Mykola Azarov

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Mykola Azarov
Микола Азаров
Николай Азаров
Azarov in 2012
14th Prime Minister of Ukraine
In office
11 March 2010 – 28 January 2014
PresidentViktor Yanukovych
DeputyAndriy Klyuyev (2010–12)
Valeriy Khoroshkovskyi (2012)
Serhiy Arbuzov (2012–14)
Preceded byOleksandr Turchynov (acting)
Succeeded bySerhiy Arbuzov (acting)
In office
5 January 2005 – 24 January 2005
Acting
PresidentLeonid Kuchma
Preceded byViktor Yanukovych
Succeeded byYulia Tymoshenko
In office
7 December 2004 – 28 December 2004
Acting
PresidentLeonid Kuchma
Preceded byViktor Yanukovych
Succeeded byViktor Yanukovych
Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine
In office
4 August 2006 – 18 December 2007
Prime MinisterViktor Yanukovych
Preceded byStanislav Stashevsky
Succeeded byOleksandr Turchynov
In office
26 November 2002 – 3 February 2005
Prime MinisterViktor Yanukovych
Yulia Tymoshenko
Preceded byOleh Dubyna
Succeeded byAnatoliy Kinakh
Minister of Finance
In office
4 August 2006 – 18 December 2007
Prime MinisterViktor Yanukovych
Preceded byViktor Pynzenyk
Succeeded byViktor Pynzenyk
In office
26 November 2002 – 3 February 2005
Prime MinisterViktor Yanukovych
Yulia Tymoshenko
Preceded byIhor Yushko
Succeeded byViktor Pynzenyk
Personal details
Born
Nikolai Yanovich Pakhlo

(1947-12-17) 17 December 1947 (age 76)
Civil Congress of Ukraine (1992)
Party of Labor (1992–2001)
SpouseLyudmyla Azarova
ChildrenOleksiy
Alma materMoscow State University
Signature

Mykola Yanovych Azarov (

First Yanukovych Government when Viktor Yanukovych
ran for president at first and then upon the resignation of his government.

Following the victory of Viktor Yanukovych in the 2010 presidential election, Azarov succeeded Yanukovych as leader of the Party of Regions and was appointed as prime minister in March 2010.[1][2] In January 2014, after weeks of Euromaidan protests and the 2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots,[nb 1] Azarov offered his letter of resignation.[4] After the Revolution of Dignity, Azarov fled to Russia and according to Azarov himself, was allegedly offered "political refugee status on the personal instructions of Vladimir Putin".[5] Since then he has been reportedly living in the vicinity of the Russian village of Petrovo-Dalneye, near Moscow.[6]

Since July 2014, Azarov has been on the international wanted list for alleged abuse of power. On 19 January 2015 Kyiv District Court of Pechersk Raion issued an

government in exile that was widely seen as a pro-Russian puppet.[8][9]

Early life, education and career

Azarov was born in

Tulaugol coal enterprise until 1976.[10] Azarov moved to Donetsk permanently in 1984 to become deputy director of the Ukrainian State Geological Institute, that he went on to head.[13] In 1984–1995 he was a deputy director and director of Ukraine's State Research and Design Institute of Mining Geology and Geomechanics.[10] In 1991 he was hired as a professor at Donetsk National Technical University.[citation needed
]

Political career

See also: Party of Labor (Ukraine)

Parliamentary career

In 1994 Azarov was elected member of the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian parliament) for the first time, representing the Petroskiy electoral district, located in the city of Donetsk.[citation needed] In 1995–1997 he served as head of the parliament's Committee on Budgets while also sitting on the Verkhovna Rada's presidium.[citation needed] In parliament, he belonged to an inter-regional group of MPs supporting then-President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma.[citation needed] In 1995, while carrying on as an MP, Azarov was appointed an adviser to the currency council of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.[citation needed] In 1996 he became Chairman of the State Tax Administration of Ukraine.

Head of State Tax Administration

Azarov was a long-term (1996–2002) head of the State Tax Administration.[10][13] During this period tax inspections were used to limit the freedom of the press in Ukraine.[14][15][16][17] On tapes made during the Cassette Scandal Azarov is heard speaking on recordings, secretly recorded in Kuchma's office by Kuchma's bodyguard Mykola Melnychenko, about using his position as the head of the tax authority to pressure officials to ensure Kuchma's reelection in 1999.[13][18] Critics also stated that the recordings implicated Azarov in other corrupt schemes, including allegedly covering up graft at the state natural gas company Naftogaz,[13] aiding the demise of the Slaviansk Bank (which was connected to Yulia Tymoshenko's natural gas company United Energy Systems of Ukraine)[13] and illegal funding of Kuchma's 1999 election campaign.[19] Azarov has vehemently refuted all these allegations.[13] In 2002, he accused Slavyansk Bank president Borys Feldman of being behind the Cassette Scandal recordings.[13]

First Vice Prime Minister and Finance Minister

In 2001 he became the head of the Party of Regions but resigned from the post in less than a year.[

capital investments of 31.3% and 28.0%[22] (cf. 1.9% in 2005[23]).[24]

Azarov first served as acting prime minister from 7 December 2004 to 28 December 2004, after Yanukovych was put on vacation leave by President Kuchma in the midst of the

second Yanukovych Government.[10]

Prime Minister

Polish President Bronisław Komorowski
and Azarov (30 September 2010)
Azarov and Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis (10 February 2012)
Main articles: First Azarov government and Second Azarov government

Following

second Azarov Government was appointed by President Yanukovych.[40]

Resignation as Prime Minister

Azarov resigned on 28 January 2014 amid

Russian Federation.[44] On 29 March 2014, during a party congress, Azarov was expelled from the Party of Regions.[45]

Post-resignation

On 3 August 2015, Azarov announced the creation of the Ukraine Salvation Committee (Комитет спасения Украины) set up outside Ukraine (in Moscow), seeking to have "all citizens, political parties, labor union and social movements to unite and restore order in our home by joint efforts"[46] and to change Ukraine's leadership.[47][48] The committee's chairman and its choice for President of Ukraine is Volodymyr Oliynyk.[47] Azarov claimed he could not name all members of the committee because some lived in Ukraine and it would be dangerous to disclose their names.[47]

Interpol Red Notice

As of 12 January 2015, Azarov has had an Interpol Red Notice issued,[49] along with ex-President Viktor Yanukovych and former Minister of Finance Yuriy Kolobov,[50] on charges of 'Misappropriation, embezzlement or conversion of property by malversation, if committed in respect of an especially gross amount, or by an organized group.'[51]

Since 3 July 2014, Azarov is in the international wanted list for abuse of power.[52][53]

Family

Azarov's son,

parliament.[34][55]

In April 2014, Austrian authorities began an investigation of Oleksiy Azarov, among several other Ukrainians close to the former government, on money-laundering suspicions. Austrian banks reported suspicious capital flows earlier in 2014.[56]

Cultural and political image

Azarov speaks

his government would be speaking Ukrainian.[58] Nevertheless his attempts to speak Ukrainian in public have led to the humorous term "Azirivka" for his blunders. In April 2011, he stated: "I feel one hundred percent Ukrainian".[59] In an 11 March 2010 article the UK daily The Guardian labeled him the most Russophile member of the new cabinet. In the same article, an anonymous Ukrainian official noted, "He's extremely boring and anti-populist".[60] A November 2010 Razumkov Centre nationwide survey showed that only 13.2 percent of respondents fully support his government while 45 percent stated they did not.[61]

On 13 December 2012, during the parliamentary discussion of Azarov's candidacy for the Prime Minister of Ukraine, People's Deputy of Ukraine Iryna Farion publicly asked for clarification on the reason for Azarov's inability to master the state language.[nb 2] On that the candidate to the Prime Minister of Ukraine replied that he agreed to improve his Ukrainian.[63]

Views on society

Azarov had the Prime Ministerial office blessed by a priest from

court cases against him.[65] Azarov stated in May 2010 that corruption was one of the biggest problems of Ukraine, "We must combat not just instances of corruption, but totally corrupt systems".[66]

In a 22 January 2021

Day of Unity of Ukraine celebrating the 1919 symbolic unification of the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian People's Republic, Azarov claimed that instead, the 1939 Soviet annexation of Eastern Galicia and Volhynia should be recognized as the day Ukraine gained "the real unity of Ukraine".[67] According to Azarov "many Ukrainians, do not know these facts, because now the Soviet period of Ukraine is smeared with black paint, and Bandera is glorified and glorified."[67][nb 3]

See also

Notes

  1. Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine claimed on 25 January 2014 that a policemen who was walking home in civilian clothing had been killed by a shot in his head.[3]
  2. ^ During the parliamentary debate Iryna Farion quoted Socrates: "Talk, and I will see you". She went on to claim: "The whole country is mastering the comicality of your speech. What can help you in this issue to learn, at least at an elementary level, the Ukrainian language? As a pedagogue with 20 years of experience, I see this problem in two aspects: the inability to learn the language shows either that the person is politically biased or mentally challenged. Thus, in which system of coordinates are you actually situated?"[62]
  3. USSR "there was no industry or social infrastructure. And look at what has been created in Western Ukraine for several decades of independence."[67]

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