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Viktor Yanukovych

Personal data
Date of birth09 July 1950(age 65)
Place of birthYenakiieve, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
CitizenshipUkrainian
Political partyNone
Other partyCommunist Party of the Soviet Union (1980 � 1991)
Party of Regions (2003 � 2010)
SpouseLyudmilla Oleksandrivna
ChildrenOlexander
Viktor
Alma materDonetsk Polytechnic Institute
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionMechanical engineer
ReligionUkrainian Orthodox
4th President of Ukraine
Assumed office25 February 2010
 
Prime ministerYulia Tymoshenko
Oleksandr Turchynov (Acting)
Mykola Azarov
Preceded byViktor Yushchenko
Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Assumed office25 February 2010
Preceded byViktor Yushchenko
Prime Minister of Ukraine
In office21 November 2002 - 7 December 2004
PresidentLeonid Kuchma
Succeeded byMykola Azarov (Acting)
Preceded byAnatoliy Kinakh
In office28 December 2004 - 5 January 2005
PresidentLeonid Kuchma
Succeeded byMykola Azarov (Acting)
Preceded byMykola Azarov (Acting)
In office4 August 2006 - 18 December 2007
PresidentViktor Yushchenko
Succeeded byYulia Tymoshenko
Preceded byYuriy Yekhanurov
Governor of Donetsk
In office14 May 1997 - 21 November 2002
Succeeded byAnatoliy Blyzniuk
Preceded byVolodymyr Sherban

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Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych (Ukrainian: ) (born July 9, 1950) is a Ukrainian politician who has been the President of Ukraine since February 2010.

Yanukovych served as the Governor of Donetsk Oblast from 1997 to 2002. Subsequently he was Prime Minister of Ukraine from November 21, 2002 to December 31, 2004, under President Leonid Kuchma, and he was an unsuccessful candidate in the controversial 2004 presidential election, ultimately losing to Viktor Yushchenko. Yanukovych continued to lead his party, the Party of Regions, after the 2004 election, and he served as Prime Minister for a second time from August 4, 2006 to December 18, 2007 under President Yushchenko. On March 3, 2010, Yanukovych transferred the leadership of the party to Mykola Azarov.

Yanukovych was the top vote-getter in the first round of the January 2010 presidential election, and faced Yulia Tymoshenko in the second round of the election. Yanukovych won the second round of the election with 48.95% of the vote against Tymoshenko's 45.47%. He is thus the first directly elected president in Ukraine's history to win with less than 50% of the vote.


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