35 Facts About Serhiy Tihipko

Serhiy Leonidovych Tihipko is a Ukrainian politician and finance specialist who was Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine.

Serhiy Tihipko ran unsuccessfully for President of Ukraine in the 2010 presidential election and participated in the 2014 presidential election, in which he placed fifth with 5.23 percent of the vote.

Serhiy Tihipko is former Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Social Policy.

Serhiy Tihipko was born on 13 February 1960 in the village of Draganesti, Singerei, in the Lazovskiy district of the Moldovian SSR in Ukrainian family who moved there from Podolia in 1902.

Serhiy Tihipko's father fought in World War II where he was badly wounded, and died when Tihipko was 10.

Serhiy Tihipko has two brothers: one six years older, and one two years younger.

Serhiy Tihipko grew up in suburb of Chisinau and moved to Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, after finishing school when he was 17.

Serhiy Tihipko was educated at the local school in Lazovskiy district, and then went to university in Dnipropetrovsk, where he graduated in engineering-metallurgy from the Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute in 1982.

Serhiy Tihipko was an advisor to Kuchma in the lead up to the introduction of the national currency, the Hryvnia in 1996.

Serhiy Tihipko chaired the election campaign in 2004 for presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych.

Serhiy Tihipko was elected leader of the party Strong Ukraine in November 2009.

In January 2010, Serhiy Tihipko declared "his team" will participate in the 2014 Kyiv local election.

Serhiy Tihipko was a candidate for President of Ukraine in the 2010 presidential election.

Serhiy Tihipko had an income of about $2.5 million in 2008 and told Kyiv Post he had spent roughly the same amount on his presidential campaign till December 2009.

On 22 January 2010 Serhiy Tihipko warned outgoing president Viktor Yushchenko could introduce a state of emergency during the transfer of power after the presidential election 2010.

Serhiy Tihipko did not endorse a candidate for the run-off of the election.

Serhiy Tihipko did state he would agree to become Prime Minister of Ukraine under the new President whose program is close to him.

Tymoshenko did offer Serhiy Tihipko to become Prime Minister if she would win the election.

On 11 February 2010 Serhiy Tihipko stated that he would agree to become Prime Minister of Ukraine if President Victor Yanukovych offered him the post.

On 17 February 2010 Serhiy Tihipko stated that he had met Yanukovych twice after the election to discuss issues of the country's development and that he had reached no agreement with the parliamentary faction of the Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense Bloc regarding their support of his candidacy for the post of Prime Minister.

On 11 March 2010 Serhiy Tihipko was elected as one of six deputy Prime Ministers in the Azarov Government.

Serhiy Tihipko stated he would become a Party of Regions member after the negotiations between the parties was concluded.

Serhiy Tihipko did not return to a ministerial post after and hinted that he would mainly deal with the ideology of Party of Regions since.

Serhiy Tihipko was one of the 36 members of the Party of regions faction who voted in favour of the impeachment of President Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014.

Serhiy Tihipko is a self-nominated candidate for President of Ukraine in the 2014 presidential election.

Serhiy Tihipko had an income of about UAH 263 million in 2013.

Serhiy Tihipko then accused that the party had "been turned into a branch of a specific financial and industrial group, a private enterprise".

On 23 April 2014 Serhiy Tihipko announced that Strong Ukraine would be re-established and that its 2012 merger with Party of Regions had been "a mistake".

Serhiy Tihipko bought a controlling stake in Russian Sberbank's Ukrainian subsidiary in December 2017.

Serhiy Tihipko then merged this subsidiary with TAScombank without shutting down the financial institutions' branches.

In December 2012 Serhiy Tihipko stated that European integration was more advantageous to Ukraine than accession to the Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia.

Presidential candidate Serhiy Tihipko intends to make Russian a second state language if he wins the 2014 Ukrainian presidential election.

Serhiy Tihipko was married to Natalia Serhiy Tihipko from 1981 to 2004.

Serhiy Tihipko married Viktoriya Tigipko later in 2004, during the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election campaign.

Serhiy Tihipko is Managing Director at a venture company which invests in online projects worldwide, and is considered to be one of the most successful businesswomen in Ukraine.