Yuriy Stets

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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Yaroslavovych and the family name is Stets.
Yuriy Stets
Юрій Стець
Stets in 2015
Minister of Information Policy
In office
2 December 2014 – 29 August 2019
Prime MinisterArseniy Yatsenyuk, Volodymyr Groysman
Preceded byNone (post created)
Succeeded bynone, post abolished[1]
Personal details
Born (1975-12-29) December 29, 1975 (age 48)
USSR
EducationKharkiv Polytechnic Institute - Information management
OccupationJournalist

Yuriy Yaroslavovych Stets (Ukrainian: Юрій Ярославович Стець; born 29 December 1975) is a Ukrainian journalist and politician.[2] He was appointed to the post of Minister of Information Policy at the formation of the Second Yatsenyuk Government on 2 December 2014.[3] He resigned one year later because he felt he had "met all the targets".[4] He withdrew his letter of resignation on 4 February 2016, and continued in the post.[5] On 31 May 2017 Stets wrote a letter of resignation for health reasons and went on sick leave the same day.[6] Eventually Stets stayed on as Minister until on 29 August 2019 the Honcharuk Government was installed.[1] This government abolished the whole Ministry of Information Policy altogether.[1]

Stets is a member of

Petro Poroshenko Bloc
.

Life

Yuriy Stets was born on 29 December 1975 at

Channel 5 television network, which is owned by Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko.[note 1][7]

He was elected to the

Petro Poroshenko Bloc.[7] He was appointed Minister of Information Policy on 2 December 2014, vacating his seat in parliament to fill that post. At the time he vowed to resign one year later if he would successfully implement his policy.[4] He at the time was considered a "close ally" of President Poroshenko.[10]

Stets resigned from the post of Minister of Information Policy on 8 December 2015.[11] He said that he did so because he felt he had "met all the targets".[4] He withdrew this resignation on 4 February 2016, and continued in the post.[5]

On 31 May 2017 Stets wrote a letter of resignation citing health reasons and went on sick leave the same day. Emine Dzhaparova, the first deputy minister, became acting minister.[6]

Eventually Stets stayed on as Minister until on 29 August 2019 the Honcharuk Government was installed.[1] This government abolished the whole Ministry of Information Policy altogether.[1]

Family

Yuriy Stets is married to

Channel 5.[7] They have two sons, Vladislav and Serhiy, and a daughter, Eva.[7]

An April 2013 article in the Ukrainian newspaper

Ukrayinska Pravda showed the families of Petro Poroshenko and Yuriy Lutsenko attending the baptism of Stets' daughter Eva. Lutsenko became Eva's godfather, and Maryna Poroshenko became her godmother.[12]

Notes

  1. ^ Poroshenko became president of Ukraine in June 2014, following an election in May of that year.
  2. Petro Poroshenko Bloc
    .

References

  1. ^
    Ukrayinska Pravda
    (29 August 2019)
  2. ^ a b "Стець Юрій Ярославович (Yuriy Yaroslavovych Stets)". Dovidka (in Ukrainian). 4 December 2014. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Journalists, free speech activists demand abolishing of newly-formed 'Ministry of Truth'". Kyiv Post. 4 December 2014. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  4. ^
    Interfax Ukraine
    (8 December 2015)
  5. ^
    UNIAN
    (4 February 2016)
  6. ^ a b "Новини | Українська правда".
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Стець Юрий Ярославович (Stets, Yuriy Yaroslavovych)". Lenta.ru (in Russian). 3 December 2014. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  8. ^ a b United Twice, The Ukrainian Week (2 July 2013)
  9. ^ a b Poroshenko wants coalition to be formed before parliamentary elections, Interfax-Ukraine (27 August 2014)
    Solidarity Party to be renamed Bloc of Petro Poroshenko – congress, Interfax-Ukraine (27 August 2014)
  10. ^ "Ukraine just created its own version of Orwell's 'Ministry of Truth'". Mashable. 2 December 2014. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  11. ^ "Ukraine's unpopular minister of information policy resigns". Ukraine Today. 8 December 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
  12. Ukrayinska Pravda
    . 10 April 2014
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