Oleh Tiahnybok (Oleg Tyagnybok): official biography

41 y. o. Politician, Chairman of the “All-Ukrainian Union “Svoboda” (ukr. Freedom)” political party. Candidate for the post of the President of Ukraine in 2010.

Family and childhood:
Born on 17.11.1968 in Lviv (Ukraine) in a medical family. His grandfather, Ukrainian priest, was deported to Siberia for his convictions.
Married with 3 children (two daughters and son). Wife – Olga – doctor-epidemiologist.

Education and Academic background:
1993 – graduated from Lviv State Medical Institute, surgeon.
1999 – graduated from Ivan Franko Lviv State University, lawyer.

Work Experience and Political Life:
1989 – 1990 – nurse at Lviv Regional Clinical Hospital, First Surgery Department.
1990 – December 1991 – paramedic at Lviv Regional Clinical Hospital, Neurosurgery Department.
February 1990 – December 1991 – Head of the Medical Institute chapter of Students’ Brotherhood of Lviv.
Since 1991 – member of the Social-Nationalist Party of Ukraine.
1992 – 1995 – Head of the Students’ Brotherhood of Lviv. Member and co-Head of famous students’ hunger strikes of 1990 and 1992.
1993 – 1996 – internship training at the Urological and First Surgery Department at the Lviv City Clinical Emergency Hospital.
1994 – 1998 – Member of the Lviv Regional Council.
May 1995 – March 1999 – envoy of the Social-Nationalist Party of Ukraine on organizational work.
Since 1997 – Head of the Lviv Regional Organization of the Social-Nationalist Party of Ukraine.
1998 – elected as a Member of Parliament of Ukraine, 3rd convocation (Lviv region, by the majority voting system). Member of Budget Committee of the Parliament of Ukraine.
2002 – 2006 – Member of Parliament of Ukraine of 4th convocation (Lviv region, majority voting system).
July 2004 – expelled from the “Our Ukraine” faction of Viktor Yushchenko “for anti-Semitic and xenophobic statements”.
Since February 2004 – Chairman of the political party All-Ukrainian Union “Svoboda”.

Inna Bogoslovska: official biography

49 years old. Politician and lawyer. Member of Parliament. Candidate for Presidential election – 2010.

Family and childhood:
Born: August 5, 1960. Place of Birth: Kharkiv, Ukraine. Father – career military man, university lecturer; mother – lawyer.

Marital status:
Married with one daughter.

Education:
1982 – graduated with distinction from the Kharkiv Law Academy.
Honored lawyer of Ukraine.

Work Experience and Political Life:
1982 – 1992 – trainee lawyer, lawyer at the Kharkiv Regional Bar Association.
1990 – 1992 – part-time lawyer at the Vybir-89 law firm.
1993 - 1997 – lawyer, Director at the International Legal Service, LLC.
1997 – 1998 – Director at the International Auditor Service, LLC.
1998 – elected as a member of Parliament of Ukraine (3rd convocation), member of the parliamentary Committee on Finance and Banking.
2000 – 2002 – First Deputy Chairman of the parliamentary Committee on Budget.
2002 – 2003 – Chief Auditor at the International Auditor Service, LLC. President (founder) at the Consulting Group Prudence, LLC. One of the leaders of the Ozyme Pokolinnya Team (political block).
2003 – 2004 – Head of the State Committee on Regulatory policy and Entrepreneurship.
From February 2004 - President at the Consulting Group Prudence, LLC.
2007 – Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine.
From December 2007 – Member of Parliament of Ukraine (6th convocation), faction of the Party of Regions (No 4 in the electoral list). First Deputy Head of the parliamentary Committee on Culture and Religion.

Who is Oleh Riabokon: the biography of a presidential candidate.

36 y.o. Lawyer. Candidate at the Presidential election – 2010. Not widely known in Ukraine except of legal and administrative circles. Founder of the Magisters (formerly Magister and partners) law firm. While the Constitution of Ukraine states that the presidential candidate should live in Ukraine permanently, international legal websites are the Moscow address and phone number as his contact details.

Family and childhood:
Born in 1973 in Vinnitsa, Ukraine.

Marital status:
Married with two children.

Education and Academic Background:
1995 - graduated from Taras Shevchenko University in Kyiv, Institute of International Relations, International Law Faculty.
1996 – obtained a LL.M. degree at Georgetown University, Washington, USA.
Professional Membership: American Bar Association; International Bar Association; Ukrainian Bar Association; Georgetown University European Law Alumni Advisory Board.

Work Experience and Political Life:
1995-1996 – co-founder and managing partner of the Bars and partners law firm.
1995-1996 – work in the Washington office of O’Melveny & Myers law company.
Since 1997 - Founder and Managing partner at the Magisters and partners law firm, chairing the Real Estate & Construction, and the International Trade & Customs Practices in Russia and Ukraine.
2004 – Counsel to the High Level Group for the formation of the Single Economic Space between Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. The same time – member of the inter-Ministerial Committee on Ukraine's Accession to the WTO.
2006 – together with Garry N Horlick, lawyer from Washington, represented the interests of Ukrainian metallurgic companies and the Government of Ukraine at the US department of Commerce (Market economy status for Ukraine in antidumping cases in the US and EU).
According to his legal CV, the recent cases of Mr. Riabokon include the representation importers in safeguard investigations in the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Russia.
He also serves as a counsel to UEFA with regard to the final round of European Football Championship to be held in Ukraine and Poland in 2012, and advises Microsoft on intellectual property in Russia.
In September 2009 Mr. Riabokon declared that he leaves the Magisters to dedicate himself to politics.

Political preferences and connections:
It is beyond debate that Oleh Riabokon is soi-disant “technical candidate”. According to the open information of Ukrainian media, Mr. Riabokon is sympathizing to Yulia Tymoshenko. The ex-Partner of his law company Magisters – Evgen Korniychuk, current Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine, and a son-in-law of Vasyl Onopenko, Head of the Supreme Court of Ukraine, – was elected as a member of Parliament thanks to the BYT list, and, by the way, was strongly associated with the activities of Privat business group. Another ex-Parnter of Magisters – Sergey Vlasenko – is currently an MP of Yulia Tymoshenko’s Block.

Anatoliy Hrytsenko: official biography

52 years old. Member of Parliament of Ukraine (Our Ukraine – People Self-Defense faction). Ex-Minister of Defense, Candidate for the post of the President of Ukraine.

Family and childhood:
Born on 25.10.1957 in village Bagachivka, Zvenygorodsky district of Cherkassy region, Ukraine.
Married, wife – Yulia Mostova, journalist, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Zerkalo nedeli weekly newspaper (http://www.zn.ua/), with 2 children.

Education and Academic background:
1979 – graduated from Kyiv Air Force Engineering High School.
1993 – Institute of Foreign languages of the US Department of Defense.
1994 – United States Air Force University (operation-strategical faculty).
1995 – Academy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
PhD in Technical Sciences.
Reserve Colonel of Ukrainian Army.

Languages spoken:
Ukrainian, Russian, English.

Work Experience and Political Life:
1979 – 1984 – Service in regular military units of Soviet Army.
1984 – 1992 – lecturer at the Kyiv Air Force Engineering High School.
1992 – 1994 – Head of the Analytical Department of the Research Center of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
1996 – 1997 – Head of the Directorate of Military Security and Military Construction at the National Research Center of Defense Technologies and Military Security of Ukraine.
1997 – 1999 – Head of the Analytical Service of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.
December 1999 – February 2005 – President of Razumkov Centre of Economic and Political Studies.
2005 – 2007 – Minister of Defense of Ukraine.
November 2007 – Member of Parliament of Ukraine (Our Ukraine – People’s Self-Defense faction). Head of the parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense.

Sergey Tigipko: official biography

49 years old. Politician, businessman, banker. Potential candidate for the post of the President of Ukraine. In 2004 – Head of the Presidential campaign headquarters of Viktor Yanukovych.

Family and childhood:

Born on 13.02.1960 in village Dragoneshty of the Lazovsky district of Moldova. Married. Has 4 children.

Education and Academic background:

1982 – graduated from Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute; specialization – engineer metallurgist.

Doctor of Economics.

Languages spoken:

Ukrainian, Russian, English.

Work Experience and Political Life:

1982 – 1984 – Military service in Soviet Army, tank forces.

Since 1984 – Deputy Director of Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Secondary Technical School for Studies and Pedagogical Work.

1986 – Head of the Department of Propaganda and Agitation of Dnipropetrovsk Komsomol (Young Communist League)Regional Committee.

1989 – First Secretary of Dnipropetrovsk Komsomol Regional Committee.

1991 – Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of the Dnipro commercial bank.1992 - Chairman of the Management Board of the PrivatBank.

1994 – 1997 – Outside Consultant to the President of Ukraine (Leonid Kuchma) for Monetary Policy.

1997 – Vice-Prime-Minister of Ukraine for Economy.

1997-2001 – Deputy Head of the State Commission for the Administrative Reform of Ukraine, member of the Supreme Economic Council of the President of Ukraine.

1999 – Minister of Economy of Ukraine.

2000 – Member of Parliament of Ukraine.

2002 – Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine.

2005 - Chairman of the Management Board of the TAS Financial Industrial Group.

Since 2007 - Chairman of the Management Board of the LLC Svedbank (ex-TAS-CommerceBank).

2008 – Outside Councilor to the Prime Minister of Ukraine, co-Chair of the Council of Investors at the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.

On 16 June 2009 left all the business positions, and concentrated on his political activities.

Vira Ulyanchenko: official biography

51 y.o. Head of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine (since May 2009). Ex-secretary and personal assistant to the President of Ukraine. Very close adviser and family friend of Viktor Yushchenko.

Family and childhood:
Born on 1 February 1958 in village Ozeryany of Chernigiv region. Married with Viktor Ivchenko, currently Head of the State Agency of Ukraine for Investments and Innovations. Has a daughter Maria, teenager.

Education and Academic background:
1980 – graduated from Kyiv Taras Shevchenko State University, specialization - philosophy.

Languages spoken:
Ukrainian, Russian.

Work Experience and Political Life:
1980 – 1981 – Teacher of Ukrainian language and literature at Kyiv vocational school N4.
1981 – 1987 – District Komsomol (young Communist League) Committee of Radyanskyi district of Kyiv.
1987 – 1990 – Deputy Head of Radyanskyi Executive Committee. Member of local Council of Radyanskyi district of Kyiv.
1990 – District Committee of Communist Party of Radyanskyi district of Kyiv.
1991 – 1993 – Secretariat of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, publishing department.
1993 – Administration of the President of Ukraine (Leonid Kravchuk) – assistant to Valentyn Symonenko, the Adviser to the President of Ukraine.
1993 – 1994 – General Representation office of Blasco joint stock company (shipping of cargoes, etc) in Kyiv.
1994 – 1999 – maternity leave in United States.
1999 – Head of the Department of organization and information support of the connections with state institutions and enterprises of Ukrsoyuzservice.
From March 2000 – assistant to Viktor Yushchenko (Prime Minister of Ukraine), Office of the Prime Minister of Ukraine.
2002 – Head of the Secretariat of the “Our Ukraine” faction in Parliament of Ukraine.
March 2005 – May 2006 – Member of Parliament of Ukraine, member of “People’s Union “Our Ukraine” party.
June 2006 – May 2009 – Head of Kyiv Region State Administration.

Viktor Baloha: official biography

46 y.o. ex-Head of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine (since May 2009).

Family and childhood:
Born on 15.06.1963 in village Zavydovo of the Mukachev district of Zakarpatska region.

Education and Academic background:
1984 – graduated from Lviv Trade and Economic Institute; specialization – merchandizing and food products trade settlement; Merchandiser of the highest category.

Languages spoken:
Ukrainian, Russian – fluent.

Work Experience and Political Life:
January 1986 – February 1987 – Senior Merchandiser at district consumer’s trade company, Beregovo, Zakarpatska region.
February 1987 – May 1987 – Deputy Director at Kosynsky trade company, Kosyno village, Beregovo district, Zakarpatska region.
May 1987 – October 1992 – Senior Merchandiser at the Mukachevo warehouse, Zakarpatska region.
October 1992 – March 1997 – Director of the “Rey-Promin” Limited Liability Company, Mukachevo, Zakarpatska region.
April 1997 – April 1998 – Head of the board of “Barva” LLC, Mukachevo, Zakarpatska region.
April 1998 – May 1999 – Head of the city of Mukachevo.
May 1999 – June 2001 – Head of the Regional State Administration of Zakarpatska region.
January 2002 – April 2002 – Head of the board of “Barva” LLC, Mukachevo, Zakarpatska region.
May 2002 – September 2005 – Member of Parliament of Ukraine.
September 2005 – Head of the Regional State Administration of Zakarpatska region.
September 2005 – October 2006 – the Minister of Emergency Situations of Ukraine.
Since September 2006 – Head of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine.