Petro Poroshenko

Pyotr Alekseevich Poroshenko ( Ukrainian Petro Oleksiyovich Poroshenko ; born September 26, 1965 , Bolgrad , Odessa region , Ukrainian SSR , USSR ) is a Ukrainian statesman and politician, oligarch , businessman, lawyer . People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 9th convocation since August 29, 2019, owner of the Roshen confectionery corporation .

Chairman of the European Solidarity political party .

President of Ukraine from June 7, 2014 to May 20, 2019. Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine from March 23 to December 3, 2012.

Honored Economist of Ukraine, laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of science and technology, as well as the Ukrainian Prize named after Philip Orlyk . PhD in Law .

The Ukrainian presidential race took a surreal turn on Sunday when what was supposed to be a debate between the two candidates featured President Petro O. Poroshenko discussing Ukraine’s future with an empty lectern bearing the name of his rival, a comedian.

The one-man “debate,” held in a stadium complex in Kiev, the capital, and broadcast live on television, came just a week before the second and decisive round of an election that has been dominated from the start by theatrical stunts and dirty tricks rather than policy issues like how to settle a five-year-old war in the east of the country.

Many Ukrainians are angry and disappointed over the dashing of hopes raised by their country’s so-called Revolution of Dignity in 2014. This has made it difficult for Mr. Poroshenko to win traction for his argument that electing Mr. Zelensky would play into the hands of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

According to the Forbes rating in 2020, Poroshenko ranked 3rd among the richest people in Ukraine with a capital of $1.4 billion . In March 2021, his fortune was estimated at $1.6 billion

On December 20, 2021, Petro Poroshenko was charged with high treason in the case of the supply of coal from the part of Donbas not controlled by Kiev in 2014-2015 . On January 19, 2022, the Pechersky Court of Kyiv released Poroshenko on a personal obligation to appear in court or for interrogation upon first demand.

His father is Alexei Ivanovich Poroshenko (1936-2020), a native of the village of Safyany ( Bessarabia , the Kingdom of Romania , now the Izmailsky district of the Odessa region); since 1959 he worked in Bolgrad[ source not specified 2705 days ] . One of the first documents that records the Poroshenko family in the village of Safyany, Izmail district, Bessarabian province, is the revision tale of the Little Russian society of the townspeople of the village of Safyany for 1835 .

Mother - Evgenia Sergeevna Poroshenko (nee Grigorchuk; 1937-2004), originally from the village of Kugurluy-Matroska , Bessarabia , the Kingdom of Romania (now the Izmail district of the Odessa region), also worked in Bolgrad .

The Ukrainian presidential race took a surreal turn on Sunday when what was supposed to be a debate between the two candidates featured President Petro O. Poroshenko discussing Ukraine’s future with an empty lectern bearing the name of his rival, a comedian.

The one-man “debate,” held in a stadium complex in Kiev, the capital, and broadcast live on television, came just a week before the second and decisive round of an election that has been dominated from the start by theatrical stunts and dirty tricks rather than policy issues like how to settle a five-year-old war in the east of the country.

Many Ukrainians are angry and disappointed over the dashing of hopes raised by their country’s so-called Revolution of Dignity in 2014. This has made it difficult for Mr. Poroshenko to win traction for his argument that electing Mr. Zelensky would play into the hands of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

Poroshenko Petr Alekseevich: former President of Ukraine

Father - Alexei Ivanovich Poroshenko, led the city department of agricultural machinery. Mother - Evgenia Sergeevna, worked as a chief accountant in the department of agriculture. She died in 2004.

In addition to Peter, Alexei and Yevgenia Poroshenko also had an older son, Mikhail, who died in 1997 in a car accident.

Petro Poroshenko is married to Marina Anatolyevna Perevedentseva. She is 3 years older than her husband. By profession, he is a cardiologist.

Marina's father served as Minister of Health of the Ukrainian SSR.

Petro and Marina Poroshenko have four children: two sons, Alexei and Mikhail, and two daughters, Evgenia and Alexander.

The fifth president of Ukraine is already a grandfather. The eldest son has two children: Peter and Elizabeth.

Petro Poroshenko began to study at the school of his native Bolgrad. But in the mid-1970s, he moved to Moldova with his parents. In the city of Bender, he received a matriculation certificate.

After studying for two years at the Faculty of International Relations of the Kyiv State University. T. G. Shevchenko, Petro Poroshenko was drafted into the Soviet army, in which he served from 1984 to 1986.

In 2002, Petro Poroshenko became a candidate of legal sciences. He is the author of several monographs and scientific publications on international economic relations and corporate rights management.

The President of Ukraine speaks four languages: Ukrainian, English, Russian and Moldovan.

As soon as entrepreneurial activity was allowed in the Soviet Union, a third-year student at the Institute of International Relations, Pyotr Poroshenko, went into business. He founded a company that dealt with computer programs.

A year later, Poroshenko began to play on the stock exchange. This allowed me to buy a car already in the last courses.

During graduate school, the future president became deputy director of the Association of Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs "Respublika".

In the early 1990s, Petro Poroshenko's company began supplying cocoa beans to the country's confectionery factories. So he managed to earn his first million.

The money earned by Petro Poroshenko was invested in the purchase of confectionery enterprises that were falling apart along with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Subsequently, the business grew, and the entrepreneur merged his factories into the Roshen Corporation.

In 2006, Poroshenko's enterprises were reorganized into an industry holding, which became the leader in the confectionery industry in Ukraine.

The business empire of Petro Poroshenko also includes automobile (“Bogdan”) and shipbuilding (“Forge on Rybalsky”) enterprises, insurance companies (IC “Ukraine”). He is the owner of several media outlets, such as Channel 5, Your Radio, Pilot-Ukraine.

Petro Poroshenko managed to build a successful political and state career. He was elected a people's deputy four times, was a minister twice, headed the National Security and Defense Council, and also became the President of Ukraine.

For the first time, the businessman got into the Ukrainian parliament in 1998. He was elected in the twelfth majoritarian district in the Vinnytsia region and represented the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine Viktor Medvedchuk. He was a member of the Committee on Finance and Banking.

Two years later, due to disagreements, Petro Poroshenko leaves this political force and creates his own faction "Solidarity". In the same 2000, Solidarity joined the Party of Regional Revival, which later became the Party of Regions.

The businessman finances this political project and becomes its co-chairman. However, Petro Poroshenko does not remain in this political force for long. Already in December 2001, he joined with his "Solidarity" to the electoral bloc of Viktor Yushchenko "Our Ukraine".

According to the lists of Our Ukraine, Poroshenko again passes to the Verkhovna Rada in 2002. Heads the budget committee. Along with being a deputy, the founder of the Party of Regions from 2000 to 2004 held the position of Deputy Chairman of the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine.

In 2006, Petro Poroshenko became a parliamentarian for the third time and again from Our Ukraine. Likewise, in 1998, the people's choice takes a seat on the committee on finance and banking.

Three years later, with the support of President Viktor Yushchenko, Petro Poroshenko becomes Minister of Foreign Affairs. He stayed in the position of head of the foreign policy department for only six months and was fired by the new president Viktor Yanukovych .

But exactly two years later, Petro Poroshenko was again in the Cabinet of Ministers. This time he was appointed by Viktor Yanukovych as Minister of Economy in the government of Mykola Azarov .

Petr Alekseevich managed to "resolve" issues with Yanukovych and he agreed to a ministerial position. In the chair of the Minister, Poroshenko was responsible for the preparation of the Association Agreement with the EU.

The second time, Poroshenko lasted a little longer in the minister's chair - nine months. At the end of 2012, the politician for the fourth time becomes the people's choice.

As for the first time, he is running for the twelfth single-mandate constituency in the Vinnitsa region. However, this time Poroshenko went to the polls as an independent candidate. In parliament, Poroshenko remained non-factional and worked on the European Integration Committee.

In mid-2013, the position of the Kyiv mayor became vacant, and Petr Alekseevich expressed his intention to head the Ukrainian capital as a representative of the opposition forces.

But soon the Euromaidan took place and Poroshenko's political career unexpectedly took a somersault. The businessman supported the protests in the capital. He sponsored the revolution with food, water and firewood.

The owner of Roshen became famous after on December 1, 2013, he turned from a tractor to radical people who had come to storm the Presidential Administration.

Then the parliamentarian, who called to stop the assault, was booed, pelted with coins and driven off the tractor. But the television picture scattered throughout the world's media.

During the Russian takeover of Crimea, Poroshenko tried to meet in Simferopol with members of the peninsula's parliament. But the pro-Russian activists did not allow him to enter the building of the Supreme Council of the republic, and he was forced to leave along the corridor provided by the security forces.

Thanks to such active actions, the people's choice gained popularity. Vitali Klitschko was the favorite for the forthcoming early presidential elections . However, before the start of the election race, Klitschko withdrew his candidacy in favor of Poroshenko.

This happened as a result of secret agreements between the two politicians in Vienna. The meeting was attended by the oligarch Dmitry Firtash and the head of the administration of the fugitive president, Sergei Levochkin.

Petro Poroshenko won the presidential election in the first round. During the election campaign, the candidate took the slogan "Life in a new way" and presented his program for this life.

In January 2019, the fifth president of Ukraine announced his intention to run for the highest office in the country for the second time.

In the elections that took place on March 31, 2019, Poroshenko won just under sixteen percent of voters' support. This turned out to be almost two times less than that of the winner of the first round of voting , showman Vladimir Zelensky (thirty percent). However, two percent more than Yulia Tymoshenko.

Thus, Petro Poroshenko and Vladimir Zelensky entered the second round of voting, which took place on April 21.

President Poroshenko called his counterpart to the debate. For some time, Vladimir Zelensky refused, but on April 3, the showman recorded a video message to Poroshenko, in which he called for a debate not in the studio, but at the NSC Olimpiysky, having previously passed tests for the presence of drugs and alcohol in the blood.

Petro Poroshenko took time to think, and early in the morning of April 4, he accepted the conditions of his opponent. "The stadium is like a stadium" - this phrase has become a catchphrase for Ukrainians. A few days later, both candidates were tested: Zelensky at a private clinic, and Poroshenko at a medical center at Olimpiysky.

Poroshenko lost the election

The debate between Poroshenko and Zelensky became one of the most discussed events at that time. They took place between the first and second rounds of elections.

The second round of elections took place on April 21, 2019. According to its results, Petro Poroshenko lost to Vladimir Zelensky. Zelensky won 73% of the vote, more than 13.5 million voters voted for him. More than 4.5 million Ukrainians voted for Poroshenko.

After the announcement of the results, Petro Poroshenko congratulated Volodymyr Zelensky on his victory . Poroshenko did not leave politics.

Activities of Petro Poroshenko after the presidency, parliamentary activities

After the presidential elections, Petro Poroshenko, with his political force "European Solidarity", took part in the parliamentary elections. He topped the list of the "EU" party. Poroshenko's party entered the Verkhovna Rada with a score of 8.1 percent. Poroshenko and his associates received 23 seats in parliament. If we talk about foreign districts, Poroshenko's party, according to the voting results, won there.

Therefore, now Petro Poroshenko is a People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 9th convocation.

Pyotr Alekseevich Poroshenko: former President of Ukraine ( Ukrainian Petro Oleksiyovich Poroshenko ; born September 26, 1965 , Bolgrad , Odessa region , Ukrainian SSR , USSR ) is a Ukrainian statesman and politician, oligarch , businessman, lawyer . People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 9th convocation since August 29, 2019, owner of the Roshen confectionery corporation .

Mother - Evgenia Sergeevna Poroshenko (nee Grigorchuk; 1937-2004), originally from the village of Kugurluy-Matroska , Bessarabia , the Kingdom of Romania (now the Izmail district of the Odessa region), also worked in Bolgrad.

Father - Alexey Ivanovich Poroshenko, led the city department of agricultural machinery. Mother - Evgenia Sergeevna, worked as a chief accountant in the department of agriculture. She died in 2004.

In addition to Peter, Alexei and Yevgenia Poroshenko also had an older son, Mikhail, who died in 1997 in a car accident.

Petro Poroshenko is married to Marina Anatolyevna Perevedentseva. She is 3 years older than her husband. By profession, he is a cardiologist.

Marina's father served as Minister of Health of the Ukrainian SSR.

Petro and Marina Poroshenko have four children: two sons, Alexei and Mikhail, and two daughters, Evgenia and Alexander.

The fifth president of Ukraine is already a grandfather. The eldest son has two children: Peter and Elizabeth.

Petro Poroshenko began to study at the school of his native Bolgrad. But in the mid-1970s, he moved to Moldova with his parents. In the city of Bender, he received a matriculation certificate.

After studying for two years at the Faculty of International Relations of the Kyiv State University. T. G. Shevchenko, Petro Poroshenko was drafted into the Soviet army, in which he served from 1984 to 1986.

After demobilization, he returned to his native university and graduated in 1989. Then for three more years, Poroshenko studied at the graduate school of his Alma mater.

In 2002, Petro Poroshenko became a candidate of legal sciences. He is the author of several monographs and scientific publications on international economic relations and corporate rights management.

The President of Ukraine speaks four languages: Ukrainian, English, Russian and Moldovan.

As soon as entrepreneurial activity was allowed in the Soviet Union, a third-year student at the Institute of International Relations, Pyotr Poroshenko, went into business. He founded a company that dealt with computer programs.

A year later, Poroshenko began to play on the stock exchange. This allowed me to buy a car already in the last courses.

During graduate school, the future president became deputy director of the Association of Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs "Respublika".

In the early 1990s, Petro Poroshenko's company began supplying cocoa beans to the country's confectionery factories. So he managed to earn his first million.

The money earned by Petro Poroshenko was invested in the purchase of confectionery enterprises that were falling apart along with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Subsequently, the business grew, and the entrepreneur merged his factories into the Roshen Corporation.

In 2006, Poroshenko's enterprises were reorganized into an industry holding, which became the leader in the confectionery industry in Ukraine.

The business empire of Petro Poroshenko also includes automobile (“Bogdan”) and shipbuilding (“Forge on Rybalsky”) enterprises, insurance companies (IC “Ukraine”). He is the owner of several media outlets, such as Channel 5, Your Radio, Pilot-Ukraine.

Petro Poroshenko managed to build a successful political and state career. He was elected a people's deputy four times, was a minister twice, headed the National Security and Defense Council, and also became the President of Ukraine.

For the first time, the businessman got into the Ukrainian parliament in 1998. He was elected in the twelfth majoritarian district in the Vinnytsia region and represented the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine Viktor Medvedchuk. He was a member of the Committee on Finance and Banking.

Two years later, due to disagreements, Petro Poroshenko leaves this political force and creates his own faction "Solidarity". In the same 2000, Solidarity joined the Party of Regional Revival, which later became the Party of Regions.

The businessman finances this political project and becomes its co-chairman. However, Petro Poroshenko does not remain in this political force for long. Already in December 2001, he joined with his "Solidarity" to the electoral bloc of Viktor Yushchenko "Our Ukraine".

According to the lists of Our Ukraine, Poroshenko again passes to the Verkhovna Rada in 2002. Heads the budget committee. Along with being a deputy, the founder of the Party of Regions from 2000 to 2004 held the position of Deputy Chairman of the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine.

After the Orange Revolution and the victory of Viktor Yushchenko in the presidential elections, Poroshenko was appointed to the post of chairman of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

In 2006, Petro Poroshenko became a parliamentarian for the third time and again from Our Ukraine. Likewise, in 1998, the people's choice takes a seat on the committee on finance and banking.

Three years later, with the support of President Viktor Yushchenko, Petro Poroshenko becomes Minister of Foreign Affairs. He stayed in the position of head of the foreign policy department for only six months and was fired by the new president Viktor Yanukovych .

But exactly two years later, Petro Poroshenko was again in the Cabinet of Ministers. This time he was appointed by Viktor Yanukovych as Minister of Economy in the government of Mykola Azarov .

At the same time, rumors began to circulate that Poroshenko's business structures began to have problems with regulatory authorities in the person of customs and tax officials, controlled by "Donetsk". He allegedly tried to "squeeze out" part of the assets and "Channel 5".

Petr Alekseevich managed to "resolve" issues with Yanukovych and he agreed to a ministerial position. In the chair of the Minister, Poroshenko was responsible for the preparation of the Association Agreement with the EU.

The second time, Poroshenko lasted a little longer in the minister's chair - nine months. At the end of 2012, the politician becomes the people's choice for the fourth time.

As for the first time, he is running for the twelfth single-mandate constituency in the Vinnitsa region. However, this time Poroshenko went to the polls as an independent candidate. In parliament, Poroshenko remained non-factional and worked on the European Integration Committee.

In mid-2013, the position of the Kyiv mayor became vacant, and Petr Alekseevich expressed his intention to head the Ukrainian capital as a representative of the opposition forces.

But soon the Euromaidan took place and Poroshenko's political career unexpectedly took a somersault. The businessman supported the protests in the capital. He sponsored the revolution with food, water and firewood.

The owner of Roshen became famous after on December 1, 2013, he turned from a tractor to radical people who had come to storm the Presidential Administration.

Then the parliamentarian, who called to stop the assault, was booed, pelted with coins and driven off the tractor. But the television picture scattered throughout the world's media.

During the Russian takeover of Crimea, Poroshenko tried to meet in Simferopol with members of the peninsula's parliament. But the pro-Russian activists did not allow him to enter the building of the Supreme Council of the republic, and he was forced to leave along the corridor provided by the security forces.

Thanks to such active actions, the people's choice gained popularity. Vitali Klitschko was the favorite for the forthcoming early presidential elections . However, before the start of the election race, Klitschko withdrew his candidacy in favor of Poroshenko.

This happened as a result of secret agreements between the two politicians in Vienna. The meeting was attended by the oligarch Dmitry Firtash and the head of the administration of the fugitive president, Sergei Levochkin.

Petro Poroshenko won the presidential election in the first round. During the election campaign, the candidate took the slogan "Live in a new way" and presented his program for this life.

In January 2019, the fifth president of Ukraine announced his intention to run for the highest office in the country for the second time.

In the elections that took place on March 31, 2019, Poroshenko won just under sixteen percent of voters' support. This turned out to be almost two times less than that of the winner of the first round of voting , showman Vladimir Zelensky (thirty percent). However, two percent more than Yulia Tymoshenko.

Thus, Petro Poroshenko and Vladimir Zelensky entered the second round of voting, which took place on April 21.

President Poroshenko called his counterpart to the debate. For some time, Vladimir Zelensky refused, but on April 3, the showman recorded a video message to Poroshenko, in which he called for a debate not in the studio, but at the NSC Olimpiysky, having previously passed tests for the presence of drugs and alcohol in the blood.

Petro Poroshenko took time to think, and early in the morning of April 4 accepted the conditions of his opponent. "The stadium is like a stadium" - this phrase has become a catchphrase for Ukrainians. A few days later, both candidates were tested: Zelensky at a private clinic, and Poroshenko at a medical center at Olimpiysky.

Poroshenko lost the election

The debate between Poroshenko and Zelensky became one of the most discussed events at that time. They took place between the first and second rounds of elections.

The second round of elections took place on April 21, 2019. According to its results, Petro Poroshenko lost to Vladimir Zelensky. Zelensky won 73% of the vote, more than 13.5 million voters voted for him. More than 4.5 million Ukrainians voted for Poroshenko.

After the announcement of the results, Petro Poroshenko congratulated Volodymyr Zelensky on his victory . Poroshenko did not leave politics.

Activities of Petro Poroshenko after the presidency, parliamentary activities

After the presidential elections, Petro Poroshenko, with his political force "European Solidarity", took part in the parliamentary elections. He topped the list of the "EU" party. Poroshenko's party entered the Verkhovna Rada with a score of 8.1 percent. Poroshenko and his associates received 23 seats in parliament. If we talk about foreign districts, Poroshenko's party, according to the voting results, won there.

Therefore, now Petro Poroshenko is a People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 9th convocation.

Mother - Evgenia Sergeevna Poroshenko (nee Grigorchuk; 1937-2004), originally from the village of Kugurluy-Matroska , Bessarabia , the Kingdom of Romania (now the Izmail district of the Odessa region), also worked in Bolgrad .

Pyotr Alekseevich Poroshenko ( Ukrainian Petro Oleksiyovich Poroshenko ; born September 26, 1965 , Bolgrad , Odessa region , Ukrainian SSR , USSR ) is a Ukrainian statesman and politician, oligarch , businessman, lawyer . People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 9th convocation since August 29, 2019, owner of the Roshen confectionery corporation .

Chairman of the European Solidarity political party .

President of Ukraine from June 7, 2014 to May 20, 2019. Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine from March 23 to December 3, 2012.

Honored Economist of Ukraine, laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of science and technology, as well as the Ukrainian Prize named after Philip Orlyk . PhD in Law .

According to the Forbes rating in 2020, Poroshenko ranked 3rd among the richest people in Ukraine with a capital of $1.4 billion . In March 2021, his fortune was estimated at $1.6 billion

On December 20, 2021, Petro Poroshenko was charged with high treason in the case of the supply of coal from the part of Donbas not controlled by Kiev in 2014-2015 . On January 19, 2022, the Pechersky Court of Kyiv released Poroshenko on a personal obligation to appear in court or for interrogation upon first demand.

His father is Alexei Ivanovich Poroshenko (1936-2020), a native of the village of Safyany ( Bessarabia , the Kingdom of Romania , now the Izmailsky district of the Odessa region); since 1959 he worked in Bolgrad[ source not specified 2705 days ] . One of the first documents that records the Poroshenko family in the village of Safyany, Izmail district, Bessarabian province, is the revision tale of the Little Russian society of the townspeople of the village of Safyany for 1835 .

Mother - Evgenia Sergeevna Poroshenko (nee Grigorchuk; 1937-2004), originally from the village of Kugurluy-Matroska , Bessarabia , the Kingdom of Romania (now the Izmail district of the Odessa region), also worked in Bolgrad .