsenyuk Arseniy Petrovich (the mother wanted to name her son Gosha at birth, but the father at the last moment, while registering the birth of his son at the registry office, named him Arseniy and confronted his wife with a fait accompli).

Photo from the family archive, 2007. Pyotr Ivanovich and Maria Grigorievna Yatsenyuki

3. Citizenship of Ukraine.

4. Nationality. Ukrainian.

5. Parents:

Father - Yatsenyuk Petr Ivanovich, born on July 12, 1941 in the village of Kostirzhivka, Zastavnytskyi district in Bukovina. In 1988 he defended his thesis, and until 2002 he worked as deputy dean of the Faculty of History at Chernivtsi University.

Mother - Yatsenyuk Maria Grigorievna, born on November 21, 1943 in the village of Knyazhvir, Kolomyia district, Stanislav (now Ivano-Frankivsk) region. Maiden name Bakai (in 1953 the Bakai family moved to Kolomyia). In 1962, Maria Bakai entered the Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​at Chernivtsi State University. On November 21, 1965, she became engaged to Pyotr Yatsenyuk (it is noteworthy that he was also 24 years old at the time!), a third-year student at the Faculty of History. In 1967 she began teaching French at the university.

6. Sister - Alina Petrovna (aka Steele, aka Jones), born on September 30, 1967, currently lives in the USA. According to her mother, Maria Grigorievna, Alina’s last name is Steele. Arseniy Yatsenyuk himself states that her current surname is Jones. In 1999, after Arseny’s marriage, Alina and her 11-year-old daughter Ulyana went to live in Santa Barbara (California, USA). Alina works as a manager, and Ulyana studies at the University of California.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk with his wife Teresia Viktorovna

7. Wife – Teresia Viktorovna, born in 1970. I met Arseniy Yatsenyuk in 1998 at the New Year celebration at Aval Bank. Now Teresia Viktorovna is on another maternity leave, her last position is as an assistant at Avala. When they first met, Teresia gave her future father-in-law Pyotr Ivanovich substantial Swiss Watches, and Maria Grigorievna - expensive perfumes.

Teresia Viktorovna’s parents: father Viktor Illarionovich Gur is a professor of philosophy at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute, mother Svetlana Nikitichna is a candidate of philosophical sciences, now retired.

Viktor Illarionovich Gur

8. The wife’s father, Viktor Ilarionovich Gur, was born on December 1, 1931 in the Sumy region. The Gurov family, according to Viktor Illarionovich, is allegedly connected with the old Polish-Ukrainian Lebedinsky family. The philosopher's great-great-grandfather, the Krakow architect Sigismund Lebedinsky, was exiled by the tsarist government to Slobozhanshchina for supporting the interests of the Polish peasantry.

Teresia's father - Viktor Illarionovich Gur

In 1949, Victor Gur graduated from the Kiev Suvorov Military School, in 1951 from the Kiev Military Infantry School, in 1960 from the Faculty of History and Philosophy. Kyiv University. During his postgraduate studies at KSU, under the influence of a number of Moscow and Leningrad scientists, in particular the author of the rather unorthodox monograph “Humanism” for Soviet times, Maria Petrosyan and her husband, Professor Khachik Momdzhyan, he became interested in the problems of social democratic theory. Since 1965 he taught ethics at the CPT. Since 1984 - Associate Professor, and since 1995 - Professor of the Department of Philosophy of the CPP. He is the author of a number of works on political theory, in particular the monograph The Ethical Concept of German Social Democracy: Bad Godesberg, 1959-1989, published in 1997 with the assistance of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

8. Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s grandfather, Grigory Dmitrievich Bakai, lived in the village of Knyazhvir, Kolomyia district of Stanislav (now Ivano-Frankivsk) region. In 1953, the Bakai family moved to Kolomyia.

9. Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s maternal aunt, Miroslava Grigorets, lives near Kolomyia.

10. Hobbies of Arseniy Yatsenyuk. IN school years Arseniy Yatsenyuk collected stamps and match labels.

12. Nicknames. Senya. Rabbit. Senya Front-line soldier. Pisyay

Spheres of Influence 2014

“He looks like a nerd, but he knows his stuff and solves problems,” this is how one of the venerable Ukrainian officials described the new prime minister. Indeed, on political career At the time of his appointment to the post of head of government, experts gave up on Yatsenyuk - they say that he would have to solve too harsh and unpopular tasks. But since then, a lot of water has passed under the bridge, and Arseny Petrovich showed himself to be a man of acumen, who managed to form his own, very powerful, group of influence, which is now resolving a variety of issues in every sense of the word. First of all, it is worth noting that the post of prime minister in a parliamentary-presidential republic is key. The head of government distributes financial flows within the state and (which is especially important given the current financial famine in the country) negotiates financial flows from abroad, in order to then again distribute them within the country. All this is complemented by the presence of powerful personnel levers located in the direct sphere of influence of Yatsenyuk: we are talking about the Chairman of the National Bank Kubiv, and the Minister of Finance Shlapak, and the head of the Ministry of Justice Petrenko, and the Minister of Infrastructure Burbak (the latter two are generally long-time friends of Yatsenyuk since the times his Bukovinian youth). Within this sphere of influence, the prime minister is able to resolve many issues without the consent of Tymoshenko - in particular, the issue of the hryvnia, as happened recently.

At the same time, Yatsenyuk himself is considered a figure who is seriously influenced by the main pro-government oligarch Kolomoisky (there is a persistent rumor in the Rada: the Dnepropetrovsk governor agreed with Poroshenko that under him the prime minister will remain the same; there are unverified rumors about a similar agreement with Tymoshenko). However, the prime minister still has quite a lot of freedom of action: there are enough areas not related to Kolomoisky’s interests in which Yatsenyuk makes decisions without his influence.

National question

The question of Arseniy Yatsenyuk's Jewishness was first raised in March 2007, when he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. It was then for the first time that it was stated that Arseniy Yatsenyuk, despite the slander of hostile forces, was a purebred Ukrainian.

When Yatsenyuk was elected speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, a representative of the Party of Regions asked him a question about his nationality: “Arseniy Petrovich, are you a Jew?” Yatsenyuk again replied that he was Ukrainian.

At the same time, finishing off the “message” to the hilt, Anna German, also a deputy from the Party of Regions, took the floor and apologized for her colleague, noting that the Party of Regions treats people with respect, regardless of their ethnic origin.

It's been that way ever since. Some call Yatsenyuk a Jew. And as a result, they conclude that he cannot occupy this or that leadership position. The second say: so what, he’s a Jew. Still others say that the bad thing is not that he is a Jew, but that he does not admit it.

On August 18, 2009, a certain gentleman in a kippah appeared on Kharkov TV channels, calling himself Yuri Duvinsky. He read out an appeal from the “Jews of Ukraine,” who, it turns out, are all “ready to support Yatsenyuk,” only demanding from him: “You should not shy away from Jewry and, finally, officially declare that you are a Jew and are proud of it.”

Then the man in the kippah explained what exactly the unfortunate Yatsenyuk should be proud of. It turns out that his mother’s maiden name is Bakai, she comes from “an ancient Jewish family,” and her ancestor “wrote the Talmud.” He also voiced the “appeal of the Jewish people” to Yatsenyuk, in which in a denunciatory and slanderous tone it is stated: “we have great respect for your wife Teresa, whose family roots come from the ancient family of Gore, Gur, I beg your pardon, who gave the world the first Israeli Defense Minister..."

Yatsenyuk - Yushchenko

I think that the political climate would be better if Arseny had his own political platform

- You gave a ticket to political life Arseny Yatsenyuk. How do you characterize his activities now and do you communicate with him?

“From time to time,” Yushchenko answers thoughtfully.

I have made many decisions in my life regarding his career. I thought these were the right steps. He's a smart man. But he had to take care of his own political strength, form his own party, and go with it to the end. He does not understand that politics is a marathon, and not just the spring of elections... I think that the political climate would be better if Arseny had his own political platform. She would have constrained him less. And it would be more natural and interesting. And he is in foster care, and he has many conscious and unconscious restrictions. I'm afraid it won't be used after all.

Sponsors

Victor Pinchuk

Many Internet publications attribute to him the Russian political strategists, the organization of the work of the headquarters, and even personal intervention in personnel matters.

At the same time, the staff of the headquarters with whom Ukrayinska Pravda spoke, including one of those whom Pinchuk allegedly personally removed from work, denied information about both the frequent visits of the owner of the EastOne group to the candidate’s office, and his personal interference in the campaign .

However, the last time Victor Pinchuk himself appeared in the candidate’s office was in mid-June 2009 in connection with the preparation of the visit of former Polish President Alexander Kwasniewski to a meeting of members of the board of the Yalta European Strategy (YES).

It is obvious that Victor Pinchuk is not completely indifferent to the political career of Arseniy Yatsenyuk. In addition to personal relations and the charitable “Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation”, for some time they were also connected by common plans for the Kiev elections, which Ukrayinska Pravda will write about in the next article “ARSENY YATSENYUK. ORBITS”.

As for direct financial support, the editors of Ukrayinska Pravda were unable to obtain convincing information on this matter. People around the candidate talk about “sponsorship in the form of broadcasts.” Sources of Ukrainskaya Pravda on TV channels controlled by Viktor Pinchuk also claim that the leadership has an unspoken instruction to support Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

Leonid Yurushev

Employees of Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s office spoke very positively about the level of funding for the headquarters’ work: no talk of a crisis, high salaries in the regions and no delays in payments. According to them, it is reliably known that in June 2008, the headquarters of Arseniy Yatsenyuk received in total about 20 million US dollars from the structures of Leonid Yurushev.

At the same time, market operators, in a conversation with Ukrayinska Pravda, claim that in reality the crisis has significantly weakened Leonid Yurushev’s position in the real estate market.

But there is another area in which the Donetsk businessman takes an active position - trade and production of seafood. A number of Yurushev companies specialize in this activity. The largest enterprise in the sphere is TVP Scandinavia LLC.

Most of the transactions in this sector take place through Zlatobank, registered in the name of structures controlled by Yurushev. Zlatobank's settlements are carried out using correspondent accounts of the businessman's former bank, Forum.

According to Ukrainskaya Pravda sources, it is this line of business that allows Leonid Yurushev, despite the crisis, to painlessly finance Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s presidential campaign.

But this scheme involves philanthropists who are quite exotic for Yatsenyuk. According to editorial sources, Leonid Yurushev is helped to maintain the profitability of his seafood trading business by... brothers Sergei and Alexander Buryak.

Recently, Leonid Yurushev’s structures have acquired a significant advantage - unlike most of the commercial sector, Yurushev’s companies are regularly and in large quantities compensated for VAT on export transactions.

Ukrainskaya Pravda has at its disposal a list of all Zlatobank transactions for May of this year. In total, the bank’s list includes 58 transactions, of which, excluding counter transactions for receiving and returning advance payment for the import of goods, half are transactions for the export of goods ($10,758,615).

The structure of the bank's operations was analyzed by three independent consultants. Two of them unequivocally stated that in the current economic situation, such a turnover of funds can only be maintained if the VAT is refunded on time by the tax administration.

According to Ukrainskaya Pravda sources, Leonid Yurushev received this privilege in late May - early June, after a joint meeting with Arseniy Yatsenyuk and the head of the state tax administration, Sergei Buryak.

The same sources claim that Yatsenyuk quite regularly meets with the younger brother of the head of the tax administration, Alexander Buryak. Apparently, in this case, connections between the Buryak brothers, who control Brokbusinessbank, and Yatsenyuk must be sought in the banking sector.

The BYuT headquarters is already alarmed by this situation: sources close to Alexander Turchynov claim that the first deputy prime minister repeatedly demanded from the brothers an explanation of the subject of these meetings.

However, these conversations did not have a strong impact: the Buryak brothers are considered one of the most independent members of the faction from the influence of the BYuT leadership. This is partly due to the significant financial contribution of the Buryaks to the BYuT party coffers, and partly due to political biography brothers who have been in seven political factions and groups during their fifteen years of work in parliament.

Rinat Akhmetov

• Deputy Chairman of the Strong Ukraine party Alexandra Kuzhel said that MP and billionaire Rinat Akhmetov bought Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s project “Front of Changes”. She announced this on July 19, 2011 at a press conference at the MOST-DNEPR news agency.

• In November 2014, MP from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc Sergei Kaplin suspected the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk of running a large corruption scheme with budget funds. Kaplin sent parliamentary appeals to the Prosecutor General’s Office and the SBU to find out where the three billion hryvnia allocated by the government to finance mines in the occupied territories of Donbass were spent. The parliamentarian also has information that several million budget money were sent to some kind of research projects and design work in Makeyevka, which is under the control of terrorists. And another half of the total VAT was reimbursed to Renat Akhmetov.

The people's deputy suggested that this money could be divided in this way - Akhmetov received a third, Yatsenyuk received a third, and only the remaining third went to the mines.

Victor Yanukovich

On January 25, 2014, President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych agreed to the demands of the opposition and offered the leader of the Batkivshchyna faction, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the position of Prime Minister, and the leader of the UDAR party, Vitaliy Klitschko, as Deputy Prime Minister for Humanitarian Affairs.

Auto scandals

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As Speaker Yatsenyuk himself said, on Saturday, February 16, 2008, he was driving along the highway unaccompanied by State Security officers. Violating traffic rules and creating an emergency situation, a Porsche Cayenne jeep blocked his way, after which “they showed the middle finger from the jeep.”

Yatsenyuk stated that he instructed the State Security Administration and the State Traffic Inspectorate to find this driver, which, however, was not done.

“They told me that the driver was found, and he refused to show documents. Therefore, the car was put on the wanted list and they couldn’t find it either. Later, I myself found the car and the driver, he turned out to be the deputy head of the Kiev special forces Cobra, a certain Kozha, and the jeep was standing in the Cobra parking lot , Yatsenyuk said.

Elections 2015

It is known that Arseniy Yatsenyuk hired American PR specialists to prepare for the presidential campaign.

It is significant that at the Yalta YES-2013 meeting, the current US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt, introducing Arseniy Yatsenyuk to Hillary Clinton, described him as “the next president of Ukraine.”

It is known that the “military image” of 2009, which was developed for him by a group of Russian consultants, turned out to be unsuccessful for the main “front-line soldier,” so the new image will be sculpted by specialists from the United States.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s new political and image mentor will be an American specialist who, in particular, developed Barack Obama’s campaign. This is Joe Goldberg, Managing Director of ASGK Public Strategies, BA in Political Science, Communications and Theater Arts, and a graduate of Iowa State University.

It is known that Golberg worked for the CIA until 1993, and then specialized in the collection and analysis of confidential information at Motorola, was a member of the advisory board of the Palladin National Security Foundation, and in 2008 became chairman of the board of directors of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals.

It is believed that it was Goldberg who came up with Obama's "going to the people" or "home meetings" campaign, in which the US President visited fast foods and visited ordinary citizens. The same idea was tested on Arseny Yatsenyuk - he already took the metro and visited the Cheburechnaya.

Before the American, Serbian Marko Ivkovic, an employee of the US National Democratic Institute of International Affairs (NDI), who developed the strategy for the opposition election campaign in 2012, managed to work with Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

On July 24, 2014, he resigned due to the dissolution of the ruling coalition and blocking of the Cabinet's initiatives.

On July 28, at a briefing, Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced that he had returned to work. He called on the Verkhovna Rada to adopt previously failed laws at an extraordinary meeting on July 31.

Awards

Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, V degree (February 7, 2008) - for significant personal contribution to ensuring the integration of Ukraine into the World Trade Organization.

Medal “For the Glory of Chernivtsi” (2008).

Distinction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine “Firearms” - Machine gun 56-P-421 caliber 7.62 mm, No. TsL 84 (May 20, 2015) - for special merits in the protection of constitutional rights and freedoms of man and citizen, exemplary performance of official and civic duty , displayed honor and valor.

Award of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine "Firearms" - 11.43 mm Thompson submachine gun No. S 506391 model 1928 complete with 203 rounds of ammunition (May 22, 2015) - for outstanding services in ensuring the country's defense capability, strengthening national security, exemplary performance of official duty and demonstrated high professionalism, honor and valor.