1. Arseniy Yatsenyuk was the youngest foreign affairs minister in Ukraine's history.
62 Facts About Arseniy Yatsenyuk
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk holds a diplomatic rank of Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador.
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk was one of the leaders of Ukraine's second largest party All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland", and former leader of its parliamentary faction.
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk became the prime minister of Ukraine following the 2014 revolution that removed Viktor Yanukovych from power.
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In September 2014, Arseniy Yatsenyuk started the new party People's Front.
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On 16 February 2016, the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, asked Arseniy Yatsenyuk to resign saying he had lost the support of the coalition and the same day, the Ukrainian parliament voted the cabinet's work unsatisfactory but rejected a call for a vote of no confidence.
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On 10 April 2016, Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced that he would report to parliament on 12 April and resign as prime minister.
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On 14 April 2016, Arseniy Yatsenyuk was replaced by new prime minister Volodymyr Groysman.
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk holds the diplomatic rank of extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador.
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk was born on 22 May 1974, in the Ukrainian SSR's Chernivtsi.
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk's father, historian Petro Ivanovich Yatsenyuk, was a professor at the Faculty of History at Chernivtsi National University and has since become deputy dean of its history faculty.
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk speaks Ukrainian, Russian and English, and has some knowledge of Romanian as well.
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk is of partly Romanian ancestry; one of his ancestors was a citizen of Romania from the region around Chernivtsi.
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk graduated from the university in 1996, and later attended the Chernivtsi Trade-Economics Institute of the Kyiv National Trade-Economics Institute in 2001.
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From December 1992 to September 1997, Arseniy Yatsenyuk was the president of Yurek Ltd.
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From January 1998 until September 2001, Arseniy Yatsenyuk worked in the Aval bank, based in Kyiv.
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From November 2003 to February 2005, Arseniy Yatsenyuk served as the first vice-president of the National Bank of Ukraine under Serhiy Tihipko.
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From September until November 2001, Arseniy Yatsenyuk 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.
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk then headed talks about Ukrainian membership in the World Trade Organization.
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk was proposed for the post of Foreign Minister by the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko.
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk was confirmed by the Verkhovna Rada on 21 March 2007 with 426 votes.
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On 4 December 2007, Arseniy Yatsenyuk was elected the chairman of the Parliament.
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk's candidacy was the only one in the ballot, and he obtained 227 votes in favor.
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In early 2008, Arseniy Yatsenyuk co-wrote along with Tymoshenko and Yushchenko the so-called "letter of three" to NATO, in which they asked for a Membership Action Plan with a view to joining the Alliance.
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On 21 November 2008, Arseniy Yatsenyuk was dismissed by President Viktor Yushchenko from the National Security and Defense Council.
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On 16 December 2008, Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced plans to create a political party on basis of the Front of Changes public initiative.
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Polls held in the last months of 2008 suggested a political party led by Arseniy Yatsenyuk would pass the 3 percent election threshold in a Ukrainian parliamentary election.
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On 5 April 2009, Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced his candidacy for President of Ukraine in the next presidential election.
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk stated in November 2009 that the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and the Party of Regions were "almost a single whole".
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However, Arseniy Yatsenyuk declined this proposal to hold a high post in the new cabinet after the Ukrainian parliament adopted an amendment on 9 March 2010, which enabled independent lawmakers to take part in forming a majority coalition, instead of only parliamentary factions; Arseniy Yatsenyuk disapproved of this amendment.
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk formed an oppositional government in March 2010, next to another oppositional government headed by Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko, opposing the Azarov Government.
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk stressed in April 2012 "Front of Changes existed and will exist" but hinted the same month the alliance could lay basis for one single party.
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk headed this election list because "Fatherland"-leader Yulia Tymoshenko was imprisoned.
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk was elected leader of the parliamentary faction of "Fatherland" on 12 December 2012.
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On 25 January 2014, Arseniy Yatsenyuk was offered the post of prime minister by President Viktor Yanukovych but refused due to unmet demands.
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk said the people should be making a decision for the future of Ukraine, not the present government officials.
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk was designated as the new prime minister of the Arseniy Yatsenyuk Government following the 2014 Ukrainian revolution that removed former president Viktor Yanukovych from power.
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk described his government as being on a "kamikaze" mission.
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The day before, Arseniy Yatsenyuk was replaced as his party's faction leader in parliament by Sergei Sobolev.
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On 24 July 2014, Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced that he was resigning from the post of prime minister immediately.
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In September 2014, Arseniy Yatsenyuk started the new party People's Front.
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk was confirmed as prime minister at the first session of the new parliament by 341 votes.
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In July 2015 Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced with Canadian prime minister Steven Harper the successful conclusion of the Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement.
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On 16 February 2016, President Petro Poroshenko asked Arseniy Yatsenyuk to resign and later on the same day, the Ukrainian parliament voted to find the work the Ukrainian cabinet was doing under Arseniy Yatsenyuk unsatisfactory, but rejected calls for a vote of no confidence.
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On 17 and 18 February 2016, Fatherland and Self Reliance left the coalition supporting Arseniy Yatsenyuk's government, meaning the coalition became 5 deputies short of the 226 needed.
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On 10 April 2016, Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced that he would report to parliament on 12 April and resign as prime minister.
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On 14 April 2016, parliament did hold a vote on his resignation resulting in Arseniy Yatsenyuk being replaced by the new prime minister, Volodymyr Groysman, and his Groysman government.
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In December 2017, Arseniy Yatsenyuk sold his share of the Espresso TV channel to an American company.
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In 2009 Arseniy Yatsenyuk made clear that he does not want Russian to become the second state language in Ukraine.
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk stated late 2009 that in its relations with the European Union, Ukraine should have a visa-free regime with EU countries.
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk stated on 20 April 2012 that it was clear to him that the European Union will not sign the association agreement "until fully fledged democracy is resumed in Ukraine, free and fair elections are held, and the political persecution of opponents is stopped in Ukraine".
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In November 2009 Arseniy Yatsenyuk favoured the creation of a special "vice prime minister for Crimean issues".
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In November 2009, Arseniy Yatsenyuk stated that Ukraine's shadow economy "is a part of the current political system in Ukraine and that's why taking business out of the shadows will only be possible via a change in this system".
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk wants to create a common energy company with European Union countries and Russia.
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In late July 2010, Arseniy Yatsenyuk wrote a draft law which proposed to fine officials for violating the law "On Appeals by Citizens", thus holding officials personally accountable for ignoring the complaints of citizens.
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk is in favour of holding referendums; he calls this "nationalization of state power".
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In January 2015, Arseniy Yatsenyuk appeared on the German television channel ARD for an interview with Pinar Atalay.
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk's father, Viktor Illarionovych Gur, was a professor of philosophy at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute; her mother Svitlana Mykytivna, PhD, was retired.
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk's family has lived near Kyiv since 2003.
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk was described positively by Victoria Nuland, who wanted Yatsenyuk to become prime minister in the new government.
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk called the charges a "total absurdity", with Ukrainian government's Interior Minister Arsen Avakov admitting that Interpol sent him a copy of the Russian request and Ukrainian Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko stating that he believes Interpol will dismiss Russia's request.
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The story of Arseniy Yatsenyuk's alleged involvement in the Chechnya War has been widely ridiculed in Ukraine and became a subject of internet memes.