In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Petrovych and the family name is Yatsenyuk.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk
Арсеній Яценюк
Yatsenyuk in 2018
15th Prime Minister of Ukraine
In office 27 February 2014 – 14 April 2016
President
Oleksandr Turchynov (acting) Petro Poroshenko
Deputy
Vitaly Yarema Hennadiy Zubko
Preceded by
Oleksandr Turchynov (acting)
Succeeded by
Volodymyr Groysman
8th Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada
In office 4 December 2007 – 12 November 2008
President
Viktor Yushchenko
Preceded by
Oleksandr Moroz
Succeeded by
Oleksandr Lavrynovych (acting)
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 21 March 2007 – 4 December 2007
Prime Minister
Viktor Yanukovych
Preceded by
Volodymyr Ohryzko (acting)
Succeeded by
Volodymyr Ohryzko
Minister of Economy
In office 27 September 2005 – 4 August 2006
Prime Minister
Yuriy Yekhanurov
Preceded by
Serhiy Teryokhin
Succeeded by
Volodymyr Makukha
First Vice-President of the National Bank of Ukraine
In office November 2003 – February 2005
Minister of Economy of Crimea
In office September 2001 – January 2003
First Deputy Governor of Odesa
In office 9 March 2005 – 27 September 2005
Faction Leader of All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" Party in the Verkhovna Rada
In office 11 December 2012 – 4 March 2014
Head of Front for Change (Ukraine)
In office 2009–2012
Personal details
Born
Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk
(1974-05-22) 22 May 1974 (age 49) Chernivtsi, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Political party
People's Front (2014–present)
Other political affiliations
Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense Bloc (Before 2007) Front for Change (2008–2013) Dictatorship Resistance Committee (2011–2014) Fatherland
(2013–2014)
Spouse
Tereziya Victorivna Hur
(m. 2000)
Children
2
Alma mater
Chernivtsi University Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics
Signature
Website
Official website
Arseniy Yatsenyuk's voice (in Ukrainian)
Recorded 13 March 2023
*Volodymyr Groysman served as Acting Prime Minister from 25 July 2014 – 31 July 2014.
Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk (Ukrainian: Арсеній Петрович Яценюк[ɐrˈsɛn⁽ʲ⁾ijpeˈtrɔwɪtʃjɐtseˈnʲuk]; born 22 May 1974) is a Ukrainian politician, economist and lawyer who served two terms as Prime Minister of Ukraine – from 27 February 2014 to 27 November 2014 and from 27 November 2014 to 14 April 2016.[1]
Yatsenyuk's first government post was as Minister of Economy from 2005 to 2006; subsequently he was Foreign Minister of Ukraine in 2007 and Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) from 2007 to 2008. Yatsenyuk was one of the leaders of Ukraine's second biggest party All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland",[2] and former leader of its parliamentary faction.[3][4][5][6] He became the Prime Minister of Ukraine following the 2014 revolution that removed Viktor Yanukovych from power.[7][8] In September 2014, Yatsenyuk started the new party People's Front.[9] On 16 February 2016, the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, asked Yatsenyuk to resign saying he had lost the support of the coalition[10] and the same day, the Ukrainian parliament voted the cabinet's work unsatisfactory but rejected a call for a vote of no confidence.[11] On 10 April 2016, Yatsenyuk announced that he would report to parliament on 12 April and resign as Prime Minister.[12] On 14 April 2016, Yatsenyuk was replaced by new Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman.[13] Chairman of the Kyiv Security Forum[14] and the founder of Open Ukraine Foundation.[15] He holds the diplomatic rank of extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador.[1]
^ abArseniy Yatsenyuk
^After the parliamentary elections in Ukraine: a tough victory for the Party of Regions Archived 17 March 2013 at the Wayback Machine, Centre for Eastern Studies (7 November 2012)
^Ukraine's united opposition discussing formation of single party, Kyiv Post (7 December 2012)(subscription required)
^Cite error: The named reference VRfaction was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Sobolev: Front for Change and Reform and Order Party to join Batkivschyna, Interfax-Ukraine (11 June 2013) Front for Change, Reforms and Order to dissolve for merger with Batkivshchyna - Sobolev Archived July 22, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, Ukrinform (11 June 2013)
^(in Ukrainian) Sobolev heads "Batkivshchyna" in the Rada, Televiziyna Sluzhba Novyn (20 March 2014)
^Baker, Peter; Gordon, Michael R. (12 March 2014). "Obama Makes Push for Political Solution to Crisis in Ukraine". The New York Times.
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