17 Facts About Viktor Pynzenyk

Viktor Mykhailovych Pynzenyk is a Ukrainian politician, economist, and former Minister of Finance.

Viktor Pynzenyk is the former leader of the Reforms and Order Party.

Viktor Pynzenyk was born on 15 April 1954, in Smolohovytsia, in the westernmost Zakarpattia Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR to Mykhailo and Mariya Pynzenyk.

Viktor Pynzenyk continued his scientific work in the Moscow State University where he received his Doktor of Science degree in 1989.

Viktor Pynzenyk was sworn into Ukrainian parliament on 4 January 1992, and soon afterwards became a member of the economic reforms working group.

In March 1992, Viktor Pynzenyk was elected to the second convocation of the parliament as part of the "Reforms" faction, serving his mandate until April 1998.

Viktor Pynzenyk was elected to Verkhovna Rada for the third time in the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election serving from March 1998 until the next election in 2002.

In 2002, Viktor Pynzenyk was elected as part of the "Our Ukraine" electoral bloc.

Three years later, after the Orange Revolution, Viktor Pynzenyk was chosen as the Minister of Economy on 4 February 2005, and served his post until August 2006.

Viktor Pynzenyk served as the Minister of Finance of Ukraine in the Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's Cabinet, elected on 18 December 2007.

Viktor Pynzenyk offered his resignation on 12 February 2008 because he could not abandon the principles of a balanced budget with a minimum deficit, realistic revenue sources and limits on government borrowing.

Viktor Pynzenyk was absent from the voting as he was in hospital.

Viktor Pynzenyk withdrew from the Reforms and Order Party in April 2010.

Viktor Pynzenyk was appointed deputy chairman of the supervisory council of UkrSibbank in February 2011.

Viktor Pynzenyk returned to national politics as number 7 on the party list of UDAR of Vitaliy Klychko for the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election.

Viktor Pynzenyk has been named an honorary professor of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, and the Economics Institute of Ternopil.

Viktor Pynzenyk's hobbies include tourism, an interest in music, as well as playing the preferans game.