1. Dmytro Volodymyrovych Tabachnyk is a Ukrainian and Russian politician who served as the minister of education and science of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014.
24 Facts About Dmytro Tabachnyk
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Amidst the Russian invasion of Ukraine Dmytro Tabachnyk reappeared in public as a collaborator with Russia in Russian occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
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In 1986 Dmytro Tabachnyk graduated from the faculty of History of Kyiv University.
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Dmytro Tabachnyk was a Member of Parliament from March 1998 through March 2003 for Labour Ukraine.
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April 2006 through December 2007, Dmytro Tabachnyk was a vice premier in the Second Yanukovych Government.
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Dmytro Tabachnyk became a Party of Regions MP again following the 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election.
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Dmytro Tabachnyk was forced to resign from Parliament because he illegally procured for himself the military title of colonel.
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Dmytro Tabachnyk promised not to backpedal on the "progressive educational reforms" that have already been introduced.
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Former President Viktor Yushchenko warned his successor, Viktor Yanukovych, against appointing Dmytro Tabachnyk as minister, stating "This is a minister who can only bring division in higher education and in Ukrainian education".
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On 27 March 2010 over 2,000 students supporting Dmytro Tabachnyk held a meeting in Odesa.
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On 13 May 2010 Dmytro Tabachnyk announced that Ukraine and Russia intended to develop a common textbook for history teachers.
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In March 2010 Dmytro Tabachnyk had stated that Ukrainian history textbooks contained "simply false" information and announced his intention to rewrite them.
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Dmytro Tabachnyk promised to personally re-read high school books on history, literature and humanitarian subjects.
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Dmytro Tabachnyk was placed at number 11 on the electoral list of Party of Regions during the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election.
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In November 2022, Dmytro Tabachnyk was charged with treason for cooperating with the FSB and the Russian occupation administrations of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Dmytro Tabachnyk's property, including five plots and half of an apartment in Kyiv, were seized by the Security Service of Ukraine in January 2023.
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On 27 April 2023 information appeared on the website of the Russian political party United Russia that claimed that Dmytro Tabachnyk was a member of this party and that he would be running for this party in the 2023 Russian regional elections that will take place in the four occupied Ukrainian oblasts that were illegally annexed on 30 September 2022.
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In May 2023, the SBU announced that after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Dmytro Tabachnyk "conducted subversive activities against Ukraine with a representative of the Russian intelligence service".
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Dmytro Tabachnyk is loathed by opposition politicians for his view of Ukraine's history which includes the thesis that western Ukrainians are not really Ukrainian.
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Dmytro Tabachnyk denies that the Holodomor was a genocide, considering it an invention of foreign historians for political motives.
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Dmytro Tabachnyk has advocated expanding the rights of Russian-language speakers and is loathed by some politicians and branded as being anti-Ukrainian.
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Dmytro Tabachnyk is married to Tatiana Nazarova, an actress of the Lesya Ukrainka National Academic Theater of Russian Drama.
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Dmytro Tabachnyk was born into a family of the technical intelligentsia.
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Dmytro Tabachnyk's mother, Alla Viktorivna Glyebova, was Russian, and was a structural engineer.