First Yanukovych government

First Yanukovych Government
9th Cabinet of Ukraine (since 1990)

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(s)	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^[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
– Agricultural Policy
– Interior Affairs
Vasyl Shevchuk – Environment and Natural Resources
Valery Khoroshkovsky – Economy and European Integration
Anatoliy Zlenko – Foreign Affairs
– Emergency Situations and Chernobyl Cleanup
– Culture and the Regions
General Volodymyr Shkidchenko – Defence
– Education and Science
– Health
Oleksandr Lavrynovych – Justice
– Fuel and Energy
– Labour and Social Policy
– Industrial Policy
Heorhiy Kirpa – Transport

References[]

^ How Ukraine Became a Market Economy and Democracy by Anders Åslund, Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2009, ISBN 978-0-88132-427-3 (page 153)
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-08-27. Retrieved 2009-06-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ http://www.taraskuzio.net/media20_files/Oxford_Analytica_tmp141.pdf^{[dead link]}
^ http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/3f4f25143.pdf^{[bare URL PDF]}

v t All Cabinets of Ukraine*
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Ukrainian SSR (1917–91)	People's Secretariat (1917–18) Provisional Workers' and Peasants' Government (1918–19) Rakovsky I Revolutionary Committee (1919–20) (1920–23) (1923–34) (1934–37) (1937–38) (1938–39) (1939–44) (1944–47) (1948–54) (1954–57) (1957–61) (1961–63) (1963–65) (1965–68) (1968–72) Lyashko I (1972–76) (1976–81) (1981–86) (1987–90)
Ukraine (1991–present)	Fokin (1990–92) Kuchma (1992–93) Masol II (1994–95) (1995–96) (1996–97) Pustovoitenko (1997–99) Yushchenko (1999–2001) Kinakh (2001–02) Yanukovych I (2002–04) Tymoshenko I (2005) Yekhanurov (2005–06) Yanukovych II (2006–07) Tymoshenko II (2007–10) Azarov I (2010–12) Azarov II (2012–14) Yatsenyuk I (2014) Yatsenyuk II (2014–16) Groysman (2016–19) Honcharuk (2019–20) Shmyhal (2020–present)
*Acting cabinets not included

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Events	Declaration of Independence (1991) Budapest memorandum (1994) Constitution (1996) Cassette Scandal (2000) Ukraine without Kuchma (2000–01) Orange Revolution (2004) Constitution amendments (2004) Political crisis (2006) Political crisis (2007) Political crisis (2008) Kharkiv Pact (2010) Cases against Yulia Tymoshenko against supporters (2010) Dictatorship Resistance Committee (2011) Law on languages (2012) 2013–14 Euromaidan Revolution of Dignity 2014 pro-Russian unrest Russo-Ukrainian War Russian intervention and annexation of Crimea War in Donbas
Related articles	Law of Ukraine (legislation) Corruption in Ukraine Ukrainian diaspora

First Yanukovych government

Composition[4][]

References[]

Composition^[4][]