Ivan Kyrylenko
Ivan Kyrylenko Іван Кириленко | |
|---|---|
 Ivan Kyrylenko (September 2003)[1] | |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| Assumed office December 10, 1995[2] | |
| Minister for Agriculture of Ukraine | |
| In office January 10, 2000 – November 26, 2002[3] | |
| Preceded by | Mykhailo Hladiy |
| Succeeded by | Serhiy Ryzhuk |
| Vice-Prime Minister | |
| In office November 26, 2002 – February 3, 2005 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | October 2, 1956 Berdyansk Raion, Zaporizhia Oblast (Ukrainian SSR) |
| Political party | Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko (parliamentary faction leader) |
Ivan Hryhorovych Kyrylenko (Ukrainian: Іван Григорович Кириленко; born on October 2, 1956 in Berestove (Zaporizhia Oblast), Ukrainian SSR)[4] is a Ukrainian politician and since 2007 faction leader of Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc in the Ukrainian Parliament.[5]
Biography
Before becoming a politician Kyrylenko worked as head of a collective farm (kolkhoz) and as a civil servant in the Ministry of Agriculture of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.[4]
He was first elected into Parliament on an independent candidate on in December 1995 he then joined the faction Unity.[4] At the Ukrainian parliamentary election, 1998 Kyrylenko was elected into Parliament on a Hromada ticket.[4][6] When Yulia Tymoshenko set up the breakaway All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" faction Kyrylenko joined her.[4]
Kyrylenko left Parliament 2001[7] to become Minister of Agriculture and one of the founding members of (the now defunct electoral bloc) For United Ukraine in 2001.[8] At the time of the next elections he was a member of the Agrarian Party (a part of For United Ukraine).[4] Kyrylenko was Deputy Prime Minister in the 2003 cabinet of Viktor Yanukovych.[9][10][11][12]
In 2006 and 2007 he was elected into Parliament on an All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" ticket.[2] According to Yulia Tymoshenko, Kyrylenko is her “godfather in politics”.[13]
References
- ^ 2003 – Kiev, Ukraine, Global Consortium of Higher Education and Research for Agriculture
- ^ a b Biography, D A T A
- ^ Directory of MPs of Ukrainian Parliament of sixth convocation, USAID (January 28, 2009)
- ^ a b c d e f Template:Uk icon Biography, Довідники про сучасну Україну
- ^ Ivan Kyrylenko elected on post of chairman of BYUT faction, UNIAN (19-12-2007)
- ^ Summing up some conclusions from the election process, Policy Documentation Center (Central European University); April 6, 1998
- ^ People's deputies, who have left, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
- ^ http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=23581&tx_ttnews[backPid]=215
- ^ UKRAINE COUNTRY ASSESSMENT April 2003, UNHCR (April 2003)
- ^ Rada strips moonlighting MPs of powers, Ukrayinska Pravda (6-3-2003)
- ^ KUCHMA HAILS NEW AZAROV'S POST, Ukrayinska Pravda (26-11-2002)
- ^ Yulia Tymoshenko’s orbits, Ukrayinska Pravda (20-3-2006)
- ^ The Coming Government of Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukrayinska Pravda (11-12-2007)