Yuriy Yekhanurov.
October 12, 2005

Yuriy Ivanovych Yekhanurov (Ukrainian: Юрій Іванович Єхануров, Russian: Юрий Иванович Ехануров) is the former 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. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2032x1484, 236 KB)Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine meeting on October 12, 2005. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2032x1484, 236 KB)Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine meeting on October 12, 2005. ... October 12 is the 285th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (286th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Prime Minister of Ukraine is appointed by the President and ratified by the Verkhovna Rada (parliament). ... August 23 is the 235th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (236th in leap years), with 130 days remaining. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Sakha (Yakutia) Republic (Russian: Респу́блика Саха́ (Яку́тия); Yakut: Саха Республиката) is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). ... In its final decades of its existence, the Soviet Union consisted of 15 Soviet Socialist Republics (SSR), often called simply Soviet republics. ... The Sakha (Yakutia) Republic (Yakut: Саха Республиката; Russian: ) is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). ... Russia is a federation which consists of 89 subjects (Russian: субъект(Ñ‹); English transliteration: subyekty, sing. ... The Buryats, numbering approximately 436,000, are the largest ethnic minority group in Siberia and are mainly concentrated in their homeland, the Buryat Republic. ... Soviet redirects here. ... Economics (from the Greek οίκος [oikos], house, and νομος [nomos], rule, hence household management) is a social science that studies the production, distribution, trade and consumption of goods and services. ...

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. A monument to St. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Reinforced concrete at Sainte Jeanne dArc Church (Nice, France): architect Jacques Dror, 1926–1933 Reinforced concrete (ferro concrete) is concrete in which reinforcement bars (rebars) or fibers have been incorporated to strengthen the naturally brittle concrete. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... Look up trust in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about the year. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Directorate, or Directory (Dyrektoriya), was a government of the Ukrainian National Republic formed in 1918 in rebellion against Skoropadskys Hetmanate. ...

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. 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Privatization (sometimes privatisation, denationalization, or — especially in India — disinvestment) is the process of transferring property, from public ownership to private ownership. ... 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. ... Verkhovna Rada. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...

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. Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko (Ukrainian: Віктор Андрійович Ющенко) (born 23 February 1954) is the President of Ukraine. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... The Peoples Union Our Ukraine (Narodnyi Soyuz Nasha Ukrayina, NSNU) is a political party of Ukraine, considered the continuation of the Viktor Yushchenko Bloc Our Ukraine (Blok Viktora Yushchenka Nasha Ukrayina, BVYNU) alliance. ... June is the sixth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with a length of 30 days The month is named after the Roman goddess Juno, wife of Jupiter and equivalent to the Greek goddess Hera. ...

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.) Orange-clad supporters of Viktor Yushchenko gather in Independence Square in Kiev. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (Дніпропетровська область, Dnipropetrovs’ka oblast’ or Дніпропетровщина, Dnipropetrovshchyna in Ukrainian) is an oblast of central Ukraine. ... April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ... June 28, 1996. ...

Prime Minister

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. Image File history File links Yuriy_Yekhanurov_VRU_Sep22_2005_vote. ... Image File history File links Yuriy_Yekhanurov_VRU_Sep22_2005_vote. ... September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years). ... Cabinet of Ministers The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine is the highest body in the system of bodies of executive power in Ukraine. ... Verkhovna Rada. ... Yulia Tymoshenko. ... September 20 is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years). ... September 22 is the 265th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (266th in leap years). ... Categories: Politics stubs | Communist parties | Ukrainian politics | Ukrainian political parties ... Politics of Ukraine Politics of Ukraine Political parties in Ukraine Elections in Ukraine: President: 2004 SDPU(o) party emblem Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (United) or SDPU(U)or SDPU(o) (Ukrainian: Sotsial-Demokratychna Partiya Ukrayiny [Obyednana], СОЦІАЛ-ДЕМОКРАТИЧНА ПАРТІЯ УКРАЇНИ (ОБЄДНАНА) or СДПУ(О)), is a Ukrainian political party. ...

He was widely regarded as an experienced administrator, a caretaker rather than a politician. Like Yushchenko, he is a supporter of economic liberalization and privatisation, but opposed "reprivatization" of previously sold companies that were thought to have been privatized illegally under the administration of President Leonid Kuchma.

Gas crisis and fallout

In January 2006, Russia and Ukraine had a serious dispute over the import of gas. Russia had been charging Ukraine traditionally low prices for gas, in exchange for low transport fees for Europe-bound gas under a barter system, but wanted to increase the price to reflect the market price for the gas. After shutting off the flow of gas to Ukraine for several days, a complicated deal was struck on January 4, 2006, widely regarded as an attempt to end the conflict without loss of face for anyone. Look up January in Wiktionary, the free dictionary January is the first month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Wikinews has news related to this article: Russia cuts off gas supplies to Ukraine A gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine started in March of 2005, when Russia took steps to radically change the prices for natural gas sold to Ukraine. ... January 4 is the 4th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Nonetheless, Ukranian parliament was not happy with the deal, and passed a vote of no-confidence on January 10, 2006 but President Yuschenko "quickly dismissed the vote as a publicity stunt by the opposition" [1]. Yekhanurov said he will continue performing his duties until the newly elected Verkhovna Rada convenes in April. January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Verkhovna Rada. ...

External links

• BBC News story: Ukraine leader sacks government, September 8, 2005
• BBC News story: Profile: Ukraine's caretaker PM, September 8, 2005
• RFE/RL News story: President Yushchenko Nominates 'Stopgap' Prime Minister, September 15, 2005
• RFE/RL News story: No Clear Winners From Government Crisis, September 22, 2005
• AXIS Information and Analysis: Yuri Yehanurov: Ukraine's New Number Two, September 8, 2005
• Biography (in Ukrainian)