| First Yanukovych Government | |
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|  9th Cabinet of Ukraine (since 1990) | |
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| Date formed | 21 November 2002 | 
| Date dissolved | 5 January 2005 | 
| People and organisations | |
| Head of state | Leonid Kuchma | 
| Head of government | Viktor Yanukovych | 
| Deputy head of government | Mykola Azarov | 
| No. of ministers | 20 | 
| Member party | Party of Regions Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) Labour Ukraine | 
| Status in legislature | Majority | 
| Opposition party | Our-Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc | 
| Opposition leader | Viktor Yushchenko Yulia Tymoshenko | 
| History | |
| Legislature term | 5 years | 
| Predecessor | Kinakh government | 
| Successor | First Tymoshenko government | 
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The first Yanukovych Government was the Ukrainian cabinet of ministers between 21 November 2002 and 5 January 2005, led by Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych had been elected Prime Minister of Ukraine with 234 votes, only 8 more than needed.[1]
On December 1, 2004 (during the Orange Revolution) the Ukrainian Parliament passed a vote of no-confidence.[2] The government supported NATO membership of Ukraine (2002) and sent Ukrainian troops to Iraq in 2003.[3]
Composition
Source:[4]
- Viktor Yanukovych – Prime Minister
- Mykola Azarov – First Deputy Prime Minister
- Vitaly Hayduk – Deputy Prime Minister for fuel and energy complex
- Ivan Kyrylenko – Deputy Prime Minister
- Dmytro Tabachnyk – Deputy Prime Minister for humanitarian issues
- Serhy Ryzhuk – Agricultural Policy
- Yury Smirnov – Interior Affairs
- Vasyl Shevchuk – Environment and Natural Resources
- Valery Khoroshkovsky – Economy and European Integration
- Anatoliy Zlenko – Foreign Affairs
- Hryhory Reva – Emergency Situations and Chernobyl Cleanup
- Yury Bohutsky – Culture and the Regions
- General Volodymyr Shkidchenko – Defence
- Vasyl Kremen – Education and Science
- Andry Pidayev – Health
- Oleksandr Lavrynovych – Justice
- Serhy Yermilov – Fuel and Energy
- Mikhail Papiyev – Labour and Social Policy
- Anatoliy Myalytsya – Industrial Policy
- Heorhiy Kirpa – Transport
References
- ↑ Åslund, Anders (2009). How Ukraine became a market economy and democracy. Washington (D.C.): Peterson institute for international economics. p. 153. ISBN 978-0-88132-427-3.
- ↑ "Ukraine's Parliament Passes Vote of No Confidence in Yanukovych Government". Archived from the original on 2009-08-27. Retrieved 2009-06-18.
- ↑ http://www.taraskuzio.net/media20_files/Oxford_Analytica_tmp141.pdf [dead link]
- ↑ UKRAINE COUNTRY ASSESSMENT (PDF) (Report). April 2003.


