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Minister Of Foreign Affairs (Ukraine)
The Minister of Foreign Affairs ( uk, Міністр закордонних справ) is the foreign minister of Ukraine and head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is in charge of the diplomatic corps and realization of the foreign policy of Ukraine. The Minister of Foreign Affairs is appointed by the President. Since Ukrainian independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, the nation has had 14 foreign ministers (not including acting ones). During the Ukrainian chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in 2013, the Ukrainian foreign minister at that time ( Leonid Kozhara) served as Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE. The current foreign minister is Dmytro Kuleba Dmytro Ivanovych Kuleba ( uk, Дмитро Іванович Кулеба; born 19 April 1981) is a Ukrainian politician, diplomat, and communications specialist, currently serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs. He is also concurrently a member ..., who took office on 4 March 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmytro Kuleba
Dmytro Ivanovych Kuleba ( uk, Дмитро Іванович Кулеба; born 19 April 1981) is a Ukrainian politician, diplomat, and communications specialist, currently serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs. He is also concurrently a member of the National Defense and Security Council of Ukraine. Kuleba is one of the youngest senior-diplomats in Ukraine's history. He previously worked as Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration as well as Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the Council of Europe between 2016 and 2019. Biography Kuleba was born on April 19, 1981 in Ukraine's eastern city of Sumy, then part of the Soviet Union. In 2003, he graduated with honors with a degree in International Law from the Institute of International Relations of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Kuleba subsequently obtained a Candidate of Sciences degree (equivalent to PhD) in Law in 2006. Kuleba has served in Ukraine's diplomatic serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Podgorny
Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny, ''Mykola Viktorovych Pidhornyy'' rus, Никола́й Ви́кторович Подго́рный, p=nʲɪkɐˈlaj ˈvʲiktərəvʲɪtɕ pɐdˈgornɨj, links=yes ( – 12 January 1983) was a Soviet statesman who served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the head of state of the Soviet Union, from 1965 to 1977. Podgorny was born to a Ukrainian working-class family in the city of Karlovka in 18 February 1903. He later graduated from a local worker's school in 1926 before completing his education at the Kyiv Technological Institute of Food Industry in 1931. In 1930, Podgorny became a member of the ruling Communist Party of the Soviet Union and climbed up the Soviet hierarchy after years of service to the country's centrally planned economy. By 1953, Podgorny became Second Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine in 1953 before later serving as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine from 1957 to 1963. In October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Borys is a name of Bulgarian origin, equivalent to the Bulgarian-derived spelling Boris. It may refer to: * Borys Baranets (born 1986), professional Ukrainian football midfielder who plays for FC Lviv in the Ukrainian Premier League * Borys Buryak (born 1953), Ukrainian painter * Borys Chambul (born 1953), retired discus thrower, who represented Canada at the 1976 Summer Olympics *Borys Derkach (born 1964), retired Soviet and Ukrainian professional football player *Borys Hrinchenko (1863–1910), classical Ukrainian prose writer, political activist, historian, publicist, ethnographer *Borys Kolesnykov (born 1962), Ukrainian politician and 50th richest man in Ukraine *Borys Lankosz (born 1973), Polish film director *Borys Lyatoshynsky (1895–1968), Ukrainian composer, conductor and teacher *Borys Miturski (born 1989), Polish speedway rider who was a member of Poland U-21 national team * Borys Mykolaiovych Martos (1879–1977), public and political activist, pedagogue, economist * Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonid Kuchma
Leonid Danylovych Kuchma ( uk, Леоні́д Дани́лович Ку́чма; born 9 August 1938) is a Ukrainian politician who was the second president of Ukraine from 19 July 1994 to 23 January 2005. Kuchma's presidency saw numerous corruption scandals and the lessening of media freedoms. After a successful career in the machine-building industry of the Soviet Union, Kuchma began his political career in 1990, when he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian parliament); he was re-elected in 1994. He served as Prime Minister of Ukraine between October 1992 and September 1993. Kuchma took office after winning the 1994 presidential election against his rival, incumbent President Leonid Kravchuk. Kuchma won re-election for an additional five-year term in 1999. Corruption accelerated after Kuchma's election in 1994, but in 2000–2001, his power began to weaken in the face of exposures in the media. Kuchma's administration began a campaign of media censorship in 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonid Kravchuk
Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk ( uk, Леонід Макарович Кравчук; 10 January 1934 – 10 May 2022) was a Ukrainian politician and the first president of Ukraine, serving from 5 December 1991 until 19 July 1994. In 1992, he signed the Lisbon Protocol, undertaking to give up Ukraine's nuclear arsenal. He was also the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada and a People's Deputy of Ukraine serving in the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) faction. After a political crisis involving the president and the prime minister, Kravchuk resigned from the presidency, but ran for a second term as president in 1994. He was defeated by his former prime minister, Leonid Kuchma, who then served as president for two terms. After his presidency, Kravchuk remained active in Ukrainian politics, serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine in the Verkhovna Rada and the leader of the parliamentary group of Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) from 2002 to 2006. Early life Leonid Makaro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Anatoly (russian: Анато́лий, Anatólij , uk, Анато́лій, Anatólij ) is a common Russian and Ukrainian male given name, derived from the Greek name ''Anatolios'', meaning "sunrise." Other common Russian transliterations are Anatoliy and Anatoli. The Ukrainian transliteration is Anatoliy or Anatolii. The French version of the name is Anatole. Other variants are Anatol and more rarely Anatolio. Saint Anatolius of Alexandria was a fifth-century saint who became the first patriarch of Constantinople in 451. Anatoly was one of the five most popular names for baby boys born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2004. One in every 35,110 Americans are named Anatoly and the popularity of the name Anatoly is 28.48 people per million. The name of Anatolia – a region located to the east from the Greeks' point of view – shares the same linguistic origin. People * Anatoli Agrofenin (born 1980), Russian footballer * Anatoli Aleksandrovich Grishin Anatoli Aleksandrovich G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanislav Hurenko
Stanislav Ivanovych Hurenko ( uk, Станісла́в Іва́нович Гуре́нко; russian: Станисла́в Ива́нович Гуре́нко, translit=Stanislav Ivanovich Gurenko; 30 May 1936 – 14 April 2013), was a Soviet Ukrainian politician and member of the Soviet Communist Party. Mikhail Gorbachev brought in his ally Hurenko in to replace Vladimir Ivashko as First Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party on 23 June 1990. He resigned his position as First Secretary on 30 August 1991 , when the failure of the August putsch in Moscow, the activities of the Communist Party of Ukraine were banned. Then he served as the member of Verkhovna Rada The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Верхо́вна Ра́да Украї́ни, translit=, Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, translation=Supreme Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian abbreviation ''ВРУ''), often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the .... Hurenko retired and died on 14 April 2013, at the age of 76 af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Ivashko
Vladimir Antonovich Ivashko (russian: Влади́мир Анто́нович Ива́шко, link=no; ua, Володимир Антонович Івашко, ''Volodymyr Antonovych Ivashko''; 28 October 1932 – 13 November 1994) was a Soviet Ukrainian politician, briefly acting as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the period from 24 to 29 August 1991. On 24 August Mikhail Gorbachev resigned from the post, and on 29 August the CPSU was suspended by the Supreme Soviet. Before becoming General Secretary he had been voted Gorbachev's Deputy General Secretary within the Party on 12 July 1990, a newly created position as a result of the 28th Congress of the Communist Party. Biography The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the time between Mikhail Gorbachev's resignation and its suspension was politically impotent. By the time of the 28th Congress in July 1990, the party was largely regarded as being unable to lead the countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volodymyr O
Volodymyr ( uk, Володи́мир, Volodýmyr, , orv, Володимѣръ) is a Ukrainian given name of Old East Slavic origin. The related Ancient Slavic, such as Czech, Russian, Serbian, Croatian, etc. form of the name is Володимѣръ ''Volodiměr'', which in other Slavic languages became Vladimir (from cu, Владимѣръ, Vladiměr). Diminutives include Volodyk, Volodia, Lodgo and Vlodko People known as Volodymyr * Volodymyr the Great (aka St. Volodymyr, Volodymyr I of Kyiv), Grand Prince of Kyiv * Volodymyr II Monomakh, Grand Prince of Kyiv * Volodymyr Atamanyuk (born 1955), Soviet footballer * Volodymyr Bahaziy (1902–1942), Ukrainian nationalist * Volodymyr Barilko (born 1994), Ukrainian football striker * Volodymyr Bezsonov (born 1958), Ukrainian football manager and player * Volodymyr Chesnakov (born 1988), Ukrainian footballer * Volodymyr Demchenko (born 1981), Ukrainian sprinter who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics * Volodymyr Dyudya (born 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volodymyr Martynenko
Volodymyr Martynenko ( uk, Володимир Никифорович Мартиненко) (6 October 1923 – 18 April 1988) was a Ukrainian diplomat. He served as Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations. Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR. Early life Volodymyr Martynenko graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (1951). Career From 1965–1968 he was a member of the Soviet Embassy in Canada. From 1968–1973 he served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR. From 1973–1979 he was the Permanent Representative of the Ukrainian SSR to the United Nations. From 1979–1980 he served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR. From 18 November 1980 to 28 December 1984 he was Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR. From 1984–1988 he was a senior researcher at the Institute of History of Ukraine. Diplomatic rank * Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary An ambass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volodymyr Shcherbytsky
Volodymyr Vasylyovych Shcherbytsky, russian: Влади́мир Васи́льевич Щерби́цкий; ''Vladimir Vasilyevich Shcherbitsky'', (17 February 1918 — 16 February 1990) was a Ukrainian Soviet politician. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1972 to 1989. Early life Shcherbytsky was born in Verkhnodniprovsk on 17 February 1918 to Vasily Grigorievich Shcherbytsky (1890-1949) and Tatyana Ivanovna Shcherbitskaya (1898-1990), just two weeks before the Soviet takeover of the city during the Ukrainian–Soviet War. During his school years, he worked as an activist and a member of the Komsomol from 1931. In 1934, while still in school, he became an instructor and agitator for the district committee of the Komsomol. In 1936, he entered the Faculty of Mechanics at the Dnipropetrovsk Chemical Technology Institute. During his training, he worked as a draftsman, designer and compressor driver at the factories i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
