Arseniy Yatsenyuk

Infobox Politician
name = Arseniy Yatsenyuk
Арсеній Яценюк
caption = Arseniy Yatsenyuk in November 2006.


office = Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada
term_start = December 4, 2007
predecessor = Oleksander Moroz
office2 = 8^th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
term_start2 = March 21, 2007
term_end2 = December 4, 2007
predecessor2 = Volodymyr Ohryzko
successor2 = Volodymyr Ohryzko
office3 = Minister of Economy of Ukraine
term_start3 = September 27, 2005
term_end3 = August 4, 2006
predecessor3 =
successor3 =
birth_date = birth date and age|1974|05|22
birth_place = Chernivtsi, Ukrainian SSR
party = Independent [cite web|url=http://www.cvk.gov.ua/pls/vnd2007/W6P406?PT001F01=600&pf7171=189|title=Election list of the party (bloc)|work=Central Election Commission of Ukraine|accessdate=2007-12-04]
spouse = Tereziya Victorivna (1970)cite web|url=http://www.pravda.com.ua/ru/news/2007/3/21/56093.htm|title=Arseniy Yatsenyuk. New millioner in Yanukovich's Cabmin|publisher=Ukrayinska Pravda|date=2007-03-21|language=Russian]
children = Hrystina, Sofiacite web|url=http://www.radiosvoboda.org/article/2007/3/E20D56FB-35AB-45FF-B828-4059B380BA3B.html|title=Biography from Radio Svoboda|date=2007-03-21|publisher=Radio Svoboda|language=Russian]
residence =
occupation = Politician, economist, and lawyer
religion =


website = http://chairman.rada.gov.ua/

Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk ( _uk. Арсеній Петрович Яценюк) (born May 22, 1974 in Chernivtsi, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian politician, economist, and lawyer. He is the current Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, having been elected to that post on December 4, 2007.

Early life

Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk was born on May 22, 1974 in Chernivtsi. After he began studiying at the Chernivtsi University in 1992, Yatsenyuk set up a student law firm. He graduated from the university in 1996, and later attended the Chernivtsi Trade-Economics Institute of the Kiev National Trade-Economics Institute in 2001.cite web|url=http://www.kmu.gov.ua/control/en/publish/article?art_id=11769746&cat_id=32581|title=Yatsenyuk Arseniy Petrovych|work=Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine|accessdate=2007-03-28]

From December 1992 to September 1997 he was the president of "Yurek Ltd." law firm, based in Chernivtsi. From January 1998 until September 2001, Yatsenyuk worked in the postal and pension "Aval" bank, based in Kiev.

Political career

From September until November 2001, Arseniy served as an "acting" Minister of Economy of Crimea, and from November of the same year until January 2003, served as the official Minister of Economy of Crimea.

From November 2003 to February 2005, Yatsenyuk served as the first vice-president of the head of the National Bank of Ukraine under Serhiy Tyhypko. After Tyhypko left the National Bank, Arseniy Yatsenyuk was put in charge of the National Bank.

After Vasyl Tsushko was appointed as the new Governor of Odessa Oblast, Tsushko asked Yatsenyuk to serve as his vice-governor, which he served from March 9 to September 2005. From September 27, 2005 to August 4, 2006, he served as the Minister of Economy of Ukraine in the Yuriy Yekhanurov-led government. [Cite Ukrainian law|type=Presidential decree|number=1372/2005|law=1372/2005|name=On the appointment of A. Yatsenyuk as the Minister of Economics of Ukraine|date=2005-09-27] Arseniy Yatsenyuk then headed talks about Ukrainian membership in the World Trade Organization. Yatsenyuk also heads the Ukraine-European Union commission.

From September 20, 2006, he served as the first vice-president of the Head of Government of the President of Ukraine, and the representative of the president in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. [Cite Ukrainian law|type=Presidential decree|number=765/2006|law=765/2006|name=On the appointment of A. Yatsenyuk as the First Vice-president of the Head of Administration of the President of Ukraine - Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine|date=2006-09-20]

Arseniy Yatsenyuk was proposed for the post of Foreign Minister by the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko. Yatsenyuk was chosen for the post by the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) on March 21, 2007Cite Ukrainian law|type=Order of Verkhovna Rada|number=792-V|law=792-16|name=On appointment of Arseniy Yatsenyuk as Minister of Foreign Affairs|date=2007-03-21] with 426 votes (from 450 maximum),cite web|url=http://gska2.rada.gov.ua/pls/radac_gs09/g_frack_list_n?ident=3173&krit=66|title=Result of voting on appointment as Minister of Foreign Affairs|date=2007-03-21|language=Ukrainian] but only after the Ukrainian parliament twice denied the post to Volodymyr Ohryzko.

peaker of the Parliament

In the early parliamentary elections held on September 30, 2007, Yatsenyuk was elected to the parliament from Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc (number 3 in the bloc's member list). On December 3, 2007, he was nominated for the position of the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada from the democratic coalition formed from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc. [cite news|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL0309501320071203?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&sp=true|title=Ukraine minister gets "orange" OK for speaker job|publisher=Reuters|date=2007-12-03] On December 4, 2007, Yatsenyuk was elected the Chairman of the Parliament. [Cite Ukrainian law|type=Order of Verkhovna Rada|number=5-VI|law=5-17|name=On the Head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine|date=2007-12-04] His candidacy was the only in the ballot, and he obtained 227 votes in favor (from the democratic coalition; opposition abstained from the voting). [cite news|url=http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2007/12/4/67852.htm|title=Yatsenyuk - Speaker|publisher=Ukrayinska Pravda|date=2007-12-04|language=Ukrainian]

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Persondata
NAME = Yatsenyuk, Arseniy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
SHORT DESCRIPTION = Politician, economist, and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH = May 22, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH = Chernivtsi, Ukraine
DATE OF DEATH =
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