Viktor Yanukovych

Viktor Yanukovych: a failed dictator and a man who unleashed a war in Ukraine

Viktor Yanukovych is a man who, with his rule, brought Ukraine to war, the occupation of the Crimean peninsula and the death of ten thousand people.

Viktor Fedorovich Yanukovych was born on July 9, 1950 on the outskirts of the city of Yenakiyevo in the village of Zhukovka, Stalin (now Donetsk) region.

Viktor was born in the village of Zhukovka in Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. He has stated about hard childhood, "My childhood was difficult and hungry. I had to fight for myself every day." His mother was a Russian nurse and his father was a Polish-Belarusian locomotive-driver.

Yanukovych had lost both his parents and was brought up by his Polish paternal grandmother, originally from Warsaw. His grandfather and great-grandparents were Lithuanian-Poles. Viktor has half-sisters from his father's remarriage, but has no contact with them.

At the age of 17, on 15 December 1967, Viktor was sentenced to three years imprisonment for participating in a robbery and assault. On 8 June 1970 he was convicted for a second time on charges of assault. He was sentenced to two years of imprisonment and did not appeal the verdict.

In 1971, Viktor married Lyudmyla Nastenko.

Parents

Viktor Yanukovych is from a working-class family. His father worked as a train driver, his mother was a nurse. Viktor Yanukovych is a first-generation resident of Donbass. Both of his parents arrived here at a young age. Fedor Vladimirovich is from Belarus, Olga Semyonovna is from Russia.

In some interviews, Viktor Yanukovych mentioned that his paternal ancestors lived in the territory of modern Poland and Lithuania. He also said that he does not remember his mother at all. She died when Vita was only two years old. The father remarried and the boy was mainly taken care of by one of the grandmothers.

Wife and kids

Wife - Lyudmila Yanukovych (nee Nastenko) is a year older than Viktor Yanukovych. A native of Enakievo. Worked in local factories. A civil engineer by education.

Married since 1971, got married in 1997. According to rumors , the Yanukovych family divorced in early 2017 and now Viktor Yanukovych lives with Lyubov Polezhay, who is a relative of his cook. However, the press service of the fugitive president denied this information.

Lyudmila Yanukovych became famous for her funny phrase about pricked oranges during the Orange Revolution.

Alexander was born in 1973. The first education is a dentist, the second is an economist. Was in business. Married, two children.

Victor Jr., born in 1981. An economist by education. People's Deputy of 5-7 convocations. He died in 2015 in the Irkutsk region.

Viktor Yanukovych received his higher education quite late. At thirty he became a mechanical engineer.

Then twenty years later, when Yanukovych was already the head of the Donetsk region, he became a graduate in international law.

Viktor Yanukovych has a doctorate in economics and is a professor.

Labor career

Young Victor began to work at the age of nineteen. The first place of work was a metallurgical plant in his native Enakievo. Yanukovych later worked as a fitter and mechanic.

An important career step was joining the Komsomol. Last but not least, thanks to this, the career of a guy from the outskirts of Enakievo rapidly went up. For two decades, he held senior positions at several Donetsk enterprises.

Since 1980, the "red director" Yanukovych became a member of the Communist Party. He was in its ranks until the collapse of the Soviet Union. Then, like many current ones, he suddenly became disillusioned with the policy of the party and left it.

State and political career

In the summer of 1996, Viktor Yanukovych was appointed deputy governor, and the following year he headed the Donetsk region. In 1998, he successfully ran for the regional council of Donetsk.

He held this post until his first appointment as Prime Minister of Ukraine in 2002. Six months later, he became head of the Party of Regions.

In 2004, Viktor Yanukovych, whom Leonid Kuchma made his successor, took part in the presidential elections. In the first round of voting, he won almost an equal number of votes with his main opponent, opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko. In the second round, Viktor Fedorovich won 49% of the vote and was declared President by the Central Election Commission.

This caused a storm of discontent in society, which led to the Orange Revolution and a second round of voting. Yanukovych got 44%. Eight percent more voters voted for Yushchenko.

In early 2005, Yanukovych lost his post as head of government. However, a year and a half later, after successful parliamentary elections, Viktor Yanukovych regained the chair of the prime minister. But due to the protracted political crisis in December 2007, President Yushchenko dismissed Yanukovych. After that, twice the prime minister went into the shadows and seemed to have ceased to be a top politician.

Thanks to constant quarrels within the “orange” forces, in 2010 he won the presidential election and became the Fourth President of Ukraine. However, he did not happen to be the head of Ukraine during the entire five-year presidential term.

In November 2013, the suspension of the process of signing the Association Agreement with the European Union once again provoked the exit of thousands of people opposed to the president's policies.

In February 2014, after the execution of protesters on the Maidan, Viktor Yanukovych resigned and fled the country. At the moment he lives in Rostov-on-Don.

Viktor Yanukovych at the head of the Party of Regions twice - in 2006 and 2007 - won the parliamentary elections.

Viktor Fedorovich quite often got into curious situations. So, the classic of the president's illiteracy was his questionnaire, which he filled out before the 2004 presidential election.

During the flower-laying ceremony, a wreath fell on Yanukovych to the Unknown Soldier . The politician himself was also unstable. While still a presidential candidate for the first time, Viktor Yanukovych fell like a wreck when a chicken egg was thrown at him.