Political Leaders: Ukraine

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Leaders of Ukraine

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Look for biographies of the leaders (in Spanish) at CIDOB website. See also former USSR for data before 1991.

Parties and coalitions:
Batkivshchyna: All-Ukrainian Union Fatherland (member of BYuT, 1999-active) - BNU: Our Ukraine Bloc (electoral coalition, 2006-2007, > BNU-NS) - BNU-NS: Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc (electoral coalition, 2007-2012)- BOS: All-Ukrainian Union Solidarity (2013-2014; created from the previous PSU, > BPP-Solydarnist) - BPP-Solydarnist: Petro Poroshenko Bloc-Solidarity (2014-active; created from the previous BOS) - BVYNU: Viktor Yushchenko Our Ukraine Bloc (electoral coalition, 2001-2006, > NSNU, BNU) - BYuT: Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc (electoral coalition, 2001-2012) - KPU : (new) Communist Party of Ukraine (1993-active) - NDPU: People's Democratic Party of Ukraine (1996-active) - NF: People's Front (2014-active) - NP: People's Party (1996-active; created from the previous Agrarian Party of Ukraine) - NSNU: People's Union Our Ukraine (2005-active, member of BNU and BNU-NS; since 2009, called Our Ukraine, NU) - PPPU: Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine (2000-active) - PSU: Party of Ukraine's Solidarity (2000-2013, > BOS) - PR: Party of the Regions (1997-active) - Rukh: People's Movement of Ukraine (1990-active) - Sluha Narodu: Servant of the People - SPU: Socialist Party of Ukraine (1991-active)

Heads of the State

Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk         23 Jul 1990 -  5 Dec 1991 (†2022) KPU, n/p    

Presidents of the Republic
Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk          5 Dec 1991 - 19 Jul 1994 (†2022) n/p (*)
Leonid Danylovych Kuchma           19 Jul 1994 - 23 Jan 2005         n/p         
Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko      23 Jan 2005 - 25 Feb 2010         BVYNU, NSNU 
Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych       25 Feb 2010 - 22 Feb 2014         PR, n/p
Oleksandr Valentynovych Turchynov  23 Feb 2014 -  7 Jun 2014         Batkivshchyna (acting) 
Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko       7 Jun 2014 - 20 May 2019         n/p, BPP-Solydarnist
Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskiy 20 May 2019 -                     Sluha Narodu

(*) Ruler of an independent state since 25 Dec 1991 (the declarations made on 24 Aug and 1 Dec 1991 were effective on that date upon dissolution of USSR)

Prime Ministers

Vitaliy Anriyovych Masol           10 Jul 1990 - 23 Oct 1990         KPU
Vitold Pavlovych Fokin             23 Oct 1990 -  2 Oct 1992         KPU, n/p (acting to 14 Nov 1990)
Valentyn Kostyantynovych Symonenko  2 Oct 1992 - 13 Oct 1992         n/p (acting)
Leonid Danylovych Kuchma           13 Oct 1992 - 22 Sep 1993         n/p 
Yukhym Leonidovych Zvyahilskiy     22 Sep 1993 - 16 Jun 1994 (†2021) n/p (acting)
Vitaliy Anriyovych Masol           16 Jun 1994 -  1 Mar 1995 (†2018) n/p
Yevhen Kyrylovych Marchuk           1 Mar 1995 - 28 May 1996 (†2021) n/p (acting to 8 Jun 1995)
Pavlo Ivanovych Lazarenko          28 May 1996 -  2 Jul 1997         n/p
Vasyl Vasylyovych Durdynets        19 Jun 1997 - 16 Jul 1997         n/p (acting)
Valeriy Pavlovych Pustovoytenko    16 Jul 1997 - 22 Dec 1999         n/p, NDPU
Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko      22 Dec 1999 - 29 May 2001         n/p (caretaker from 26 Apr 2001) 
Anatoliy Kyrylovych Kinakh         29 May 2001 - 21 Nov 2002         PPPU
Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych       21 Nov 2002 -  5 Jan 2005         PR
Mykola Yanovych Azarov              5 Jan 2005 - 24 Jan 2005         PR (acting, for Yanukovych from 7 Dec to 28 Dec 2004)
Yuliya Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko    24 Jan 2005 -  8 Sep 2005         Batkivshchyna/BYuT (acting to 4 Feb 2005) 
Yuriy Ivanovych Yekhanurov          8 Sep 2005 -  4 Aug 2006         NSNU/BVYNU (acting to 22 Sep 2005) 
Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych        4 Aug 2006 - 18 Dec 2007         PR 
Yuliya Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko    18 Dec 2007 - 11 Mar 2010         Batkivshchyna/BYuT
 Oleksandr Valentynovych Turchynov  4 Mar 2010 - 11 Mar 2010         Batkivshchyna/BYuT (acting for Tymoshenko)
Mykola Yanovych Azarov             11 Mar 2010 - 28 Jan 2014         PR
Serhiy Hennadiyovych Arbuzov       28 Jan 2014 - 22 Feb 2014         PR (acting)
Oleksandr Valentynovych Turchynov  22 Feb 2014 - 27 Feb 2014         Batkivshchyna (acting)
Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk        27 Feb 2014 - 14 Apr 2016         Batkivshchyna, NF
 Volodymyr Borysovych Hroysman     24 Jul 2014 - 31 Jul 2014         n/p (acting for Yatsenyuk) 
Volodymyr Borysovych Hroysman      14 Apr 2016 - 29 Aug 2019         BPP-Solydarnist
Oleksiy Valeriyovych Honcharuk     29 Aug 2019 -  4 Mar 2020         Sluha Narodu
Denys Anatoliyovych Shmyhal         4 Mar 2020 -                     n/p

First Deputy Prime Ministers

Kostyantyn Ivanovych Masyk           1992              n/p
Valentyn Kostyantynovych Symonenko   1992              n/p
Ihor Rafailovych Yukhnovskiy         1992-1993 (†2024) Rukh
Yukhym Leonidovych Zvyahilskiy       1993-1994 (†2021) n/p
Viktor Mykhailovych Pynzenyk         1994-1995         n/p
Yevhen Kyrylovych Marchuk            1994-1995 (†2021) n/p
Pavlo Ivanovych Lazarenko            1995-1996         n/p
Vasyl Vasylyovych Durdynets          1996-1997         n/p
Anatoliy Kostyantynovych Holubchenko 1997-1998         n/p
Volodymyr Kuratchenko                1998-1999         n/p
Anatoliy Kyrylovych Kinakh           1999              n/p
Yuriy Ivanovych Yekhanurov           1999-2001         NDPU
Oleh Viktorovych Dubyna              2001-2002         n/p
Mykola Yanovych Azarov               2002-2005         PR
Stanislav Stashevskiy                2005              NSNU/BVYNU
Anatoliy Kyrylovych Kinakh           2005-2006         PPPU
Mykola Yanovych Azarov               2006-2007         PR
Oleksandr Valentynovych Turchynov    2007-2010         Batkivshchyna/BYuT
Andriy Petrovych Klyuyev             2010-2012         PR
Valeriy Ivanovych Khoroshkovskiy     2012              n/p
Serhiy Hennadiyovych Arbuzov         2012-2014         PR
Vitaly Hryhorovych Yarema            2014              n/p
Stepan Ivanovych Kubiv               2016-2019         BPP-Solydarnist
Oleksiy Mykolaiovych Lyubchenko      2021              n/p
Yuliya Anatoliivna Svyrydenko        2021-             n/p

Ministers of Foreign Affairs

Anatoliy Maksymovych Zlenko        1990-1994         n/p
Hennadiy Yosypovych Udovenko       1994-1998 (†2013) Rukh
Borys Ivanovych Tarasyuk           1998-2000         Rukh
Anatoliy Maksymovych Zlenko        2000-2003 (†2021) n/p
Kostyantyn Ivanovych Hryshchenko   2003-2005         n/p
Borys Ivanovych Tarasyuk           2005-2007         Rukh 
Volodymyr Stanislavovych Ohryzko   2007              n/p (acting) 
Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk        2007              BNU-NS
Volodymyr Stanislavovych Ohryzko   2007-2009         n/p
Volodymyr Dmytrovych Khandohiy     2009              n/p (acting)  
Petro Poroshenko                   2009-2010         PSU, NSNU
Kostyantyn Ivanovych Hryshchenko   2010-2012         n/p
Leonid Oleksandrovych Kozhara      2012-2014         PR
Andriy Bohdanovych Deshchytsia     2014              n/p (acting)    
Pavlo Anatoliyovych Klimkin        2014-2019         n/p
Vadym Volodymyrovych Prystaiko     2019-2020         n/p
Dmytro Ivanovych Kuleba            2020-             n/p

Chairmen of the Verkhovna Rada

Ivan Stepanovych Plyushch            1991-1994 (†2014) n/p
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Moroz       1994-1998         SPU
Oleksandr Mykolaiovych Tkachenko     1998-2000         KPU
Ivan Stepanovych Plyushch            2000-2002 (†2014) n/p
Volodymyr Mykhailovych Lytvyn        2002-2006         n/p, NP
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Moroz       2006-2007         SPU
Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk          2007-2008         BNU-NS
Oleksandr Volodymyrovych Lavrynovych 2008              PR (acting)
Volodymyr Mykhailovych Lytvyn        2008-2012         NP
Volodymyr Vasylyovych Rybak          2012-2014         PR 
Oleksandr Valentynovych Turchynov    2014              Batkivshchyna, NF
Volodymyr Borysovych Hroysman        2014-2016         BPP-Solydarnist
Andriy Volodymyrovych Parubiy        2016-2019         NF
Dmytro Oleksandrovych Razumkov       2019-2021         Sluha Narodu   
Ruslan Oleksiyovych Stefanchuk       2021-             Sluha Narodu

Leaders of PR

Chairmen
Mykola Yanovych Azarov             2001      
Volodymyr Petrovych Semynozhenko   2001-2003
Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych       2003-2010
Mykola Yanovych Azarov             2010-2014

Executive Secretary
Borys Viktorovych Kolesnikov       2014-

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