- Anatoliy Kinakh
Anatoliy Kinakh (born
August 4 ,1954 ) is a Ukrainianpolitician . Currently, Anatoliy Kinakh is a deputy in the newly elected parliament as well as the leader ofParty of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine . Previously, Anatoliy Kinakh was a Prime Minister, a first vice-Prime Minister, and a Minister of Economics of Ukraine.Biography
Anatoliy Kinakh was born in village of Bratushany,
Moldavian SSR in 1954. In 1978 he graduated from theLeningrad shipbuilding institute as a shipbuilding engineer. After finishing his higher education Kinakh started his engineering career at theTallinn shipyard. From 1981 he worked at theMykolaiv plant "Ocean".In April 1990 he was elected to the Parliament of Ukraine:
Verkhovna Rada . There he worked in a committee dealing with economic reforms. In 1992 Kinakh was appointed as representative of the President inMykolaiv Oblast . In 1995 Anatoliy Kinakh was appointed vice-prime minister of Ukraine concerned with industrial affairs.Political career before 2004
In early 1990s, Mr. Kinakh held several posts in the local government of
Mykolayiv region .From 1995 to 1996 Mr. Kinakh was the Minister of Industrial Policy.
Commonly known as an indecisive, but competent, technocrat, Mr. Kinah served as the
Prime Minister of Ukraine between 2001 and 2002. His reasonably popular cabinet was unexpectedly dismissed by President Kuchma.In 2002, he was elected to
Verkhovna Rada on the list of the electoral bloc of parties "For United Ukraine!".Political career since 2004
Mr. Kinakh was a candidate in the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, nominated by the
Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine , which he has chaired since 2000. A particular feature of his election program is a pro-Ukrainian choice in foreign policy, saying that entry to theEuropean Union should not be a barrier to the development of relationships with all CIS countries as well as withRussia .During the election campaign Mr. Kinakh publicly broke ties with
Viktor Yanukovych by declaring that no criminal can hold the post of thePresident of Ukraine . He later took an active part in theOrange Revolution on the side ofViktor Yushchenko .Kinakh was number two on the electoral list of the pro-presidential bloc
Our Ukraine during the Ukrainian parliamentary election of march 2006.In March 2007 he became minister of economics in the cabinet of
Viktor Yanukovych against the wish of theOur Ukraine block [ [http://www2.pravda.com.ua/en/news/2007/3/20/7294.htm Yanukovych Buys Kinakh Over? / Ukrayinska Pravda] ] . TheOur Ukraine faction then decided to expel Anatoliy Kinakh from the faction andPresident Victor Yushchenko ordered his removal from the National Security and Defense Council. [ [http://www2.pravda.com.ua/en/news/2007/3/22/7303.htm Our Ukraine Expels Kinakh and Company? / Ukrayinska Pravda] ]At the early parliamentary elections parliamentary on
September 30 ,2007 , his party participated in the elections together with theParty of Regions , led byViktor Yanukovych [ [http://www2.pravda.com.ua/en/news/2007/7/18/8356.htm Kinakh Wants to Join Yanukovych at Elections / Ukrayinska Pravda] ] [ [http://www2.pravda.com.ua/en/news/2007/7/31/8466.htm PRU Election List Still Disputable / Ukrayinska Pravda] ] .References
External links
*uk icon [http://www.kinakh.com.ua/ Personal Site of Anatoliy Kinakh]
ee also
*
Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
*Prime Minister of Ukraine
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