Yuriy Ivanovych Zbitnyev ( uk, Юрій Іванович Збітнєв; born October 25, 1963 in
Smila[КАНДИДАТ У ПРЕЗИДЕНТИ УКРАЇНИ ЗБІТНЄВ ЮРІЙ ІВАНОВИЧ]
Ukrinform
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(August 11, 2004)) was a candidate in the
2004 Ukrainian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 31 October, 21 November and 26 December 2004. The election was the fourth presidential election to take place in Ukraine following independence from the Soviet Union. The last stages of the election ...
, nominated by the "New Power" Party.
Background
Zbitnyev was a founding member of the "Young Ukraine" party
[ in 1999 and is a member of the coordinating board of public ]non-governmental organization
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"Union of tax payers of Ukraine". In 2000, he founded a Ukraine-wide association of manufacturers of infusion solutions, which includes 14 enterprises. In 1999 he created a company "Gramed", which manufactured pharmaceutical medications
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. From 1995 to 1996 he was first vice-chair of the central board of the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united)
The Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) ( uk, Соцiал-демократична партія України (об'єднана); СДПУ(о)), is a Ukrainian political party that was originally established as the Social Democratic P ...
. In his program he proposes reducing the number of administrative division
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s of Ukraine (oblast
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s) from 24 to 9.
References
External links
Official website
1963 births
Living people
People from Smila
Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) politicians
Candidates in the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election
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