Viktor Yanukovich Fedorovych Yanukovych is a former politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 until he was removed from office in the Revolution of Dignity in 2014, after a long series of protests in support of closer ties with the European Union by diverse civil-society groups in response to his rejection of the Ukrainian-European Association Agreement.
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Viktor Yanukovich was Prime Minister of Ukraine from 21 November 2002 to 7 December 2004 and from 28 December 2004 to 5 January 2005, under President Leonid Kuchma.
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Viktor Yanukovich served as Prime Minister for a second time from 4 August 2006 to 18 December 2007, under President Yushchenko.
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Viktor Yanukovich Yanukovych was born in the village of Zhukovka near Yenakiieve in Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union.
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Viktor Yanukovich endured a very hard childhood about which he has stated,.
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Viktor Yanukovich's mother was a Russian nurse and his father, Fyodor Yanukovych, was a Polish-Belarusian locomotive-driver, originally from Yanuki in the Dokshytsy Raion of the Vitebsk Region which is in present-day Belarus.
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However, Viktor Yanukovich left home due to conflicts with his stepmother, and was brought up by his Polish paternal grandmother, originally from Warsaw.
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Viktor Yanukovich was sentenced to two years of imprisonment and did not appeal the verdict.
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Viktor Yanukovich held various positions in transport companies in Yenakiieve and Donetsk until 1996.
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On 25 May 2007, Viktor Yanukovich Yanukovych was assigned the post of appointed chairman of the Government Chiefs Council of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
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Viktor Yanukovich was endorsed by the Party of Regions and the Youth Party of Ukraine.
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich Yushchenko signed a decree endorsing a plan of events related to Yanukovych's inauguration on 20 February 2010.
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Viktor Yanukovich stated on 7 January 2010 that Ukraine is ready to consider an initiative by Dmitry Medvedev on the creation of a new Europe collective security system stating "And we're ready to back Russia's and France's initiatives".
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Viktor Yanukovich announced $2 billion worth of pension and other welfare increases on 7 March 2012.
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Viktor Yanukovich noted the importance of finding ways of reconciliation between Ukrainians fighting on opposite sides in World War II in his speech at the ceremony to mark Victory Day 2013.
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Viktor Yanukovich said that this law would need 226 votes in the Ukrainian parliament and that voters told him that the current status of Russian in Ukraine created "problems in the hospital, school, university, in the courts, in the office".
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Viktor Yanukovich stated in February 2012 that the trial of Tymoshenko and other former officials "didn't meet European standards and principles".
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Viktor Yanukovich had acquired the property in 2007, according to critics, through a convoluted series of companies and transactions.
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Viktor Yanukovich subsequently declared himself to still be "the legitimate head of the Ukrainian state elected in a free vote by Ukrainian citizens".
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Viktor Yanukovich's had been imprisoned since 2011, in what many saw as political payback by Yanukovych.
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On 3 October 2014, several news agencies reported that according to a Facebook post made by the aide to the Ukrainian Interior Minister, Anton Gerashchenko, Viktor Yanukovich Yanukovych had been granted Russian citizenship by a "secret decree" of Vladimir Putin.
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Viktor Yanukovich described the new Ukrainian authorities as "pro-fascist thugs" and that they "represent the absolute minority of the population of Ukraine".
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Viktor Yanukovich apologised to the Ukrainian people for not having "enough strength to keep stability" and for allowing "lawlessness in this country".
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Viktor Yanukovich vowed to return to Ukraine "as soon as there are guarantees for my security and that of my family".
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Viktor Yanukovich insisted he had not instructed Ukrainian forces to shoot at Euromaidan protesters.
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Viktor Yanukovich said he was surprised by the silence of Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, on the events in Ukraine.
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Viktor Yanukovich hoped to find out more on Russia's position when he meets with Mr Putin "as soon as he has time".
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Viktor Yanukovich said he gave no orders to open fire on Euromaidan protesters.
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Viktor Yanukovich called the 2014 Ukrainian presidential election illegal, as well as U S financial help, since US law allegedly did not allow the support of "bandits".
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Viktor Yanukovich allegedly sustained back and knee injuries while "playing tennis".
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Viktor Yanukovich was acquitted of the other charge relating to Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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From 2006 to 2014, the younger Viktor Yanukovich was a member of the Parliament of Ukraine; he died by drowning at Lake Baikal in 2015.
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Viktor Yanukovich admitted in March 2012 that it was a problem for him in 2002 to speak Ukrainian.
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Viktor Yanukovich's autobiographic resume of 90 words contains 12 major spelling and grammatical errors.
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Viktor Yanukovich continued to serve in that role through the February 2010 Ukrainian presidential election, even as the US government opposed Yanukovych.
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