Pavlo Petrenko

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Pavlo Petrenko
Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
Павло́ Дми́трович Петре́нко
Transl. : Pavlo Dmytrovyč Petrenko
Transcr. : Pavlo Dmytrovytsch Petrenko

Pavlo Dmytrowytsch Petrenko (English transcription Pavlo Petrenko; born July 17, 1979 in Chernivtsi , Chernivtsi Oblast , Ukrainian SSR ) was Minister of Justice of Ukraine from March 3, 2014 to August 29, 2019 .

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education

Petrenko graduated with honors from the Jurij Fedkowytsch National University of Chernivtsi in 2001 and subsequently worked as a lawyer. In 2004 he studied international management at the Ukrainian State University of Finance and Foreign Trade . In 2014 he received his doctorate in law.

Political career

From December 12, 2012 to March 3, 2014, he was a member of the Verkhovna Rada for Yulia Tymoshenko's party “Fatherland” . On June 15, 2013, after the unification of "Fatherland" with the party Front of Changes (Front Smin) by Arseniy Yatsenyuk to a United Opposition, he was elected deputy chairman of the "Fatherland" party. He has had a friendly relationship with Arsenij Jazenjuk since they studied together at the University of Chernivtsi.

After the takeover of government in the wake of the events of the Euromaidan by the first Yazenyuk cabinet , Petrenko was appointed Minister of Justice and was confirmed in this post after the 2014 parliamentary elections , in which he ran for 11th place in the Popular Front party. In September 2014, he co-founded the Popular Front party alongside Oleksandr Turchynov and the ruling Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenjuk. He is also a member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine . On July 8, 2014, Petrenko applied to the regional administrative court to ban the KPU because there was ample evidence of its illegal activities, such as providing money and weapons to the pro-Russian separatists.

Web links

Commons : Pavlo Petrenko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Pavlo Petrenko on the Official Website of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine , accessed on February 6, 2015
  2. ^ Short biography on the Verkhovna Rada website , accessed on February 6, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b Pavel Dmitrievich Petrenko on file.liga.net , accessed on February 6, 2015
  4. ↑ Ukraine wants to ban the Communist Party . Article in Der Standard of July 8, 2014, accessed February 6, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Petrenko, Pavlo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petrenko, Pavlo Dmytrovytsch (full name); Петре́нко, Павло́ Дми́трович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian Minister of Justice
DATE OF BIRTH 17th July 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Chernivtsi