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Arseniy Yatsenyuk

Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk (22 May 1974-) was Prime Minister of Ukraine from 27 February 2014 to 14 April 2016, succeeding Oleksandr Turchynov and preceding Volodymyr Groysman.

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Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk was born in Chernivtsi, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union in 1974, and he became a student lawyer in 1992 and became a lawyer and banker before entering politics with Our Ukraine. He served as Minister of Economy of Crimea from September 2001 to January 2003, as Minister of Economy from 2005 to 2006, as Foreign Minister from March to December 2007, and as Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada from 2007 to 2008, when he founded the Front for Change party. Yatsenyuk mounted an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2010, and he ran for the Verkhovna Rada in 2012 as a Batkivshchyna candidate, merging his party into the larger pro-democratic party. Following the 2014 Euromaidan revolution, he became Prime Minister under President Oleksandr Turchynov, cofounding the national conservative People's Front party along with Turchynov and several other former Batkivshchyna leaders. He distanced his government from Russia amid the Crimean Crisis, and he presided over the Ukrainian government for the first two years of the Donbass War. His coalition fell apart in 2016, leading to his resignation.

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