1. Victor Mykhailovych Pinchuk is a Ukrainian businessman and oligarch.
22 Facts About Victor Pinchuk
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Victor Pinchuk is the owner of four TV channels and a popular tabloid, Fakty i Kommentarii.
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Victor Pinchuk has been a member of the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, for two consecutive terms from 1998 to 2006.
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Victor Pinchuk is married to Olena Pinchuk, the daughter of former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma.
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Victor Pinchuk was born in 1960 in Kyiv to Jewish parents who moved to the industrial city of Dnipropetrovsk.
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Victor Pinchuk was a member of the Ukrainian Parliament between 1998 and 2006 for Labour Ukraine.
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Victor Pinchuk left politics after he came to the conclusion that Ukraine had reached a level of development when business and politics should be separated.
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Victor Pinchuk holds a share of VS Energy International Ukraine together with Mikhail Spektor and Igor Kolomoisky.
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In 2004, Victor Pinchuk created Yalta European Strategy, an international independent organization to promote Ukraine joining the European Union.
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In September 2015, Pinchuk donated $150,000 to the Donald J Trump Foundation in exchange for a 20-minute video appearance by Donald Trump shown at the conference that year in Kyiv.
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Michael Cohen solicited Douglas Schoen for the donation from Victor Pinchuk, which was the largest outside donation the Trump Foundation received that year.
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In 2015, Victor Pinchuk promoted closer ties between Ukraine and the EU.
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Victor Pinchuk was an active participant in the World Economic Forum at Davos.
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In December 2016, Viktor Victor Pinchuk published an article in the Wall Street Journal "Ukraine Must Make Painful Compromises for Peace With Russia", in which he suggested that Ukraine temporarily abandon the prospect of EU membership, exclude NATO membership and make a compromise with Russia on the Crimea peninsula on purpose the achieving peace in Eastern Ukraine.
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Victor Pinchuk is married to Olena Pinchuk, the daughter of the second president of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma.
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Victor Pinchuk was ranked No 38 on ArtReview magazine's 2013 Power 100 ranking of people in contemporary art.
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In June 2009, Victor Pinchuk organized the Paul McCartney free concert on Independence Square in Kyiv in front of 500,000 people.
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Damien Hirst, Takashi Murakami, Andreas Gursky and Jeff Koons, artists whose work Victor Pinchuk collects, serve as mentors to the finalists and the winner.
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In February 2013, Victor Pinchuk committed to giving half or more of his fortune during his lifetime and beyond to philanthropic causes, joining the Giving Pledge, a philanthropic initiative founded in 2010 by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.
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In 2000, Victor Pinchuk hired former Clinton pollster Douglas Schoen on a $40,000 per month retainer.
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Emails released by Judicial Watch and obtained through FOIA requests showed that Victor Pinchuk had been invited to dine at Hillary Clinton's home during her tenure at the State department, despite her spokesman's previous denial that they had met during that time.
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In November 2014 in Kyiv, Victor Pinchuk was presented with the 2014 Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Award for his work in fostering Ukrainian-Jewish relations.