29 Facts About Oleksiy Honcharuk

Oleksiy Honcharuk served as the Prime Minister of Ukraine from 29 August 2019 to 4 March 2020 following a landslide parliamentary election win.

Oleksiy Honcharuk was a member of the Servant of the People.

Oleksiy Valeriyovych Honcharuk was born on 7 July 1984 in Zhmerynka, Vinnytsia Oblast, in what was then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union.

Oleksiy Honcharuk's father Valeriy was a politician, and part of the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine.

Oleksiy Honcharuk later told journalists that his father's death was the motivating factor for his decision to reform emergency medical services as Prime Minister.

When Oleksiy Honcharuk was 16 years old, she immigrated to Italy and lives there until now.

Oleksiy Honcharuk was a student of the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management from 2001 to 2006.

Oleksiy Honcharuk graduated from the Aspen Institute in Kyiv and Kyiv-Mohyla Business School.

From 2005, Oleksiy Honcharuk worked as a lawyer and head of law departments of various companies.

Oleksiy Honcharuk has had more than ten years of legal practice.

Oleksiy Honcharuk has worked as a lawyer in the PRIOR-Invest investment company, and later headed its legal department.

In 2009, Oleksiy Honcharuk became Chairman of the Association for Assistance to Affected Investors and the Union of Investors of Ukraine, two non-government organisations centred around investment.

On 28 May 2019, Oleksiy Honcharuk was appointed Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine.

In particular, Oleksiy Honcharuk sought increased construction and repairing of roads, as well as increasing internet access throughout the country.

The Oleksiy Honcharuk Government included several experts - including Oleksiy Honcharuk himself - who grew and gained credibility in European-funded programs.

Impressions of the foreign press on Oleksiy Honcharuk's appointment were extremely positive.

Oleksiy Honcharuk is the youngest-ever Prime Minister of Ukraine, aged 35 at the time of his appointment.

Oleksiy Honcharuk only had three months of government experience before becoming Prime Minister.

In September 2019, the Government of Oleksiy Honcharuk presented its Action Program to the Verkhovna Rada, which was approved by the Verkhovna Rada on 4 October 2019.

Oleksiy Honcharuk proposed a fundamental reconstruction of the State Geocadastre of Ukraine, in the process removing 20 of the service's 24 oblast-level heads.

Oleksiy Honcharuk's government was the first in the history of Ukraine to unbundle Naftogaz - a 4-month process.

In January 2020, after leaked recordings emerging on the internet in which a man with a voice similar to Oleksiy Honcharuk's criticised Zelenskyy's knowledge of economics, as well as his own knowledge of the subject and competence, Oleksiy Honcharuk submitted a letter of resignation to the President of Ukraine.

On 4 March 2020, the Oleksiy Honcharuk Government was replaced by the Shmyhal Government.

On 31 August 2020, the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Centre announced that Oleksiy Honcharuk would be joining them as a distinguished fellow.

On 17 October 2019, Oleksiy Honcharuk attended a concert headlined by the openly neo-Nazi and Holocaust denialist band Sokyra Peruna.

Oleksiy Honcharuk addressed his critics by accusing them of inappropriately politicising the situation by highlighting the Neo-Nazi character of the band, declaring that "it is not up to the government to dictate what its defenders should sing", and further justified his presence at the event by claiming there were "many bands" at the concert.

Oleksiy Honcharuk denied being a fan of Sokyra Peruna and stated that he had attended the event following an invitation from a veterans' group.

In October 2019, Oleksiy Honcharuk admitted that he holds an "unofficial" diploma of a law degree.

Later, information appeared that Oleksiy Honcharuk's recordings were allegedly being tampered with by the investigative journalists of the 1+1 channel.