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in Ukrainian family who moved there from

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in 1902.Tigipko.com/ ''CV'' and ''Sergey Tihipko biography''.
(The biography can be reached by pressing "full version".) Accessed 24 January 2010. His father fought in World War II where he was badly wounded, and died when Tihipko was 10. His mother was a village nurse. He has two brothers: one six years older, and one two years younger. Tihipko grew up in suburb of Chișinau and moved to Dnipropetrovsk,

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after finishing school when he was 17.Short bio

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(4 October 2013)

Education, the army, and the young communist league (Komsomol)

Tihipko was educated at the local school in Lazovskiy district, and then went to university in Dnipropetrovsk, where he graduated in engineering-metallurgy from the

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in 1982. He served in the Soviet Army in a tank regiment from 1982–1984. Tihipko was first head of a department, and then deputy director for teaching and educational work at the Dnipropetrovsk Mechanical-Metallurgical Technical Secondary School from 1984–1986. At the same time he developed a strong career in

Komsomol The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (russian: link=no, Всесоюзный ленинский коммунистический союз молодёжи (ВЛКСМ), ), usually known as Komsomol (; russian: Комсомол, links=n ...

, the youth arm of the

Soviet communist party "Hymn of the Bolshevik Party" , headquarters = 4 Staraya Square, Moscow , general_secretary = Vladimir Lenin (first) Mikhail Gorbachev (last) , founded = , banned = , founder = Vladimir Lenin , newspaper ...

. This enabled him to become First Secretary of Dnipropetrovsk Komsomol regional organization from 1986–1989; there were nearly half a million members of Komsomol in the Dnipropetrovsk region, and Tihipko became its first popularly elected First Secretary in 1989. From 1989–1991, Tihipko was the First Secretary of Dnipropetrovsk regional committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League.

Banking 1991–1997

"After the break up of the Soviet Union and the results of the political power struggles that followed he decided to put his political interests aside and start a business career as a manager in a private bank. This was an undeveloped industry in the early stages of the former Soviet Union and it turned out to be a shrewd move." He "made swift progress and from 1991–1992 he was appointed Deputy Chairman of a small commercial bank called Dnipro Bank. From there he became Chairman of the Board of the commercial bank Pryvat until 1997, helping in taking the small regional bank to become one of the biggest private banks in Eastern Europe."

Politics again (1994 onwards)

In 1994 he became a non-staff consultant on monetary policy to the President

Leonid Kuchma Leonid Danylovych Kuchma ( uk, Леоні́д Дани́лович Ку́чма; born 9 August 1938) is a Ukrainian politician who was the second president of Ukraine from 19 July 1994 to 23 January 2005. Kuchma's presidency saw numerous corrup ...

. He was also an advisor to Kuchma in the lead up to the introduction of the national currency, the

Hryvnia The or ( ; uk, гривня , : ''hrn''; sign: ₴; code: UAH) has been the national currency of Ukraine since 2 September 1996. The hryvnia is divided into 100 . It is named after a measure of weight used in medieval Kievan Rus'. Name Ety ...

in 1996. Realising that there was a conflict of interest between his political role and his shareholding in Privat Bank, he divested himself of the shares Tihipko served as the minister of economics (1997–1999).Trudova Ukraina elects a new chairman

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(November 27, 2000) In June 2000 Tihipko left the Yushchenko Government to take part in a parliamentary by-election on 25 June and eventually won a seat at the majoritarian constituency #36 in the

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Dnipropetrovsk Oblast ( uk, Дніпропетро́вська о́бласть, translit=Dnipropetrovska oblast), also referred to as Dnipropetrovshchyna ( uk, Дніпропетро́вщина), is an oblast (province) of central-eastern Ukra ...

. In November 2000 became member and leader of

Labour Ukraine Labour Ukraine ( uk, Трудова Україна ''Trudova Ukrajina'')
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. At the 2002 parliamentary elections, with the Labour Ukraine being part of the

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alliance, he was again elected into parliament. Tihipko was Governor of the

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in the years 2002–2004. Tihipko chaired the election campaign in 2004 for presidential candidate

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 ...

. After the election Tihipko temporarily left Ukrainian politics, resigning as Labour Ukraine leader on 23 April 2005, to build up a bank which he sold to Swedbank group for nearly $1 billion. Tihipko was an ally of former President

Leonid Kuchma Leonid Danylovych Kuchma ( uk, Леоні́д Дани́лович Ку́чма; born 9 August 1938) is a Ukrainian politician who was the second president of Ukraine from 19 July 1994 to 23 January 2005. Kuchma's presidency saw numerous corrup ...

. Analysts have claimed Kuchma should have given his support to Tihipko during the

2004 Ukrainian presidential elections Presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 31 October, 21 November and 26 December 2004. The election was the fourth presidential election to take place in Ukraine following independence from the Soviet Union. The last stages of the election ...

instead of supporting

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, however Yanukovych had more popular support. ''

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'' estimated his fortune at $369 million in 2009.Tigipko gains momentum in presidential campaign
''

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'' (December 3, 2009)

Ukrainian presidential election, 2010

Tihipko was elected leader of the party

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in November 2009.Sylna Ukrayina party to support Tihipko in presidential elections
''

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'' (November 28, 2009) In January 2010, Tihipko declared "his team" will participate in the

2014 Kyiv local election Local elections in Kyiv for the post of Mayor and members of Kyiv City Council took place on 25 May 2014, as part of the 2014 Ukrainian local elections.

. Tihipko was a candidate for

President of Ukraine The president of Ukraine ( uk, Президент України, Prezydent Ukrainy) is the head of state of Ukraine. The president represents the nation in international relations, administers the foreign political activity of the state, condu ...

in the 2010 presidential election. Of the 18 presidential candidates, Tihipko has declared the biggest income to the Ukrainian election Committee. He had an income of about $2.5 million in 2008 and told ''

Kyiv Post The ''Kyiv Post'' is the oldest English-language newspaper in Ukraine, founded in October 1995 by Jed Sunden. History American Jed Sunden founded the ''Kyiv Post'' weekly newspaper on Oct. 18, 1995 and later created KP Media for his holdings. ...

'' he had spent roughly the same amount on his presidential campaign till December 2009. “I will spend as much as I need. This is my own money.” Tihipko claims he has spent 90 million

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(about $11 millionBusinessman gains in Ukraine's presidential race
''

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'' (13 January 2010)) on his election campaign. Tihipko was defeated in the first round of the presidential election, receiving 13.05% of the vote; two candidates (

Yulia Tymoshenko Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko ( uk, Юлія Володимирівна Тимошенко, ; Hrihyan ();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 ...

) received more votes. On 22 January 2010 Tihipko warned outgoing president

Viktor Yushchenko Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko ( uk, Віктор Андрійович Ющенко, ; born 23 February 1954) is a Ukrainian politician who was the third president of Ukraine from 23 January 2005 to 25 February 2010. As an informal leader of th ...

could introduce a

state of emergency A state of emergency is a situation in which a government is empowered to be able to put through policies that it would normally not be permitted to do, for the safety and protection of its citizens. A government can declare such a state du ...

during the transfer of power after the presidential election 2010. Tihipko did not endorse a candidate for the run-off of the election. He did state he would agree to become

Prime Minister of Ukraine The prime minister of Ukraine ( uk, Прем'єр-міністр України, ) is the head of government of Ukraine. The prime minister presides over the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, which is the highest body of the executive branch of t ...

under the new President whose program is close to him. Tymoshenko did offer Tihipko to become Prime Minister if she would win the election. While (then) candidate Victor Yanukovych stated that Tihipko and (another 2010 presidential candidate) Arseniy Yatseniuk would "have a good chance to be in the team that will unite Ukraine and will build our country together with me". According to a poll by Research & Branding Group, as of 27 November Tihipko was running fifth in polls at 4.4%, behind

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 ...

(32.4%),

Yulia Tymoshenko Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko ( uk, Юлія Володимирівна Тимошенко, ; Hrihyan ();Arseniy Yatseniuk (6.1%) and

Volodymyr Lytvyn Volodymyr Mykhailovych Lytvyn ( uk, Володи́мир Миха́йлович Литви́н, ; born April 28, 1956) is a Ukrainian politician best known for being Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament. Having previously s ...

(4.5%), and ahead of

Petro Symonenko Petro Mykolayovych Symonenko ( uk, Петро́ Микола́йович Симоне́нко; born 1 August 1952) is a Ukrainian politician and the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. Symonenko was the C ...

(3.8%) and incumbent President

Viktor Yushchenko Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko ( uk, Віктор Андрійович Ющенко, ; born 23 February 1954) is a Ukrainian politician who was the third president of Ukraine from 23 January 2005 to 25 February 2010. As an informal leader of th ...

(3.5%). A poll conducted by FOM-Ukraine in late November placed him in third place at 7.4%, with 23% of the respondents stating that they consider Tihipko "a promising young politician whom they would like to see at the presidential elections." Director of the Penta Center for Applied Political Studies Volodymyr Fesenko thought that this third-place by Tihipko could be explained by the fact that some voters started to consider Tihipko not only an alternative to the leader 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 ...

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 ...

, but as an alternative to fellow candidate Arseniy Yatseniuk. According to a

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n poll taken in the last week of the campaign, Serhiy Tihipko was to be the unexpected outsider, snapping the second place from Tymoshenko. According to the results of an exit poll initiated by the ICTV TV channel, Tihipko would have won the 2010 presidential election if had participated in the second round of the election.

Political career after the 2010 presidential election

On 11 February 2010 Tihipko stated that he would agree to become

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if

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Victor Yanukovych offered him the post.Tihipko ready to become prime minister under Yanukovych
''

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'' (11 February 2010) On 15 February Yanukovych stated "I do not rule out the candidature of Tihipko. Tihipko is on the list which, in my opinion, will be discussed next week in

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". On 17 February 2010 Tihipko stated that he had met Yanukovych twice after the election to discuss issues of the country's development and that he had reached no agreement with the parliamentary faction of the Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense Bloc regarding their support of his candidacy for the post of Prime Minister. On 21 February 2010 President Yanukovych offered three candidates for the Prime Minister post: Tihipko, Our Ukraine faction member

Arseniy Yatsenyuk Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk ( uk, Арсеній Петрович Яценюк ; born 22 May 1974) is a Ukrainian politician, economist and lawyer who served as Prime Minister of Ukraine twice – from 27 February 2014 to 27 November 2014 and f ...

and

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 ...

lawmaker

Mykola Azarov Mykola Yanovych Azarov ( uk, Мико́ла Я́нович Аза́ров, ; né Pakhlo; Cyrillic: Пахло; born 17 December 1947) is a Ukrainian politician who was the Prime Minister of Ukraine from 11 March 2010 to 27 January 2014. He was t ...

.Yanukovych has yet to secure ruling majority in parliament
''

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'' (25 February 2010) On 11 March 2010 Tihipko was elected as one of six deputy Prime Ministers (in charge of economic issues) in the Azarov Government. This cabinet was reshuffled in December 2010; according to Deputy Head of the Situations Modelling Agency Oleksiy Holobutsky this resulted in Tihipko being responsible for all unpopular reforms. He was appointed

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– Minister of social policy of Ukraine. In August 2011 Tihipko and

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(and a Party of Regions leader) Mykola Azarov announced that

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and Party of Regions were going to team up and eventually Strong Ukraine would be merged into POR. Tihipko stated (in October 2011) he would become a Party of Regions member after the negotiations between the parties was concluded.Man With A Mission
''

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'' (7 October 2011)Strong Ukraine postpones decision on merger with Regions Party
''

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'' (22 October 2011)Strong Ukraine to prepare its proposals to Regions Party on posts distribution, says Tigipko
''

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'' (22 October 2011) The two parties merged on 17 March 2012.Tigipko hooks up with Party of Regions

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(20 March 2012)
Strong Ukraine party decides on disbanding to join Regions Party

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(17 March 2012) The same day Tihipko was unanimously elected Party of Regions deputy chairman and member of the Party of Regions political council. In the 2012 parliamentary election he was (re)-elected into parliament on the party list of Party of Regions.Список депутатів нової Верховної Ради

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(11 November 2012) Tihipko did not return to a ministerial post after and hinted (in December 2012) that he would mainly deal with the ideology of Party of Regions since. He was one of the 36 members of the Party of regions faction (who consisted of 96 deputies) who voted in favour of the

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of President

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 ...

in February 2014.

Ukrainian presidential election, 2014

Tihipko is a self-nominated candidate for

President of Ukraine The president of Ukraine ( uk, Президент України, Prezydent Ukrainy) is the head of state of Ukraine. The president represents the nation in international relations, administers the foreign political activity of the state, condu ...

in the 2014 presidential election. Of the 23 presidential candidates, Tihipko has declared the biggest income to the Ukrainian election Committee. He had an income of about UAH 263 million in 2013. According to the first poll published after Vitali Klitschko withdrew from the presidential race, as of 31 March Tihipko was running second at 17.9%, behind Petro Poroshenko (38.3%). On 29 March a Party of Regions convention supported Mykhailo Dobkin's nomination as a presidential candidate.Ukraine's Party of Regions expels presidential hopefuls Tigipko, Tsariov and Boiko

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(7 April 2014) On 7 April 2014 the political council of the party expelled Tihipko from the party. He then accused that the party had "been turned into a branch of a specific financial and industrial group, a private enterprise". On 23 April 2014 Tihipko announced that (the party)

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would be re-established and that its 2012 merger with Party of Regions had been "a mistake". On 5 August 2014 he was re-elected party leader of Strong Ukraine."Strong Ukraine" revived"
gazeta.ua (8 August 2014) In the

2014 Ukrainian presidential election Snap presidential elections held in Ukraine on 25 May 2014 resulted in Petro Poroshenko being elected President of Ukraine.
Results election of Ukrainian president
Телеграф (29 May 2014) He did do better than Dobkin, who gained 3.03%.

Career after the 2014 presidential election

In the

2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Snap elections to the Verkhovna Rada took place on 26 October 2014. Petro Poroshenko, the President of Ukraine, had pressed for early parliamentary elections since his victory in the presidential election in May.Poroshenko Bloc to have greatest number of seats in parliament
,

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(8 November 2014)
People's Front 0.33% ahead of Poroshenko Bloc with all ballots counted in Ukraine elections – CEC

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(8 November 2014)
Poroshenko Bloc to get 132 seats in parliament – CEC

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(8 November 2014)

Banking 2015 onwards

Early May 2015 Tihipko was appointed head of the supervisory council of TAScombank, in which he holds the largest stake of nearly 49%. Tihipko bought a controlling stake (99.9230%) in Russian

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's Ukrainian subsidiary in December 2017. He then merged this subsidiary with TAScombank without shutting down the financial institutions' branches.Tigipko acquires Russian Sberbank's Ukrainian subsidiary

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(13 December 2017)

Political positions

In the buildup to the

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Tihipko stated that Ukraine should conduct the most constructive policy possible in relations with neighboring countries, including both

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and

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. In September 2009 he wrote an article that was published in the Ukrainian edition of ''

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'' in which he criticized Ukraine's foreign policy over the past five years, saying its goal had been to "participate in a cordon sanitaire" around Russia, which has done "enormous economic damage" to Ukraine, weakened Ukraine’s position in the post-Soviet realm, and turned Moscow into a "powerful opponent of Ukrainian interests." According to Tihipko (in January 2010) Ukraine is not yet ready to seek membership in the

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or

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and must first focus on forming a unified government that can stimulate the country's economy. In the long term he seeks European integration for Ukraine. In December 2012 Tihipko stated that

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was more advantageous to Ukraine than accession to the

Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia The Eurasian Customs Union (EACU; russian: Таможенный союз ЕАЭС, Tamozhenyi soyuz) was a customs union consisting of all the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union. The customs union was a principal task of the Eurasian ...

.Tigipko:European integration more advantageous to Ukraine than accession to Customs Union
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'' (22 December 2012) Tihipko supports legalization of prostitution in Ukraine. In November 2009 he stated, "...we should not be hypocrites. If certain things exist we should speak about them openly and resolve

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if necessary." Tihipko supports the privatization of Ukraine's gas-pipeline system and its joint management by Russia and Europe, but warned that he would "not support the seizure of the pipeline" by Russia, which he believed the conditions (late 2009) where being set for. He was critical about the April 2010 natural gas agreement stating that while the deal might make economic sense "The procedure of debating the agreement and completing it behind closed doors is not what the Ukrainian people want." Presidential candidate Tihipko intends to make Russian a second state language if he wins the

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and for

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.Tigipko proposes to meet needs of southeast Ukraine residents

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(20 May 2014) In the campaign he advocated Ukraine's non-aligned status "if we now start talking more about

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– it completely will split the country. He also called

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"an aggressor which

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".Tihipko finally called Russia the aggressor

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(23 May 2014)

Family and private life

Tihipko was married to Natalia Tihipko from 1981 to 2004.The love story of Serhiy Tihipko: Marriage without children, like a day without sunshine
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Viktoriya Tigipko Viktoriya Viktorivna Tihipko ( uk, Вікторія Вікторівна Тігіпко; née Lopatetska; born 17 August 1973) is a Ukrainian businesswoman and public figure. Biography Viktoriya was born on August 17, 1973. Her father, Viktor Lo ...

later in 2004, during the

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campaign. Viktoria is the President of the

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.For Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, a battle with no end in sight
''

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'' (16 July 2014) She is also Managing Director at a venture company which invests in online projects worldwide, and is considered to be one of the most successful businesswomen in Ukraine. The couple have three children, born in 2002, 2005 and 2008.Short bio
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Early life

Education, the army, and the young communist league (Komsomol)

Banking 1991–1997

Politics again (1994 onwards)

Ukrainian presidential election, 2010

Political career after the 2010 presidential election

Ukrainian presidential election, 2014

Career after the 2014 presidential election

Banking 2015 onwards

Political positions

Family and private life

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