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Vasyl Dzharty
Василь Джарти
Official portrait, 2007
Prime Minister of Crimea
In office
17 March 2010 – 17 August 2011
PresidentViktor Yanukovych
Preceded byViktor Plakida
Succeeded byAnatolii Mohyliov
Minister of Natural Environment Protection
In office
4 August 2006 – 18 December 2007
Prime MinisterViktor Yanukovych
Preceded byPavlo Ihnatenko
Succeeded byHeorhiy Filipchuk
Mayor of Makiivka
In office
January 2000 – November 2002
GovernorViktor Yanukovych
Personal details
Born(1958-06-03)3 June 1958
Rozdolne, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Died17 August 2011(2011-08-17) (aged 53)
Yalta, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine
Political partyParty of Regions
Alma mater

Vasyl Heorhiyovych Dzharty (Template:Lang-uk; 3 June 1958 – 17 August 2011) was a Ukrainian politician who served as Prime Minister of Crimea from 17 March 2010 until his death in August 2011.

Early life and career

Dzharty was born in 1958, in Rozdolne, a village in the Starobesheve district of Donetsk Oblast in what was then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.[1] His father was a miner.[2]

He completed his studies at Donetsk Polytechnic Institute. He then obtained a master's degree from Donetsk National Technical University in public administration.[2]

Political career

Dzharty served as the Donetsk Oblast's first deputy governor.[2] He then became Mayor of Makiivka, a city in the Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine.[2] He was elected to the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's national parliament, serving during its fifth and sixth sessions as a member of the Party of Regions.[2] From 2006 to 2007, Dzharty served as Ukraine's Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources.[2]

Prime Minister of Crimea

Dzharty became the Prime Minister of Crimea on 17 March 2010, succeeding outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Plakida.[3] The Speaker of the Supreme Council of Crimea, Volodymyr Konstantinov, had nominated Dzharty, a member of the Party of Regions, as Crimea's next prime minister and chairman of the council of ministers.[3] As required by the Ukrainian Constitution, the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, had to personally approve of Dzharty's nomination, which he did.[3] The Supreme Council of Crimea, which acts as Crimea's parliament, overwhelmingly approved Dzharty's nomination on March 17, 2011.[3] 82 out of the 89 members of the Crimean parliament voted in favor of Dzharty's appointment as Prime Minister.[3] Dzharty simultaneously served as chairman of the Crimean branch of the Party of Regions.[4]

Dzharty was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2010.[5] He sought treatment for the disease in Ukraine, Germany and Russia.[5] Dzharty died from lung cancer in Yalta on August 17, 2011, at the age of 53.[1][6] He was interred at Kozatske cemetery in the city of Makiivka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on August 18, 2011.[1] A memorial service was also held in Simferopol.[5] On November 7, 2011 President Viktor Yanukovych appointed Anatolii Mohyliov as his successor as Prime Minister of Crimea.[7]

Accusations of criminal activity

According to the Minister of Internal Affairs Yuriy Lutsenko, in the 1990s Dzharty headed the Makiivka gang and was known in a criminal world as "Vasia the Bat" for his proficiency with a baseball bat in racketeering.[8][9]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Dzharty to be buried in Makiivka on August 18". Kyiv Post. 17 August 2011. Retrieved 18 August 2011.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Makiyivka hosts memorial ceremony for Crimean Prime Minister Dzharty". Interfax-Ukraine. Kyiv Post. 18 August 2011. Retrieved 18 August 2011.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Vasyl Dzharty of Regions Party heads Crimean government". Interfax-Ukraine. Kyiv Post. 17 March 2010. Retrieved 18 August 2011.
  4. ^ Crimean prime minister planning to join Regions Party again, Kyiv Post (9 November 2011)
  5. ^ a b c "Crimea prime minister Dzharty dies of cancer". BNO News. Channel 6 News. 17 August 2011. Retrieved 18 August 2011.
  6. ^ "Crimean Prime Minister Dzharty dies". Interfax-Ukraine. Kyiv Post. 17 August 2011. Retrieved 18 August 2011.
  7. ^ Yanukovych appoints Mohyliov to Crimean post, Kyiv Post (7 November 2011)
  8. ^ "Newspaper "Evening Herald"". Archived from the original on 27 June 2013.
  9. ^ "Lutsenko: Crimean Prime Minister in the past was "Vasia the Bat"". Archived from the original on 22 September 2012.