Political Leaders: Ukraine

Leaders of Ukraine

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Look for biographies of the leaders (in Spanish) at CIDOB website. See also former USSR for data before 1991.

Parties: BVYNU: Viktor Yushchenko Election Bloc Our Ukraine BYuT: Yuliya Tymoshenko Election Bloc KPU: Communist Party of Ukraine NDPU: People's Democratic Party of Ukraine NSNU: Our Ukraine People's Union (succeeds BVYNU 5 Mar 2005) PPPU: Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine PR: Party of the Regions VOB: All-Ukrainian Union 'Fatherland' (member of BYuT)

Heads of the State

Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk         23 Jul 1990 -  1 Dec 1991 KPU, n/p    

Presidents of the Republic
Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk          1 Dec 1991 - 19 Jul 1994 n/p (*)
Leonid Danylovych Kuchma           19 Jul 1994 - 23 Jan 2005 n/p         
Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko      23 Jan 2005 - 25 Feb 2010        BVYNU, NSNU 
Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych       25 Feb 2010 -                    PR

(*) Ruler of an independent state since 25 Dec 1991 (declarations of 24 Aug and 1 Dec 1991 effective as USSR is dissolved)

Prime Ministers

Vitaliy Anriyovych Masol           10 Jul 1990 - 23 Oct 1990 KPU
Vitold Pavlovych Fokin             23 Oct 1990 -  2 Oct 1992 KPU, n/p (acting to 14 Nov 1990)
Valentyn Kostyantynovych Symonenko  2 Oct 1992 - 13 Oct 1992 n/p (acting)
Leonid Danylovych Kuchma           13 Oct 1992 - 22 Sep 1993 n/p 
Yukhym Leonidovych Zvyahilskiy     22 Sep 1993 - 16 Jun 1994 n/p (acting)
Vitaliy Anriyovych Masol           16 Jun 1994 -  1 Mar 1995 n/p
Yevhen Kyrylovych Marchuk           1 Mar 1995 - 28 May 1996 n/p (acting to 8 Jun 1995)
Pavlo Ivanovych Lazarenko          28 May 1996 -  2 Jul 1997 n/p
Vasyl Vasylyovych Durdynets        19 Jun 1997 - 16 Jul 1997 n/p (acting)
Valeriy Pavlovych Pustovoytenko    16 Jul 1997 - 22 Dec 1999 n/p, NDPU
Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko      22 Dec 1999 - 29 May 2001 n/p (caretaker from 26 Apr 2001) 
Anatoliy Kyrylovych Kinakh         29 May 2001 - 21 Nov 2002 PPPU
Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych       21 Nov 2002 -  5 Jan 2005 PR
Mykola Yanovych Azarov              5 Jan 2005 - 24 Jan 2005 PR (acting, for Yanukovych from 7 Dec to 28 Dec 2004)
Yuliya Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko    24 Jan 2005 -  8 Sep 2005 VOB/BYuT (acting to 4 Feb 2005) 
Yuriy Ivanovych Yekhanurov          8 Sep 2005 -  4 Aug 2006 NSNU (acting to 22 Sep 2005) 
Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych        4 Aug 2006 - 18 Dec 2007 PR 
Yuliya Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko    18 Dec 2007 - 11 Mar 2010 VOB/BYuT
Oleksandr Valentynovych Turchynov   4 Mar 2010 - 11 Mar 2010 BYuT (acting for Tymoshenko)
Mykola Yanovych Azarov             11 Mar 2010 -             PR

Ministers of Foreign Affairs

Anatoliy Maksymovych Zlenko        1990-1994 
Hennadiy Yosypovych Udovenko       1994-1998 
Borys Ivanovych Tarasyuk           1998-2000 
Anatoliy Maksymovych Zlenko        2000-2003 
Kostyantyn Gryshchenko             2003-2005 
Borys Ivanovych Tarasyuk           2005-2007
Volodymyr Stanislavovych Ohryzko   2007     (acting)
Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk        2007
Volodymyr Stanislavovych Ohryzko   2007-2009
Volodymyr Khandohiy                2009     (acting)  
Petro Poroshenko                   2009-2010
Kostyantyn Gryshchenko             2010-

Chairmen of PR

Mykola Yanovych Azarov             2001      
Volodymyr Petrovich Semynozhenko   2001-2003
Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych       2003-2010
Mykola Yanovych Azarov             2010-

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