Vyacheslav Kyrylenko

Vyacheslav Kyrylenko (2015)

Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
	В'ячеслав Анатолійович Кириленко
Transl. :	Vjačeslav Anatolijovyč Kyrylenko
Transcr. :	Vyacheslav Anatolyovich Kyrylenko

Vyacheslav Kyrylenko (born June 7, 1968 in Poliske near Kiev ) is a Ukrainian politician . He is chairman of the Narodnyj Soyuz Nascha Ukrajina party and chaired the Nascha Ukrajina - Narodna Samooborona faction in the Ukrainian parliament .

He is a member of the Popular Front party and was Minister of Culture of Ukraine in the second Yatsenyuk cabinet from December 2, 2014 to April 14, 2016 . From April 14, 2016 to August 29, 2019, he was Vice Prime Minister for Humanitarian Affairs in the Hrojsman Cabinet .

education

Vyacheslav Kyrylenko graduated in 1993 graduated from the Faculty of Arts of the Kyiv Taras Shevchenko University , and in 1996 his postgraduate at this same university from.

Political activity

From 1992 to 1993 Kyrylenko was chairman of the Ukrainian Student Union. From 1993 to 1999 he was part of the leadership of the Narodnyj Ruch Ukrajiny party as chairman of their youth organization. From 1999 to 2005 he was a member of the Ukrajinskyj Narodnyj Ruch (or Ukrajinska Narodna Partija ) party.

Kyrylenko has been a member of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, four times. From 1998 to 2002 he was a member of the Narodnyj Ruch parliamentary group and from 2002 of the Nascha Ukrajina parliamentary group .

In 2004 he was actively involved in the implementation of free presidential elections in the wake of the so-called Orange Revolution . In the first western-oriented government under Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko , he was Minister of Labor and Social Affairs. In the successor government under Jurij Jechanurow he was deputy head of government with the same department.

In the parliamentary elections in 2006 he ran again for Nascha Ukrajina and after the election of Viktor Yanukovych ( Party of Regions ) as head of government, the parliamentary group of Nascha Ukrajina. On March 31, 2007, he was also elected party chairman.

After the 2007 parliamentary elections , he again took the post of chairman of the parliamentary group of the now Nascha Ukrajina - Narodna Samooborona electoral alliance. On December 16, 2008, he resigned as group leader, protesting against the recently formed new coalition of BJuT , NU-NS and Blok Lytwyna .

Viewpoints

Vyacheslav Kyrylenko advocates a western orientation of Ukraine and strives for its accession to the European Union and NATO ; the political system of Ukraine is to be developed along the lines of Western democracies. Kyrylenko advocates a presidential system of government and was against the constitutional amendments of 2004, which established a largely parliamentary system of government . In line with the above views, he strongly opposes cooperation with the Party of Regions and the Communists .

Kyrylenko speaks out against any official position of the Russian language in Ukraine . After the victory of the Euromaidan Revolution, he initiated a draft law, according to which Russian should no longer be recognized as an additional regional language, even in Russian-speaking areas. The protection of other minority languages ​​would also have been affected. The draft was approved by a narrow majority in parliament, but did not come into force due to a presidential vow.

Personal

Vyacheslav Kyrylenko is married to the university lecturer Kateryna Kyrylenko and has a daughter (* 1999) and a son (* 2009).

Web links

Commons : Vyacheslav Kyrylenko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Kyrylenko's personal page
• Side of the Nascha Ukrajina - Narodna Samooborona block
• Biography on liga.net
• Biography on lenta.ru

Individual evidence

1. ^ Second Yatsenjuk cabinet on Ukraine News of December 2, 2014
2. ↑ http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/radan_gs09/ns_sh?id_ffekt=1275&nom_s=4