Yuriy Yekhanurov

Categories: Ukrainian politicians | 1948 births

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Yuriy Yekhanurov.
October 12, 2005

Yuriy Ivanovych Yekhanurov (Ukrainian: Юрій Іванович Єхануров) is the Prime Minister of Ukraine. He was born on August 23, 1948 in the village Belkachi in the far-north Yakut ASSR, which is currently the Sakha Republic within the Russian Federation. Yekhanurov, an ethnic Buryat, moved to Ukraine during Soviet times, where he has spent most of his life and career. He holds a PhD-equivalent degree in Economics, is married, and has one son.

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Professional career

Yekhanurov graduated from the Kiev Construction Technical School in 1967, and the Kiev Institute of National Economy in 1973. The combination of construction with economics made him attractive as an executive in the construction industry, and he was appointed manager of the Kievgorstroy-4 Trust Plant for reinforced concrete as his first job in 1974. He quickly rose the ranks, as manager of the Kievgorstroy group in 1978, and heading the trust of Stroydetal from 1985 to 1988. In that year, he was appointed deputy chairman of the Kiev construction directorate, the Glavkievstroy.

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Statesman and politician

When Ukraine gained independence in 1991, Yekhanurov started working for the Kiev municipal government, overseeing economic reforms. He was appointed Deputy Minister of Economy in 1993, and headed the State Property Fund from 1994 to 1997, which coordinated the privatisation programme. He served for a short time as Minister of Economy under Pavlo Lazarenko in 1997. He became a member of the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, in 1998.

When Viktor Yushchenko was appointed as Prime Minister of Ukraine in 1999, Yekhanurov served as first vice Prime Minister. After the ousting of the government in 2001, Yekhanurov joined Yushchenko's Our Ukraine party and was briefly a member of parliament. In June 2002, he was appointed Chairman of the Committee for Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship.

After the Orange Revolution in 2005, Yekhanurov was appointed head of the Central executive committee of Our Ukraine. He was also head of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast administration from April 1, 2005. (The Constitution of Ukraine prohibits members of Parliament from holding office; although deputies have been known to "forget" to submit their resignations on being appointed ministers.)

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Prime Minister

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Yekhanurov (holding a sheet of paper) upon ratification

On September 8 2005 Yekhanurov was appointed Acting Prime Minister by President Viktor Yushchenko, after the President had sacked the members of the previous Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. His candidacy was hotly contested in parliament, most notably by former Prime Minister and Yushchenko ally Yulia Tymoshenko. His confirmation required two rounds of voting; in the first round on September 20, 2005, Yekhanurov was only three votes short of the 226 needed for approval. On September 22, 2005, after negotiations between President Yushchenko and several opposition groups, he was approved by 289 deputies out of 339 present. The CPU and SDPU(o) factions abstained from voting.

He is widely regarded as an experienced administrator, a caretaker rather than a politician. Like Yushchenko, he is a staunch supporter of economic liberalization and privatisation rather than renewed nationalisation of industry as his predecessor Yulia Tymoshenko advocated.

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