Dmytro Tabachnyk
Dmytro Tabachnyk | |
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Дмитро Табачник Дмитрий Табачник | |
Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine | |
In office July 1994 – 20 December 1996 | |
President | Leonid Kuchma |
Preceded by | Mykola Khomenko |
Succeeded by | Yevhen Kushnaryov |
Personal details | |
Born | |
Nationality | Ukrainian (until 2023) Russian |
Political party | United Russia[1] |
Other political affiliations | Party of Regions |
Spouse | Tatiana Nazarova[2] (1960)[3] |
Dmytro Volodymyrovych Tabachnyk (Ukrainian: Дмитро Володимирович Табачник, Russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Табачник; born November 26, 1963) is a Ukrainian and Russian politician who served as the minister of education and science of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014.[4][5] Tabachnyk is among former Ukrainian officials who have had their assets frozen by EU and is wanted in Ukraine for embezzlement and abuse of office. As a fugitive, he was believed to be in Israel and Crimea.[6][7]
Amidst the Russian invasion of Ukraine Tabachnyk reappeared in public as a collaborator with Russia in Russian occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast.[1]
Career
In 1986 Tabachnyk graduated from the faculty of History of
Initially he worked in the State Archives as a curator of materials about the Kyiv chapter of the Komsomol.
In 1990 he became a delegate to the Kyiv City Council. From 1991 to 1992 he was a consultant in the Secretariat of the Verkhovna Rada. From 1993 he was in charge of Information and Press for the Cabinet of Ministers.
In 1994 he became the head of the committee to elect Leonid Kuchma as president of Ukraine where he was accused of falsification of sociological data.[8]
Tabachnyk was a Member of Parliament from March 1998 through March 2003[4] for Labour Ukraine.[9]
In November 2002 through February 2005, he served as vice premier in the
In 1996 he was accused of influencing peddling the Supreme Court regarding the death penalty given to a terrorist action perpetrated by a Russian national in Simferopol.[10][11]
He was forced to resign from Parliament because he illegally procured for himself the military title of colonel.[12]
From 1997 to 1998[clarification needed] he was an advisor to President Kuchma.
In 2002–2005 he became vice-premier minister of Ukraine under Victor Yanukovych. During this period he was involved with the scandal of donating letters by Ukrainian historian Mykhailo Hrushevsky to the Ukrainian archive in Kyiv which had previously been stolen from the Lviv archives.[13][14]
In March 2006, he was elected to the
Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine
On 11 March 2010, the day the
Faced with these protests Tabachnyk stated on 17 March 2010 he would keep his ideas about the country's history to himself. Tabachnyk also promised not to backpedal on the "progressive educational reforms" (the
By 17 March 2010 four of western Ukraine’s regional councils had passed resolutions calling for the minister’s dismissal. A host of civic and student organizations from all over the country (including Kherson in southern Ukraine and Donetsk in eastern Ukraine), authors and former Soviet dissidents also signed petitions calling for his removal.[18]
Tabachnyk dismissed these campaigns against him as “
At same moment rectors of some leading Ukrainian colleges and universities, intellectual and cultural leaders of Ukraine applied to the President and Prime Minister of Ukraine, the chairman of the Supreme Rada, in support of Dmitry Tabachnyk. They named opened propaganda campaign against Tabachnyk in this position as “gamble and speculations of certain political forces”. Authors of the said statement recalled a positive results of Tabachnyk's work in a position of the vice-premier in Yanukovych Government in the past.[19]
On 20 March 2010 Ukrainian national television broadcasting company — Inter — made live sociological interrogation at prime time, asking respondents to answer a question if they are supporting Tabachnyk in position of Science and education minister or against him. Results were that 67% have supported him in this position and 33% said that he has to be resigned. It being said that about 30,000 respondents voted.[20][21]
A website was created to support Tabachnyk in position of Science and education minister. It contains open letter to President and Prime Minister of Ukraine “from representatives of intellectuals, mass media and the non-governmental organisations of Ukraine in support of Dmitry Tabachnyk on a post of the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine”.[22]
Former President Viktor Yushchenko warned his successor, Viktor Yanukovych, against appointing Tabachnyk as minister, stating "This is a minister who can only bring division in higher education and in Ukrainian education".[23]
On 19 March 2010 the
On 27 March 2010 over 2,000 students supporting Tabachnyk hold a meeting in Odesa. Participants proclaimed they wanted to show their support to new minister and reforms in his Ministry.[25]
On 30 March a total of 202 lawmakers with 226 needed voted in favour of a bill asking for Tabachnyk's dismissal.[26] A new bill was registered the same day; "We'll do that until this man leaves Ukrainian education" Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense faction member Viacheslav Kyrylenko stated.[26]
On 13 May 2010 Tabachnyk announced Ukraine and Russia intend to develop a common textbook for history teachers.[27] In March 2010 Tabachnik had stated that Ukrainian history textbooks contained "simply false" information and announced his intention to rewrite them.[27] He also promised to personally re-read high school books on history, literature and humanitarian subjects.[27]
Tabachnyk was placed at number 11 on the electoral list of Party of Regions during the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[28] He was re-elected into parliament.[28]
In 2013 the
On 23 February 2014, just after the "
Russian invasion of Ukraine
In November 2022, Tabachnyk was charged with treason for cooperating with the (Russian security service) FSB and the Russian occupation administrations of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[32] His property, including five plots and half of an apartment in Kyiv, were seized by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in January 2023.[33]
On 4 February 2023, President
On 27 April 2023 information appeared on the website of the Russian political party
In May 2023, SBU announced that after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Tabachnyk "conducted subversive activities against Ukraine with a representative of the Russian intelligence service". According to SBU, he took an "active part in organizing pseudo-referendums in the occupied regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia". They added that he carried out Russia's tasks of "reformatting" the educational and medical industries in the occupied territories to meet the needs of the aggressor country".[37]
View of Ukraine’s history
Tabachnyk is loathed by opposition politicians for his view of
Tabachnyk also denies that the Holodomor was a genocide,[38] considering it an invention of foreign historians for political motives.
Political views
Tabachnyk has advocated expanding the rights of Russian-language speakers and is loathed by some politicians and branded as being anti-Ukrainian.[39]
On 12 March 2010,
A request to dismiss Tabachnyk by 25 March 2010 was made by the
According to
Personal life
Tabachnyk is married to Tatiana Nazarova, an actress of the
Honours
- Табачник, Дмитрий Владимирович
- Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise
- Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky 3rd class
- Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (October 28, 1996).[43]
- Grand Officer of Order of Merit (Portugal) (April 16, 1998)
- Commander's Grand Cross of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas.[44]
- Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
- Order of St. Sava[45]
- Medal "For Courage in a Fire" (USSR)
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- ^ a b c (in Ukrainian) Табачник: українські й російські вчителі будуть викладати історію за спільним посібником, Ukrainian News Agency (May 10, 2010)
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