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Viktor Yanukovych Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych ( uk, Віктор Федорович Янукович, ; ; born 9 July 1950) is a former politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 until he was removed from office in the Revolution of Di ...

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Serhiy Klyuyev Serhiy Petrovych Klyuyev (also spelled: Sergiy Klyuyev; uk, Сергій Петрович Клюєв) is a Ukrainian businessman and a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament.Клюев Андрей Петрович
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, Groissaustraße 12, and a large site at Rudyky (Рудики). He was last seen publicly with Viktor Yanukovych in

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in early 2014. Since then, he has made occasional appearances on

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n television shows, confirming he is alive. Regarding his disappearance from

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since the

Revolution of Dignity The Revolution of Dignity ( uk, Революція гідності, translit=Revoliutsiia hidnosti) also known as the Maidan Revolution or the Ukrainian Revolution,

overthrew

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Viktor Yanukovych, Klyuyev has claimed that he moved to

Donetsk Donetsk ( , ; uk, Донецьк, translit=Donets'k ; russian: Донецк ), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), Stalin and Stalino (see also: Names of European cities in different languages (C–D), cities' alternat ...

in 2014, which he considers Ukrainian territory (although Donetsk is no longer controlled by Ukrainian authorities since the start of the

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in 2014). In 2019, the

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stated that Klyuyev was living in hiding in

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, and in 2022 a British

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report alleged that Klyuyev, along with three other former Ukrainian government officials who served under Yanukovych, was allegedly working with the Russian intelligence services to “subvert Ukraine”.

Early life

Andriy Klyuyev graduated from the Mining

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of the Donetsk Politech Institute as a mining automation and mechanization engineer. He also earned his Candidate of Technical Sciences post-graduate degree in 1989. Klyuyev started working in 1983 as an underground miner at Zasyadko coal mine, before becoming a

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at the Gorki Mine in 1984. After graduation he worked as the deputy chief and then Chief of Mine Transport at Bilorichenska Mine (Voroshylovhradvuhillya state holding in

Luhansk Oblast Luhansk Oblast ( uk, Луга́нська о́бласть, translit=Luhanska oblast; russian: Луганская область, translit=Luganskaya oblast; also referred to as Luhanshchyna, uk, Луга́нщина) is the easternmost oblast ...

). From 1986 to 1991 Klyuyev conducted full-time postgraduate research at his alma mater.

Business career

From 1991 to 1994, Klyuyev headed several coal mining-related machine building companies, including "Ukrpidshipnyk" SC. Since March 2011, Ukrpodshipnik is headquartered in the same building in Ukraine as

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's Ukraine representative. Klyuyev and his younger brother,

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's family, allegedly using his power to secure multi-billion contracts. Andrii and Serhiy Klyuyev were the principal beneficiaries in the Austrian holding company SLAV AG. As of February 2014, the Klyuyev brothers relationships with other entities can be found online. In 2011, the Klyuyev brothers controlled five solar plants (Crimea Solar 1–5) outside of Simferopol at Rodnykoye. All of these plants were subsidiaries of Activ Solar which is part of the Activ Solar Holding GmbH which is a subsidiary of SLAV Beteiligung GmbH, which is part of Slav AG. Just prior to the Maidan revolution, Andrii and Serhiy Klyuyev sold their shares in Vienna based Activ Solar GmbH and Clean Economic Energie (CEE) AG, which is a holding company that operates solar power plants in Crimea with 380 MWp capacity and 500 MWh annual production. In March 2016, the Klyuyev brothers' company SLAV Handel applied for bankruptcy in Vienna at the International Court of Arbitration of Vienna International Chamber of Commerce.

Political career

Starting in 1994, Klyuyev was a deputy chairman of the

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Executive Council. From November 1995 to April 1996 he was a Deputy Head of the Donetsk Oblast State Administration, responsible for local development, trade, and consumer goods production. After a career in Donetsk Oblast, and at the time working closely with later and current

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, Klyuyev moved to national politics. On December 14, 2001, Klyuyev was elected the deputy chairman of the

Party of Regions The Party of Regions ( uk, Партія регіонів, Partiia rehioniv, ; russian: Партия регионов, Partiya regionov) was a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine formed in late 1997 that then grew to be the biggest party of Uk ...

. At the 2002 election, he became a member of the

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for the

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, working as head of the Energy, Nuclear Policy and Nuclear Safety Committee. On April 19, 2003, at the 5th Party Congress Klyuyev was elected the secretary of the party's political council. From 2003 to 2004, Klyuyev was the Energy Vice Prime Minister in the First Yanukovych Government. Klyuyev is described in the press as the Yanukovych's Shadow Campaign Head in 2010 presidential election, following Borys Kolesnikov as head of the electoral headquarter of the Party of Regions. He was however, only named Deputy Vice Prime Minister, as more influential competitors insight the Party of Regions managed to occupy the posts of the Head of the Presidential administration and the Prime Minister. At the

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and

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parliamentary elections, Klyuyev was re-elected as a

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for Party of Regions. On March 11, 2010, Klyuyev was appointed the First Vice-Prime Minister in the Azarov Government, and after the

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administrative reform on December 9, 2010, he also has accepted the assignment of the Minister of Economic Development and Trade. On February 14, 2012, Klyuyev was appointed Secretary of the

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(NSDC). Insiders in the Party of Regions always claimed that his removal from the post of the First Vice Prime Minister, responsible for the European Integration of Ukraine, happened due to the personal conflict with the Head of the Presidential Administration, Sergiy Lyovochkin and was to be seen as a punishment for his influential position within the institutions of the European Union. This shift placed Klyuyev, as the chief campaign manager of the Party of Regions, in the position to ensure that the Party of Regions would win the elections in the fall of 2012. NSDC secretary sees Azarov as likely candidate for premiership. On 24 January 2014, President Yanukovych signed a decrees that dismissed Klyuyev as National Security and Defense Council secretary and appointed him head of the

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. On 23 February 2014, just after the "

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", Klyuyev resigned from this post. His spokesman, Artem Petrenko, claimed 2 days later that Klyuyev's had been wounded when his car had been attacked while he was travelling back to

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from

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after tendering his resignation to former President Yanukovych. Since 7 March 2014 he is wanted for involvement in

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. The day before the EU froze his assets. In June 2019, the

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refused Klyuyev to register for the 21 July

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as a candidate for the

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in Electoral District 46 situated in

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because he had not lived in Ukraine for 5 years. The

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ordered the Central Election Commission on 1 July 2019 to reexamine Klyuyev's application and his claim that he had lived in

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the last 5 years (although Donetsk is not controlled by Ukrainian authorities since the start of the

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in 2014).The Supreme Court forced the CEC to re-examine Klyuyev's documents

Ukrayinska Pravda ''Ukrainska Pravda'' ( uk, Українська правда, lit=Ukrainian Truth) is a Ukrainian online newspaper founded by Georgiy Gongadze on 16 April 2000 (the day of the Ukrainian constitutional referendum). Published mainly in Ukraini ...

(1 July 2019)
The CEC registered Klyuyev and Sharia as candidates for the People's Commissariat

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(1 July 2019) The same day the Central Election Commission registered Klyuyev's candidacy. Eventually, Klyuyev was not able to take part in the election as his registration was cancelled and constituency 46 was won by

Opposition Platform — For Life The Opposition Platform – For Life ( uk, Опозиційна платформа – За життя; russian: Оппозиционная платформа – За жизнь, OPZZh) was a parliamentary and now banned pro-Russian and Eurosc ...

candidate Fyodor Khristenko (who won with 38,01% of the votes).

International sanctions

For his roles in destabilizing Ukraine, his role in the Victor Yanukovych government, his support for pro-Russia individuals and entities in Ukraine, abuse of office, and for embezzlement of public funds, Klyuyev is under sanctions by Switzerland since February 26, 2014, by Lichtenstein since March 3, 2014, by the European Union since March 6, 2014, by Canada since July 20, 2015, and by the United States, also since July 30, 2015. On February 21, 2018, his younger brother Serhiy had some EU sanctions removed for the 2017–2018 period, and later, in July 2018, Andrii Kliuiev had some EU sanctions lifted for 2017–2018. However, his accounts in the EU are still frozen until March 9, 2019, because of ongoing EU sanctions.

References

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