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Yuri Anatolievich Boyko- Politician of Ukraine. Boyko is a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the VI and VIII convocations. In the biography of Yuriy Boyko there were positions of the head of NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine (2012-2014), Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine (2010-2012), Minister of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine (2006-2007 and 2010). In his political career, Boyko was the chairman of the Republican Party of Ukraine (2005-2007). From September 2014 to November 20, 2018, Yuriy Boyko was the head of the Opposition Bloc political force and its parliamentary faction. In 2019, Boyko became a presidential candidate in the elections, but failed to reach the second round, finishing 4th.
Childhood and education of Yuri Boyko
Yuri Boyko was born on October 9, 1958 in the mining town of Gorlovka in the Stalin (now Donetsk) region.
Yuri studied at the Gorlovka comprehensive school No. 4. At the same time, he attended a music school in the violin class. He was the only child in the family, according to his biography on Wikipedia.
After graduating from school, Yuri Boyko left for Moscow and entered the Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology. DI. Mendeleev from which he graduated in 1981. Yuri received the specialty of a chemist-technologist.
Yuri Anatolievich Boyko received his second education in 2001, having graduated from the Eastern Ukrainian University (Rubezhansk branch). By the second education, Boyko is a bachelor, an engineer-economist.
Yuriy Boyko's career
Yuri Boyko after the institute received a distribution to the Ruberzhansky chemical plant "Zarya", where he began his career. Yuri Anatolyevich worked at this plant for 18 years (1981-1999) and was able to apply his knowledge in the field of explosives, as he studied at the institute at the faculty that trained specialists for the defense industry.
At first, Yuri Anatolyevich Boyko worked as a foreman of the production site. He successfully moved up the career ladder and eventually rose to the rank of General Director of the enterprise.
Also, Yuri Anatolyevich from June to August 2001 worked as the General Director of the State Enterprise "Ukrvzryvprom", from August 2001 to January 2002 he was the Chairman of the Board of CJSC "Transnational Financial and Industrial Oil Company" Ukrtatnafta "(Kremenchug Oil Refinery).
From February 2002 to March 2005, in the biography of Yuriy Boyko, the position of head of the board of the National Joint Stock Company Naftogaz of Ukraine. According to Boyko, he was recommended to this position by the then Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Dubina. At the same time, Boyko was the State Secretary of the Ministry of Fuel and Energy, and since June 2003, the First Deputy Minister of Fuel and Energy. Yuriy Boyko became a civil servant of the 3rd rank in 2004.
During the period of management of Naftogaz, Yuriy Boyko noted an increase in the company's income, the closing of debts for gas and successful cooperation with foreign suppliers. But after the "orange revolution" in 2005, Boyko was fired.
Political career of Yuri Boyko
While making a career as a civil servant, Yuriy Boyko simultaneously began to show himself as a politician. From 2001 to 2004 he was in the ranks of the party Sergei Tigipko Labor Ukraine. In 2005, Boyko became the leader of the Republican Party of Ukraine. In the parliamentary elections in March 2006, his party was part of the opposition bloc "Ne Tak!". Boyko went under number 5 on the list of the block.
In 2006-2007, Yuriy Boyko was the Minister of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine in the government Viktor Yanukovych.
In 2007, Yuri Anatolyevich became a member of the Party of Regions and stayed in it until 2014. At the same time, since 2008, Yuriy Boyko has been the deputy head of the Party of Regions, and his biography also included the position of head of the Kyiv regional party organization.
In the 2007 parliamentary elections, Yuriy Boyko entered the Verkhovna Rada on the list of the Party of Regions (No. 49).
In parliament, Boyko was deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on the Fuel and Energy Complex, Nuclear Policy and Nuclear Safety.
In 2010, Yuri Anatolyevich resigned as a deputy in connection with a new milestone in his biography. From March 11, 2010 to December 24, 2012 in his career - the position of Minister of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine.
From December 24, 2012 to February 27, 2014 Yuriy Boyko is the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine. In this position, Boyko oversaw issues of ecology, natural resources, energy, coal mining and industrial policy.
Criticism of Yuri Boyko
Under Yanukovych, political opponents of the Party of Regions, in particular, Alexander Turchinov and Yulia Timoshenko Yuriy Boyko was accused of inflicting billions of dollars in damages to Ukraine due to a fraudulent scheme for the supply of Turkmen gas through the fictitious company EURAL TG, agreed with Naftogaz Ukrainy and Gazprom. Yuriy Boyko himself denied his involvement in this scheme.
A big scandal during the work of Yuriy Boyko in the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine broke out in 2011, when Chornomorneftegaz, controlled by the ministry, bought a Singapore-made drilling platform through an intermediary - the British company Highway Investments Processing, the second platform was also purchased not from the manufacturer directly. In the news of the Ukrainian media, the platforms were called "Boyko's towers".
In 2014, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine launched a pre-trial investigation, but on September 15, 2016, the department reported that the investigation had not established the facts of signing documents on the procurement of the so-called "Boyko towers" on behalf of Yuriy Boyko.
Also, Yuriy Boyko was declared the owner of RosUkrEnergo AG (RosUkrEnergo AG, RUE), this was also evidenced by WikiLeaks data. Boyko himself stated that he had never been among the founders of RosUkrEnergo.
Yuri Boyko's career after Euromaidan
On March 27, 2014, Yuriy Boyko was registered as a candidate for the presidency of Ukraine in the early elections of 2014, in the election program he proposed to give the Russian language the status of the state language, close economic integration with the European Union and the development of trade and industrial relations with Russia and the countries of the Customs Union.
In the elections, Boyko took 14th place with a score of 0.19% of the vote.
In September 2014, Yuri Anatolyevich Boyko headed the political force "Opposition Bloc", and in the parliamentary elections on October 26, 2014 - its electoral list. The "opposition bloc" entered the parliament and formed a faction in the Verkhovna Rada of the 8th convocation, headed by Boyko.
In February 2015, together with a party member Yuri Voropaev Yuriy Boyko proposed a bill to resolve the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine, which included direct negotiations with the Russian Federation, the involvement of a peacekeeping contingent and an appeal to the UN to disengage the warring parties, the resumption of social payments in territories that are not controlled by the Ukrainian authorities, i.e. DNR and LNR.
In Rada Boyko participated in a number of fights and brawls.
Fame gained video in which Yuriy Boyko hit Oleg Lyashko after he called him a "Kremlin agent". This fight took place on November 14, 2016.
Also, Yuriy Boyko, as a representative of the Opposition Bloc, from time to time spoke in the media criticizing the Ukrainian authorities. In May 2018, he stated that the authorities of the "square" left their citizens with only two ways - to die or emigrate.
He also said that now the authorities are preparing Ukrainians for another increase in prices for gas and utilities, and also plan to reduce the number of recipients of subsidies, which will ultimately lead to the complete impoverishment of the country's population.
2019 presidential election
On the eve of the 2019 presidential elections on November 9, 2018, Boyko's "Opposition Bloc" and the "For Life" party Vadim Rabinovich signed an agreement on cooperation in the presidential elections in Ukraine and the parliamentary elections of 2019 called "Opposition Platform - For Life".
“Having formulated strategic tasks, we moved from words to deeds and proved that where it comes to saving the people from tariff genocide, debt bondage, the policy of“ predatory nationalism ”there is no place for ambitions and political egoism,” commented the chairman of the political council of the party Viktor Medvedchuk. According to him, the "Opposition Platform - For Life" association in the presidential, parliamentary and local elections will represent "the interests of the inhabitants of the South-East, the Russian-speaking population and all those who understand the need for a radical change in the policy of the current government."
Vadim Novinsky and Boris Kolesnikov stated that the agreement was a personal initiative of Boyko.
On November 18, it became known that Yuriy Boyko would be the only candidate from the Opposition Platform - For Life in the presidential elections in Ukraine.
“I have to protect the voters, and not only the South or the East, but already the entire country from the current regime,” Boyko was quoted in the news.
On November 20, 2018, news came that the Opposition Bloc faction had expelled ex-co-chair Yuriy Boyko and ex-deputy chairman of the faction from their ranks Sergei Levochkin with the wording "for betraying the interests of the voter."
After that, Yuriy Boyko announced that he was starting the creation of a new deputy group, which could become the largest in the parliament. “The ‘opposition bloc’ remains in the past. We go further and create a deputy group "Opposition Platform - For Life". Such a parliamentary group will be created in the parliament in the near future,” Boyko said, accusing his ex-colleagues of working for President Poroshenko. Yuriy Boyko added that part of the opposition bloc members, as well as deputies from other groups and factions, would also join the newly created parliamentary group.
According to a survey conducted in September 2018 by the Rating sociological group, the presidential rating of Ukraine is headed by the leader of the Batkivshchyna party, Yulia Tymoshenko. 13.2% of Ukrainians are ready to vote for it. In second place on the list was the actor and producer Vladimir Zelensky- his candidacy is supported by 7.8% of the residents of the "square". 6.8% of respondents are ready to vote for the current leader Petro Poroshenko.
Yuriy Boyko was fifth on the list with a score of 5.7%.
In December, the Institute for Analysis and Forecasting, together with the Sotsioprognoz analytical group, announced the following results of the opinion poll. Yulia Tymoshenko has 24.5% of support, 13.1% of voters are ready to vote for the candidate from the Opposition Platform - For Life, Yuriy Boyko, and the same number for the incumbent President Petro Poroshenko.
In the news of Ukraine in January, it was written that Yuriy Boyko could eventually run for president as a self-nominated candidate, which was called the result of bad relations in the Opposition Platform - For Life.
Yuriy Boyko indeed submitted documents to the Central Election Commission of Ukraine for registration as a candidate for the presidency as a self-nominated candidate. He called the reason that there was no congress of the Opposition Platform - For Life, and the movement has not yet been registered as a political party. “But it [the movement] will support me, just like it supports more than 20 public organizations. The fact that in the near future there will be a forum of the Opposition Platform - For Life, which will also support me as a candidate, is true. There is no split, there are no problems between our political forces and within the team, ”Yury Boyko was quoted in the news.
Yuriy Boyko called the end of the conflict in Donbass a top priority of the election program.
“I have a very clear program. First of all, it corresponds to what the Ukrainians want. The first is the end of the war in the east ( in Donbass - ed.). To this end, we are ready to conduct direct negotiations. I believe that this is the only way to achieve peace - the return of territories and people. There should be mediation, but negotiations should be direct,” Yuriy Boyko said on the air of the 112 Ukraine TV channel.
On March 22, Yuri Boyko and Viktor Medvedchuk, Chairman of the Political Council of the Opposition Platform - For Life, met with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller in Moscow.
According to Medvedchuk, in the future it would be right to create a gas transportation consortium that would take into account the interests of all three market participants: Gazprom as a supplier, European consumers and Ukraine as a supplier of transit services, RIA Novosti reported.
The reaction of the Ukrainian authorities to the meeting in Moscow was not long in coming. Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko decided to open a criminal case, and the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the “square” Arsen Avakov criticized Boyko and Medvedchuk for their visit to Russia. Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman demanded an inspection of how politicians crossed the border.
“I instruct the State Aviation Service, border guards, UkSATSE to check who acted and within what borders, where violations of the law of Ukraine were committed,” he stressed.
After that, Ukrainian nationalists threw firecrackers and fireworks at Medvedchuk's house.
Elections in Ukraine in 2019, results
As early as the afternoon of March 31, data from the first exit polls of the presidential elections in Ukraine appeared in the news. Journalist Mustafa Nayem cited the results of five polls at once. Since, according to Ukrainian law, it is forbidden to publish the results of exit polls before the end of the voting, the authors place them under the guise of “marketing research on the alcohol preferences of Ukrainians”, and the candidates in them are encrypted under the guise of brands of alcoholic beverages.
Vladimir Zelensky corresponds to ZeBrovka, Petro Poroshenko - chocolate liqueur, Yulia Tymoshenko - Widow Clicquot, and Yuri Boyko - Moscow vodka Boykaya.
According to the results of these polls, the first round was won by Zelensky, for whom from 26.8% to 28.8% of the voters cast their votes. Four out of five polls showed that Zelensky's opponent in the second round will be the incumbent President Poroshenko with a score of 17.43% to 20.5%.
Later, the results of the national exit poll in the presidential elections in Ukraine became known. According to the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation, the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology and the Oleksandr Razumkov Ukrainian Center for Economic and Political Studies, Vladimir Zelensky and Petro Poroshenko are entering the second round.
Ukrainian presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko said that according to opinion polls from her camp, she is going to the second round of elections. As reported in the news of the Ukrainian media, according to these polls, 27% voted for Vladimir Zelensky, 20.9% for Tymoshenko, and 17.5% for Petro Poroshenko.
On April 2, the Central Election Commission of Ukraine confirmed the exit of the showman and head of the Servant of the People party Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as the current president of the country, Petro Poroshenko, to the second round of elections. After processing 99% of the protocols, Zelensky won 30.22% of the vote, Poroshenko - 15.93%. Yulia Tymoshenko came third with a score of 13.4%.
Yuriy Boyko took fourth place in the presidential elections - he scored 11.68% of the vote.
In the parliamentary elections in the summer of 2019, the party of President Vladimir Zelensky won - the Servant of the People won 43.16% of the vote. "Opposition Platform - For Life" took second place with 13.05% of the vote.
Yulia Tymoshenko's Batkivshchyna party with 8.18% and former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's European Solidarity party with 8.10% of the vote fell behind Medvedchuk and Boyko's strength.
Personal life of Yuri Boyko
Yuri Boyko is married to Vera Boyko since my student years. Vera Dmitrievna Boyko is a master of sports in gymnastics. We met while studying at the institute, studied in the same group. The family of Yuri Boyko has three sons and three daughters.
Yuri Anatolyevich Boyko was born on October 9, 1958 in Gorlovka, Donetsk region, Ukrainian SSR. From 1975 to 1981 he studied at the Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology named after D. I. Mendeleev, specializing in chemistry and technology of organic nitrogen compounds.
In 1981, Boyko returned to Ukraine - according to the distribution, he was sent to work in the city of Rubizhne, Lugansk region, at the Zarya chemical plant, which had the status of a defense enterprise. He worked at this chemical plant until 1999, during which time he rose from the foreman of the production site to the general director. When, in the late 1980s, technologist Boyko was offered the position of second secretary of the city committee of the CPSU in the city of Rubizhnoye, he went on a business trip to avoid being appointed to a party position.
From June 1999 to May 2001, Boyko worked as chairman of the board and general director of OAO Lisichansknefteorgsintez. At the same time, he was a member of Serhiy Tigipko's Labor Ukraine party.
In 2001, Boyko graduated from the Eastern Ukrainian University with a degree in economics and entrepreneurship, received a bachelor's degree and a diploma in engineering economics. For some time he worked as the general director of the state corporation Ukrvzryvprom. In August 2001, Boyko became the chairman of the board of CJSC Ukrtatnafta, created on the basis of the Kremenchug oil refinery.
In January 2002, Boyko was appointed Chairman of the Board of the National Joint Stock Company Naftogaz of Ukraine and Deputy State Secretary of the Ministry of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine. In August 2003, Boyko was appointed First Deputy Minister of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine in the government of Viktor Yanukovych, retaining the post of Chairman of the Board of NJSC Naftogaz Ukrainy. In August 2004, Boyko was awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine.
In March 2005, Boyko was dismissed from the posts of First Deputy Minister of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine and Chairman of the Board of NJSC Naftogaz Ukrainy at the initiative of the new head of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko. In April 2005, Boyko was unanimously elected chairman of the Republican Party of Ukraine (RPU) at the party's founding congress. After unsuccessful negotiations on creating a coalition with the "People's Bloc of Lytvyn," the RPU entered the bloc of Leonid Kravchuk "Not TAK!" and Boyko took fifth place in the electoral list of this association. In March 2006, during the parliamentary elections, the Not TAK! received only 1.01 percent of the vote and fell short of the electoral threshold.
In August 2006, by a resolution of the Verkhovna Rada, Boyko was appointed Minister of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine in the new government of Yanukovych. Boyko personally negotiated with Gazprom on the supply of natural gas to the territory of Ukraine. In the same year, information appeared about Boyko's involvement in the creation of RosUkrEnergo AG, an intermediary selling Russian gas in Ukraine. In addition, Boyko was called a person who is on friendly terms with RosUkrEnergo shareholder Dmitry Firtash (45 percent of the company's shares). As early as March 2007, the opposition demanded the resignation of the minister. In the draft resolution "On overcoming the threat to the energy and national security of Ukraine associated with the activities of RosUkrEnergo and affiliated structures," she declared the work of the Cabinet of Ministers in the oil and gas complex to be unsatisfactory and demanded to start negotiations with the Russian government on breaking the agreements concluded earlier between NJSC Naftogaz Ukraine" and RosUkrEnergo.
In August 2007, at the fifth congress of the Republican Party of Ukraine, a decision was made to resign Boyko from the post of chairman of the party and on the process of unification with the Party of Regions. The congress decided on the refusal of the RPU to participate in early parliamentary elections as an independent subject of the electoral process and recommended its members to support the Party of Regions.
Best of the day
Boyko took part in the parliamentary elections held on September 30, 2007, entering at number 49 on the list of the Party of Regions. Yanukovych's party received 34.37 percent of the vote in the elections and took first place among the five blocs and parties that entered parliament. However, the Party of Regions and its potential allies - the Communist Party of Ukraine and the Lytvyn Bloc - lacked several deputy mandates to form a parliamentary majority and the subsequent formation of a government, and the coalition was formed by the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and the Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense bloc. Accordingly, Boyko could not count on a place in the Cabinet of Ministers for the new Prime Minister Tymoshenko. On December 18, 2007 Tymoshenko was elected prime minister. On the same day, the Verkhovna Rada approved the composition of the Cabinet of Ministers proposed by Tymoshenko, in which Yury Prodan took over the Minister of Fuel and Energy. In the Verkhovna Rada, Boyko continued to work "on the profile", taking the post of deputy head of the parliamentary committee on fuel and energy complex issues.
In 2007, Boyko entered the "Top 100" of the most influential people in Ukraine of the magazine "Korrespondent", taking 25th place. According to the magazine "Focus", in the same year he took 11th position in the ranking of "200 Most Influential Ukrainians". Boyko's financial situation can be judged from the income statement, according to which in 2006 he and his family members received 9.6 million hryvnias in total income. The Boyko family has three apartments (113 square meters, 256 square meters and 220.3 square meters) and two residential buildings (30 square meters and 444.8 square meters).
In his free time, Boyko goes in for sports: he is fond of hockey, together with his friends he organized a hockey team. In addition, the politician plays football, loves skiing, water skiing and windsurfing.
Boyko is married and has six children.
And there is someone to choose from. A record number of candidates, numbering in dozens, have declared for the post of head of the country. Among them are politicians, military men, businessmen and showmen. Yuriy Boyko, against the general background, looks solid and traditional: having experience in political activity and holding senior positions in the government, the man inspires the confidence of a significant proportion of voters.
Childhood and youth
Yuri Anatolyevich Boyko hails from Gorlovka, an eastern city in Ukraine now controlled by the DPR. The future politician was born on October 9, 1958 and became the only son in the family of Ukrainian nationality. The boy studied at the city secondary school No. 4, while simultaneously attending a music school in the violin class.
facebookHaving received a certificate, Yuri went to the capital, where he became a student at the Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology, graduating in 1981. Later, already in 2001, the man will receive a second higher education with a degree in engineering and economics at the East Ukrainian National University.
Having received a distribution in 1981 to the industrial city of Rubizhne (now the territory of the Luhansk region), the graduate began to build a production career at the Zarya plant. The defense enterprise produced chemical explosives. Boyko started as a foreman and, having worked at Zarya for 18 years, eventually became the director of the plant.
Career and politics
Building a career as a manager at an enterprise, Yuri Anatolyevich had the opportunity to simultaneously move up the party ladder of the CPSU, but he abandoned it and began political activity only in the early 2000s. By that time, the man was already in charge of Ukrvzryvprom and served as chairman of the board of oil refineries in Lysichansk, and then Kremenchug.
facebook In 2001-2004, Boyko defends the interests of the Working Ukraine party and at the same time is a key figure in the country's fuel and energy industry, since 2003 he has become deputy minister in this area, and by 2006 he has entered the powers of the minister. Yuri Anatolyevich changed party affiliation several times, in different years being a member of the Republican Party, the Party of Regions and the Opposition Bloc.
Boyko's government career is on the rise: in 2012, a man becomes Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, in charge of economic reforms and a block of natural resources. He holds the position until the end of his presidential term in 2014. The official was in charge of environmental issues and problems of energy and fuel industry.
Boyko made his first attempt to run for president in 2014, and the election program was already focused on strengthening Russian-Ukrainian economic and political ties.
Fight between Yuri Boyko and Oleg LyashkoIn September 2014, as part of the Opposition Bloc, Yuri Anatolyevich passes to the Verkhovna Rada, where he speaks with a bill to resolve the military conflict in Eastern Ukraine. During a meeting of parliament in November 2016, Boyko entered into a verbal skirmish with a representative of the Radical Party, which turned into a fight. The conflicting parties got off with a verbal warning.
A stain on the biography of the politician was accusations of corrupt deals to acquire oil and gas rigs. However, an official statement from the prosecutor's office in 2106 denied the fact of Boyko's participation in dubious operations.
Personal life
Future wife Vera Dmitrievna met Yuri Anatolyevich in his student years. They studied on the same course and lived in the same hostel. An attractive girl mastered the non-female profession of a specialist in chemical defense, while she was a master of sports in gymnastics. Young people were friends for 2 years, and then decided to get married. Vera and Yuri graduated from the institute, already being a family.
The couple dreamed that they would have many children, and fate favored them. Despite the fact that the newlyweds lived for the first time in a hostel, they were not afraid of difficulties. The first-born Anatoly was born in Gorlovka, 2 years later the daughter of Yaroslav was born, over time, Yuri, Nikolai, Ulyana and Maria were added to them. The politician willingly shares an idyllic picture of his personal life and family photos with journalists.
Portrait of Yuri Boyko / Boyko Yuri Anatolyevich was born on October 9, 1958 in Gorlovka, Donetsk region. He grew up with his parents alone, studied at the Gorlovka secondary school No. 4.
He studied music, played the violin. Yuriy Boyko prefers not to talk about his parents.
In 1981 he graduated from the Moscow Chemical-Technological Institute. Mendeleev. From 1981 to 1999, he worked as the director of the Zarya plant, which produced explosives for the military industry.
Then he was appointed head of LiNos in Lugansk, one of the largest oil refineries, where he worked until April 2001.
After which he moved to Kyiv and in August 2001 became the executive director of UkrTatneft, a joint Ukrainian-Tatar oil company.
In 2001, he received a diploma of an engineer-economist from the Rubezhansky branch of the East Ukrainian State University.
On December 24, 2012, by Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 728/2012, he was appointed Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine.
On March 26, 2014, he submitted documents to the Central Election Commission for registration as a candidate for the presidency of Ukraine.
Since November 2014, the People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the VIII convocation.
On November 20, 2018, Yuriy Boyko was expelled "for betraying the interests of voters" from the Opposition Bloc faction in the Verkhovna Rada. The place of Boyko, who headed the faction in the Rada, was taken by Vadim Novinsky.
On July 21, 2019, Yuriy Boyko was elected to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 9th convocation on the list of the Opposition Platform - For Life party, 1st on the list.
Family and connections
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Boyko family Wife - Vera Dmitrievna. The couple are raising 3 sons - Anatoly, Yuri and Nikolai and 3 daughters - Yaroslav, Ulyana and Maria. The eldest son - Anatoly graduated from the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. In 2006, Yuriy Boyko, either as a daughter, or as a relative (niece), was attributed to Alena Berezovskaya (Boyko's real name), scandalously famous for her friendship with the President of Ukraine Yanukovych Viktor Fedorovich. As it turned out a few years later, Alena Berezovskaya still has a real father - Alexander Zelmanovich Boyko - chairman of the supervisory board of Dneprovagonremstroy OJSC, president of the South Industrial Investment Group corporation, member of the board of trustees of the Dnepropetrovsk Jewish community, chairman of the Zalman International Fund, candidate of technical Sciences, Honored Railway Worker of the Republic of Belarus, Academician of the International Academy of Information, etc., etc. A close family connection between Alena Boyko-Berezovskaya and Yuriy Boyko arose in connection with the participation of Alena (still as a student at a pedagogical university) in Vanco International Ltd. She, along with three other young students, acted as the founders of a structure with an authorized capital of $ 12 million, which claims to seize oil and gas fields on the Black Sea coastal shelf in an area of about 13 thousand square meters. km. |
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Private bussiness
political creed
On April 23, 2005, at the I (constituent) congress of the Republican Party of Ukraine (RPU), he was unanimously (all 500 delegates “for”) elected head of the RPU Council. At the congress, he proposed to introduce the election of chairmen of state regional administrations of Ukraine and hold referendums on Ukraine's accession to NATO, the European Union and the Common Economic Space (CES), as well as on the status of the Russian language. In 2006, he ran for the parliament of the 5th convocation on the list of the Opposition Bloc NOT TAK!, created on the basis of the SDPU (o) (the leader was Viktor Medvedchuk, the former head of the Administration of President Leonid Kuchma). The bloc did not get enough votes.
Gas
In 1999-2001, he was Chairman of the Board of JSC Lisichansknefteorgsintez (LiNOS). After that - General Director of SE "Ukrvzryvprom", Chairman of the Board of CJSC "Transnational financial and industrial oil company" Ukrtatnafta ". From February 2002 to March 2005, he was the head of NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine. Yuriy Boyko says that he was recommended for this position by the then Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Dubina. “We had similar positions in life, in addition, I had good business relations with him,” says Yuri Anatolyevich (“Fakty”, June 24, 2005). Heading the NAC, Boyko picked up his own management team. Igor Braginsky remained in the key position of the department responsible for the purchase of Turkmen gas and payments on them. Working with Braginsky, Vladimir Belogorlov was in charge of transporting Turkmen gas. Braginsky, a close associate of Bakai, began his career in the gas business during the days of Respublika and Intergaz, and is considered a professional in the field. Since Boyko's team successfully coped with the task of managing Naftogaz, on November 16, 2002, President Kuchma dismissed the government of Anatoly Kinakh under the pretext that it could not cope with the financing of education and science. Minister of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine: 2006-2007, since March 2010.
Criminal case
In 2005, the then head of the SBU, Oleksandr Turchynov, announced that his department was investigating a criminal case into causing billions in losses to Ukraine due to a fraudulent scheme for supplying Turkmen gas through the fictitious company EURAL TG, agreed with Naftogaz Ukrainy and Gazprom. At the same time, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko accused the former leadership of Naftogaz Ukrainy of involvement in the story of the "disappearance" of 8 billion cubic meters. m of Gazprom's gas in the winter of 2004-2005. Yuriy Boyko, of course, denied his involvement in this criminal scheme. As you know, it was not possible to implement the criminal case. Viktor Yushchenko, then President of Ukraine, hastily dismissed the Cabinet of Ministers of Yulia Tymoshenko. The former head of the SBU and Tymoshenko's ally, Oleksandr Turchynov, in an interview with one of the TV channels, commenting on Wikileaks data, said:
| “We had separate information, investigated the issue of RosUkrEnergo and corruption in the gas market ... As soon as we started real investigations, interrogations, investigative actions, I started a conflict with Yushchenko, which ended with the resignation of our government (in 2005) and my resignation from position of head of the SBU,” he said. |
In May 2007, the All-Ukrainian Association of Regional Gas Distribution Companies announced that the Ministry of Fuel and Energy, headed by Yuriy Boyko, wants to bring regional gas distribution companies (oblgases) to bankruptcy in the interests of RosUkrEnergo or Ukrgaz-Energo.
RosUkrEnergo
The company "RosUkrEnergo AG" (RosUkrEnergo AG, RUE) is a company for the resale of natural gas in Ukraine, as well as Eastern and Central Europe. The authorized capital of the joint venture is $35,000, registered in the canton of Zug in 2004. Registered in Switzerland as a joint venture of two financial institutions - the Gazprombank Group (which owns a 50% stake in the JV through ARosgas Holding A.G. registered in Switzerland) and Centragas Holding, the actual co-owners of which are Ukrainian citizens Dmitry Firtash (90%) and Ivan Fursin (ten%).
In May 2005, the US Department of Justice completed its investigation into RosUkrEnergo. Among its owners, the Americans named Yuri Boyk and Russian businessman Semyon Mogilevich. This is confirmed by WikiLeaks documents that were published in Ukraine. Boyko, paired with Firtash, are proteges of the “Red Don” (according to the classification of Western intelligence services) Syoma Mogilevich. In October 2006, Yulia Tymoshenko, on the air of 1 + 1, demonstrated documents that testify to Boyko's involvement in the creation of RosUkrEnergo, an intermediary that sells Russian gas in Ukraine. The journalists got them. Ukrayinska Pravda managed to find indisputable evidence of close and literally very trusting relations between Yuriy Boyko and one of the co-owners of RosUkrEnergo, Dmitry Firtash, not in the archives of the Swiss cantons, and not in the database of Cypriot banks, but in the usual electronic archive of the Ukrainian notary. On December 13, 2005, one of the Kyiv notaries signed a general power of attorney with the following content:
| I, citizen Firtash Dmitry Vasilyevich, on the basis of a verbal preliminary agreement, authorize citizen Boyko Yuriy Anatolyevich to be my representative in the notaries of Ukraine, insurance companies, credit (banking) institutions of Ukraine, their branches, in all local authorities of state registration of rights, land resources authorities of Ukraine or in any other state bodies, institutions, enterprises or organizations, regardless of their subordination and forms of ownership, with all the necessary powers to manage and dispose of all property belonging to me, both movable and immovable, no matter what it consists of and wherever it is was. To do this, he is granted the right: to draw up on the terms and at a price at his own discretion all agreements, contracts and other legal relations permitted by law ... |
Under the document, next to the notary's signature, is Dmitry Firtash's autograph.
Business communication between Dima and Yura began in 2003
Their mutual friend told Ukrayinska Pravda about the personal relationship between the co-owner of RosUkrEnergo and the Minister of Fuel and Energy:
| Business communication between Dima and Yura began back in 2003, when the Eural Trans Gas company replaced Itera. Boyko then headed Naftogaz. Every month they coordinated the volumes of deliveries, signed acts of reconciliation, and in the early 2000s, when Ukraine often disrupted the gas payment schedule, they coordinated the payment schedules, - the source said, - then, apparently, their official relations grew into human ones. For example, I know that Yura and his wife visited the Firtash at home, and invited them to his place. |
“I have never been among the founders, and it is news to me that RosUkrEnergo is a joint-stock company,” Boyko says (NTN, January 25, 2006). In addition to purely business relations, Firtash has family relations with the new minister for the fuel and energy sector: Boyko and the ex-wife of the gas oligarch Marina Kalinovskaya baptized children together. And in 2005, Boyko was the official representative of Firtash at the process of breaking up the marriage with Kalinovskaya. Firtash even issued Boiko a power of attorney to manage his assets.
Hero of Ukraine
According to Ukrayinska Pravda, at one time, heading Naftogaz, it was Boyko who developed the entire scheme of the intermediary company's activities and was a member of the RUE coordinating council. In August 2004, "for the complete settlement of Ukraine's gas debt to the Russian Federation," Yuriy Boyko was awarded the title of "Hero of Ukraine" and the Order of Power. He was also awarded the Order of Turkmenistan for the full repayment of the Ukrainian debt for gas.
Yanukovych-appointed minister Boyko sparks protest
Newly appointed Energy Minister Yuriy Boyko has a very controversial reputation. The EU is concerned about the possible return of intermediaries to the sphere of gas trade between Ukraine and Russia and the rejection of reforms in the gas sector of Ukraine, writes Roman Olearchyk in the British Financial Times. Ukraine's new president, Viktor Yanukovych, has come under fire after the coalition government he formed last week installed a controversial businessman and politician in charge of the energy sector, which includes the all-important gas transit from Russia to the European Union. The appointment of Yuriy Boyko as Minister of Energy provoked a storm of protests from opposition leaders. They condemned the move, which they see as a takeover of energy policy by a group of businessmen linked to RosUkrEnergo, a Swiss-registered trading company that until last year played a key role in gas transit.
Empire
Estates
The former "regional" and current leader of the "Opposition Bloc" Yuriy Boyko built himself a huge wooden house near Kyiv in the best traditions of Russian folk tales.
“Some kind of Emelyaland. You can take Boyko out of the Russian world, but how can you take the Russian world out of Boyko? This branch of the Russian folk tale near Kyiv is almost completed, the estate of the owner of the towers, Yuri Boyko, ”the journalists wrote.
Corruption scandals
May 2011
With the knowledge of the Minister for Fuel and Energy Yuriy Boyko, a fraud was committed with a state purchase for $150 million. This conclusion was reached by the journalists of the publication ZN, following the fate of the tender for the purchase of an offshore drilling rig.
The publication claims that the drilling rig, which could have been bought for $248.5 million, was eventually purchased by Chornomorneftegaz for $400 million. “150 million margin on one purchase!”, The publication says.
Only two companies participated in the tender, the management of which mentions the same director: Latvian entrepreneur Eric Vanagels,
Derrick
As a result of the journalists of the newspaper “Zerkalo Nedeli. Ukraine” of the investigation, it is known that Ukraine, having bought a drilling rig for $400 million, overpaid $150 million for it. Moreover, based on the results of the investigation, it becomes clear that this happened not because of the bungling of officials, but quite deliberately.
| Reference: Funds for a floating drilling rig for Chernomorneftegaz were transferred to Trasta Komercbanka. Ukrayinska Pravda managed to find out that Trasta Komercbanka is a joint business of a citizen of Latvia Igor Buimister and a group of unnamed persons, most likely Ukrainian beneficiaries of the RosUkrEnergo group, where their shares are divided in an approximate proportion of 50% to 50%. Buymister directly owns 43% of the bank's shares. Another 9.31% is owned by Briton Charles Edward Treherne, who, as of March 2011, was deputy head of the supervisory board of the Austrian company Centragas, which owned 50% in RosUkrEnergo. Until recently, Treherne was even a member of the bank's supervisory board, and now he is an adviser to the head of the board. That is, it has been integrated into Trasta Komercbanka for a long time. The remaining shares of Trasta Komercbanka are scattered among companies from Latvia, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Cyprus, which hid their ownership very systematically. The ultimate beneficiaries of Centragas, to which Treherne is involved, are citizens of Ukraine |
Biography
Yuri Anatolyevich Boyko was born on October 9, 1958 in Gorlovka, Donetsk region, Ukrainian SSR. From 1975 to 1981 he studied at the Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology named after D. I. Mendeleev, specializing in chemistry and technology of organic nitrogen compounds.
In 1981, Boyko returned to Ukraine - according to the distribution, he was sent to work in the city of Rubizhne, Lugansk region, at the Zarya chemical plant, which had the status of a defense enterprise. He worked at this chemical plant until 1999, during which time he rose from the foreman of the production site to the general director. Rumor has it that when at the end of the 1980s the technologist Yu. Boyko was offered the position of 2nd secretary of the city committee of the CPSU of the city of Rubizhnoye, he went on a business trip to avoid being appointed to a party position.
From June 1999 to May 2001, Boyko worked as chairman of the board and general director of OAO Lisichansknefteorgsintez.
At the same time, he was a member of Serhiy Tigipko's Labor Ukraine party.
In 2001, Boyko graduated from the Eastern Ukrainian University with a degree in economics and entrepreneurship, received a bachelor's degree and a diploma in engineering economics. For some time he worked as the general director of the state corporation Ukrvzryvprom. In August 2001, Boyko became the chairman of the board of CJSC Ukrtatnafta, created on the basis of the Kremenchug oil refinery.
In January 2002, Boyko was appointed Chairman of the Board of the National Joint Stock Company Naftogaz of Ukraine and Deputy State Secretary of the Ministry of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine. In August 2003, Boyko was appointed First Deputy Minister of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine in the government of Viktor Yanukovych, retaining the post of Chairman of the Board of NJSC Naftogaz Ukrainy. In August 2004, Boyko was awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine.
In March 2005, Boyko was dismissed from the posts of First Deputy Minister of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine and Chairman of the Board of NJSC Naftogaz Ukrainy at the initiative of the new head of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko. In April 2005, Boyko was unanimously elected chairman of the Republican Party of Ukraine (RPU) at the party's founding congress. After unsuccessful negotiations on creating a coalition with the "People's Bloc of Lytvyn", the RPU joined Leonid Kravchuk's "Not TAK!" bloc, and Boyko took fifth place in the electoral list of this association. In March 2006, during the parliamentary elections, the Not TAK! received only 1.01 percent of the vote and fell short of the electoral threshold.
In August 2006, by a resolution of the Verkhovna Rada, Boyko was appointed Minister of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine in the new government of Yanukovych. Boyko personally negotiated with Gazprom on the supply of natural gas to the territory of Ukraine. In the same year, information appeared about Boyko's involvement in the creation of RosUkrEnergo AG, an intermediary selling Russian gas in Ukraine. In addition, Boyko was called a person who is on friendly terms with RosUkrEnergo shareholder Dmitry Firtash (45 percent of the company's shares). As early as March 2007, the opposition demanded the resignation of the minister. In the draft resolution "On overcoming the threat to the energy and national security of Ukraine associated with the activities of RosUkrEnergo and affiliated structures," she declared the work of the Cabinet of Ministers in the oil and gas complex to be unsatisfactory and demanded to start negotiations with the Russian government on breaking the agreements concluded earlier between NJSC Naftogaz Ukraine" and RosUkrEnergo.
In August 2007, at the fifth congress of the Republican Party of Ukraine, a decision was made to resign Boyko from the post of chairman of the party and on the process of unification with the Party of Regions. The congress decided on the refusal of the RPU to participate in early parliamentary elections as an independent subject of the electoral process and recommended its members to support the Party of Regions.
Boyko took part in the parliamentary elections held on September 30, 2007, entering at number 49 on the list of the Party of Regions. Yanukovych's party received 34.37 percent of the vote in the elections and took first place among the five blocs and parties that entered parliament. However, the Party of Regions and its potential allies - the Communist Party of Ukraine and the Lytvyn Bloc - lacked several deputy mandates to form a parliamentary majority and the subsequent formation of a government, and the coalition was formed by the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and the Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense bloc. Accordingly, Boyko could not count on a place in the Cabinet of Ministers for the new Prime Minister Tymoshenko. On December 18, 2007 Tymoshenko was elected prime minister. On the same day, the Verkhovna Rada approved the composition of the Cabinet of Ministers proposed by Tymoshenko, in which Yury Prodan took over the Minister of Fuel and Energy. In the Verkhovna Rada, Boyko continued to work "on the profile", taking the post of deputy head of the parliamentary committee on fuel and energy complex issues.
In April 2008, Boyko was elected chairman of the Federation of Employers of Ukraine (FUE) and immediately announced his intention to fight the "ill-conceived and adventurous" decisions of the cabinet of ministers. At the same time, the government entered into an agreement with the FRU that, without the consent of the federation, it would not make decisions that could affect the operation of large enterprises.
In September 2008, Boyko became one of the deputy chairmen of the Party of Regions.
After Yanukovych's victory in the second round of the presidential elections in February 2010 and the formation of a new parliamentary coalition, on March 11, 2010, Boyko was appointed Minister of Fuel and Energy in the new government of Mykola Azarov.
On December 9, 2010, Yanukovych announced an administrative reform, as a result of which the number of government members was reduced from 36 to 17, and the number of executive bodies was also almost halved. Boyko as a result of the reform was appointed Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine.
In 2007, Boyko entered the "Top 100" of the most influential people in Ukraine of the magazine "Korrespondent", taking 25th place. According to the magazine "Focus", in the same year he took 11th position in the ranking of "200 Most Influential Ukrainians". Boyko's financial situation can be judged from the income statement, according to which in 2006 he and his family members received 9.6 million hryvnias in total income. The Boyko family has three apartments (113 square meters, 256 square meters and 220.3 square meters) and two residential buildings (30 square meters and 444.8 square meters).
In his free time, Boyko goes in for sports: he is fond of hockey, together with his friends he organized a hockey team. In addition, the politician plays football, loves skiing, water skiing and windsurfing.
Boyko is married and has six children.
