How many children does Marina Poroshenko have? Poroshenko Marina Anatolyevna: biography, personal life, style

Petro Poroshenko, the “Chocolate King,” led Ukraine as a result of Euromaidan. On May 25, 2014, early presidential elections were held, in which he received almost 55 percent of the votes.

Originally from Bessarabia

Petro Poroshenko's parents were both from Bessarabia. This territory changed hands every now and then: in 1918 it became part of the Kingdom of Romania (contrary to the wishes of many residents who fought the occupation as best they could), and in 1940 Bessarabia was annexed to the USSR. So the natives of Romania overnight turned into Soviet citizens, which, however, clearly did not bother them. By that time, the boy from the village of Safyany, Alexei Poroshenko, was four years old, and the girl Evgenia Grigorchuk, who lived in the village of Kugurlui-Matroska, was three, and they had no time for political realities.

Alexey Ivanovich Poroshenko subsequently became a specialist in agricultural machinery, and Evgenia Sergeevna, who married him, became an accountant. The family had two sons. The eldest, Mikhail, and the youngest, Peter, who was born eight years later, on September 26, 1965. This happened in the city of Bolgrad, Izmail district, Odessa region (in other words, in the same Bessarabia).

Grew up in Bendery

As friends of the Poroshenko family recall, the father treated his sons very strictly. The eldest, Mikhail, graduated from school with a medal - and ended up in a very unpleasant situation. In a fight, he severely beat a man and spent some time under arrest. Alexey Ivanovich had to use all his connections to hush up the matter. Fortunately, he was an authoritative person in the city. But Bolgrad had to be left. The family moved to Transnistria, to the city of Bendery.

There, Peter graduated from school, and did not receive a medal, although there were no B marks in his certificate (according to other sources, there were still B marks). Poroshenko himself claims that the problem was in relations with teachers. Everyone remembers the boy as a polite and sympathetic person with a sweet tooth, but at the same time he quite often got involved in fights. His classmates called him Pierre, in the French manner.

At school he became interested in judo. He became a candidate for Master of Sports of the USSR in this sport.

Didn't become a sailor

After school, Petro Poroshenko entered two educational institutions at once - the Higher Naval School in Odessa and the Kiev state university, Faculty of International Relations and International Law. Peter chose him, leaving the dream of the sea. He became a student in 1982. Having received his diploma in 1989, he entered graduate school at the Department of International Economic Relations. True, Poroshenko became a candidate of legal sciences not three years later, but only in 2002, since by the time he graduated from university he was already fully engaged in business.

The dissertation was devoted to the legal regulation of the management of state corporate rights in Ukraine.

Served the Soviet Union

To receive higher education It took Poroshenko seven years - not because of poor academic performance, but because of regular changes in the legislation of the USSR. The deferment from the army for students was canceled, and Poroshenko, a second-year student, interrupted his studies of science for two years while serving in the army. He was sent to Kazakhstan, to Aktyubinsk (according to other sources, it was a city with a similar name, Akhtubinsk, located in the Astrakhan region).

Poroshenko later claimed that he took part in the fighting. What is meant is unclear - he ended up in the armed forces even before perestroika, in 1984, and the fighting soviet army then it was carried out only in one place - in Afghanistan. But no one has ever called Poroshenko a veteran of this war.

What exactly was meant, journalists are still guessing (unless they assume that Poroshenko somewhat distorted reality to suit the current political moment, because he mentioned his participation in the battles when calling on students to take part in the ATO, the anti-terrorist operation. That’s what they call it in Ukraine an attempt to forcefully return the DPR and LPR to the country).

Building a chocolate empire

In the Soviet Union, entrepreneurial activity, to put it mildly, was not encouraged; running a business could cost you freedom. However, in the 1980s, the state loosened its grip, and Petro Poroshenko, who returned from the army, took advantage of the situation.

As other students recall, already in his fifth year, Poroshenko captured the imagination of his comrades by buying a Volga - then a student in a personal car was a rare sight. Some argue that Pyotr Alekseevich’s very first enterprise was a video rental of cassettes with Hollywood new releases. Even so, Poroshenko soon found his “gold mine”, and it was chocolate. He himself does not eat sweets - he has diabetes. But he managed to make money from them.

Already in the late 1980s, Poroshenko and some classmates created a cooperative for the sale of cocoa beans. Then he bought out several confectionery factories that were on the verge of bankruptcy. Later they joined the famous ROSHEN concern. This is the main asset of the “chocolate king,” as Poroshenko is sometimes called.

Another asset, the Ukrprominvest group, was liquidated in 2012. One of its founders was Poroshenko’s elder brother, Mikhail. However, in 1997, he died in a car accident. Some suspect it was a set-up.

From February 2007 to March 2012, Petro Poroshenko headed the board of the National Bank of Ukraine.

One of the richest people in Ukraine

Now Poroshenko owns confectionery enterprises, the Lutsk Automobile Plant and the Bogdan Corporation, the Kuznya na Rybalsky shipyard, the Ukrprominvest Agro agricultural holding, the Fifth Channel TV channel - in total more than a hundred companies in Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Spain, Hungary, Lithuania and China, Cyprus, British Virgin Islands and the Netherlands.

After being elected president, Poroshenko transferred his shares to the management of an independent trust fund, Rothschild Trust, and until the end of his term as head of state, he will not be able to influence his business. However, this does not prevent him from remaining one of the richest people in the country. True, its position in the ranking is declining - if in 2014 it occupied sixth place, then in 2016 it was already tenth, and at the end of 2017 it moved to 11th place. His fortune is now estimated at $542 million.

Businessman in politics

By 2014, Poroshenko was by no means a novice in politics. He first became a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine back in 1998. He was elected in single-mandate constituency No. 12 of the Vinnytsia region. At that time, he was a member of the faction of the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united), but two years later he headed another faction, Solidarity, and in 2001 became the leader of the party of the same name.

In December 2001, Solidarity joined Viktor Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine bloc. The third and fifth presidents of the country are connected not only by business, but also by personal relationships. Yushchenko became the godfather of Poroshenko’s daughters, Petro Alekseevich was his confidant in the presidential elections.

Since then, Poroshenko has repeatedly become a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada. He also served as a member of the Ukrainian government over the years: from September 2009 to March 2010, Poroshenko served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and from March to December 2012, as Minister economic development and trade.

Sponsor of the Orange Revolution

It is Poroshenko who is called one of the main sponsors of the “Orange Revolution” in Ukraine.

A wave of mass protests swept the country after the 2004 presidential elections, which were announced to have been won by Viktor Yanukovych by a slim margin of three percent. Supporters of his rival, Viktor Yushchenko, and most observers from other countries believed that the advantage was achieved through massive fraud.

The center of opposition protests was Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv. On Independence Square - this is how this phrase is translated into Russian - the continuous rally lasted about two months, the most active protesters lived right there, in a tent camp. The protests were entirely peaceful.

As a result, on December 3, 2004, the Supreme Court of Ukraine decided to re-vote the second round, which took place on December 26, 2004. Viktor Yushchenko won with a margin of 8 percent of the vote.

Yanukovych nevertheless took the chair of the head of state five years later, having won the elections in 2010.

The main base for Yushchenko's supporters were the western and central regions of Ukraine, while Viktor Yanukovych's supporters mainly lived in the eastern and southern regions. After another four years, this will actually lead to a split in the country.

"Euromaidan"

In 2012, Poroshenko became a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the 7th convocation in the Vinnytsia single-mandate constituency. He joined the Committee on European Integration. By that time, he was a well-known supporter of Ukraine's early entry into the European Union and NATO, while President Yanukovych maintained pro-Russian sympathies.

On November 21, 2013, the Ukrainian government suspended preparations for the signing of an association agreement between Ukraine and the European Union. In response, supporters of European integration took to the streets. Thus began the events that in Russia are called coup d'etat, and in Ukraine – the revolution of Dignity.

As they later explained, the cause of the explosion was not only dissatisfaction with a specific government decision, but also fatigue from the polarization of incomes, social injustice, and especially rampant corruption.

Not only peaceful oppositionists took to the Maidan, as was the case during the Orange Revolution, but also radicals from the right sector. They were opposed by internal troops and fighters of the Berkut special forces.

At first, the protesters demanded the signing of an association with the EU. However, on the night of November 30, 2013, the tent camp was dispersed. It was not possible to solve the problem in this way, and protesters began to demand the resignation of the government.

Petro Poroshenko also supported the demonstrators, repeatedly coming to the protesters. He was called a sponsor of Euromaidan, but the oligarch himself denied this, emphasizing that people do everything themselves. However, he also helped the Maidan - for example, he organized the supply of water for those who lived in the tent camp, the delivery of firewood and purchased pallets for laying in tents.

Yanukovych's escape

The key events of Euromaidan took place in February. Violent clashes began between opposition activists and security forces using firearms. Snipers appeared in Kyiv - which side they represented is still unknown, since they shot at both Euromaidan supporters and Berkut fighters.

Over three days, from February 18 to 20, 2014, 75 people died (during the entire protest period - 106 people, including police officers).

The situation became critical, and President Yanukovych and opposition leaders could not come to an agreement. Finally, on February 21, negotiations took place, in which representatives of the European Union and Russia became mediators. An agreement was signed to resolve the political crisis in Ukraine. Berkut units and internal troops left the center of Kyiv.

However, the agreement did not suit the representatives of the Right Sector. And on the same evening, Yanukovych fled the country to Russia. As he later explained, he feared for his life.

In response, the Verkhovna Rada ruled that Yanukovych “unconstitutionally withdrew himself from the exercise of constitutional powers” ​​and was not fulfilling his duties. Early presidential elections as of May 25, 2014. Chairman of Parliament Alexander Turchinov became acting president.

“I work as Petro Poroshenko”

There was no talk then that Petro Poroshenko would lead Ukraine after Yanukovych’s resignation. The leaders of the opposition were called completely different people - Viktor Klitschko, Oleg Tyagnibok and Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Poroshenko was expected to join the government. But when asked by a Novaya Gazeta journalist whether he sees himself in the governing bodies of the new Ukraine, Poroshenko answered, as the future has shown, quite honestly.

“I work in this country as Petro Alekseevich Poroshenko, and I have all the opportunities and leverage to realize myself. And I will actively contribute to identifying a single candidate and will participate in the opposition team. And in what roles, life will show,” he said in December 2013.

Poroshenko announced his intentions to run for president on March 29, 2014. His candidacy was supported by Vitali Klitschko.

Poroshenko won in the first round, receiving 54.70 percent of the votes with a turnout of 59.48 percent of voters.

Thus, at the moment, Petro Poroshenko is the current president of Ukraine, regardless of whether Euromaidan is considered a revolution or a coup d’etat.

On June 27, 2014, the economic part of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union was signed.

Split of the country

By the time of the presidential elections, Ukraine had already lost Crimea - after a referendum held in March 2014, it solemnly became part of Russia. The international community did not recognize this decision.

Following Crimea, the Donetsk and Lugansk regions announced their secession. They did not become part of the neighboring country, remaining unrecognized by the international community as the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics. An armed conflict broke out, since representatives of the Ukrainian authorities were not going to “let go” of Donbass, but the army failed to return the republics to Ukraine.

Now the conflict is frozen, but Poroshenko said that the war will end only when his state regains Crimea and Donbass.

In Ukraine, they believe that the war is with Russia (Russia supports the DPR and LPR, but denies direct participation in armed clashes by military personnel).

At the same time, the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation, which was ratified by the parliaments of the two states about 20 years ago, continues to operate. Only recently, Petro Poroshenko announced that he was going to propose to parliament to cancel certain articles of the treaty relating to the strategic partnership with the Russian Federation and cooperation in the military-technical sphere, which has already been practically curtailed.

Family

Petro Poroshenko met Marina Anatolyevna Perevedentseva at the institute, at a student disco in the dormitory. As the wife of the current president of Ukraine later recalled, it was love at first sight. And a very successful marriage for Poroshenko - his chosen one was the daughter of the Deputy Minister of Health of the Ukrainian SSR, Advisor to the USSR Ambassador to Mongolia.

Marina Anatolyevna was born in Kyiv in 1962. She received her specialty as a cardiologist at the Kiev Medical Institute, and later defended her dissertation. She worked in the cardiology department of the Oktyabrsk Clinical Hospital. Now the first lady of Ukraine heads the board of the Petro Poroshenko Charitable Foundation. By the way, she came up with the Roshen brand, carving it out of the owner’s surname – “Po-Roshen-Ko”.

The couple has four children. The eldest, Alexey, is a people's deputy of the Verkhovna Rada. The first-born of the President of Ukraine was born in 1985 and has already given his parents grandchildren, Peter and Elizabeth, they were born in 2014 and 2016.

15 years later, twins Evgenia and Alexandra appeared in the family, and in 2001, a second son, Mikhail.

Remained president

The situation in Ukraine remains quite difficult. However, Poroshenko managed to hold on to his post in a raging country, and this is no small thing. At least for his own career in politics.

Due to the fact that Western countries, and to be more specific, the United States, have already placed their bets on the Ukrainian oligarch Petro Poroshenko, the president of the “Fund for Combating Russophobia” and political publicist Georgy Rozhko considered it his duty to talk about who this candidate is.

Pyotr Alekseevich Poroshenko is, first of all, one of the five richest oligarchs in Ukraine (net worth $1.8 billion), a sponsor of the Maidan and, oddly enough, an Odessa resident (he was born and spent his childhood and youth in the Odessa region).

Poroshenko was born on September 26, 1965 in Bolgrad. Graduated from the Faculty of International Relations of Kyiv University. Since the early 90s, his entire family went into business (both his father and his now deceased brother), founding the Ukrprominvest corporation, of which Pyotr Alekseevich became the general director. Ukrprominvest includes dozens of structures, such as ROSHEN, the Leninskaya Kuznya plant and others.

According to the online publication “Versia”, a few years ago the Ukrprominvest concern included: Subsidiary enterprise “Ukrprominvest-confectioner”: Kiev confectionery factory named after. K. Marx (24.9% shares); Vinnitsa confectionery factory; Kremenchug confectionery factory; Mariupol confectionery factory (49% shares); Ukrprominvest-auto LLC is the official agent of AVTO-VAZ JSC, the official distributor of AVTT UAZ, the dealer of GAZ OJSC, the largest supplier of IZH, ZIL cars to Ukraine, the official importer of KIA (Korea), HYUNDAI (Korea) cars. , ISUZU (Japan), SUBURU (Japan), SAAB (Sweden), scooters and motorcycles YAMAHA and KAWASAKI (Japan); LLC "Ukravtozapchasti" (supply and wholesale sales of spare parts, components, assemblies, tires, etc.); Trading House "Ista" (production and sale of batteries); OJSC "Cherkasy Automobile Repair Plant" (production of small urban buses "Bogdan", assembly of minibuses based on Gazelle vehicles, production of an emergency workshop for repairing main gas pipelines based on the KRAZ-260G vehicle, etc.); OJSC "Lutsk Automobile Plant" (assembly of LUAZ, UAZ, VAZ cars); OJSC Leninskaya Kuznitsa Plant (construction of river-sea vessels); branch of the “Transport Forwarding Enterprise” (freight and passenger transportation in Ukraine, the CIS countries, the Baltics, Eastern and Western Europe); the company "Avtoexpo" (organization of the largest automobile exhibitions in Ukraine, spare parts, service); taxi depot in Kyiv; three sugar factories; Lipetsk confectionery factory "Likonf" (Russia). In addition, Poroshenko controls the 5th TV channel, Niko-FM and the newspaper Pravda Ukrainy. Poroshenko often boasts that he started with cocoa beans. Yes, he started with cocoa beans, but while at the helm he managed to get a serious share of Ukraine...

Crime Family
Petro Poroshenko is married to Marina Poroshenko, they have four children - Alexey, Evgenia, Alexandra and Mikhail. The godparents of Evgenia and Alexandra are Viktor Yushchenko and Oksana Bilozir.

Alexey Ivanovich Poroshenko, former co-owner and general director of Ukrprominvest CJSC, is now a hero of Ukraine (Viktor Yushchenko awarded the title of hero to his relative, as they say, for his services to the Maidan 2004), and was previously convicted (in 1986 he went to prison). Then the board of criminal cases Supreme Court The Moldavian SSR found A. Poroshenko guilty of committing a crime under Art. 155-1, 123 part 2, 220 part 2, 227 part 1 of the Criminal Code of the MSSR (theft of property by a group of persons; acquisition of property obtained by criminal means; carrying, storing, purchasing weapons)… Alexey Ivanovich received 5 years in prison to be served in a correctional labor colony general regime with confiscation of property and deprivation of the right to occupy leadership positions for a period of 5 years.

Decision regarding Alexey Poroshenko:

He just stole a little, falsified reports a little, gave a little bribe, kept a little weapons... By the way, regarding weapons, the Poroshenko family made their first serious capital on smuggling from Transnistria, including weapons smuggling.

Transnistrian scandal
“He (Poroshenko) uses his position as Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine to lobby for personal business interests that are clearly criminal in nature. In addition, Petro Poroshenko is a lobbyist for the interests of the criminal regime of Smirnov-Antyufeev in Ukraine. At one time, Smirnov paid Kuchma $2 million a month in exchange for the fact that the Ukrainian border with the Transnistrian section of the Moldovan border existed in the format of special checkpoints for smuggling.

Among the variety of goods transported by several illegal schemes across this section of the border, a significant share is occupied by illegal supplies of weapons produced in Transnistria. The Investigation Department of the Transnistrian association “PRO EUROPA” managed to obtain copies of documents belonging to the Limited Group of Russian Forces and confirming the production of weapons on the territory of Transnistria, which the organization presents to the Ukrainian public. It should be noted that weapons deliveries go through the Kotovsky detachment of the State Border Service of Ukraine, then through the Ilyichevsk port to their destination. The Ilyichevsk port is controlled by an organized criminal group, in which the interests of Petro Poroshenko are significantly represented, who is thereby actually involved in the illegal transit of various weapons systems through the territory of Ukraine.

Transnistrian weapons were supplied to illegal Abkhaz armed groups and gangs of the international criminal and terrorist Karadzic, whose actions were classified by the European Parliament as genocide. Poroshenko’s interest in the highest possible cargo turnover of the port has led to the fact that the decree of the Ukrainian government on the procedure for registering commercial transit operations involving economic agents of the Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova is currently being violated. After dozens of “Transnistrian” trains were detained in Ilyichevsk, Poroshenko carried out the corresponding “work” with the leaders of Kotovskaya customs and today smuggling passes the Ukrainian border unhindered.

Poroshenko’s interests in the State Border Service of Ukraine are represented by First Deputy Pavel Shisholin, who personally oversees the inviolability of Transnistrian cargo, while having the audacity to declare that border guards keep the border with Transnistria locked, for which they use space communications. Also, the head of Odessa customs, Alexander Simonov, is involved in lobbying interests.” - Boris Asarov, Chairman of the Pridnestrovian association “PRO EUROPA”.

Such a lover of laws and weapons, the “future president”...

But first of all, Petro Poroshenko is an ordinary political prostitute. He quite successfully enriched himself under Kuchma, enriched himself under Yushchenko, and enriched himself under Yanukovych. Poroshenko is twice a minister, once a secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, three times a deputy and... a billionaire. He has been at the helm of Ukraine almost from the very beginning of independence. All the economic and political crises of Ukraine are also his achievements.

Poroshenko’s political career began back in 1998, when he was elected as a people’s deputy of the parliament of the third convocation. Then he ran in majoritarian district No. 12 in the Vinnytsia region. He joined the parliamentary faction of the United Social Democrats and was elected a member of the party's Politburo headed by Viktor Medvedchuk. He was also a member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance and Banking, again under Medvedchuk and Kuchma. Yes, yes, he was friends with Kuchma and Medvedchuk.

In 2000, Poroshenko left the ranks of the SDPU and created an independent center-left faction, Solidarity.

A year later, he played an important role in the creation of the Party of Regions, but a little later he parted ways with Kuchma’s supporters and led the campaign of Viktor Yushchenko’s opposition bloc “Our Ukraine”. Quietly and calmly, for business purposes, he moved to the radially opposite side.

In March 2002, he joined the Verkhovna Rada of the IV convocation from Our Ukraine and headed the budget committee (until September 2005).

In 2003, Poroshenko became the founder of Ukraine’s first “pro-Orange” news channel, Channel 5, which is already known throughout the world for its bias and deceit. But more about this channel a little later...

Started in 2004 new stage V political career Poroshenko. Since July, he has become deputy chief of staff of the Power of the People coalition, one of the leaders and sponsors of the “Orange Putsch” and a potential candidate for prime minister. However, the prime minister's post went to Yulia Tymoshenko. Poroshenko took the post of Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine in January 2005.

During the political crisis in Ukraine in September 2005, during the outbreak of corruption scandals, Poroshenko was personally fired by the president. At the same time, the entire cabinet of his main political rival, Tymoshenko, was dismissed.

In the 2006 parliamentary elections, Poroshenko was re-elected from the Our Ukraine list and headed the parliamentary committee on finance and banking.

Since February 2007, Poroshenko has headed the board of the National Bank of Ukraine; his three-year term in office expired on February 23, 2010. However, the NBU Council, at which the new head Igor Prasolov was elected, met for a meeting only on April 26, 2012.

On October 9, 2009, Poroshenko was appointed by the Verkhovna Rada to the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs, and three days later Yushchenko returned Poroshenko to the National Security and Defense Council.

On March 11, 2010, along with the entire Cabinet of Ministers, he was dismissed by the new President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych.

On February 23, 2012, President Viktor Yanukovych, after a meeting with Petro Poroshenko, granted the post of Minister of Economy. Poroshenko returned under the wing of the leadership of the Party of Regions, in the creation of which he once made serious efforts. Everything for business - everything for the family.

He was dismissed from the post of minister due to his election as a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the 7th convocation. On December 12, 2012, he announced that he did not intend to join any faction in parliament and became a member of the committee on European integration. And he temporarily quieted down - he wanted to be clean before the elections, at least mayoral in Kyiv, and, at maximum, presidential.

Thus, we can clearly see how Petro Poroshenko successfully “maneuvered” between political groups, while simultaneously earning the first million, the first ten million, the first hundred million, the first billion, and now his fortune, let me remind you, is estimated at 1.8 billion dollars. And all this was acquired over the years of the so-called “sovereign” service.

Poroshenko is considered a close confidant of Viktor Yushchenko, who is the godfather of Poroshenko's daughters. As the richest businessman among Western supporters, Poroshenko was and is the main sponsor of the 2004 Orange Revolution and the 2013-2014 Euromaidan. He himself jokingly says that he “sponsors the revolution with food, water, firewood.”

In February, during the aggravation of the political crisis in Crimea, Petro Poroshenko arrived in Simferopol as a representative of the new Ukrainian authorities, where he was quite rightly greeted with shouts of “Russia”, “Berkut”, “Get out of Crimea!” and threw all sorts of rubbish at it. Poroshenko then hastily left in a taxi, into which the police put him. This is the kind of love this politician enjoys from the people.

And now to the dirty deeds...
Threats to Brodsky
On April 18, 2001, the leader of the Yabluko faction, Mikhail Brodsky, said that Petro Poroshenko threatened him in connection with criticism of the chairman of the State Tax Administration Nikolai Azarov. Pyotr Alekseevich denied these accusations. It is interesting that already in September 2005, Mikhail Brodsky was one of those who publicly accused the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Petro Poroshenko of corruption.

Budget falsification (all like my father!)
On March 13, 2002, one of the leaders of the SDPU (u) Nestor Shufrich accused the chairman of the parliamentary budget Petro Poroshenko of falsifying the 2003 budget. According to him, during the redistribution of local budgets in Vinnitsa, Vinnytsia region and Cherkassy, ​​standards were illegally increased by UAH 11 million. At the same time, 4.5 million, Shufrich claims, was sent to the district where Petro Poroshenko was elected. The Prosecutor General's Office was instructed to study this issue. Poroshenko himself denied these accusations, calling them disinformation.

Tax evasion
In 2003, the State Tax Administration in the Volyn region opened a criminal case accusing the leaders of the Lutsk Automobile Plant (LuAZ), which Petro Poroshenko controls through Ukrprominvest, of tax evasion. In July 2004, the Court of Appeal of the Volyn region declared such actions of tax officials unlawful. Let me remind you that at that time Petro Poroshenko held the position of Secretary of the NSDC (National Security and Defense Council) of Ukraine - by virtue of his position, he could resolve any issue with law enforcement officers.

Attempts to put pressure on Channel 5
In November 2003, a telephone conversation was published in which voices similar to those of Petro Poroshenko and the head of the board of Channel 5, Vladislav Lyasovsky, were heard. In it, a voice similar to the voice of Petro Poroshenko, in particular, rudely tries to explain to Lyasovsky that journalists were wrong in covering Viktor Yushchenko’s visit to Donetsk on October 31, 2003. In other words, if you believe the published records, Poroshenko tried to interfere in the editorial policy of the TV channel.

The essence of the conversation was that Poroshenko, in unparliamentary terms, demanded to “establish order” in the news service of the TV channel, which he supports with his oligarchic “blood money.” More precisely, he ordered the dismissal of journalist Andrei Shevchenko for not covering the events in Donetsk as he should have.

I will quote only the most famous fragment of the conversation:
Poroshenko: I’ll find journalists for you in an hour. For these "grandmothers" that they receive.
Lyasovsky: If this is the position, consider that this issue no longer arises. There will be normal people standing there who will provide normal lighting; in my opinion, there were no problems before.
Poroshenko: Please, your program, b..., so I won’t put it on the air. I don’t have the program “An Hour with Andrey Shevchenko”! It's clear? I have my own information program on my channel, for which I pay grandma!
Lyasovsky: I understand that.
Poroshenko: Not a single “bastard” showed me up in Donetsk. I climbed the barricades with cancer! Have they gone crazy or something, b...! Ivy and there, b... We are in charge, damn...! Who are you promoting, your mother? What the f... is being done? There's an event going on! So maybe you’ll get off your ass and go to Donetsk, b..., and not to Vinnitsa! Shevchenko is not the only one to blame, b...! The situation is in Donetsk! Go to Donetsk, my dear! Because, damn... if they are “stars”, then you are there! Understand?
Lyasovsky: Yes. I understand. And it's definitely my fault.

In principle, there is nothing surprising in this manner of communication between the owner and the manager. Especially by Ukrainian standards. However, the scandal arose due to the fact that this conversation refutes the legend about the non-interference of the channel owner Poroshenko in the affairs of journalists. And then characters stories find themselves in an extremely awkward position - they cannot (and do not) deny the fact of the conversation, but try to reduce it to a simple solution to technical issues, and not to censorship.

Another scandal, again with Channel Five, arose in the summer of 2013, then the “face” of Channel Five, Tatyana Danilenko, having learned that her employers no longer needed her services as a presenter and journalist, decided to carry out a “punitive” action against the main culprit alleged dismissal - owner Petro Poroshenko. Tatyana Danilenko stated that if she is fired, she will publish in the media and through journalistic organizations information about various dirty harassment by Petro Poroshenko, coupled with comments that her dismissal was a consequence of jealousy and national intolerance on the part of the channel head towards Mustafa Nayem (with whom the journalist is in a relationship). Danilenko also intends to bring to the public more than a hundred examples of how Poroshenko interfered in the editorial policy of the channel, for example, about the “removal” of materials about President Yanukovych and his circle from the air. After this incident, the topic died down - the parties reached an agreement.

What a lover and fighter for the free press this king is...

The Lenin Forge case
The General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine accused the director of Leninskaya Kuznitsa OJSC (which, according to some sources, is controlled by Poroshenko) Petro Blindar of theft and misappropriation of 17 million UAH. According to the prosecutor's office, on April 23, 2001, Blindar entered into a fictitious agreement with the Baget company and after transferring 17 million UAH to its account. spent these funds on the same day. On August 30, 2001, the mentioned company was liquidated and removed from the state register.

Poroshenko.First sip

Extortion
One of the members of the parliamentary commission of inquiry dealing with the case , on condition of anonymity, said that Boris Viktorovich gave evidence regarding Pyotr Alekseevich.

“He said that he was invited to Poroshenko on April 1, 2005 for a conversation. The NSDC Secretary informed Kolesnikov that a criminal case was being prepared against him and Rinat Akhmetov. They say that the organizers want to receive shares in a number of Akhmetov enterprises, as well as television channels. Boris did not specify whether he believed that Pyotr Alekseevich acted as a friend who warned a comrade, or as an extortionist. If the second option, then the case has judicial prospects. If proven guilty, Poroshenko will face up to 12 years in prison for extortion.”

As you know, then the media wrote that the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Svyatoslav Piskun also testified to the GPU in the “Kolesnikov case” and during interrogation allegedly said that shortly before Kolesnikov’s arrest Poroshenko came to him and allegedly stated that he knew “how to earn 2 billion dollars." It is necessary, they say, to arrest Kolesnikov and Akhmetov’s brother Igor, “then Rinat will give everything for the two of them.” Piskun, he said, refused. After which Poroshenko allegedly said: “Well then, we will go to your deputy Shokin.”

"Chocolate Bunny" (son of the "Chocolate King")
Petro Alekseevich Poroshenko worked very little as Minister of Foreign Affairs - from October 2009 to March 2010. I managed, of course, a little. But it was during this period that his son, Alexey Petrovich Poroshenko, at the age of 24, became the deputy head of the trade and economic mission of Ukraine (TEM) in China.

And in December 2009, Chinese Ambassador Zhou Li visited the Vinnitsa Roshen factory, which, as is known, belongs to the Poroshenko family. I will not say that the then Foreign Minister Petro Poroshenko had a hand in this visit. Perhaps the guest from the Middle Kingdom accidentally became interested in Roshen products. But what is known for certain: during the ambassador’s tour of the “sweet” shops, the issue of exporting sweets to the Chinese market was actively discussed. In the end, nothing worked out - the Chinese did not like Roshen products - the deal did not take place.

Petro Poroshenko’s business plan is quite clear. Rapidly developing China, with a population of about 1.5 billion people, is an excellent market for such products. And who better to lobby for the interests of the father than his own son?!

Hardly anyone doubts that Pyotr Alekseevich arranged for his son to promote his business in China. Therefore, it seems to me that the activities of Poroshenko Jr. do not entirely correspond to the status of a civil servant.

Family estates
In 2009, the family of Petro Poroshenko completed the construction of a grandiose estate in the village of Kozin in Koncha-Zaspa, 10 kilometers from Kyiv. The territory of the new estate occupies about two hectares.

Previously, there was a recreation center for workers “Chaika”, which belonged to the Kyiv confectionery factory named after Karl Marx, which is now owned by Poroshenko’s sister concern “Ukrprominvest”.

The central object is a large white house, by the way, similar in appearance to White House from the USA. The ensemble is complemented by a smaller house, which stands twenty meters away. Also on Poroshenko’s site there is something similar to a cottage for guests, a log bath complex, two gazebos near the water and a colonnade. Poroshenko also has his own private chapel.

Poroshenko's people took the land from the blind
It so unfortunately happened that next to Poroshenko’s estates there was a recreation center of the Ukrainian Society of the Blind “Ivushka” (on the Kozinka River in Koncha-Zaspa).

As a result, in February 2014, the Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine opened a case regarding the seizure of lands of recreation centers of the Ukrainian society of the blind “Ivushka”. Then the prosecutor's office opened criminal proceedings regarding the seizure of two plots at once - the land of the UOS recreation center, the Ukrainian Society of the Blind "Ivushka", as well as the base of the confectionery factory named after. Karl Marx "The Seagull".

The case was opened based on the transfer of the recreation center itself to the commercial structure Soyuz-Invest LLC, which is a front for the real customer of the raid, who, according to the injured disabled people, is Poroshenko. The suspect is the director of the blind society, Alexander Kramnisty. Prosecutors have a logical question: did Kramnistiy have the right to personally sign the agreement on joint activities with Soyuz-Invest LLC without agreeing with the presidium of the UOS on the text of the agreement, to act contrary to the interests of the UOS in favor of a commercial company?

How much arrogance and cynicism do you need to muster in order to act in this way with people who not only do not have chocolate millions like some, but are deprived of the ability to see?!

But before the incident with the seizure of property from disabled people, there was an equally loud scandal filled with cynicism...

In 2008, residents of a hostel on Surikov Street, building 5 - a total of 4 families - were forcibly evicted. The tenants consider their eviction illegal. The main shareholder of OJSC Leninskaya Kuznya (to which the hostel at Surikova, 5 was illegally assigned) is Petro Poroshenko. The conflict with the hostel residents has continued since 2005. On April 1 of that year, President Viktor Yushchenko, together with Petro Poroshenko, personally met with the residents of the hostel on Surikova, 5. Then they made a promise to the residents that no one would evict them... As a result, they were deceived - they threw people out into the cold...

In October 2004, during Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s duties as chairman of the NBU (National Bank of Ukraine), Mriya Bank was provided with a stabilization loan in the amount of 50 million hryvnia at 11.5% per annum.

The loan was issued in accordance with the secret Resolution of the NBU, adopted in one copy dated October 6, 2004 No. 473 under the heading “banking secrecy”. These funds, as stated, were intended to improve the health of JSCB Mriya, which was allegedly undermined by the outflow of 11% of individual depositors.
At that time, as is known interest rate in the interbank market was 20% per annum and higher. The NBU issued loans at a rate of 11.5% only on the security of securities issued by the state, while Mriya received a loan at a rate of 11.5% for 8 months on the security of bills and corporate rights of enterprises.

Soon after the incident, in 2006, Bank Mriya was sold to Vneshtorgbank (RF) for 70 million US dollars.

Thus, the financial institution, which allegedly suffered from an 11% (!) outflow of depositors, was rehabilitated at state expense and then sold. It is clear that the profit from the sale was not received by the state. But it is not clear why, Poroshenko’s bank received a loan at a clearly reduced rate, and even secured not by securities issued by the state, but by illiquid bills of exchange from the “chocolate king” enterprises.

It is also not clear why Yatsenyuk formalized the deal through a secret decree and what his personal role was in this operation...

Poroshenko lost his post due to corruption ties
Another page of Poroshenko’s biography is connected with the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. He was the secretary of this significant structure from February to September 2005. He lost his post as a result of a scandal involving accusations of the President’s inner circle of corruption and lobbying for personal interests. Then it all started with a scandalous press conference by Secretary of State Alexander Zinchenko. The strongest barrage of criticism fell precisely on Poroshenko and his party colleagues Nikolai Martynenko, Alexander Tretyakov, and David Zhvania.

“Our shame today is the accusation of corruption against our high-ranking party members,” it was said in an address at one of the congresses of members of the Uzhgorod regional party organization. “The names of Poroshenko, Tretyakov, Martynenko, Zvarych, Zhvania, Chervonenko compromise honest, decent people who have linked their future with the People’s Union Our Ukraine; they compromise both the new Ukrainian government and our President.”

“Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Poroshenko, first assistant to the president Tretyakov, several of their assistants, in particular Martynenko, are cynically implementing their plan to use power for their own purposes,” Alexander Zinchenko.

“Ask businessmen in Crimea, Odessa region... Beyond cynicism is Poroshenko’s desire to turn the NSDC into a full-fledged NKVD.” “The smugglers were returned to customs and they “pay” their benefactors in full, shadow privatization schemes were resumed,” Zinchenko added.

According to Zinchenko, first assistant Tretyakov “recreates the methods of Sergei Levochkin,” “he monopolized access to the president, cut him off from the flow of information, and disorganized the president’s schedule.” “Poroshenko, Tretyakov and the campaign, appoint their own, feel free in the privatization processes,” he added.

Poroshenko against the Common Economic Space and the Customs Union
He also does not support the creation of a Common Economic Space and a Customs Union. Thus, in May 2005, Poroshenko, as Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, declared the groundlessness of statements by Nazarbayev and Lukashenko about the creation of the Common Economic Space without Ukraine: “The creation of the Common Economic Space in the version in which it was intended, without the participation of Ukraine, is impossible and has no economic sense for all participants in the integration association.”

In June 2005, on Channel 5, Poroshenko said: “We have a feature, this feature is a free trade zone without the creation of supranational bodies and a customs union,” and noted that today the process of Ukraine’s integration into the SES is happening transparently, which did not exist under the previous government.
And in November, still as minister, Poroshenko noted that Ukraine does not plan to join the Customs Union: “On November 28, the first meeting will be held in the trade dialogue group, which was created, among other things, on my initiative. This is the official institutional formalization of relations between Ukraine and the Customs Union... If Ukraine planned to join the Customs Union, why then formalize relations between two subjects of international economic relations?”

In January 2013, Poroshenko said on Radio Liberty that there are currently no conditions for Ukraine to join the Customs Union: “Ukraine is currently demonstrating behavior that does not contain an immediate danger of Ukraine joining the Customs Union. These conditions do not exist today.”

Poroshenko for repression of opponents of European integration
By the way, back in March 2013, Petro Poroshenko began a campaign to intimidate opponents of European integration with sanctions and other repressions. Even then, as if on behalf of Brussels, he said: “If there is no movement to Europe, the European Union will make decisions to bring to justice those who impede this movement.” This is not a disclaimer. Then he clarified once again that “this will also be a question of responsibility of officials who impede this movement.”

Poroshenko supports Ukraine’s accession to NATO and, as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, said in December 2009: “I believe that this can be done in a year, in two, if there is political will, if there is a desire from society, if there is public support for politicians, who do this, if there is a clear and correct information policy.”

Poroshenko against the Russian language
In addition, Poroshenko advocates a radical language program - only Ukrainian language for Ukraine.

In May 2012, the confectionery corporation Roshen, in order to save money (increase profits), replaced Ukrainian-language inscriptions on chocolate bars with Russian-language ones in order to avoid making two types of packaging - for Russia and for Ukraine. In November, nationalists made a big deal out of this on social media. Poroshenko then said that the Roshen corporation would return labeling in Ukrainian to its products. He wrote on Facebook: “Therefore, I initiated a discussion of this topic at the Board of Directors of the Roshen Corporation, as a result of which my arguments were accepted: Ukrainian goods on the Ukrainian market should be in the Ukrainian language... This is as important as the fact that Ukraine should have one state language – Ukrainian. This is my position: it was, is and will remain unchanged.”

Poroshenko is against federalization
Poroshenko is an opponent of the federalization of Ukraine. In May 2006 (in an interview with the Delo newspaper in response to BYuT’s accusations against Our Ukraine about holding secret negotiations with the Party of Regions), he stated that “negotiating and meeting are two completely different formats... It is necessary to meet, because if political a force that represents 40-50-70% of a particular region will be driven into a corner, then it may begin to act inadequately... I am convinced that the inability to find a compromise can lead to the process of federalization. Moreover, the security and territorial integrity of the country are the highest priority. The people will curse us if we allow the country to split. They will sing the anathema in the church.”

Brief summary
Thus, this candidate is not suitable for Ukraine for the following reasons:

1. Poroshenko built his empire from Soviet enterprises, which he bought “for nothing”, receiving rather suspicious loans for this and using his political position. Peter's father is a former prisoner, and Peter himself was deprived of public office due to corruption scandals.

2. Poroshenko is a political prostitute. Kuchma, Yushchenko, Yanukovych - everything is the same for him - the main thing is to be at the helm and lobby for the interests of his business.

3. Poroshenko is a political comrade and relative of Viktor Yushchenko, under whom Ukraine at one time reached a serious decline (as a result of which he was replaced by Viktor Yanukovych), Poroshenko at this time seriously increased his capital. By the way, even then Ukraine was cracking, and only ten years later the final split of the country into two Ukraines took place.

4. Poroshenko is an opponent of the rapprochement of the fraternal peoples of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. Poroshenko traditionally opposes the Eurasian and Customs unions. He is also a supporter of NATO expansion and believes that Ukraine should join this alliance.

6. Petro Poroshenko is against the Russian language in Ukraine.

7. Poroshenko is one of the main sponsors of Euromaidan, which resulted in the overthrow of the legitimate government in Kyiv, the arrival of the junta, the split of Ukraine into two parts, the loss of Crimea, as well as the serious possibility of the loss of the entire South-East of Ukraine...

P.S
Poroshenko is a prominent representative of the period of rule of Lazarenko, Kuchma, Yushchenko, Yanukovych. He served in turn Lazarenko, Kuchma, Yushchenko, Yanukovych. The first corruption scandal under Yushchenko began precisely with the conflict between Tymoshenko and Poroshenko. In principle, Poroshenko could also sit down, like almost everyone up there. The owner of countless treasures, earned by “righteous” labor side by side with Lazarenko, Kuchma, Yushchenko and Yanukovych. But he continues to influence the minds and moods of the crowd, organizing his next election campaign, giving the crowd what it asks for - bread and circuses. And now he is also vying for the presidency of Ukraine... Lord, save Ukraine from this dirt!

Author of the journalistic investigation:
Georgy Rozhko. Analytical department of the “Fund for Combating Russophobia”, for SKELET-info

Petro Poroshenko: biography and the whole truth about the “chocolate king” of Ukraine updated: August 28, 2017 by: Editor

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko entered politics as an accomplished businessman. He became a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada in 1998 as a member of the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine, but in 2000 he was already the leader of the center-left Solidarity faction. In 2001, he spoke in support of Viktor Yushchenko, his close friend and godfather. After Yushchenko's resignation, Poroshenko headed the company of his opposition bloc. After the victory of Our Ukraine in 2004, having previously transferred the reins of his Ukrprominvest concern to his father, he was appointed Secretary of National Security and Defense of Ukraine. Having held several high positions, he collaborated with President Viktor Yanukovych. During the Euromaidan in 1913 - 2014, Poroshenko supported the protesters. He became president in 2014 following the results of early elections on May 25. All this time, his faithful companion was Petro Poroshenko’s wife, Marina Anatolyevna.

They met at a disco in a student dormitory in 1983 and their romance, which lasted a whole year, is what Marina herself calls “stormy.” In 1984, a week after the lovers submitted an application to the registry office, Peter was drafted into the army. Even for the more mature and serious Marina, and she is 3 years older than her husband, this was a tragedy, but the clever groom managed to get a vacation and during this time he registered with his girlfriend. When he mobilized, the young couple had already had their first child - son Alexey. She lived in the apartment of Marina’s parents, who had gone to Mongolia for a long time, where the newlywed’s father was an advisor to the ambassador. The young wife of student Poroshenko worked as a doctor in the cardiology department of the Oktyabrskaya Hospital in Kyiv, receiving 120 rubles. salaries. Together with her husband's increased scholarship, their family budget was 170 rubles. per month.
By the time he graduated from the institute in 1989, Poroshenko managed to make his first capital from the sale of cocoa beans. In the early 90s, he and his father and brother were already able to acquire several confectionery factories and 3 sugar factories. This was the beginning of the Roshen company, the largest manufacturer of confectionery products in Ukraine. Twin daughters Evgeniya and Alexandra, born in 2000, became the heirs of the “chocolate king,” and their godparents turned out to be future President Viktor Yushchenko and People’s Artist of Ukraine Oksana Bilozir, a famous singer and deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, also a future one. Having become an oligarch, Poroshenko became interested in politics.

Marina Anatolyevna completed graduate school and received a candidate's degree, but by this time, a significant increase in her family forced her to leave her job and devote herself entirely to the responsibilities of the mistress of a large house and mother. In 2001, Poroshenko’s fourth child was born - another son, Mikhail. Caring for children became the main occupation of their mother. She does not interfere in her husband's political affairs, devoting herself entirely to raising her children. The head of the Poroshenko family has always been considered the husband - the main breadwinner and breadwinner, who ensured the family a prosperous and comfortable existence. If there were disagreements between the spouses, they occurred behind closed doors and never became the subject of attention of outsiders.

The First Lady of Ukraine appears in public with her husband and prefers strict but expensive outfits. She is mainly busy managing a huge family estate on the banks of the Kozinka River near Kiev, occupying 2 hectares. In addition, Marina Anatolyevna is the Chairman of the Petro Poroshenko Charitable Foundation and participates in its events. In 2014, she became a grandmother: her son Alexei gave birth to a boy named Peter. The marriage of the fifth president of Ukraine is considered strong and happy. For the holidays, he gives his wife trips around the world and there are few interesting countries left where they have not been yet. The Poroshenko family's fortune is about $1.3 billion, which is 6th place according to Forbes-Ukraine. The wife of Petro Poroshenko admits: she never regretted that she chose family life career.

Petr Alekseevich Poroshenko– famous Ukrainian businessman, politician, President of Ukraine, born on September 26, 1965 in the small town of Bolgrad, Odessa region.

Childhood

Both parents of Petro Poroshenko are natives of villages that before the war belonged to the territory of Romania, and are now part of the Odessa region of Ukraine. The mother and father of the future President worked in Bolgrad, where they met. The family lived there until 1974, and then, in search of a better life, moved to the Transnistrian city of Bendery, which was part of the Moldavian USSR.

Petro Poroshenko studied in high school there. It cannot be said that he was an overly diligent student, but he studied well. His favorite subject, to the surprise of his parents and teachers, was French. He knew him better than anyone in the class and answered with pleasure in class. Some even jokingly called him Pierre, and this nickname stuck to him throughout his school years.

He also liked sports training. As a 10-year-old boy, he came to the gym to the famous Soviet judo coach Joseph Geris. Young Poroshenko was engaged in wrestling with no less zeal than in French, so by the end of school he achieved good results and even became a master of sports in judo.

Choosing a path

Poroshenko's school field was at a crossroads. His passionate, addicted nature dreamed of sea adventures, but sober prudence spoke of the fact that it was worth acquiring a reliable earthly profession. As a result, he takes entrance exams to two educational institutions at once - a naval school in Odessa and an international economics exam at Kiev University.

To his own surprise, he was enrolled in the list of students at both prestigious institutions. Not used to being scatterbrained, Petro Poroshenko is still forced to make a choice, and he goes to study in Kyiv.

During his studies, he chose international relations as his specialization. Good knowledge also played an important role foreign languages. Having received his diploma, he remains at his native university as a teacher and then enters graduate school. At that time there were no deferments until graduation, and during his studies Poroshenko managed to serve two years in the ranks of the defenders of the Motherland.

Chocolate business

Even in his student years, Petro Poroshenko begins to think about his future career. And he sees the best solution as creating his own business. Having professionally studied the market, immediately after graduation he creates his own company, which sells cocoa raw materials.

He again invests the profit received from successful trading transactions into business, buying unprofitable confectionery enterprises and re-equipping them in accordance with market requirements.

In the mid-90s, the business flourished so successfully that Poroshenko created his own confectionery brand, Roshen, under which he unites all acquired enterprises. The brand quickly becomes the leader of the Ukrainian market, and Poroshenko himself begins to be called the chocolate king.

But Poroshenko does not stop there. He begins to actively invest in the domestic automotive industry. Today he is the owner of several automobile enterprises and automobile factories. He also owns several radio stations and television channels. The businessman's fortune is estimated at more than a billion US dollars.

Political career

Petro Poroshenko received his first deputy mandate in 1998, about the SDPU (o) party. But already in 2000, having navigated the unstable political situation in Ukraine, Poroshenko created his own Solidarity party.

However, after some time, realizing that he could not win alone yet, he joined Viktor Yushchenko’s team. Poroshenko played an important role, although not in the foreground, in the Orange Revolution, being one of its main financial sources.

Despite close and even family relations with Yushchenko (the godfather of his daughters), Poroshenko does not receive the post of prime minister, which he counted on after the victory of the revolution. He gets another appointment - the position of Secretary of the National Security Council.

However, less than a year later, as a result of the political crisis, Yushchenko himself dismissed the godfather along with the entire cabinet, headed by Tymoshenko.

Over the next few years, Petro Poroshenko continued to work in Parliament and changed several ministerial portfolios. Poroshenko served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Economy and Trade. From 2007 to 2010, he served as head of the NBU Council.

Euromaidan and the presidency

During the spontaneous events of Euromaidan, Petro Poroshenko could often be seen among the protesters. They say that he also provided active financial assistance to the leaders of the Euromaidan. He did not stand aside from the Crimean events of the spring of 2014. Then, during a spontaneous riot in Sevastopol, Poroshenko went straight to the center of events. However, the Crimeans did not allow him to reach Sevastopol, and he had to return back to Kyiv.

In the spring of 2014, after early presidential elections were announced in the country, Poroshenko became candidate No. 1. He was supported not only by Ukrainian, but also by influential international political forces. By the way, one of Poroshenko’s election promises was the sale of the Roshen concern in order to devote all his efforts only to government activities.

He also emphasized the fight against corruption, which was a primary condition for the establishment of a visa-free regime promised to Ukraine by the European Parliament. Petro Poroshenko officially became the President of Ukraine in June 2014 and still holds this post.

Personal life

Petro Poroshenko got married early - in his second year at university. His chosen one was Marina Perevedentseva, a cardiologist, daughter of the Deputy Minister of Health of the Ukrainian SSR. His wife bore him four children and quickly left him. medical practice, completely devoting himself to children. Today, Perta Poroshenko already has two grandchildren.

In 1989 he graduated from the Faculty of International Relations and International Law of Kyiv University. T. Shevchenko, majoring in international economics. In 2002, he defended his Ph.D. thesis “Legal regulation of the management of state corporate rights in Ukraine.”

Business and politics. In 1990-1991 Poroshenko worked as deputy general director of the Association of Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs "Republic". In 1991-1993 - General Director of JSC Exchange House "Ukraine". In 1993-1998. - General Director of CJSC Ukrainian Industrial and Investment Concern (), President, Chairman of the Board of JSCB Mriya, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of OJSC Vinnitsa Confectionery Factory.

Since 1998, the parliamentary page of Poroshenko’s life began. In the Verkhovna Rada of the third convocation, the non-party “recruit” joined the SDPU(o) faction and soon became a member of the party’s political council. Cooperation with the “united social democrats” lasted about two years. As the politician himself says, he parted ways with this party after he finally realized that the first violin in it was played not by , but by . After his divorce from the Social Democrats, Poroshenko headed the Solidarity party and the parliamentary faction of the same name.

In 2002, Poroshenko became a member of the Our Ukraine faction. Joined the presidium of the People's Union Our Ukraine party. In the Verkhovna Rada of the fourth convocation he headed the budget committee. After the 2006 elections, he headed the Committee on Finance and Banking, of which he had already been a member during his first parliamentary term.

Poroshenko has long-standing and close relations with him - both political and friendly. The owner of Ukrprominvest is the godfather of the third president. After the Orange Revolution, in which he was one of the most active participants, Poroshenko said that he was responding to Yushchenko’s call to separate business from politics. Management of the Ukrprominvest concern passed (at least formally) to his father Alexey Poroshenko, who took over the post of general director. However, from time to time, the politician’s enemies accused him that the division occurred only in words.

One of the pages of Poroshenko’s biography is connected with the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. He was the secretary of this significant structure from February to September 2005. He lost his post as a result of a scandal involving accusations of the president’s inner circle of corruption and lobbying for personal interests. Then it all started with a scandalous press conference by the Secretary of State. The strongest barrage of criticism (especially from the lips of a recent political ally) fell precisely on Poroshenko and his party colleagues.

The politician served on the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine for several years, from February 2007 to March 2012. served as chairman.

In October 2009, he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. In March 2010, Poroshenko was replaced in this post.

On March 23, 2012, by presidential decree, he was appointed Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine.

Since December 2012, he has been a people's deputy of Ukraine of the 7th convocation; he entered parliament as a self-nominated candidate in single-mandate constituency No. 12 in the Vinnytsia region. Member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on European Integration. Non-factional. Non-partisan.

Winter 2013-2014 - an active participant in the Maidan. In the early presidential elections on May 25, 2014, called after Viktor Yanukovych fled the country, 54.7% of voters voted for Poroshenko.

On January 29, 2019, Petro Poroshenko nominated himself to participate in the presidential elections as a self-nominated candidate. According to the results of the first round of elections, held on March 31, 2019, Poroshenko took second place after, gaining 15.94% of the votes and advancing to the second round.

In the second round of the presidential election on April 21, 2019, Petro Poroshenko was defeated with 24.4% of the votes by candidate Vladimir Zelensky, who received 73.2% of the votes.

State. Poroshenko has traditionally been among the richest Ukrainians. Thus, in the summer of 2006, experts estimated his assets at $505 million. With this figure, he was in 15th place in the list of 30 of our wealthiest compatriots compiled by Korrespondent magazine. In 2007, experts from Focus magazine counted Poroshenko's $756 million, giving him 18th place in the top 100 Ukrainian rich people.

A year later, that Focus estimated the assets of the president’s godfather at $1,450 billion (13th place in the list of domestic moneybags), and Korrespondent - at $1,120 billion (22nd place).

The basis of the politician’s capital is the assets of Ukrprominvest (liquidated in 2012), which to one degree or another owned dozens of large and medium-sized business structures, including a confectionery corporation, a Lenin Forge plant, a holding company, etc. Poroshenko’s special pride is television, which during the 2004 presidential campaign and the “Orange Revolution” was almost the only source of objective information for many Ukrainians.

Views and assessments. The politician, despite his rich experience in being in the opposition, does not believe that being in it is honorable. “If this goes on for too long, opposition can transform into criticism, becoming an end in itself,” he believes. And about his party he said this: “No matter what our fierce “friends” on the left and right predict for our political force, Our Ukraine has serious resources and plans for the future.” By the way, according to some observers, the fact that following the results of the 2006 parliamentary elections did not form an “orange” coalition within Our Ukraine is partly Poroshenko’s fault. He allegedly insisted to the last on the chair of the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada for himself, as a result of which the leader of the SPU, who claimed him, decided to form an alliance with the communists.

Titles and awards. Poroshenko is an Honored Economist of Ukraine, laureate of the P. Orlik International Prize, State Prize of Ukraine in the field of science and technology. Awarded the Order of Merit, III and II degrees.

He is the author of the monograph " Public Administration corporate rights in Ukraine. The theory of the formation of legal relations" and a number of scientific publications. Co-author of the textbook "Modern International Economic Relations".

Family and hobbies. Poroshenko is married. Wife - Marina Anatolyevna (born 1962) - doctor. They have four children: son Alexey (born 1985), daughters Evgenia and Alexander (born 2000) and son Mikhail (born 2001).

Likes to spend free time with his family. He is interested in tennis and reading (especially interested in English-language literature). He is a fan of painting (his favorite artist is the impressionist Claude Monet).

Father - Alexey Poroshenko (born 1936), deputy of the Vinnytsia Regional Council. Since the mid-90s, he was the general director of the Ukrainian Industrial and Investment Concern, which united more than 50 enterprises.

Petro Poroshenko had an older brother, Mikhail, 8 years older than him. Mikhail died in 1997 in a car accident under unclear circumstances.