Yanukovych Viktor

Ukraine’s Poroshenko Paradox In upcoming elections, the incumbent president may well lose to a man who plays one on TV. 21.03.19 16:42 197 0 Previously in trend: Presidential election 2019

Trump nominee draws scrutiny for ties to Ukrainian energy interests As tanks, artillery and combat troops streamed from Russia into Ukraine in 2014, the United States government dispatched a multiagency team of technical experts to Kiev to help the fragile government there shore up its energy supply for the coming winter. 11.10.18 14:25 193 0 World

The corrupt shall inherit Ukraine In a country where even the anti-corruption prosecutors abuse their power, it's hard to say who the good guys are. 27.09.18 13:59 250 0 Previously in trend: Corruption in Prosecutor General's Office

From the fires of revolution, Ukraine is reinventing government Since the 2014 revolution, Ukrainian activists have set about using technology to prevent abuses of power – by building the world's most transparent platform for government spending. 21.08.18 13:15 277 0 Previously in trend: Revolution of Dignity anniversary

Here's how Ukraine's ousted government got away with $40 billion After then-president Viktor Yanukovych fled his palace during Ukraine’s bloody 2014 revolution, law enforcement agents across the globe focused on one question: How did the Kremlin-backed politician and his cronies make $40 billion in state assets disappear? 13.07.18 17:26 2 072 0 Previously in trend: Investigation of crimes against Maidan

Manafort joined Trump as Ukraine work slowed, cash woes rose Among the enduring curiosities of Donald Trump’s presidential run was his announcement that campaign chairman Paul Manafort was an unpaid volunteer. 01.03.18 12:09 1 830 0 Previously in trend: Party of Regions' off-the-book payments

Potters Bar, Ukraine’s stolen billions and the Eurovision connection A UK company helped the circle of Ukraine's disgraced ex-president profit from last year's Eurovision Song Contest, a BBC investigation has found. 08.02.18 08:50 2 978 0 Previously in trend: Yanukovych Family

Inside a Russian disinformation campaign in Ukraine in 2014 By the morning of Feb. 22, 2014, it was clear that the government of Viktor Yanukovych, the beleaguered pro-Russian president of Ukraine, had fallen, amid protests sparked by his decision not to move toward a closer relationship with the European Union. 26.12.17 17:30 423 0 Previously in trend: Russian aggression against Ukraine

Feb. 22, 2014: Putin’s plan to split Ukraine failed; Kolomoiskyi sabotaged Ukrainian Front convention; Turchynov headed Verkhovna Rada; Yanukovych fled to Russia Three years ago, Feb. 22, 2014 was a key day when Putin’s plans to reinstate Yanukovych failed. Yanukovych and all who wanted to crush the Revolution of Dignity were ousted. 24.02.17 18:05 141 336 185 Ukrainian Politics

How Trump's campaign chief got a strongman elected president of Ukraine Person who masterminded ousted Ukriane's President Yanukovych’s unlikely political comeback in 2007 was an American Paul Manafort – previously a consultant for Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush and Bob Dole, and today the campaign chairman for Donald Trump. 17.08.16 10:59 272 0

Ukraine Throws All But Kitchen Sink at Russia’s Bond Lawsuit Ukraine asks to consider the annexation of Crimea as part of the arguments in the lawsuit over a bond Kyiv defaulted on in December. 13.06.16 18:06 257 0

How Ukraine Can Recover Its Stolen Assets from Kleptocrats and Russia It is unclear how much senior officials stole during former President Viktor Yanukovych’s four years in office; however, the numbers are substantial. Ukraine can potentially recover from the losses it has suffered from kleptocrats and Russia over the last few years. 24.05.16 17:29 248 0

Struggling Ukraine Is Bad News for Russians Now that Ukraine has embarked on the path of Westernization, it will doubtless continue in the same direction. 21.10.15 15:01 268 0

Jody Kriss. Front for the Russian Mafia and Yanukovich Usually information about the mafia gets leaked to the media from the FBI or police reports, but rarely from informants or key players in the organizations themselves. That’s why the following story piqued my interest and I began to investigate the alleged activities linking the Russian mafia to the U.S. real estate market. 25.03.15 11:29 4 379 0

$1.4 billion from Yanukovych’s accounts could be used in Ukraine’s budget. The Rada should get involved. Task #1 for the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and Anti-corruption Bureau at the moment is to confiscate the money and property of Yanukovych’s family and close people, as well as those of the terrorists’ allies. 23.12.14 15:27 118 547 71 Previously in trend: Yanukovych Family

PRIME MINISTER WITHOUT CHAIR: AZAROV LOSES POWERS Yanukovych understands the power as a full control over everything that wants money. He does not want to create even the theoretical possibility of a dialogue with someone other than him - in Ukraine and beyond. Successor Azarov will not be remembered because he will be no different from Deputy Prime Ministers and Ministers of his own government: just another official who receives instructions but does not make any decisions. 01.02.13 14:38 8 830 7

Blinded by Life Term: Yanukovych Wants to Destroy Tymoshenko We are dealing with a situation when personal revenge of Yanukovych became a priority domestic policy. This is, by and large, the only clear point of his political program - to do everything to ensure Tymoshenko’s imprisonment under any pretext. The fact that the release of Tymoshenko is directly related to removal from power or loss of the elections by Yanukovych is indisputable. 21.01.13 11:31 18 486 154 Previously in trend: Tymoshenko Case

"Daddy, Can It": Top Political Quotes Of 2012 Politicians’ emotions are always more sincere that official press releases. Quotes are memes defining the political vocabulary and thinking of our era. We bring you the hottest quotes that most accurately determine the trend of power in 2012 and anticipate the emotions that will overwhelm our society and the authorities in the year 2013. 29.12.12 12:10 17 428 29

Family Cabinet, Holiday Prices On the whole, new government emanates family warmth. A small circle of close friends and relatives. Great company to meet the Christmas and New Year holidays in. And most importantly Viktor Yanukovych found a gift for each one to put under the Christmas tree. 25.12.12 10:08 5 299 5 Previously in trend: New Cabinet

MOSCOW. THE TRIP THAT DID NOT HAPPEN After postponing the meeting of Viktor Yanukovych and Vladimir Putin it is the Ukrainian President who looks as though somebody wiped their feet on him. By the way, this is very characteristic of the relations between the two Presidents. Yet a cancellation of the officially announced meeting on the day it was to take place is a bit outrageous. The only way it could have been worse if Yanukovych learned about it when he was somewhere between Kyiv and Moscow. 18.12.12 15:02 28 737 181 Previously in trend: Union with Russia

A MONTH OF MADNESS: WHAT TO EXPECT FROM THE REGIME IN OCTOBER? Why are they all going crazy? Because they have no other choice. Since the moment he came to power, Yanukovych made so many steps practically taking the Ukrainian authorities out of the legal framework that now the upcoming elections are the only chance for the President and the Regions to legitimize the creeping accroachment of power. 02.10.12 13:11 15 315 93 Previously in trend: Elections 2012

LIST OF 54 OR GOODBYE, AMERICA Right about now Viktor Yanukovych should be in the United States where he is participating in 67 Session of the UN General Assembly. Upon the results of this visit we will be able to discuss how bad everything is. For example, if they manage to catch Obama somewhere near the restrooms the regime will start trumping about the stability of Ukraine’s international politics. 25.09.12 13:30 10 293 40

YALTA RESULTS. YULIA WILL STAY IN PRISON. MUMMIES FROM MADAUME TUSSAUDS MUSEUM AND THE PROSECUTOR FROM 1937 When you compare the daily agenda in Ukraine and, for instance, the United States and Britain, it is hard to believe that we live on the same planet and at the same time with these people. For a person growing up in Ukrainian information field it may seem that he was taken out of a mountain village and brought to the center of civilization. 18.09.12 18:10 8 014 98 Previously in trend: Ukraine - EU

Tymoshenko Case: the Party of Regions Trumps Renat Kuzmin On August 31 Tymoshenko case acquired a new and unexpected witness that offsets all accusation system of the Attorney General's Office. Regions deputy Yurii Boldyrev has made a stunning announcement at his press-conference in Kiev. 04.09.12 13:29 58 404 246 Previously in trend: Tymoshenko Case

A TALE IN REVERSE: KING YANUKOVYCH AND THE NAKED NATION The King is laughing at his naked subjects telling them about the wonderful dresses he is tailoring for them. We just haven’t felt anything yet. That is how President Viktor Yanukovych explains the fact that most Ukrainians have not experienced yet the improvement of life so obvious to the President and his associates. 23.08.12 10:46 15 476 138

THE GREAT AHMETOV HAS LIT OUR WAY! A mother has to make some kind of story, make her child learn it and tell it to the class. One girl got Yanukovich which you can understand if hardly – at least he is the president. The teacher says that the story must be strictly positive. 07.08.12 11:23 21 982 72

STAND STILL – WHO GOES THERE: “PAPA YANUKOVICH” AND OTHERS Can you become a businessman without the permission of papa? Can you reach a verdict without the permission of papa? Can you get any justice without papa’s blessing? You can put any two names in this puzzle but note this – Nazarbayev (Kazakhstan) has been ruling for 22 years, Yanukovich has ruled for 2 years. But the result is the same. Papa, papa, papa, papa. It is the same Golden Horde! 27.07.12 16:59 19 193 181