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Mykola V. Tomenko (Ukrainian: Микола Володимирович Томенко) is a Ukrainian politician and statesman. He is a member of Verkhovna Rada for two consecutive convocations (including the one recently elected). In the Parliament he served as the Head of the Freedom of Speech Committee. In 2005, he served as Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine in the cabinet of Yulia Tymoshenko.
Tomenko is a right-centrist politician, currently a member of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. He was also one of the leaders and most notable speakers of the Orange Revolution.
Biography
Mykola Tomenko is one of the few veterans of the Soviet-Afghan War among the Ukrainian elite. Between 1983 and 1985 Tomenko served his conscript service in the Soviet Airborne forces, reaching a rank of Sergeant during the war.
After his military service, in 1989 Tomenko graduated from Kiev University specializing in Ukrainian political history. Shortly after, in 1992 he obtained his PhD Degree defending his thesis on the topic "The issue of the statehood in the program documents and activities of the present-day parties in Ukraine (historic-political analysis)"
During his student years, after being initially a Komsomol activist, Tomenko later became the initiator of the local Komsomol organization's dismissal.
Tomenko began his professional carrier in 1992 at the Institute of National Operation and Self-government as the Head of the Political Science Department. Between 1992-1998 he was the vice-president of the All-Ukrainian Fund “The Ukrainian outlook”, the director of the Institute of Post-communism Society, and the Head of the Politology department in the National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”.
In 1998 he began his political carrier as number 15 in the electoral list of Parliament candidates for Reforms and Order Party, but the party obtained no seat in the Parliament.
In 2002 Tomenko was elected to the Parliament under the list of “Our Ukraine” Block, and in 2006 as a member of Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc.
External links
- Template:En icon Unofficial bio, Ukrayinska Pravda, February 6, 2005.
- Template:Uk icon Tomenko's Institute of Politics
- Template:Uk icon Have Ukraine finally got its own coryphaeus all sciences?, Ukrayinska Pravda, April 22, 2005.
- Template:Ru icon Russia never mastered how to loose gratuitously, a chat with Tomenko at Korresponent.net
- Template:Uk icon A two part Mykola Tomenko interview with Ukrayinska Pravda. Part 1, part 2
- Template:Ru icon I've beaten Surkis, and interview. Stolichnye Novosti, April 5-11, 2005.
- Template:En icon GreenJolly and their hit song on Maydan and at the Eurovision Song Contest, Welcome to Ukraine, 2005-2.
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