Viktor Mykhaylovych Pinchuk (Ukrainian: Віктор Михайлович Пінчук), one of the "Business oligarchs" who control post-Communist Ukraine, is the son-in-law of the ex-President Leonid Kuchma. Poland's weekly Wprost ranked him Central and Eastern Europe's 12th richest man, with a fortune of $1.5 billion. The second richest Ukrainian businessman,^[1] Pinchuk is the founder and main owner of the Interpipe Group, one of Ukraine's leading steel industry groups also working in other fields of economy. Pinchuk is the owner of four TV channels and most popular tabloid, Fakty i Kommentarii. He has been a member of the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, for two consecutive convocations, but failed to be re-elected in 2006. Business oligarch is a synonym of business magnate. The inclusion of the word oligarch describes the significant influence such wealthy people may have on the life of a state. ... This article is about communism as a form of society and as a political movement. ... Leonid Kuchma Leonid Danylovych Kuchma (Ukrainian: Леонід Данилович Кучма; born August 9, 1938) was the second President of Ukraine from July 19, 1994, to January 23, 2005. ... Wprost cover (May 22, 2005) Wprost (Outright) is a weekly newsmagazine in Poland, founded on December 5, 1982 as a regional magazine in Greater Poland, since 1989 it is distributed country-wide. ... Central Europe is the region lying between the variously and vaguely defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe. ... Regions of Europe as delineated by the United Nations (UN definition of Eastern Europe marked salmon):  Northern Europe  Western Europe  Eastern Europe  Southern Europe Pre-1989 division between the West (grey) and Eastern Bloc (orange) superimposed on current national boundaries: Russia (dark orange), other countries of the former USSR (medium... Interpipe Group, or simply Interpipe (Ukrainian: ) is the influential Ukrainian business group founded and mostly owned by local business oligarch Viktor Pinchuk. ... Steel framework Steel is a metal alloy whose major component is iron, with carbon being the primary alloying material. ... Fakty i Kommentarii, founded in 1997, is Ukraines biggest selling tabloid newspaper, with over 1. ... Verkhovna Rada. ... Distribution of votes through 225 electoral districts: leading party or bloc Distribution of votes through 225 electoral districts: 2nd best result The Ukrainian parliamentary election took place on March 26, 2006. ...

Pinchuk is one of the major political-industrial figures coming from the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (along with Pavlo Lazarenko, Yulia Tymoshenko and others. (The other influential regional groups are the "Donetsk Group associated with the separatist movement in eastern Ukraine, and the Surkis-Medvedchuk group based in Kiev). Pinchuk is in a permanent business conflict with the Privat Group also based in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (Ukrainian: , Dnipropetrovs’ka oblast’ or Дніпропетровщина, Dnipropetrovshchyna) is an oblast of central Ukraine, the most important industrial region of the country. ... Lazarenko, SF, CA, May, 2004 Pavlo Ivanovych Lazarenko ( Ukrainian: Павло Іванович Лазаренко) was a Ukrainian statesman, who, while in power, was notorious for his corruptive practices. ... Yulia Tymoshenko. ... Location Map of Ukraine with Donetsk highlighted. ... Location Map of Ukraine with Kiev highlighted. ... The Privat Group, or Privatbank Group (Ukrainian: ) is an influential business group in Ukraine grouped around the Privatbank. ...

Biography

Born to Jewish parents who moved to the industrial town of Dnipropetrovsk after being denied the right to study in Kiev, Pinchuk started out as a metallurgy engineer specializing in the production of pipes. He says he "quickly became a relatively rich man for Soviet times", now owning the company where he got his first job back in Soviet times.ghhyujrtdwersfg bghyvfrgt For other uses, see Jew (disambiguation). ... Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and of materials engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their intermetallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are called alloys. ... Look up engineer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Piping is used to convey fluids (usually liquids and gases but sometimes loose solids) from one location to another. ... Soviet era is the period of histories of former Soviet republics comprising the years 1917 – 1991. ...

Orange Revolution

The Austrian public relations agency that Pinchuk retains, according to Ukrainian media, was also the source circulating reports, stated to emanate from the Rudolfinerhaus hospital and reported by Reuters, denying the dioxin poisoning of presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko.gghhjuihyttrrt Wikibooks has more about this subject: Marketing Public relations (PR) is the art of managing communication between an organization and its key publics to build, manage and sustain a positive image. ... Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko (Ukrainian: ) (born February 23, 1954) is the current President of Ukraine. ...

Notes

1. ^ The richest of Ukraine's oligarchs is Rinat Akhmetov.

Rinat L. Akhmetov (Ukrainian: ) is the richest Ukrainian business oligarch of Tatar descent. ...

External links

• GlobalSecurity.org: Ukraine political parties; Carnegie Endowment assessment in 2004
• Our Ukraine Newsletter: reformist opponents of Pinchuk's party
• Build Ukraine Newsletter