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The Mariinskyi Palace, official residence of the president of Ukraine, in July 2018. The president of Ukraine is the head of state of Ukraine, directly elected to a five-year term by voting eligible citizens of Ukraine. The officeholder leads the executive branch of the government and is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
On 5 July 1991, the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR passed a law establishing the post of the "President of the Ukrainian SSR". The title was changed to "President of Ukraine" upon the proclamation of independence on 24 August 1991, simultaneously making then-Speaker of the parliament Leonid Kravchuk acting president.
Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych [b] (born 9 July 1950) is a Ukrainian (until 2014) and Russian politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014. [4] He also served as the prime minister of Ukraine several times between 2002 and 2007 and was a member of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) from 2006 to 2010.
As an informal leader of the Ukrainian opposition coalition, he was one of the two main candidates in the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, the other being Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. During the election campaign in late 2004, Yushchenko became the victim of an assassination attempt when he was poisoned with dioxin .
Russia has put Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on its wanted list, Russian state media reported Saturday, citing the interior ministry’s database. The commander of Ukraine's ground ...
Traveling the 4,880 miles from Kyiv to Washington may be a shorter distance than Zelensky has journeyed from just another faltering Ukrainian leader to Time magazine’s Person of the Year.
Vyacheslav Lypynsky, leader of the Ukrainian Democratic-Agrarian Party; Nestor Makhno, leader of anarchists; Isaak Mazepa, Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1919–1920 and 1948–1952) Andriy Melnyk, leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-M) Volodymyr Ohryzko, Minister for Foreign Affairs (2007–2009)
5/5 Featuring revealing interviews with Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife Olena, BBC Two’s three-part documentary is a sensitive look at the leader’s rise and his tireless optimism