Oleksandr Turchynov

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Oleksandr Turchynov

Oleksandr Walentynowytsch Turchynow ( Ukrainian Олександр Валентинович Турчинов ; born March 31, 1964 in Dnipropetrovsk , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian politician ( People's Front ; formerly All-Ukrainian Association "Fatherland" ).

Since February 22, 2014 he has been President of the Ukrainian Parliament, the Verkhovna Rada . After Viktor Yanukovych's impeachment , the parliament appointed Turchynov as the country's interim president on February 23, 2014 . He held this office until Petro Poroshenko was inaugurated as President of Ukraine on June 7, 2014. From June 22, 2014 to November 27, 2014, Turchynov was again President of the Ukrainian Parliament. With effect from December 15, 2014, he was appointed Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine by President Poroshenko . He was replaced by Oleksandr Danyljuk in 2019 . Since then he has been running a think tank .

Life

Oleksandr Turchynov graduated from the Technological Faculty of the Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute with honors. He then worked in the Kryworischstal steelworks in Krywyj Rih . From 1987 he worked in the Komsomol, among other things in the propaganda department. From 1990 to 1991 he worked as editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian department of the press agency Una-press APN . In 1992 he was chairman of the Committee for Privatization and Demonopolization of Industrial Production in the Dnepropetrovsk Oblast Administration . In 1993 he worked for a short time as an advisor to the then Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma . After his resignation, Turchynov continued to work on the privatization of the Ukrainian economy.

Together with Pavlo Lasarenko , he was involved in founding the Hromada party in 1994 , which supported Leonid Kuchma’s presidential candidacy. In 1998 Turchynov was elected to the Verkhovna Rada on the party's list. In 1999, he and his long-time political companion Yulia Tymoshenko founded the “Fatherland” party , of which Turchynov was vice-chairman. In 2002 he was elected to the Rada for the first time on the list of the party alliance Blok Juliji Tymoshenko (BJuT).

In the 2004 presidential elections , he worked on the election campaign staff of later President Viktor Yushchenko . After his election victory, Turchynov was appointed head of the Ukrainian domestic intelligence service Sluschba bespeky Ukrajiny . He should subject the secret service to a comprehensive reform. When Yulia Tymoshenko resigned from the office of Prime Minister in September 2005, Turchynov also left his post and from then on headed the election campaign staff of the BJuT. He was re-elected in the parliamentary elections in 2006 and was deputy chairman of the BJuT parliamentary group in the following legislative period. In May 2007 he was appointed vice chairman of the National Security Council of Ukraine .

After the parliamentary elections in 2007 he became the first deputy to the new Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. On April 10, 2008 he was nominated by the BJuT as a candidate for the early mayoral elections in Kiev . He competed on May 25, 2008 against Vitali Klitschko, among others . The election was decided by incumbent Leonid Tschernowezkyj . Turchynov received 19.13% of the vote and took second place.

After Tymoshenko's resignation as a result of her defeat in the 2010 presidential election , Turchynov was acting head of government from March 3, 2010 until the election of the new Prime Minister Mykola Azarov on March 11, 2010.

On September 10, 2014, he was elected chairman of the party headquarters at the founding party conference of the Popular Front . In the parliamentary elections in Ukraine in 2014 , Turchynov ran for second place on the list of the popular front that won the elections.

Turchynow is a Baptist and pastor of a Kiev Baptist congregation . He has also written several novels, some of which have sold well, of which Illusion of Fear (Ukrainian Ілюзія страху ) was made into a film and was nominated by Ukraine in 2008 for an Oscar for “Best Foreign Film”.

Web links

Commons : Oleksandr Turchynow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Head of Parliament appointed interim president , Die Welt, February 23, 2014
  2. ↑ Turchynow on the Supreme Rada website (accessed July 1, 2014)
  3. ↑ Decree of the President of Ukraine appointing Oleksandr Turchynov as Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine ( memo of March 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 21, 2014
  4. ↑ NEWSru.ua: По данным экзит-пола, на выборах побеждает Леонид Черновецкий с 32% и блок его имени - 25.7% ( Memento of 27 May 2008 at the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Prime Minister Yatsenyuk elected chairman of the "Popular Front"; Oleksandr Turchynow - chairman of the party's headquarters ; in the Ukrainian Pravda of September 11, 2014, accessed on October 27, 2014
  6. ↑ Profile: Oleksandr Turchynov , BBC News, accessed February 22, 2014
  7. ↑ Ukraine - Who Is Now Important Online article at sueddeutsche.de , accessed on April 10, 2014
  8. ↑ Turchynov campaign draws scrutiny ( Memento of 30 January 2011 at the Internet Archive (Engl.)); Kyiv Post dated April 24, 2008, accessed April 10, 2014
  9. ↑ Ukraine submits 'Illusion' for Oscar race ( Memento from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Eng.); UNIAN dated October 16, 2008, accessed April 10, 2014.

Remarks

  1. ↑ The Ukrainian language Wikipedia has an article on the film under Ілюзія страху
personal data
SURNAME Turchynow, Oleksandr
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Turchynow, Oleksandr Walentynowytsch (full name); Турчинов, Олександр Валентинович (Ukrainian); Turčynov, Oleksandr Valentynovyč (transliteration from Ukrainian); Турчинов, Александр Валентинович (Russian); Turčinov, Aleksandr Valentinovič (transliteration from Russian); Turchinow, Alexander Walentinowitsch (transcription of Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Dnipropetrovsk , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union