Viktor Yushchenko

Since May 2018 Viktor Yushchenko has been Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Alpari Bank. This is one of the smallest banks registered in Ukraine. Yushchenko is also listed among the employees of the Dragomanov National Pedagogical University. He is an honorary professor and a member of the board of trustees.

Since 2016, Yushchenko has been breeding deer and restoring the ethnographic museum in the village of Bezradichi, where he now lives on his estate. In Bezradichi, Yushchenko also has a farm and a windmill.

After the end of active political activity, Viktor Yushchenko became interested in beekeeping, in 2015 he represented Ukraine at the congress of beekeepers in Poland.

Completion of active social and political activities

Yushchenko took up cultural issues after his presidency. So, in April 2011, he became co-chairman of the Council for the Development of the Mystetsky Arsenal, a national cultural, art and museum complex. In addition, the Ministry of Justice registered NGO "Strategic Initiatives" - an institute of President Viktor Yushchenko. This organization was created so that within the framework of its activities it would be possible to discuss urgent problems for Ukraine.

Election 2010

In the presidential elections in 2010, Viktor Yushchenko failed to win. He won 5.45% of the popular vote. Viktor Yanukovych became president. In 2013, Yushchenko was expelled from the Our Ukraine party for insufficient work on the side of the opposition and for supporting Viktor Yanukovych.

According to a 2009 opinion poll, Yushchenko was recognized as the leader of the antipathies of Ukrainians, the majority of citizens expressed distrust and negativity towards him.

Yushchenko's opponents argue that the disease was faked in order to create emotional benefits in the form of citizen sympathy and influence election results.

After the poisoning, Yushchenko's face underwent noticeable external changes: swelling of the skin, abscesses and irregularities appeared. They can still be seen in the photo.

Yushchenko claims that political opponents wanted to take him out of the race for the presidency.

This period includes a loud scandal about the alleged poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko with dioxin, which could have occurred during dinner on September 5, 2004.

Protests took place in Kyiv, which lasted more than a month and were called the Orange Revolution. The country was in a political crisis, so the Supreme Court decided to hold elections again. Viktor Yushchenko was elected president.