17 Facts About Dmytro Bulatov

Dmytro Serhiyovych Bulatov is a Ukrainian civic activist who was the Minister of Youth and Sports during the first Yatsenyuk Government in 2014.

Dmytro Bulatov was in charge of the "Socially Responsible Society" NGO.

Between 1998 and 2014, Dmytro Bulatov had his own business and held key positions in state and private companies.

Between 2010 and 2013, he was the owner of Stolnik Autocenter, but after certain events, the business vector was changed and Dmytro Bulatov began to work mainly in consulting.

Dmytro Bulatov was active in wakeboarding and took part in national competitions.

On November 30,2013, Dmytro Bulatov found out about the forceful dispersal of Euromaidan and, together with his friend Oleksii Hrytsenko, decided to organise a car run across Kyiv in order to involve people in the protest.

AutoMaidan announced a reward of ten thousand US dollars for information to help find Dmytro Bulatov and save his life.

Dmytro Bulatov managed to get to the village of Vyshenky, Boryspil district.

That same day, Dmytro Bulatov went to Lithuania to be treated there in transit through Riga.

On 6 February 2014, while undergoing treatment in Lithuania, Dmytro Bulatov stated at a press conference in Vilnius that he was tortured to admit that his organisation was funded and aided by Americans and the US ambassador to Ukraine, especially, and that he was hired to organise the Automaidan and the riots against the current government.

The kidnapping of Dmytro Bulatov was widely condemned, including by the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton.

Fresh from medical care in Lithuania, Dmytro Bulatov went to Germany to visit his relatives.

In February 2014, Dmytro Bulatov was appointed as the Minister of Youth and Sports in the first Yatsenyuk Government.

Dmytro Bulatov began reforms in the areas of sports and physical culture.

Dmytro Bulatov did not participate in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.

Six months before the end of his ministership, Dmytro Bulatov was drafted into the Ukrainian army, where he fought in the War in Donbas until his draft period ended in July 2016.

Dmytro Bulatov was fired from this position in September 2019.