Anatoliy Kinah Ukrainian politician and statesman Date of Birth: 04.08.1954 Country: Ukraine

1. Biography of Anatoliy Kinakh
2. Early Career
3. Political Career
4. Leadership Roles
5. Later Political Career
6. Prime Minister and Beyond
7. Presidential Election and Party Switch

Biography of Anatoliy Kinakh

Anatoliy Kinakh is a Ukrainian politician and statesman, an entrepreneur, and an honorary professor at the Petro Mohyla National University. He graduated from the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute. His wife, Marina Kinakh, is a journalist, and they have a daughter named Sofia.

Early Career

Anatoliy Kinakh began his career at the Tallinn Shipbuilding Plant and later moved to the Okean Plant in Nikolaev in 1981. He worked in various capacities at these plants.

Political Career

In 1990, Kinakh became a deputy of the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian SSR, representing the 284th district of Nikolaev. He joined the faction of the Party of Democratic Revival of Ukraine (PDU) in December 1990. From March 1992, Kinakh served as the representative of the President of Ukraine in the Nikolaev Oblast.

Leadership Roles

In June 1994, Kinakh became the head of the Nikolaev Regional Council. On July 3, 1995, he was appointed as the Deputy Prime Minister for Industrial Policy in the government of Yevhen Marchuk. He held this position until 1996. In February 1996, Kinakh joined the People's Democratic Party (NDP), which was formed based on the PDU and the New Ukraine Party. He served as a member of the Political Council of the NDP and as the Secretary of the NDP on Economics until 2000. Kinakh also became the President of the Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs in 1997.

Later Political Career

Kinakh was elected as a member of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) in 1998. In August 1999, he was appointed as the First Deputy Prime Minister for Fuel and Energy Complex (TEK) in the government of Valeriy Pustovoytenko. In February 2000, Kinakh became the leader of the Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine.

Prime Minister and Beyond

From May 29, 2001, to November 16, 2002, Anatoliy Kinakh served as the Prime Minister of Ukraine. In March 2002, he participated in the parliamentary elections as part of the electoral bloc "For a United Ukraine." After his term as Prime Minister, Kinakh became the leader of the Federation of Employers of Ukraine in 2003.

Presidential Election and Party Switch

Kinakh ran for president in the 2004 elections but received only 0.93% of the votes. After the first round of elections, he supported the candidate Viktor Yushchenko. From February to September 2005, Kinakh served as the First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine in the government of Yulia Tymoshenko. During his tenure, he criticized Viktor Yanukovych and his administration, stating that they had lost the right to lead Ukraine.

In September 2005, Kinakh was appointed as the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council. However, he resigned in May 2006 due to his election as a member of parliament. In the parliamentary elections of 2006, his party, the Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine, participated as part of the coalition "Our Ukraine."

In March 2007, Kinakh and his parliamentary group left the faction "Our Ukraine" and joined the Party of Regions in exchange for his appointment as the Minister of Economy in the government of Viktor Yanukovych. This decision led to a parliamentary crisis, and President Viktor Yushchenko dissolved the Verkhovna Rada. Yushchenko expressed disappointment and called it a moral disgrace, as Kinakh had previously stood with him during the Orange Revolution.