Oleh Dubyna (; born 20 March 1959) is a former chairman of the board of the Ukraine's national oil and gas company
Naftogaz Ukrainy
Naftogaz of Ukraine ( uk, НАК "Нафтогаз України", ''Naftogaz Ukrayiny''; literally "Petro-Gas of Ukraine") is the largest national oil and gas company of Ukraine. It is a state-owned company
.
Biography
Dubyna graduated from
Kamianske
Kamianske ( uk, Кам'янське, ), formerly Dniprodzerzhynsk, is an industrial city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast of Ukraine and a port on the Dnieper. Administratively, it serves as the administrative center of Kamianske Raion. Kamianske hosts ...
Industrial Institute with a bachelor's degree in
Steelmaking
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in 1982 and from 1985 to 1986 he was a lecturer at the Kamianske polytechnic school.
In 1986–1998, Dubyna worked for the Kamianske metallurgical complex and on 1998–1999 at the
Alchevsk
Alchevsk ( uk, Алчéвськ, translit. ''Alchevs'k''; russian: Алчéвск) is a city of significance in the Luhansk Oblast of Ukraine. It is located approximately from the oblast capital, Luhansk.
Alchevsk is one of the largest indus ...
Kryvorizhstal
ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih (former Kryvorizhstal ( uk, Криворіжсталь) is Ukraine's largest integrated steel company, founded in 1934 and located in Kryvyi Rih, in central Ukraine.
Bought in 2005 by Mittal Steel, the steel plant is ...
steel company.
In 2001, Oleh Dubyna became the Energy Minister and a Vice Prime Minister in
Viktor Yushchenko
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As an informal leader of th ...
's government, succeeding at this post
Yulia Tymoshenko
Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko ( uk, Юлія Володимирівна Тимошенко, ; Hrihyan ();Kinakh Government.
From December 2002 until September 2003 he was an adviser of President
Leonid Kuchma
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. On 15 September 2003 Oleh Dubyna was appointed the First Deputy Secretary of the
National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine
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. On 18 June 2004 he was relieved and appointed the president of the national energy holding company (
Energy Company of Ukraine
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), which was being established at the time. From June 2005 to December 2007 Oleh Dubyna worked as the CEO of the .
On 24 December 2007 Dubyna was appointed the head of Naftogaz by Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
On 31 December 2009 at the height of the
2009 Russia–Ukraine gas dispute
In 2009, Russian natural gas company Gazprom refused to conclude a supply contract unless Ukrainian gas company Naftogaz paid its accumulating debts for previous gas supplies. The dispute began in the closing weeks of 2008 with a series of fai ...
Yulia Tymoshenko allegedly forced Dubyna to sign the controversial gas contract under threat of being dismissed. During the same day he also said that "Ukraine could have lived on its underground storage gas through late February without buying gas from Russia, trying to convince Kremlin to reduce the price". Later on, Dubyna as a representative of Naftogaz was charged with abuse of office for signing pact with Gazprom. He resigned from this post in March 2010 after the presidential elections and the change of the Ukrainian Government. After Dubyna's resignation Prime Minister
Mykola Azarov
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accused him of exceeding his authority during the signing of gas agreements with Russia. President
Viktor Yanukovych
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has instructed Prosecutor-General
Oleksandr Medvedko
Oleksandr Medvedko ( uk, Олександр Іванович Медведько) is a former Prosecutor General of Ukraine Medvedko was installed in a political deal with the Party of Regions.
Biography
In December 2009, during the 2010 Ukrainian ...
to take legal actions against people (including Dubyna) who are responsible for the deterioration of financial situation of Naftogaz Ukrainy.
Dubyna was a senior economic advisor to
Volodymyr Zelensky
Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, ; russian: Владимир Александрович Зеленский, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Zelenskyy, (born 25 January 1978; also transliterated as Zelensky or Zelenskiy) is a Ukrainian politicia ...
during the
2019 Ukrainian presidential election
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There were 39 candidates for the election on the ballot. The Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia an ...
. The
Kryvorizhstal
ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih (former Kryvorizhstal ( uk, Криворіжсталь) is Ukraine's largest integrated steel company, founded in 1934 and located in Kryvyi Rih, in central Ukraine.
Bought in 2005 by Mittal Steel, the steel plant is ...
steel company during Dubyna's tenure (1999 to 2001) as the Director General had sponsored Zelensky's local
KVN
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