Oleksandr Tkachenko (politician)

Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
	Олександр Миколайович Ткаченко
Transl. :	Oleksandr Mykolajovyč Tkačenko
Transcr. :	Oleksandr Mykolaovych Tkachenko

Oleksandr Tkachenko

Oleksandr Mykolajowytsch Tkachenko (born March 7, 1939 in Shpola , Cherkassy Oblast , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian politician. From 1998 to 2000 he was President of the Verkhovna Rada .

Tkachenko graduated from the Agricultural Institute of Bila Tserkva in 1963 . Between 1963 and 1981 he worked in the Kiev Oblast in agriculture and later in the Communist Party organization . From 1981 he worked for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU) and was appointed governor of Ternopil Oblast in 1982 . From 1985 he was Minister of Agriculture of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic .

After the collapse of the Soviet Union , Tkachenko remained politically active and ran as a presidential candidate in 1991 and 1999. In both elections, however, he withdrew his candidacy to support another candidate ( Leonid Kravchuk in 1991 and Petro Symonenko in 1999 ).

Tkachenko was already a member of the Ukrainian parliament in the Ukrainian SSR and remained so in the Verkhovna Rada , the representative body of the now independent Ukraine, so that he was First Deputy Prime Minister in the Fokin cabinet . From May 1994 to April 1998 he was the first deputy to the President of Parliament and was elected President of Parliament himself on July 7, 1998. He held this office until January 21, 2000, when he was dismissed for violating the rules of parliament. To this day he is a member of the KPU. In the Rada, last elected in 2007, he is chairman of the parliamentary committee on economic issues.

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personal data
SURNAME	Tkachenko, Oleksandr
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Tkachenko, Oleksandr Mykolaovych (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Ukrainian politician
DATE OF BIRTH	March 7, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH	Shpola , Cherkassy Oblast , Ukrainian SSR