
Andriy Petrovych Klyuyev (12 August 1964-) was a Ukrainian businessman and pro-Russian politician who served in the Verkhovna Rada from 2002.
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Andriy Petrovych Klyuyev was born in Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union in 1964, the brother of Serhiy Klyuyev, and he became a mine foreman in 1984 and soon became a mining company owner. Accused of being a "shadowy oligarch" by journalists, he used his business links with President Viktor Yanukovych's family to secure multi-billion contracts, and he served on the Donetsk Oblast Executive Council from 1994, as a Party of Regions member of the Verkhovna Rada from 2002, as Energy Vice Prime Minister from 2003 to 2004, as First Vice Prime Minister from 2010 to 2012, as Secretary of the RNBO from 2012 to 2014, and as head of the Presidential Administration from 24 January to 23 February 2014. He resigned following the Euromaidan revolution and was wanted for involvement in mass murder from 7 March 2014, going into exile. The European Union froze his assets, he was unable to run for re-election with the Liberal Party of Ukraine because he had not lived in Ukraine for five years as of 2019, and the United Kingdom predicted on 23 January 2022 that Russia was considering installing Klyuyev as the head of a pro-Russian government in Kiev.