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Anatoliy Kinakh (b. August 4, 1954) is a Ukrainian politician. He is the current minister of economics of Ukraine. Kinakh is also a former Prime Minister and a former first vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine. Currently, Anatoliy Kinakh is a deputy in the newly elected parliament as well as the leader of his Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine.
Biography
Anatoliy Kinakh was born in village of Bratushany, Moldavian SSR in 1954. In 1978 he graduated from the Leningrad shipbuilding institute as a shipbuilding engineer. After finishing his higher education Kinakh started his engineering career at the Tallinn shipyard. From 1981 he worked at the Mykolaiv plant "Ocean".
In April of 1990 he was elected to the Parliament of Ukraine: Verkhovna Rada. There he worked in a committee dealing with economic reforms. In 1992 Kinakh was appointed as representative of the President in Mykolaiv Oblast. In 1995 Anatoliy Kinakh was appointed vice-prime minister of Ukraine concerned with industrial affairs.
Political career before 2004
In early 1990s, Mr. Kinakh held several posts in the local government of Mykolayiv region.
From 1995 to 1996 Mr. Kinakh was a minister responsible for industrial politics.
Commonly known as an indecisive, but competent, technocrat, Mr. Kinah served as the Prime Minister of Ukraine between 2001 and 2002. His reasonably popular cabinet was unexpectedly dismissed by President Kuchma.
In 2002, he was elected a National deputy of Ukraine, on the list of the electoral bloc of parties "For United Ukraine!".
Political career since 2004
Mr. Kinakh was a candidate in the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, nominated by the Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine, which he has chaired since 2000. A particular feature of his election program is a pro-Ukrainian choice in foreign policy, saying that entry to the European Union should not be a barrier to the development of relationships with all CIS countries as well as with Russia.
During the election campaign Mr. Kinakh publicly broke ties with Viktor Yanukovych by declaring that no criminal can hold the post of the President of Ukraine. He later took an active part in the Orange Revolution on the side of Viktor Yushchenko.
Kinakh was number two on the electoral list of the pro-presidential bloc Our Ukraine during the Ukrainian parliamentary election of march 2006.
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| Preceded byViktor Yushchenko | Prime Minister of Ukraine 2001–2002 |
Succeeded byViktor Yanukovych |