Azarov Biography Ukraine

Advertising on Neftegaz. Nikolai was brought up by his grandmother, whose surname he received and received the village in which he grew up, was also called Azarovo. Some sources, however, argue that the real name of Azarov was smelled and after the wedding he took the name of his wife. Azarov graduated from a school with a gold medal, and in the city of Lomonosov, Moscow State University.

In gg. Azarov worked as the head of the site, and then the chief engineer of the Tulashachto -vocational Trust at the Tulagol plant. In May, G. Azarov moved to Ukraine. From a year to a year, Azarov worked in Donetsk at the Ukrainian State Scientific Research and Design Institute of Mining Geology, Geomcharika and Mark Shedermic Affairs of the Ministry of Coal Industry of Ukraine - first as a deputy director, and then as a director, becoming a politician, Azarov received from journalists the nickname - Marthader.

In the city of Azarov, he defended the dissertation of mine geophysics for the degree of Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences; He defended his doctoral dissertation, like previously candidate. In the year, Azarov was awarded the title of professor. Subsequently, the Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine was elected to Azarov in the year of the Corresponding Academy of Sciences.

Azarov was awarded the title of Honorary Professor of Moscow State University. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of independent Ukraine in the city in December in the city of Donetsk, the labor party of Ukraine was established; The idea of ​​its creation belonged to the directors of the largest enterprises of the southeast and south of the country.

Since the founding of the Azari party, he entered its leadership; in gg. As a member of the labor party in the city in the Rada Azarov, he was elected a member of the Presidium and headed the budget committee from September to October of the year, and was also part of the Interregional Deputy Group, supporting the President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma. Azarov became one of the three most common deputies along with Viktor Suslov and Natalia Vitrenko.

In the years, Azarov was also a member of the currency and credit council of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. Azarov was appointed the head of the Chief State Advisor to the Tax Service of the State Tax Administration of Ukraine, the head of the main state adviser to the Tax Service. According to some reports, Prime Minister Pavel Lazarenko subsequently accused of financial fraud proposed to this post.

As a civil servant, Azarov suspended his membership in the labor party. At the end of the year, the name of Azarov was mentioned as a probable candidate in the Verkhovna Rada elections from the Bloc "Labor Ukraine", but in March, he refused to run for parliament, since according to the positions of the head of the GNAU and deputy of the Rada adopted shortly before this law, it became impossible.

Azarov headed the GNAU until November. At the same time, he was a member of the Higher Economic Council of the President of Ukraine in the year, the Interdepartmental Commission on the regulation of the food market, prices and income of agricultural producers in the year, in the coordination committee for combat corruption and organized crime under the President of Ukraine in the year and a number of other councils, committees and commissions.

The press especially noted a significant strengthening of the tax department during the Azarov leadership. In particular, since July, GNAU has gained control of the market of liquid-water products and tobacco. Since that time, Azarov has actively acted as a supporter of a single economic space with Russia. It was described as one of the most stringent supporters of protecting the interests of the state and one of the main skeptics in matters of liberalization of state regulation and freedom of entrepreneurship.

In November, the former Kuchma guard Nikolai Melnichenko accused Azarov, as well as a number of other former officials of participating in the “organized criminal community”, led by Kuchma and guilty of the results of the presidential election of the year, illegal enrichment, persecution and physical elimination of opponents, including the well -known journalist Georgy Gongadze. In the year, the President of Ukraine Kuchma insisted that Viktor Yushchenko appointed Azarov as his deputy to Prime Minister, who worked at that time, but instead of him this post was taken by Yuri Janurov.

During the Prime Minister of Yushchenko, in the years of Azarov, who was directly subordinated to the president, he was confrontation with the government that tried to reward the tax department. In particular, in the spring of the year, the press reported on the “pressure”, which Azarov rendered to Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, after the year, was arrested on charges of bribery, her husband later Tymoshenko herself tried to collect compromising on Azarov.

At the same time, in the year, Azarov was called as a possible future prime minister. The press noted that Azarov owed a career rise to Svyatoslav Piskun, who became the Prosecutor General of Ukraine in the year.It is believed that in many respects was the creation of the Donetsk financial and industrial group and, accordingly, represented primarily the interests of Eastern Ukraine.

At the same time, the press indicated the close ties of Azarov with Donetsk politicians and businessmen. At the same time, having headed the party, Azarov became an opponent of a number of other centrist movements and opposed the resignation of the Yushchenko government. In addition, Azarov’s supporters in the Rada did not join the “Regions of Ukraine” faction, but formed their own “European choice” faction.

In December, Azarov at the Congress PR resolved the presidential powers and announced that before the elections in the Rada in March, he was suspended membership in the party in order to avoid accusations of using the administrative resources. Azarov returned to the leadership of PR only in April of the year, heading the party’s political officer. In October-November of the year, Azarov was nominated with a "European choice" as one of the main candidates for the post of Prime Minister of Ukraine.

At the head of many of these formations, the Azarov formally remained until November. For some officials, the Azars has become a "conflict" deputy prime minister. Over time, he began to largely determine the economic policy of the government - partly bypassing the Ministry of Economics: as a result of the conflict with Azarov, in December, the Minister of Economy Valery Khoroskovsky was forced to resign.

Soon after this, the head of the State Committee on Regulatory Policy and Entrepreneurship, Inna The Theologian, addressed President Kuchma an open letter in which she, in particular, spoke of the Azarovshchina, defining it as “disrespect for the citizens of her own country and dislike of Ukraine itself”; After that, the Theological was forced to leave her post.

In the year, Azarov became the laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine "For the development and implementation of innovative organizational, economic and information technologies in the institutional system of Ukraine." During the Orange Revolution, on December 1, during the lack of the country, the acting Prime Minister Azarov performed his duties. In a short time, which Azarov managed the government, he managed to sign a decree providing President Kuchm with the wages of the current president, state cottage, cars and security at the expense of the budget.

At the same time, on New Year's Eve, on January 1, Azarov suddenly appeared at the center of supporters of the newly elected president V. Yushchenko - on the Maidan of Nezalevniy. He later explained his act with a request of the mayor of Kyiv A. Omelchenko, so that one of the authorities would congratulate the Kyivans. Azarov, as one of the leaders of the opposition, actively acted with the criticism of the governments of Yulia Tymoshenko and Yuri Ekhanurov, accusing them of unsystematicity and incompetence.

In the parliamentary elections of the year, Azarov was included in the pre -election list of PR under the twelfth number. In the spring of the year, Azarov was elected to the Verkhovna Rada, and in July he again became chairman of the budget committee. In addition, in May Azarov became one of the deputy chairman of the PR faction in the Rada, Yanukovych became chairman of the faction.

In the summer of the year, Azarov acted as one of the representatives of the PR in negotiations on the creation of the coalition, and then one of the main negotiators from the coalition in the formation of committees. In early August, Azarov was again approved by Rada as the First Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance in the new government of Yanukovych, in connection with which the deputy powers of Azarov were terminated in September.

In the press, he was called the developer and implementer of the economic policy of the Yanukovych government. In addition, during the period of Azarov’s work in the second government of Yanukovych, the main documents were prepared and signed, thanks to which, at the beginning of the year, already at the next office of ministers, Ukraine joined the World Trade Organization.

Inside the Azarov, together with Andrei Klyuyev, from the end of the year, actually headed one of the groups of influence contrasting the group of Yanukovych and the Rinat Akhmetov group. In extraordinary parliamentary elections on September 30, Azarov participated in the PR list under the sixth number. In December, the Rada approved the new government, headed by Tymoshenko, Azarov was elected chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance and Banking Activities, and also became the Minister of Finance in the shadow opposition government of Yanukovych.

In April, the next congress of PR was held, at which Azarov was elected a member of the Presidium of the Political Council and the chairman of the Central Control Commission of the Party. However, the experts noted that the positions of Azarov in the PR weakened, which was expressed in the fact that he did not receive the post of deputy chairman. Nevertheless, after the appointment of the presidential elections in the summer of the year, it was Azarov who was instructed to head the election headquarters of Yanukovych.

When in February, Yanukovych won the second round of the presidential election, Azarov began to be considered as one of the main candidates for the post of prime minister. On the same day, on the proposal of President, Yanukovych, Rada approved Azarov as a new head of government. In the election of the party chapter, the candidacy of the prime minister was the only one, and the congress delegates supported her unanimously.

The next day, Azarov, having held meetings of the updated government, instructed the new ministers to reduce the number of devices of the government secretariat, ministries and departments. Even before Yanukovych came to power, in January, a gas conflict broke out between Russia and Ukraine, which led to the conclusion of a new agreement between Naftogaz and Gazprom on the supply and transit of gas for a period of 10 years.

According to this agreement, signed in the presence of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine provided a twenty percent discount on gas, provided that the transit tariff was preserved. In April, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine aroused the case against Yulia Tymoshenko upon the conclusion of these agreements.

In May, the former prime minister was charged, and Tymoshenko was arrested in August of that year. In the spring of the year, Azarov called the terms of the gas contract with Russia "bonded", however, he emphasized that they will be observed until it was possible to agree on their revision. Ukraine was looking for various ways to achieve a change in the contract, since it could not break it in a one -stained manner.

So, in May of the year, Azarov wrote a letter to Putin with the presentation of arguments in favor of a revision of the conditions of Nogorov, and also declared his intentions to achieve termination of contracts in court. In September, Azarov announced the reorganization of Naftogaz, as a result of which the company had to cease to exist. As the prime minister noted, it was necessary to revise the gas agreements between Russia and Ukraine.

After that, the Cabinet of Ministers also resigned, but continued to fulfill the duties until the approval of the new composition of the government. On the same day, the president issued a decree on the appointment of Nikolai Azarov to the position. On the same day, President Viktor Yanukovych approved the resignation of Azarov on February 4, Nikolai Azarov, in Moscow, presented his new book “Ukraine at the crossroads” on February 21 on the air of the TV program “The Right to Know” television program called the “Ukrainian government in exile” on February 7, Nikolai Azarov presented his book “Maidan lessons.

Ukraine after the coup ”on November 8, Nikolai Azarov presented his first historical epic novel in two books“ Fate is not chosen ”. Since October 24, Nikolai Azarov has a channel on YouTube, where it illuminates political events.

By March, the Canal of Azarov had thousands of subscribers and 46.1 million video views. Also, Nikolai Yanovich, since the time of the premier, has a page on Facebook, on which there are subscribers. In the year, Azarov was awarded the title "Honored Economist of Ukraine." He was awarded the orders "for the merits" of the three degrees, the Order of Yaroslav the Wise degree, the Order of the Holy Equal -to -the -Apostles Prince Vladimir, the Order of Shakhther Glory, the Medal of Slavutich, the Order of Social Recognition of the II degree.

Also, Azarov became the gentleman of the International Order of St. Stanislav, the Order of the International Order of St. Stanislav was described as a charitable association with headquarters in Kyiv. In December, Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded Azarov by the Russian Order of Friendship, and in April of the year, Azarov was awarded the Bolshoi Cross of the Brazilian Order of the Rio Burek.

In March, the Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophile III honored the title of the commander of the Order of the Orthodox Crusaders of the Holy Church of the Holy Holy Temper.