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Oleksandr Turchynov
Олександр Турчинов
President of Ukraine
Acting
Incumbent
Assumed office
22 February 2014
Prime MinisterArseniy Yatsenyuk
Preceded byViktor Yanukovych
10th Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada
Incumbent
Assumed office
22 February 2014
Preceded byVolodymyr Rybak
Prime Minister of Ukraine
Acting
In office
4 March 2010 – 11 March 2010
PresidentViktor Yanukovych
Preceded byYulia Tymoshenko
Succeeded byMykola Azarov
18th Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine
In office
18 December 2007 – 11 March 2010
Prime MinisterYulia Tymoshenko
Preceded byMykola Azarov
Succeeded byAndriy Klyuyev
7th Director of the Security Service
In office
4 February 2005 – 8 September 2005
PresidentViktor Yushchenko
Preceded byIhor Smeshko
Succeeded byIhor Drizhchanyi
Personal details
Born
Oleksandr Valentynovych Turchynov

(1964-03-31) 31 March 1964 (age 60)
Dnipropetrovsk, Soviet Union
(now Ukraine)
Political partyBatkivshchyna (1999–present)
Hromada (1994–99)
Other political
affiliations		Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (2001–present)
Dictatorship Resistance Committee (2011–present)
SpouseHanna Volodymyrivna
ChildrenKyrylo
Alma materNational Mining University of Ukraine
WebsiteOfficial website

Oleksandr Valentynovych Turchynov (Ukrainian: Олександр Валентинович Турчинов; born 31 March 1964) is a Ukrainian politician, screenwriter, and economist. Turchynov is the current Chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament and acting President of Ukraine after Viktor Yanukovych was removed from power by the parliament on 21 February 2014.[2][3][4] Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, does not regard him as the legitimate Ukrainian President. [5] On 25 February acting President Turchynov assumed the duties of the supreme commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.[6]

Turchynov is the first deputy chairman of the political party Batkivshchyna (All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland").[7][8][9]

Turchynov has served as acting Prime Minister in the past, when he was the First Vice Prime Minister in the absence of a prime minister after Yulia Tymoshenko's government was dismissed on 3 March 2010;[10] until the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) appointed Mykola Azarov as Prime Minister on 11 March 2010.[11][12]

Biography

Oleksandr Turchynov was born in Dnipropetrovsk. He graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute in 1986, after which he worked at Kryvorizhstal, a large Ukrainian steel producer.[13] From 1987 to 1990, he served as head of the agitation and propaganda division of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Komsomol (Communist Youth League) Committee, which was led by Serhiy Tihipko.[13] Tihipko and Turchynov became political advisers of Leonid Kuchma, then head of Dnipropetrovsk-based Pivdenmash missile manufacturer.[13] Kuchma and his entire team, including Tihipko and Turchynov moved to Kiev in 1992, after Kuchma was appointed Prime Minister.[13] In 1993 Turchynov was formally appointed an advisor on economic issues to Prime Minister Kuchma.[13]

Turchynov is an old ally of Yulia Tymoshenko, another prominent Ukrainian political figure from Dnipropetrovsk. They used to have a common business in Dnipropetrovsk. In December 1993, Turchynov co-founded and became Vice President of Ukrainian Union of Industrialist and Entrepreneurs. In 1994 he created the political party Hromada together with Pavlo Lazarenko, a business ally of Tymoshenko.[13] Turchynov was also director of the Economic Reforms Institute from January 1994 to March 1998 and was head of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences' Laboratory of Shadow Economy Research.[14][15]

Political life

In 1998, he was elected to parliament as a member of Hromada but after the scandal around Lazarenko, he left the faction and party (during May 1999) together with Yulia Tymoshenko's All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland". He was re-elected to parliament in 2002 and 2006 as part of the BYuT.

On 4 February 2005, Turchynov was appointed and served as the first‐ever civilian head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).

In the spring of 2008 he was the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and the Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc candidate[16] for the Mayor of Kiev election he placed second at the election with 218,600 votes (19.13% of total vote).[17]

Turchynov and Oleh Tyahnybok in parliament, February 24, 2014

In December 2009 during the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election-campaign Turchynov accused President Viktor Yushchenko and opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych of coordinating their actions in their attempts to topple the Second Tymoshenko Government.[18]

On 4 March 2010, after the fall of the second Tymoshenko Government, former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko resigned from that post on 4 March 2010[10] and Turchynov was empowered to fulfill the Prime Minister's duties until a new government was formed.[19] On 11 March 2010 the Azarov Government was elected[20] and Mykola Azarov was appointed Prime Minister the same day.[11][12]

In 2012 he was re-elected into parliament on the party list of "Fatherland".[21]

On 22 February 2014 he was elected as speaker of Verkhovna Rada.[2] On 23 February 2014, Turchynov was designated as acting President of Ukraine following the impeachment of Viktor Yanukovych.[22]

Controversies

In August 2007, Turchynov replied to the accusation that his stance on same-sex marriage is typically conservative, "I do not agree. If a man has normal views, then you label him a conservative, but those who use drugs or promote sodomy, you label them a progressive person. All of these are perversions".[23]

In February 2006 state prosecutors opened a criminal case against Turchynov and his SBU deputy Andriy Kozhemyakin for destroying a file about FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive, organized crime boss Semyon Mogilevich, from the SBU archive. The case was dismissed four months later.[24] WikiLeaks documents mention Turchynov, then head of Ukraine's SBU, as having destroyed documents implicating Yulia Tymoshenko's alleged connections to Mogilevich.[25]

Non-official activities

In 2004 Turchynov published a book Illusion of Fear.[13] In 2005 he also wrote a script to the same name movie that is based on the book.[26] The movie was released in Ukraine in September 2008 and was the 2008 Ukrainian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[27]

Personal

His wife is Hanna Turchynova (born 1970), PhD, Head of Foreign Languages at National Pedagogical Dragomanov University. They have one son, Kyrylo (born 1994), a student.[citation needed]

Turchynov is known for abstaining from tobacco and alcohol.[28] He is part of the 1% of Ukraine's population that identify as being Protestant. Although some in the media have reported that he is a pastor,[29][30][31] the Associated Baptist Press and the European Baptist Federation report[28][32] that he is an elder and occasional lay preacher at his Kiev church, the Word of Life Center, which is a member of the Evangelical Baptist Union of Ukraine.[13]

References

  1. ^ "Cable: 06KIEV1663_a". Wikileaks. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
  2. ^ a b "Ukraine: Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov named interim president". BBC News. 23 February 2014. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. {{cite news}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 1 December 2008 suggested (help)
  3. ^ "Ukraine protests timeline". BBC News. 23 February 2014. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. {{cite news}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 1 December 2008 suggested (help)
  4. ^ "Turchinov elected as speaker of Ukrainian Parliament". Voice of Russia. 22 February 2014. Archived from the original on 25 February 2014. {{cite news}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 1 December 2008 suggested (help)
  5. ^ http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/4/kerry-lands-ukraine-promise-1-billion-us-aid/
  6. ^ Turchynov assumes duties of supreme commander-in-chief of Ukrainian Armed Forces, Interfax-Ukraine (26 February 2014)
  7. ^ "Turchynov is summoned for interrogation to SBU today – BYUT". UNIAN. 20 September 2010. Archived from the original on 28 September 2012. {{cite news}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 1 December 2008 suggested (help)[dead link]
  8. ^ "Batkivschyna to nominate Tymoshenko for presidency, Yatseniuk heads party's political council". Interfax-Ukraine. Kyiv Post. 14 June 2013. Archived from the original on 15 June 2013. {{cite news}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 1 December 2008 suggested (help)
  9. ^ "BYT-Batkivschyna replaces its leader". Interfax-Ukraine. Kyiv Post. 7 December 2011. Archived from the original on 7 December 2011. {{cite news}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 1 December 2008 suggested (help)
  10. ^ a b "Press secretary: Tymoshenko vacates premier's post". Interfax-Ukraine. Kyiv Post. 4 March 2010. Archived from the original on 7 December 2011. {{cite news}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 1 December 2008 suggested (help)
  11. ^ a b "Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych forms coalition". BBC News. 11 March 2010. Archived from the original on 12 March 2012. {{cite news}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 1 December 2008 suggested (help)
  12. ^ a b "Azarov became Prime Minister". UNIAN. 11 March 2010. Archived from the original on 14 March 2010.
  13. ^ a b c d e f g h "Turchynov campaign draws scrutiny". Kyiv Post. 24 April 2008. Archived from the original on 30 January 2011. {{cite news}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 1 December 2008 suggested (help)
  14. ^ Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko members biography's, Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko official website[dead link]
  15. ^ "Who Is Who in Tymoshenko's Government?". Ukrayinska Pravda. 23 December 2007. Archived from the original on 8 August 2007. {{cite news}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 1 December 2008 suggested (help)
  16. ^ "Тимошенко и Луценко объявили Турчинова единым кандидатом от коалиции". Korrespondent.net (in Russian). 22 May 2008. Archived from the original on 28 May 2008. Retrieved 19 June 2008. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 1 December 2008 suggested (help); Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  17. ^ UNIAN News Agency[dead link]
  18. ^ "Western Information Agency: Yushchenko and Yanukovych are playing ball". Kyiv Post. 4 December 2009. Archived from the original on 28 January 2011. {{cite news}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 1 December 2008 suggested (help)
  19. ^ "Cabinet: Turchynov will fulfill premier's duties until new government is formed". Interfax-Ukraine. Kyiv Post. 4 March 2010. Archived from the original on 7 March 2010. {{cite news}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 1 December 2008 suggested (help)
  20. ^ "Ukraine's new government puts final nail in coffin of the Orange Revolution". The Guardian. 11 March 2010. Archived from the original on 14 March 2010. {{cite news}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 1 December 2008 suggested (help)
  21. ^ "Список депутатів нової Верховної Ради". Ukrayinska Pravda (in Ukrainian). UA. 11 November 2012. Archived from the original on 27 January 2013. {{cite news}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 1 December 2008 suggested (help); Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  22. ^ "Ukraine's Parliament Appoints Opposition Leader Acting PM". Novinite. Sofia News Agency. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 22 February 2014. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 1 December 2008 suggested (help)
  23. ^ "Overview of Lesbian and Gay rights in Eastern Europe". The Lesbian & Gay Foundation. Archived from the original on 20 August 2008. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 1 December 2008 suggested (help)
  24. ^ Byrne, Peter (10 December 2010). "New and conflicting details emerge over Mogilevich's alleged involvement in nation". Kyiv Post. Archived from the original on 14 December 2010. {{cite news}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 1 December 2008 suggested (help)
  25. ^ "New and conflicting details emerge over Mogilevich's alleged involvement in nation". Kyiv Post. 10 December 2010. Archived from the original on 3 October 2012. Retrieved 24 February 2014. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 1 December 2008 suggested (help)
  26. ^ "'Illusion of Fear' from Turchynov". Kyiv Post. 22 May 2008. Archived from the original on 25 February 2014. {{cite news}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 1 December 2008 suggested (help)
  27. ^ "Ukraine submits 'Illusion' for Oscar race". UNIAN. 16 October 2008. Archived from the original on 23 February 2011. {{cite news}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 1 December 2008 suggested (help)
  28. ^ a b "Elevation of Ukrainian leader puts spotlight on Baptists". Abpnews.com. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
  29. ^ "BBC News - Profile: Olexander Turchynov". Bbc.com. 23 February 2014. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
  30. ^ Antonia Blumberg (25 February 2014). "Oleksandr Turchynov, Baptist Pastor, Named As Ukraine's Acting President". Huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
  31. ^ "Ukraine Names Baptist Pastor as Acting President | Gleanings". ChristianityToday.com. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
  32. ^ "News | European Baptist Federation". EBF. Retrieved 1 March 2014.
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Oleksandr Turchynov
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Preceded by Director of the Security Service
2005 		Succeeded by
Ihor Drizhchanyi
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Preceded by Prime Minister of Ukraine
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Preceded by Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada
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