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Encyclopedia > Petro Poroshenko

Petro Poroshenko (Ukrainian: Петро Олексійович Порошенко) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician, popularly known as the Chocolate King, after confectionary factories he owns.


Poroshenko is considered a close confidant of a Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko and they are god-fathers of each other's children. Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko (Ukrainian: Віктор Андрійович Ющенко) (born 23 February 1954) is the President of Ukraine. ...


He is often cited as one of the chief sponsors of the Orange Revolution and the one who received a high office in the government in recompense (disputed — see talk page). Orange-clad supporters of Viktor Yushchenko gather in Independence Square in Kiev. ...


He was dismissed in September 2005 amid corruption allegations. Ongoing events • Abramoff-Reed gambling scandal • Atlantic hurricane season • Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak • Bali bombings investigation • California wildfires • UK Conservative Party leadership election • DeLay political financing scandal • Dengue outbreak in Singapore • Fuel prices / Peak oil • Harriet Miers nomination and hearings • Hurricane Wilma • Irans nuclear program • Kashmir earthquake • London bombings...


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Petro Poroshenko was born on 26 September 1965 in the city of Bolhrad, Odesa Oblast, near the Ukrainian-Moldovan border and near the Danube Delta.
Poroshenko, who was deputy manager of Yushchenko's landmark presidential campaign in 2004, is generally described as a highly influential person in the Yushchenko entourage.
Poroshenko told an interviewer in mid-2004 that it is entirely possible for the Ukrainian budget to post annual revenues of 100 billion hryvnyas ($19 billion) by reclaiming some of the money circulating in the country's shadow economy.
Ukraine's 2003 budget in question due to allegations of manipulation (03/23/03) (748 words)
Poroshenko acknowledged a day later that because the second and third votes on the budget had occurred simultaneously - as the lawmakers had agreed to do to expedite the process - approved changes were incorporated only after the budget had passed.
Poroshenko continued to maintain that while mistakes might have been made within the parliamentary secretariat, which handles the printing of official laws and documents, nothing illegal had occurred.
Poroshenko also noted that the increased budgetary appropriation for the city of Vinnytsia was approved by lawmakers after debate, as part of an agreement to provide increased funding for "privileged districts" - those that received the smallest budgetary allocations in previous years.
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