] Iryna Mykhailivna Akimova ( uk, Ірина Михайлівна Акімова; born on April 26, 1960, in

Kharkiv Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine.Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

) is a Ukrainian politician and former First Deputy Head of

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Банкова обирає між Хорошковським і Акімовою?

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(14 February 2012) She held this post from February 2010 till February 2014.

Biography

Akimova was born in

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, Volkswagen Stiftung, DAAD, and ACCEL fellowships.Акимова Ирина Михайловна- фото, биография// Акимова Ирина Михайловна на ЛІГА.Досье
File.liga.net. Retrieved on 2013-06-18. After April 2014, she moved away from politics and is engaged in painting in Kyiv. In January 2022, she opened an exhibition showing her paintings, painted since 2017.

Work and scientific activities

In the middle of the 1980s, Akimova passed her Ph.D. defense.

Positions and places of work

* senior advisor to

Victor Yanukovych Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych ( uk, Віктор Федорович Янукович, ; ; born 9 July 1950) is a former politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 until he was removed from office in the Revolution of Di ...

and his government on devising non-working reforms, which misled Ukrainian people and international organisations and allowed the regime to continue. * director of the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting in

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the seventh-most populous city in Europe. Kyi ...

. * senior

research fellow A research fellow is an academic research position at a university or a similar research institution, usually for academic staff or faculty members. A research fellow may act either as an independent investigator or under the supervision of a pr ...

at the Center for Economic Research at

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. * research assistant at the Economics department of the University of Magdeburg. * director of the analytical center "Blakitna strіchka" Ltd. (Blue Ribbon).Ірина Акімова – Досьє – Вибори Президента України 2010, новини політики, усі кандидати на пост Президента України
President2010.info. Retrieved on 2013-06-18. * Assistant Professor of Management Department at

Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute The National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute" (NTU "KhPI") ( uk, Національний технічний університет "Харківський політехнічний інститут"), in the city of Kha ...

. * Director General of the analytical center "Bureau of Economic and Social Technologies" (Kyiv) – at the time of elections in 2007.

Political career

Since October 2007 Akimova has been a member of the

Party of Regions The Party of Regions ( uk, Партія регіонів, Partiia rehioniv, ; russian: Партия регионов, Partiya regionov) was a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine formed in late 1997 that then grew to be the biggest party of U ...

. In November 2007 she was elected the Member of

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– No. 63 on the list. Akimova then worked as Deputy Head of the Committee in Verkhovna Rada on economic policy issues and took the position of Economy Minister in the opposition government of

Viktor Yanukovych Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych ( uk, Віктор Федорович Янукович, ; ; born 9 July 1950) is a former politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 until he was removed from office in the Revolution of D ...

. Akimova is a frequent guest at political talk shows and is the public figure in the

. On February 25, 2010, Akimova was appointed the First Deputy Head of Presidential Administration.УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАИНЫ № 267/2010 – Официальное представительство Президента Украины
. President.gov.ua (2010-03-02). Retrieved on 2013-06-18. On March 16, 2010, she was appointed the Representative of the

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in the

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. After

Andriy Klyuyev Andriy Petrovych Klyuyev ( uk, Андрій Петрович Клюєв, Russian: Андрей Петрович Клюев, born 12 August 1964), also spelled as Andrii Kliuiev, is a Ukrainian businessman and politician, who was ranked as 7th ...

had left the post in mid-February 2012 Akimova was tipped as the new

First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine is a government post of the Cabinet of Ukraine. In the absence of the prime minister of Ukraine, the first vice prime minister performs his or her duties as the acting prime minister. In 1991, the post was gr ...

. But

Valeriy Khoroshkovskyi Valeriy Ivanovych Khoroshkovsky ( uk, Валерій Іванович Хорошковський, born 1 January 1969 in Kyiv) is a Ukrainian businessman, former head of the Security Service of Ukraine, former Minister of Finance, and former Firs ...

was appointed instead.Khoroshkovsky dismissed as finance minister, appointed first deputy prime minister

Interfax Ukraine The Interfax-Ukraine ( uk, Інтерфакс-Україна) is a Kyiv-based Ukrainian independent news agency founded in 1992. The company does not belong to the Russian news corporation Interfax Information Services. The company publishes in ...

(22 February 2012) In October 2012 Akimova was re-elected into the

Ukrainian parliament The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Верхо́вна Ра́да Украї́ни, translit=, Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, translation=Supreme Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian abbreviation ''ВРУ''), often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the ...

on the party list of the

, but she turned down this mandate.Tigipko and Poroshenko registered as parliamentaries

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(4 December 2012)Список депутатів нової Верховної Ради

(11 November 2012) In late January 2014, by decrees of President Yanukovych Akimova was dismissed from the post of first deputy head of the Presidential Administration and appointed advisor to the President. In February 2014 Yanukovych was ousted from power.Ukraine crisis timeline

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In an April 2014 interview, she stated that she no longer is a member of the Party of Regions.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Akimova, Irina 1960 births Living people Politicians from Kharkiv Sixth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada Party of Regions politicians National University of Kharkiv alumni Academic staff of Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute 21st-century Ukrainian politicians 21st-century Ukrainian women politicians Women members of the Verkhovna Rada

Biography

Work and scientific activities

Positions and places of work

Political career

See also

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