Serhiy Leonidovych Tihipko (; born 13 February 1960) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician who was Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine. After founding the TAS Group conglomerate in 1998, Tihipko was Minister of Economics in 2000 and subsequently served as Governor of the

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from 2002 to 2004. He ran unsuccessfully for

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in the 2010 presidential election and participated in the 2014 presidential election, in which he placed fifth with 5.23 percent of the vote. Tihipko is also former

Vice Prime Minister A deputy prime minister or vice prime minister is, in some countries, a government minister who can take the position of acting prime minister when the prime minister is temporarily absent. The position is often likened to that of a vice president, ...

and Minister of Social Policy.

Early life

Tihipko was born on 13 February 1960 in the village of

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in a 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

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, after finishing school when he was 17.Short bio

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(4 October 2013)

Education, military service, and the Komsomol

Tihipko was educated at the local school in Lazovskiy district, and then went to university in

, where he graduated in engineering-metallurgy from the Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute in 1982. He served in the Soviet Army in a tank regiment from 1982 to 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 to 1986. At the same time he developed a strong career in

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, the youth arm of the

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. This enabled him to become First Secretary of Dnipropetrovsk Komsomol regional organization from 1986 to 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 to 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

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until 1997, helping in taking the small regional bank to become one of the biggest private banks in Eastern Europe."

Political career (1994, onwards)

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

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

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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
Policy Documentation Center (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

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. In November 2000 became member and leader of

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2002 parliamentary elections, with the Labour Ukraine being part of the For United Ukraine alliance, he was again elected into parliament. Tihipko was Governor of the

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

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. 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

. Analysts have claimed Kuchma should have given his support to Tihipko during the 2004 Ukrainian presidential elections instead of supporting

, 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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Sylna Ukrayina party to support Tihipko in presidential elections
''

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

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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 ''

'' 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
''

'' (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 (

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and

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

Viktor Yushchenko Viktor Andriiovych Yushchenko (, ; born 23 February 1954) is a Ukrainian politician who was the third president of Ukraine from 23 January 2005 to 25 February 2010. He aimed to orient Ukraine towards Western world, the West, European Union, and N ...

could introduce a

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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

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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 Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk (born 22 May 1974) is a Ukrainian politician, economist and lawyer who served two terms as Prime Minister of Ukraine – from 27 February 2014 to 27 November 2014 and from 27 November 2014 to 14 April 2016. He was t ...

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

(32.4%),

(16.3%),

(6.1%) and

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(4.5%), and ahead of

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(3.8%) and incumbent President

(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

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, but as an alternative to fellow candidate

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

'' (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

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and

lawmaker

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

'' (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 Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine – 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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Man With A Mission
''

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

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

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

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

(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

in February 2014.

Ukrainian presidential election, 2014

Tihipko is a self-nominated candidate for

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 ₴263 million in 2013. According to the first poll published after

Vitali Klitschko Vitalii Volodymyrovych Klychko (; ; born 19 July 1971), known as Vitali Klitschko, is a Ukrainian politician and former professional boxer. He serves as mayor of Kyiv,Mykhailo Dobkin Mykhailo Markovych Dobkin (born 26 January 1970) is a Ukrainian politician, former governor of Kharkiv Oblast, former mayor of Kharkiv,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

Strong Ukraine Strong Ukraine (); formerly the Labour Party Ukraine,
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On 5 August 2014 he was re-elected party leader of Strong Ukraine."Strong Ukraine" revived"
gazeta.ua (8 August 2014) In the

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he received 5.23% of the vote, ranking 5th among all candidates.
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

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Tihipko headed the national list of Strong Ukraine. But he was not elected into parliament because the party won one constituency parliamentary seat (only).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

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

(8 November 2014)

Banking 2015 onwards

Early May 2015 Tihipko was appointed head of the supervisory council of TAScombank, part of TAS-Group, 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

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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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.Tigipko:European integration more advantageous to Ukraine than accession to Customs Union
''

'' (22 December 2012) Tihipko supports legalization of

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. 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

. In the campaign he spoke out against the separatism of the pro-Russian armed groups in

Eastern Ukraine Eastern Ukraine or East Ukraine (; ) is primarily the territory of Ukraine east of the Dnipro (or Dnieper) river, particularly Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts (provinces). Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts are often also regarded as ...

and for

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.Tigipko proposes to meet needs of southeast Ukraine residents

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

– it completely will split the country. He also called

"an aggressor which

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".Tihipko finally called Russia the aggressor

(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
Bigmir.net (15 May 2014) They had one daughter together, Anna, born in 1984; she now works in a company owned by her father. Tihipko married Viktoriya Tigipko 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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Notes

References

External links

Personal website
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