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Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych [b] (born 9 July 1950) is a former Ukrainian politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014. [4] He also served as the prime minister of Ukraine several times between 2002 and 2007 and was a member of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) from 2006 to 2010.
In 2009 Yanukovych claimed to have full ownership. [2] He has not revealed the price he paid for the property, instead calling it a "very serious price". [25] President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych chose it as his residence after he won the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election. [15] This ownership was contested. [15]
On 2 April 2014, Yanukovych gave an interview to Russian and foreign media: [12] Immediately after the signing of the agreement, I began to fulfill the obligations that the government assumed. As the President of Ukraine, I instructed the police to retreat from the Maidan without delay. The radical faction responded with shooting...
The Revolution of Dignity (Ukrainian: Революція гідності, romanized: Revoliutsiia hidnosti), also known as the Maidan Revolution or the Ukrainian Revolution, [2] took place in Ukraine in February 2014 [2] [1] [26] [27] [28] at the end of the Euromaidan protests, [1] when deadly clashes between protesters and state forces in the capital Kyiv culminated in the ousting of ...
He served as Minister of Emergency Services under disgraced President Viktor Yanukovych, who fled Ukraine after a mass uprising in 2014 that triggered Russia's annexation of Crimea.
The 17 December 2013 Russian–Ukrainian action plan was a de facto defunct [1] [2] proposed agreement between the Russian President Vladimir Putin and former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych publicized on 17 December 2013 whereby Russia would buy $15 billion of Ukrainian eurobonds to be issued by Ukraine and that the cost of Russian natural gas supplied to Ukraine would be lowered to ...
Russia currently occupies a little under 20 per cent of Ukraine, including parts of four regions of mainland Ukraine, as well as the Crimean peninsula. Mr Putin first invaded Ukraine in 2014, when ...
Ukraine claims control of hundreds of square miles of Russian territory as operation forces tens of thousands to flee Ivana Kottasová, CNN August 12, 2024 at 9:53 PM