32 Facts About Andrii Artemenko

Andrii Artemenko paid special attention to geopolitics and various forms of government.

In 1986, Andrii Artemenko entered Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Department of Electric Power Engineering, where he specialized in energy engineering.

Andrii Artemenko worked in various jobs in Belgium during the early 1990s.

Andrii Artemenko served as Head of Committee on Status of Football players in Football Federation of Ukraine.

In 2001, during a campaign to discredit Omelchenko, Andrii Artemenko became a subject of attention by the General Prosecutor's Office because of his close connection to the Mayor.

On October 22,2004, Andrii Artemenko was released on bail of some MPs.

Andrii Artemenko was a Deputy Head of Committee for ecological questions of Kyiv City Council.

Andrii Artemenko participated in the development and implementation of many environmental and infrastructural programs successfully executed and still operating today.

Since 2005 Andrii Artemenko founded a number of companies specialized in air transport and military logistics supporting special operations in "hot spots".

Andrii Artemenko held strong positions concerning urgent changes in the state.

Andrii Artemenko studied the performance and experience of various political systems, taking as an example the activities of political organizations like the US Republican Party and the UK Conservative Party.

Andrii Artemenko was the Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on issues of European integration, Subcommittees on Cooperation of Ukraine and NATO and EU Common Security and Defense Policy.

Andrii Artemenko is actively pursuing his point of view on the non-aligned status of Ukraine and good neighborly, friendly, and mutually beneficial cooperative relations with neighboring countries.

Andrii Artemenko headed the Inter-Parliamentary Group of Friendship with Qatar, which included 23 MPs.

Andrii Artemenko initiated the formation of the party and eventually headed it.

Andrii Artemenko authored 37 bills, of which 17 were voted into law.

One of the more popular bills initiated by Andrii Artemenko was on the legalization of dual citizenship No 6139 - which currently enjoys the support of the incumbent President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky.

Andrii Artemenko claimed that President Petro Poroshenko had misappropriated funds and Andrii Artemenko claimed he received evidence about Poroshenko from Valentyn Nalyvaichenko.

Andrii Artemenko did not take part in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.

Valeriy Chaly, who was the Ukraine Ambassador to the United States, stated that Andrii Artemenko was "not authorized to present any alternative peace proposal on behalf of Ukraine to foreign governments, including the US administration".

In 2016, still in the capacity of Ukrainian MP, Andrii Artemenko was the only Ukrainian politician who openly supported then Presidential candidate Donald Trump and demanded that Ukrainian policies were adjusted to take into account Trump's program at the time when official Ukraine publicly supported Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton.

Andrii Artemenko was deprived of Ukrainian citizenship on 29 April 2017, was ousted as a member of the Rada on 16 May 2017, and was forced to leave Ukraine together with his family on 15 May 2017.

Andrii Artemenko challenged the decisions in Ukrainian courts but the decision remains in force.

In June 2018 Mr Andrii Artemenko testified under the oath to the grand jury of the Supreme court in Washington DC.

Lev Parnas stated that Artemenko approached Parnas and Igor Fruman at the Trump Hotel in Washington DC in June 2019 to set up a meeting in mid-2019 with Giuliani to give Giuliani assistance during the 2020 United States elections and act as an intermediary between Rudy Giuliani and Andrii Derkach, who is an intelligence agent for Russia, to support damaging information on Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.

On 1 February 2020, Andrii Artemenko Derkach hired Andy Victor Kuchma and Nabil Ahmad Bader to lobby for Derkach regarding "corruption" just prior to the Senate's voting during the first impeachment of Donald Trump which occurred on 5 February 2020.

Andrii Artemenko and his longtime business partner Erik Prince, who is a Republican donor and Trump ally, are in the transportation and logistics business together through Kuchma's firm Airtrans LLC which is registered in Florida and is part of the Prince led Frontier Resource Group.

In March 2017, Andrii Artemenko stated that he has known Dmitro Firtash for many years and often allows Firtash to use Andrii Artemenko's aircraft.

Since January 2019, Andrii Artemenko has been serving as Executive Chairman of Global Management Association Corporation which has been registered in the US lobbyist register, according to data of the US Department of Justice, in compliance with FARA law.

In 2006, Viktor Andrii Artemenko became an advisor to Valeria Matyukha.

Andrii Artemenko is married to famous Ukrainian model Oksana Ostapivna Kuchma who is 22 years younger than Artemenko.

Andrii Artemenko voluntarily became a citizen of Canada in 2005 and lives permanently in Washington DC with his wife and children.