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Yanukovich Victor
Head of the Party of Regions.
Victor Yanukovich is a former prime-minister of Ukraine. The head of the Party of Regions which is the most numerous political power in Ukraine today. Besidesthey were able to get record number of votes (32,17%) after the last parliament elections in March 2006. And it became the most numerous power in Verchovna Rada. Officially the Party of Regions consists of 186 deputies.
Victor Yanukovich is one of the most discrepant persons in Ukrainian politics. The biography of the former prime-minister andpresidential contender in 2004 has lots of paradoxically united facts, criminal past and surprising political success. In any case today Victor Yanukovich is rather influential person in Ukrainian politics. He succeeded to get fast career growth for the short period of time: from the governor of Donetsk region to the post of the Prime-minister of Ukraine in 2002 with the support of big business and political structures of Kuchma period. In 2006 Victor Yanukovich became the head of the Cabinet of Ministers after long coalition transformations that can be called the revenge of white-blue.
During election campaigns re-elected Prime-minister positioned himself as the supporter of expansion and consolidation relationships in Single Economic Space, demanded second national language statusfor Russian that cauld significantly strengthen his positions in the Eastern and Southern parts of Ukraine.
Victor Yanukovich has a wife Ludmila Alexandrovna and twosons. Elder son Alexander is a stomatologist, younger Victor is a newly-elected deputy of Verchovna Rada of Ukraine.Heis the youngest parliament deputy of the 5th convocation. Today Victor Victorovich can’t boast with his extraordinary success in politics but he demonstrated his leader volition to victory when he won billiard tournament which was organized by the deputy club “Parliament” in June.