Viktor Yanukovych

President of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014

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Born 1950
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The Long Breakup
2020

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Updated 2026-06-08

Ukraine's fourth president, driven from office in 2014 after riot police killed nearly 100 protesters on Kyiv's streets. He'd abruptly abandoned an EU agreement parliament had passed, triggering the Euromaidan uprising — then fled to Russia in the night, where he remains in exile under a Ukrainian treason sentence.

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Born 9 July 1950, Yanukovych rose through Donetsk politics as governor from 1997, joined the pro-Russian Party of Regions, and reached for the presidency in 2004. Declared the winner against Viktor Yushchenko, he watched the result collapse under fraud allegations and mass protest — the Orange Revolution — forcing a rerun he lost. He returned in 2010, this time defeating Yulia Tymoshenko in an election international observers called clean. His presidency saw Tymoshenko jailed, press freedom erode, and cronyism deepen. In November 2013 he suddenly withdrew from an EU association agreement parli…

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And another lie from the opposition - there is no revolution underway. And in the current conditions, it is not possible.

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And today I am summoning for talks, just like we did during our [electoral campaign - note] debate, that miscreant Leopold the Cat - Yushchenko.

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(About his opponents) I believe that there are many more strong and healthy people than these assholes who are constantly troubling our lives!

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I don't believe the exit polls. This is some new modern technology that will be rolled out in Ukraine for the first time. And we don't know yet how to manipulate it.

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