Andrij Kljujew

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Andrij Kljujew

Andrij Petrowytsch Kljujew ( Ukrainian Андрій Петрович Клюєв ; born August 12, 1964 in Donetsk ) is a Ukrainian politician. From March 11, 2010 to February 14, 2012, he was First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine in the cabinet of Mykola Azarov . From February 2012 to January 2014 he was Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine . From January 23, 2014 to February 22, 2014 he was the head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine.

Life

Kljujew graduated from the Donetsk National Technical University with a degree in mining engineering. Since 1991 he has held managerial positions in various industrial companies in the Donetsk region. In 1996 he became Deputy Head of the Donetsk City Administration and in 1998 Deputy Chairman of the Donetsk Oblast Administration under the then Governor Viktor Yanukovych .

In the parliamentary elections in 2002, 2006 and 2007 he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada for the Party of Regions , and since 2001 Kljujew has been a member of the presidium of this party.

From December 10, 2003 to December 29, 2004, he was Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine in the Yanukovych cabinet for the first time and in this position was also responsible for the country's energy sector.

During the 2004 presidential election , Klyyev was deputy head of Yanukovych's campaign staff. He was repeatedly accused of manipulating the election results during the Orange Revolution , never leading to a judicial conviction.

From August 2006 to December 2007 he was again Deputy Prime Minister in the government of Viktor Yanukovych .

Kljujew was considered a close confidante of Yanukovych and was appointed First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Economic Development and Trade after his election victory in the 2010 presidential election . In February 2012 he was released from these offices and appointed Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council. On January 23, 2014, Yanukovych appointed Klyyev as the new head of the presidential administration . In the course of reporting on the Euromaidan , he was repeatedly referred to as a hardliner in some media . After Yanukovych was overthrown, Andrij Kljujew and his brother Serhiy were put on an international wanted list. His whereabouts were initially unknown. The accounts of the Kljujew brothers in Switzerland and Austria were blocked. According to reports from the Ukrainian media, Andrij Kljujew has been in Russia since the end of February 2014.

In March 2019, the European Union removed a number of former Ukrainian statesmen, including Kljuev, from the sanctions list they were placed on in connection with the Crimean crisis in March 2014 for lack of evidence .

Andrij Kljujew is married and has three sons. Together with his younger brother, businessman and politician Serhij Kljujew , the Ukrainian magazine Fokus ranked him among the richest men in Ukraine in 2010.

Web links

Commons : Andrij Kljujew  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  3. Yanukovych appoints hardliners to the presidential office , Die Welt, January 24, 2014
  4. The Law of the Oligarchy , Die Presse, March 8, 2014
  5. Ukrajinska Pravda website from March 28, 2014
  6. Евросоюз снял санкции с бывшего главы администрации Януковича. March 5, 2019, Retrieved June 23, 2019 (Russian).
  7. http://focus.ua/dossier/111450