Petro Poroshenko
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At the Munich Security Conference in 2015 he held up passports of Russian soldiers he said had been found in Ukraine, saying they were proof of the presence of foreign troops in his country.[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 1965-09-26 Bolhrad, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Taras Shevchenko National University | ||||||||||||||||||||
Religion | Ukrainian Orthodox | ||||||||||||||||||||
Children | • Olexiy Yevheniya • Oleksandra Mykhaylo | ||||||||||||||||||||
Spouse | Maryna Perevedentseva | ||||||||||||||||||||
Party | Social Democratic Party (Ukraine), Independent, Our Ukraine Bloc, Petro Poroshenko Bloc | ||||||||||||||||||||
Attended at least 4 WEF annual meetings during his 5 year term as President of Ukraine
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Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko was the fifth President of Ukraine. He was Ukraine/Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2009 to 2010, and as the Ukraine/Minister of Trade and Economic Development in 2012. From 2007 until 2012, Poroshenko headed the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine.
He owns, along with a number of other companies, a large-scale confectionery business, which has earned him the nickname of 'Chocolate King'.[2] He was elected president on 25 May 2014, capturing more than 54% of the vote in the first round, thereby winning outright and avoiding a run-off.[3][4][5][6][7]
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Background
Poroshenko was born in the city of Bolhrad, in Odessa Oblast, on 26 September 1965,[8] but was raised in the city of Vinnytsia in central Ukraine.[9] He also spent his childhood and youth in Bendery (Moldavian SSR, now officially Moldova but under de facto control of the unrecognised breakaway state Transnistria.)[10] His father Oleksiy was an agricultural engineer.
In his youth, Poroshenko practised judo and sambo, and was Candidate for Master of Sport of the USSR. Despite good grades he was not awarded the normal gold medal at graduation, and on his report card he was given a "C" for his behaviour. After getting into a fight with four Soviet Army cadets at the military commissariat, he was sent to army service in the distant Kazakh SSR.
In 1989, Poroshenko graduatedh (he started the study in 1982 with a degree in economics from the international relations and law department (subsequently the Institute of International Relations) at the Taras Shevchenko Kiev State University.[11] In 1984, he married a medical student, Maryna Perevedentseva (born 1962). Their first son, Oleksiy, was born in 1985 (his three other children were born in 2000 and 2001). From 1989 to 1992, he was an assistant at the university’s international economic relations department.
Business career
While still a student, he founded a legal advisory firm mediating the negotiation of contracts in foreign trade, and then he undertook the negotiations himself, starting to supply cocoa beans to the Soviet chocolate industry in 1991. At the same time, he was deputy director of the ‘Republic’ Union of Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs, and the CEO of “Exchange House Ukraine”.
Politician
In 2000, Petro Poroshenko set up and chaired the Solidarity Party. After the victory of the ‘Orange Revolution’ in 2005, he was appointed Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council and, in 2007, became head of Ukraine’s National Bank. From 2009 to 2010 he was Minister of Foreign Affairs, in 2012 he became Minister of Trade and Economic Development. From December 2012, Petro Poroshenko was the Deputy for Verkhovna Rada and Member of the Committee on European Integration.
Opinions
Ukraine's civil war
- Full article: 2014 Ukraine coup/Civil war
- Full article: 2014 Ukraine coup/Civil war
“we [in Ukraine] will have work they – [in the Donbas] won’t. We will have pensions – they won’t. We will care for our children and pensioners – they won’t. Our children will go to school, to kindergartens – their children will sit in cellars*. They don’t know how to organize or do anything. This, ultimately, is how we will win this war.”
Petro Poroshenko (October 2014) [12]
* He said that at a time when heavy weapons fire onto residential areas was well underway in the Donbas.
An appointment by Petro Poroshenko
Appointee | Job | Appointed | End |
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Lyudmyla Denisova | Ukraine/Ombudsman | 15 March 2018 | 31 May 2022 |
Related Quotations
Page | Quote | Author | Date |
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Donbas Battalion | “Should a single city be surrendered, the President will fly off his chair, there will be a military coup and the soldiers will take power into their own” | Donbas Battalion | 2014 |
Russia/Encirclement | “Unfortunately, it’s US “diplomacy” which brought the US, Russia, Ukraine, and NATO to the current standoff. As the Warsaw Pact disintegrated and the Soviet Union collapsed, US encouragement for those events included pledges that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization wouldn’t take advantage of the situation to expand eastward. Since then, NATO has inexorably pushed in that direction, nearly doubling the number of member states. Thanks, US “diplomacy.”
Things began coming to a head with the US-sponsored coup in Ukraine that replaced its “Russia-friendly” regime with a “US/Europe-friendly” regime in 2014, courtesy of Barack Obama. Thanks, US “diplomacy.” Then in 2019, the US withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which forbade the US to place missiles within surprise strike distance of Russia, and Russia to place similar missiles within surprise strike distance of NATO. The US followed up by placing exactly such missiles in Poland, courtesy of Donald Trump. Some “diplomacy.”... Then the US went into overdrive (courtesy of Trump and Biden) against the opening of a pipeline (Nord Stream 2) which would have supplied Russian natural gas to Germany. The pipeline would have been a force for peace insofar as Russia likes to sell natural gas (at a fraction of prices the US can offer), and Germans like to not freeze to death.” | Thomas Knapp | 2021 |
Events Participated in
Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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Halifax International Security Forum/2019 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in Canada | ||
Halifax International Security Forum/2020 | 20 November 2020 | 22 November 2020 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Annual spooky conference in November, this year held online instead of in Canada due to Covid lockdowns. |
Halifax International Security Forum/2021 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in Canada | ||
Halifax International Security Forum/2022 | 18 November 2022 | 20 November 2022 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in November 2022 |
Halifax International Security Forum/2023 | 17 November 2023 | 19 November 2023 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in Canada in November 2023 |
Munich Security Conference/2010 | 5 February 2010 | 7 February 2010 | Germany Munich Bavaria | An anti-war demonstration outside described it as "Nothing more than a media-effectively staged war propaganda event, which this year had the purpose of justifying the NATO troop increase in Afghanistan and glorifying the continuation of the war as a contribution to peace and stability." |
Munich Security Conference/2018 | 12 February 2018 | 14 February 2018 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 54th Munich Security Conference |
Munich Security Conference/2019 | 15 February 2019 | 17 February 2019 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 55th Munich Security Conference, which included "A Spreading Plague" aimed at "identifying gaps and making recommendations to improve the global system for responding to deliberate, high consequence biological events." |
Munich Security Conference/2020 | 14 February 2020 | 16 February 2020 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 56th Munich Security Conference, in 2020, "welcomed an unprecedented number of high-ranking international decision-makers." |
Munich Security Conference/2023 | 17 February 2023 | 19 February 2023 | Germany Munich Bavaria | Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists. The real decisions are made by deep politicians behind the scenes, elsewhere. |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2014 | 22 January 2014 | 25 January 2014 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2604 guests in Davos considered "Reshaping The World" |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2015 | 21 January 2015 | 24 January 2015 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | Attended by a lot of people. This page lists only the 261 "Public Figures". |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2016 | 20 January 2016 | 23 January 2016 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | Attended by over 2500 people, both leaders and followers, who were explained how the Fourth Industrial Revolution would changed everything, including being a "revolution of values". |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2017 | 17 January 2017 | 20 January 2017 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2950 known participants, including prominently Bill Gates. "Offers a platform for the most effective and engaged leaders to achieve common goals for greater societal leadership." |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2018 | 23 January 2018 | 26 January 2018 | Switzerland | ~2200 of the super-rich meet to talk about "Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World" |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2019 | 22 January 2019 | 25 January 2019 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | "The reality is that we are in a Cold War [against China] that threatens to turn into a hot one." |
References
- ↑ Munich Security Conference: Poroshenko shows Russian passports as proof of foreign troops in Ukraine UKRAINE TODAY YT channel (Feb 7, 2015)
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20140526215821/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26822741
- ↑ http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/ukraine-talks-set-to-open-without-pro-russian-separatists/2014/05/14/621dbc6a-c7d9-40bc-b2e5-814a4108bbef_story.html
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20140527092109/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27518989
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20140429045939/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8460978.stm
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20140529212731/http://www.nrcu.gov.ua/en/148/566632/
https://web.archive.org/web/20140529233925/http://telegraf.com.ua/ukraina/politika/1300294-rezultatyi-vyiborov-prezidenta-ukrainyi-2014-tsik-obrabotala-51-99.html - ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20140517121006/http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/205114.html
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20130822061718/http://www.therichest.com/celebnetworth/celebrity-business/men/petro-poroshenko-net-worth/
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20140527174812/http://www.scotsman.com/mobile/news/world/kerry-heads-for-crisis-talks-over-ukraine-1-3358208
- ↑ Continuity and Change in Transnistria’s Foreign Policy after the 2011 Presidential Elections by Marcin Kosienkowski, 2012, Academia.edu (page 38).
- ↑ "Ukraine's tycoon Poroshenko confirms plans to sell assets"
- ↑ https://sputniknews.com/20141114/1014748940.html saved at Archive.org saved at Archive.is