Stanislav Nikolaevich Nikolaenko () is a Ukrainian politician. Acting Rector of the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine. Leader of

United Left and Peasants The Justice Party (; formerly known as the Party of All-Ukrainian Union of the Left "Justice" (Ukrainian language, Ukrainian: Партія Всеукраїнського об'єднання лівих "Справедливість", Russian langu ...

. Stanislav Nikolaenko was born in 1956 in Kirovohrad region. Professor, PhD in teacher training science, in 2008 to obtain a degree of Doctor of Science. Head of Public Council of Educators and Researches of Ukraine. Participant of protests against Kuchma,

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, and

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Early life

Professor Nikolaenko graduated from the Agricultural Academy of the

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkrSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the Republics of the Soviet Union, constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991. ...

becoming a mechanical engineer (1978) and engineer-educator (1980). In 1991 he received a degree from the Odesa Institute of Political Science and Sociology. Stanislav Nikolaenko began his career as a teacher at the Kirovohrad Agricultural College. After receiving teacher education he was teaching mechanization of livestock at the Kakhovka College. Later he served as the principal of the Krasnoperekopsky vocational school. In 1991–1994 years he worked as the Deputy Head of Kherson Regional Department of Education and Associate Professor of Agricultural Mechanization at the Kherson Agricultural Institute.

Political career

* 1991-2009 - founder and active member of

Socialist Party of Ukraine The Socialist Party of Ukraine (, abbreviated SPU) was a social democratic and democratic socialist Political parties in Ukraine, political party in Ukraine. It was one of the oldest parties in Ukraine and was created by former members of the Sov ...

; * 1991-2006 - MP, four times was elected to

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(Parliament); * 2005-2007 - Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine; * 2008 - founder of the Union for Renewal of

; * 2009 - leader of Justice party (SPRAVEDLIVOST); * 2009 - leader of

. In 2007 SPU lost the parliamentarian elections. In 2008 a group of SPU members including Nikolaenko and Aleksander Baranivskiy founded the "Union for Renewal of Socialist Party of Ukraine" and proposed 10 steps to return into "big policy" stated in the program "A Just Ukraine" to SPU leader Oleksander Moroz. But the conservative entourage of O. Moroz persuade him to refuse the "road map" for self-protection. A few months later Nikolaenko was expelled from SPU. In April 2009 Nikolaenko was elected as a leader of the Justice party. In December 2011 Nikolaenko was elected as a leader of

.Ніколаєнко очолив "об'єднаних лівих"
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'' (18 December 2011) Nikolaenko participated in 2012 parliamentarian elections and got the third place in electoral district 185 with 16.18% (14 808 popular votes)Results in 185 electoral district
Central Election Committee (31 October 2012) and thus no seat in the Verkhovna Rada.Results of the vote count
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'' (9 November 2012)

Career outside politics

In 2008 Prof. Nikolaenko obtained a Doctorate Degree in Teacher Education. Since 2009 he has been working as Professor at Higher Education and Law Department of the University of Education Management under the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine. In June 2014 Nikolaenko was appointed Acting Rector of the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine. Former rector Dmytro Melnychyk disagreed with the appointment of Nikolaenko and sought support at Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food (Ukraine).Мінагрополітики: ректором НУБІП України має бути науковець зі світовим ім’ям
(3 June 2014)

References

External links

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Personal site of Stanislav Nikolaenko

Justice Party's site
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