Mykola Azarov

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Mykola Azarov (2012)
Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
Микола Янович Азаров
Transl. : Mykola Janovyč Azarov
Transcr. : Mykola Yanovych Azarov
Cyrillic ( Russian )
Николай Янович Азаров
Transl .: Nikolaj Janovič Azarov
Transcr .: Nikolai Yanovich Azarov

Mykola Janowytsch Azarow (born Pahlo , Ukrainian Микола Янович Азаров , Russian Николай Янович Азаров ; born  December 17, 1947 in Kaluga , Soviet Union ) is a former Ukrainian politician . He belonged to the Party of Regions . He was Prime Minister of Ukraine from March 11, 2010 to January 28, 2014 . Azarov was considered a close confidante of the former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych .

Azarov has lived in Russia since February 23, 2014 . On March 29, 2014, he was expelled from the Party of Regions, which he had chaired since 2010.

Life

Mykola Azarov was born as Nikolai Pahlo in Kaluga, central Russia. Later he took over the family name from his wife Lyudmila Nikolaevna Azarova. Mykola Azarov's father, Jaan Pahlo (* 1924), is of Estonian descent. His mother Yekaterina Pavlovna Kwasnikowa (* 1927) is Russian .

Azarov studied geology and geophysics at Lomonosov University in Moscow and graduated from university in 1971. He then worked as a department head and chief engineer in a coal mine in Tula (Kombinat Tulaugol ) and from 1976 in research in a mining institute near Moscow. In 1984 he moved to Ukraine, where he worked as the deputy director and later as the director of a geology and mining institute in Donetsk .

In 1986 Azarov obtained a doctorate in geology and mineralogy and in 1991 the title of professor. In 1997 he became a member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Azarov began his political career in the early 1990s. From 1993 he was a leading member of the Labor Party ( Partija Prazi ), which later renamed the Party of Regional Revival (Partija Regionalnoho Widrodschennja) and in 2001 the Party of Regions (Partija Rehioniw). In 1994 Azarov was elected to the Verkhovna Rada , the Ukrainian parliament. From September 1995 to October 1997 he was chairman of the budget committee here. Since October 1, 1997, Azarov was the director of the supreme financial authority. From March to December 2001 he was chairman of the Partija Regioniw. In order to anticipate criticism of this accumulation of offices and conflicts of interest, he gave up the post of party leader to Viktor Yanukovych and has since been number two in the Party of Regions and since April 19, 2003 chairman of its governing body (the so-called Politrada ). On November 26, 2002 Azarov became first deputy prime minister and finance minister in the Yanukovych government . From December 7th to 28th, 2004 he was acting provisionally in the office of the Prime Minister, since President Leonid Kuchma had suspended the head of government in connection with the election crisis . After this settlement, Yanukovych wanted to resume his official business, but was forced by the circumstances to resign on December 30, 2004. The cabinet was officially dismissed on January 5, 2005 and Azarov was reinstalled as acting head of government. After Viktor Yushchenko was appointed president, Azarov was replaced on January 24, 2005 by Yulia Tymoshenko .

From August 4, 2006 to December 18, 2007, Azarov was once again first deputy prime minister and finance minister in the second Yanukovych government .

After Yanukovych won the presidential election in February 2010 , Azarov was again chairman of the Party of Regions. On March 11, 2010, Azarov was elected Prime Minister of Ukraine. He heads a coalition led by the Party of Regions, which was formed after Prime Minister Tymoshenko was voted out by parliament. When he was elected, Azarov announced that the most important task would be to reorganize the state finances.

In 2011 he was accepted into the Orthodox Order of the Byzantine Knights of the Holy Sepulcher.

At the beginning of December 2012, five weeks after the parliamentary elections , Azarov initially resigned as prime minister. According to the constitution, this also resulted in the resignation of the entire cabinet. Azarov justified his resignation by saying that he had won a seat in the parliamentary elections for the Party of Regions. Other resigned cabinet members had also won seats. Some observers blamed Azarov's shrinking influence and his upcoming retirement for this move. On December 9, 2012, however, President Yanukovych Azarov again nominated for the office of prime minister. On December 13, 2012, the Ukrainian parliament (255 of 450 MPs) approved the reappointment of Azarov as head of government. In the run-up to the vote there were tumultuous debates with two mass brawls between members of the opposition and the ruling Party of the Regions.

On January 28, 2014, Azarov resigned as prime minister in order to create "additional opportunities for a socio-political compromise" and for "the peaceful settlement of the conflict" in view of the conflict situation in the country. After his resignation Azarov went to Vienna for a short time . In this context, it was claimed in various media that he had an Austrian passport. Azarov called this statement a "lie". Azarov is said to have been in Russia since February 23, 2014 .

On March 6, 2014, the Council of the European Union in Brussels imposed restrictive measures against Mykola Azarov with Regulation 208/2014. The justification for this was the criminal prosecution of Azarov for the investigation of crimes related to the embezzlement of Ukrainian public funds and the allegation of the illegal transfer of these funds abroad. His son Oleksiy Mykolaovych Azarov also falls under these measures.

On March 29, 2014, the Party of Regions decided to expel Mykola Azarov at a party congress. In May 2014, Azarov filed a complaint with the European Court of Justice against the sanctions imposed on him.

At the beginning of February 2015, the ex-prime minister presented his book Ukraina na pereputje (Ukraine on the Way of the Cross) in Moscow . In March 2015, he gave an interview to a Western newspaper for the first time, in which he stated that he wanted to set up a coordination council of opposition politicians and that the association agreement with the EU had not been signed because the expected increases in foreign trade with the EU were not the Ukrainian ones Met expectations and billions in EU financial transfers were rejected; Moscow granted a loan of USD 15 billion.

Fonts

Ukraine: The Truth About The Coup. Notes of Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov . The New Berlin . Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3-360-01301-9

Web links

Commons : Mykola Azarov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Azarov left for Russia - source , Interfax-Ukraine on February 23, 2014
  2. ↑ spiegel.de February 4, 2015: Conflict with Russia: Ukrainian ex-prime minister accuses the West of fraud
  3. ↑ a b Партия регионов исключила Януковича, Азарова, Арбузова, Клименко LB.ua from March 29, 2014
  4. ↑ The reason for accepting his wife's name was probably that his maiden name “Pachló” with a different emphasis (“Páchlo”) means “it smelled” or “it stank” in German.
  5. ↑ Азаров виявився наполовину естонцем. In: TSN . October 6, 2010, accessed December 13, 2012 (Ukrainian).
  6. ↑ Kyiv Post : Yanukovych suspends his membership in Party of Regions, hands over party leadership to Azarov , March 3, 2010.
  7. ^ The new harmony at the Kiev state leadership , diepresse.com, March 11, 2010.
  8. ↑ KyivPost: Azarov made member of the Equestrian Order of Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem , March 15, 2011.
  9. ↑ Change of power: Ukrainian government resigns at zeit.de, December 3, 2012 (accessed on December 3, 2012).
  10. ↑ Yanukovych nominated Azarov as head of the Ukrainian government Der Standard from December 9, 2012
  11. ↑ Veser, Reinhard: Ukraine: tumults in parliament - Azarov re-elected at faz.net, December 13, 2012 (accessed on December 13, 2012).
  12. ↑ Ukrainian ex-prime minister Azarov denies possession of an Austrian passport , RIA Novosti website dated February 5, 2014
  13. ↑ Regulation (EU) No. 208/2014 of the Council of March 5, 2014 on restrictive measures against certain persons, organizations and institutions in view of the situation in Ukraine
  14. ↑ Yanukovych complains against EU sanctions on tagesanzeiger.ch from July 14, 2014
  15. ↑ Conflict with Russia: Ukrainian ex-prime minister accuses the West of fraud, Spiegel-online from February 4, 2015 , accessed on February 25, 2015
  16. ↑ spiegel.de: Ex-Prime Minister of Ukraine settles with Merkel and the EU
personal data
SURNAME Azarov, Mykola
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Azarov, Mykola Janowytsch; Pachlo, Nikolai (maiden name); Азаров, Микола Янович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaluga , Soviet Union