1. In 2005, Turchynov served as the head of the Security Service of Ukraine.
29 Facts About Oleksandr Turchynov
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Oleksandr Turchynov is a former acting President of Ukraine from the removal from power of President Viktor Yanukovych on 21 February 2014, until Petro Poroshenko was sworn in as Ukrainian President on 7 June 2014.
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Oleksandr Turchynov then became Chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament until 27 November 2014.
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Oleksandr Turchynov served as acting Prime Minister in 2010 until the Verkhovna Rada appointed Mykola Azarov as prime minister on 11 March 2010.
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Oleksandr Turchynov started the new political party People's Front in September 2014, now together with Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
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In June 2020, Oleksandr Turchynov became one of the managers of the headquarters of European Solidarity, a political party led by former president Petro Poroshenko.
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Oleksandr Turchynov graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute in 1986, after which he worked at Kryvorizhstal, a large Ukrainian steel producer.
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Kuchma and his entire team, including Tihipko and Oleksandr Turchynov, moved to Kyiv in 1992, after Kuchma was appointed Prime Minister.
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In 1993, Oleksandr Turchynov was formally appointed an advisor on economic issues to Prime Minister Kuchma.
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In December 1993, Oleksandr Turchynov co-founded and became Vice President of Ukrainian Union of Industrialist and Entrepreneurs.
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Oleksandr Turchynov was director of the Economic Reforms Institute from January 1994 to March 1998 and was head of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences' Laboratory of Shadow Economy Research.
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Oleksandr Turchynov was re-elected to parliament in 2002 and 2006 as part of the BYuT.
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In December 2009, during the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election campaign, Oleksandr Turchynov accused President Viktor Yushchenko and opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych of coordinating their actions in their attempts to topple the Second Tymoshenko Government.
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On 4 March 2010, after the fall of the second Tymoshenko Government, Yulia Tymoshenko resigned from her post as prime minister on 4 March 2010, and Oleksandr Turchynov was empowered to fulfill the Prime Minister's duties until a new government was formed.
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On 23 February 2014, Oleksandr Turchynov was designated as interim President of Ukraine following the impeachment of Viktor Yanukovych per the reinstated constitutional provisions of the 2004 amendments.
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On 14 April 2014, while talking on the phone with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Oleksandr Turchynov asked for the United Nations's support regarding the crisis in eastern Ukraine, to which the Secretary-General replied that peacekeepers may be sent in should Russia withhold its veto.
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On 10 September 2014, Oleksandr Turchynov became founding member the new party People's Front.
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Oleksandr Turchynov was elected his party's faction leader on 27 November 2014.
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On 1 November 2018, Oleksandr Turchynov was included in the Russian sanctions list in connection with Ukraine's unfriendly actions towards citizens and legal entities of the Russian Federation.
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In June 2020, Oleksandr Turchynov became head of the 2020 Ukrainian local elections headquarters of the party European Solidarity.
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On 10 September 2014, Oleksandr Turchynov published a letter in which he urged retailers to take a closer look at the products of Tarasove Dzherelo, a small producer of mineral water.
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Oleksandr Turchynov's mother-in-law is the owner of warehouses with a total area of 6,000 m in Kyiv on the Akademika Koroleva Prospect.
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The Prosecutor General of Ukraine Svyatoslav Piskun then stated that the detention of Oleksandr Turchynov's assistant was part of a planned process of initiating a criminal case.
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On 23 April 2008, the Kyiv District Administrative Court ruled that Oleksandr Turchynov had no personal relationship with the construction of the Landscape Valley.
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In 2005, Oleksandr Turchynov ordered to organize an illegal wiretapping of the journalist of Segodnya newspaper Oleksandr Korchinsky.
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In March 2017, former people's deputy Oleksandr Shepelev accused Turchynov and Ruslan Lukyanchuk of stealing and withdrawing $800 million from the state budget with the assistance of the International Monetary Fund.
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In 2004, Oleksandr Turchynov published a book, that was made into a film Illusion of Fear.
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Oleksandr Turchynov declared a 2018 TOYOTA LC 150 Prado car and a 2015 LEXUS LX570 car.
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In May 2016, Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov confirmed that Oleksandr Turchynov was awarded the Maxim's machine gun model 1910.