PRESIDENTS OF INDEPENDENT UKRAINE

THEIR INVESTMENT INTO THE DEVELOPMENT OF UKRAINE

1.LEONID KRAVCHUK: 1991-1994

1.HYPEINFLATION 1992-1993

2.BELOVEZHS’K AGREEMENT 1991- LIQUIDATION

OF THE USSR

3.AGREEMENT WITH THE EU ON THE

PARTNERSHIP EUROPEAN INTEGRATION OF
UKRAINE

QUOTE: “WE HAVE, WHAT WE HAVE”.

2. LEONID KUCHMA: 1994-2005

1.THE ONLY PRESIDENT THAT WAS IN POWER

FOR 2 TERMS
2.THE WORST SCANDAL- MURDER OF THE
JOURNALIST GEORGIY/GEORGE GONGADZE;
3. THE “RECORDINGS SCANDAL”- RECORDINGS
WITH THE CONVERSATION PRESUPPOSEDLY
MADE IN THE PRESIDENT’S OFFICE TO PUNISH
THE JOURNALIST. PRESIDENT KUCHMA HAD
NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MURDER.
4. THE ANTI-KUCHMA MOVEMENT “UKRAINE
WITHOUT KUCHMA”.
5. PRIVATIZATION OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT
INDUSTRIAL VENTURES OF UKRAINE.
6.CONFRONTATION WITH THE VERKHOVNA
RADA’S SPEAKER OLEXANDER MOROZ.
7. INTRODUCTION OF THE NATIONAL CURRENCY

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8. FORMATION OF THE CLASS OF OLIGARCHS:
CONCNNTARTION OF THE LARGER PART OF THE
ECONOMICAL RESOURCES IN THEIR HANDS.
9. BUDAPEST MEMORANDUM AS TO THE
NUCLEAR STATUS OF UKRAINE: GUARANTIES OF
UKRAINE’S SOVEREIGNITY BY THE USA, GREAT
BRITAIN AND RUSSIA -1994.
10.CHARTER ON THE EXCLUSIVE PARTNERSHIP
BETWEEN THE NATO AND UKRAINE – 1997.
11. PLAN OF ACTIONS “UKRAINE-NATO” –
ASPIRATION OF UKRAINE TO JOIN THE NATO –
2002.
12. APPROVAL OF THE PARTNERSHIP WITH THE
NATO AND THE EU IN UKRAINIAN LAWS-2003.
13.AGREEMENT: FROMATION OF MUTUAL
ECONOMIC SPACE WITH RUSSIA, BELARUS AND
KAZAKHSTAN – 2003.
13.”POLITICS OF MULTI-VECTORSHIP” – political
balancing among the EU and NATO and Russia.
14. GRAND AGREEMENT WITH RUSSIA ON THE
STATE BORDER WITH THE RF, WHEN RUSSIA
RECOGNIZED THE TERRITORIAL SOVEREIGNITY OF
UKRAINE.
15. AGREEMENT ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE
BLACK SEA FLEET WITH RUSSIA: RUSSIAN TRROPS
HAD TO LEAVE THE CRIMEA IN 2017.

QUOTATION: “UKRAINE IS NOT RUSSIA”.

“IF I LOSE IN THE ELECTIONS, I WILL DRINK A

GLASS OF VODKA, TAKE SOME HAM AND WILL
CONTINUE TO WORK”.

3. VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO: 2005-2010

1. ORANGE REVOLUTION PROTESTS AGAINS
ELECTIONS’ FALSIFICATION 2004.
2. NEW VERSION OF THE CONSTITUTION
CAME IN VIGOR: WEAKENING OF
PRESIDENTS POWER AND
STRENGTHENING THE POWER OF THE
PARLIAMENT.
3. HE WAS THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF
UKRAINE WHO DISSOLVED THE
PARLIAMENT.
4. EARLY ELECTIONS 2007.
5. HUMANITARIAN POLITICS: RIVIVAL OF

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FAMINE/HOLODOMOR (A UKRAINIAN
VARIANT OF GENOCIDE), “ARTS
ARSENAL”, CULTURAL LIFE OF THE
CAPITAL, OF THE KOSSACKS’ CAPITAL IN
BATURYN.
6. INTERVIEWS ON THE HISTORY OF
UKRAINE, THE TRYPILLIA (THREE-FIELD-
LAND) CULTURE.
7. ACTIONS TOWARDS THE MEMBERSHIP IN
THE NATO – 2008.
8. TRIED TO GET THE TOMOS OF
AUTOCEPHALY FOR THE UKRAINIAN
CHURCH, WHICH WAS NOT SUCCESSFUL-
2008.
9. BEGAN THE PROCESS OF GRANTING THE
VISA-FREE REGIME FOR UKRAINIAN
CITIZENSHIP- 2008.
10. AGREEMENT OF ASSOCIATION WITH THE
EU- 2007.
11. CONFLICTS WITH THE RF: GAS
OVERLAPPING DUE TO THE OPENLY
WESTERN POLITICS.

QUOTATIONS:

“DEAR FRIENDS” = THE CLOSEST TO THE

PRESIDENT OFFICIALS.

“THESE HANDS STOLE NOTHING”.

“ACCUMILATED DEBTS, AS A BITCH

ACCUMULATED FLEAS” – ABOUT THE FINANCIAL
POLITICS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF
TYMOSHENKO.

4. VICTOR YANUKOVYCH: 2010-2014

1. THE ONLY PRESIDENT WHO FLED FROM

THE COUNTRY AND WHO WAS REMOVED
FROM THE OFFICE.
2. BLOODSHED EVENTS ON THE MAIN
SQUARE “MAIDAN”  DURING A FORCED
DISPERSAL OF THE DEMONSTRATION
THERE WERE KILLED OVER 100 PEOPLE –
FEBRUARY 2014.
3. HE WAS PROSECUTED AND IMPRISONED
WHEN A YOUNG MAN FOR CRIMINAL

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4. THE PHENOMENON OF THE “FAMILY” –
THE SONS AND THE CLOSEST AMBIENCE,
THAT WERE PLAYING THE MAIN ROLE IN
THE LIFE OF THE COUNTRY AND IN THE
FUNCTIONALITY OF THE POWER.
5. KING-LIKE RESIDENCE “MEZHYHIRYA”-
BECAME A MUSEUM.
6. IS REMEMBERED AS AN EXTRAVAGANT
PRESIDENT: SHOES FROM CROCODILES’,
PYTHON’S OROSTRICH’S LEATHER.
7. “KHARKIV AGREEMENTS” ABOUT THE
PROLONGATION OF THE RUSSIAN FLEET
IN THYE CRIMEA FROM 2017- TILL 2042 –
IN RETURN OF LOWERING THE PRICE FOR
GAS.
8. THE POINT OF THE INTEGRATION WITH
THE NATO HAS BEEN TAKEN AWAY FROM
THE UKRAINIAN LEGISLATURE.
9. THE NORM ABOUT THE NON-BLOCK
STATUS HAD BEEN ADDED TO THE
UKRAINIAN LEGISLATURE.
10. REFULSAL OF SIGNING THE AGREEMENT
ABOUT THE ASSOCIATION OF UKRAINE
WITH THE EU.
11. PROTESTS AGAINST HIS POLITICS-
“EUROMAIDAN” HE HAD TO FLEE
FROM THE COUNTRY.
12. A LETTER TO RUSSIAN PRESIDENT PUTIN
TO USE FORCE MILITARY FORCES OF
RUSSIA ON THE TERRITORY OF UKRAINE
TO “RENEW PEACE, LAWFULLNESS AND
NOMOCRACY”.
13. HE WAS ATTACKED BY AN EGG IN IVANO-
FRANKIVSK (STANISLAV)- 2004.
QUOTATIONS:
“IN UKRAINIAN CITIES, THE WOMEN
BEGAN TO UNCLOTHE”- HE INVITED
FOREIGNER TO COME TO UKRAINE IN
DAVOS.
“SHLEPPER” – A JARGONISM TO DENOTE
HIS PREDECESSORS.
“DONBASS DOESN’T CHASE EMPTY TRAIN
CARS”.
“WHEN YOU SEE WITH YOUR OWN
HANDS, TOUCH WITH YOUR OWN EYES
ACCCORDING TO THE OLD UKRAINIAN
TRADITION” – THAT’S HOW HE WAS

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WORK OF GOVERNORS IN THEIR OWN
PLACES OF WORK.

5. PETRO POROSHENKO: 2014-2019

1. THE ONLY PRESIDENT WHO WON IN ALL

THE CONSTITUENCIES.
2. WAS WORKING UNDER THE
CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE MILITARY
CONFLICT AND OPPOSITION TO RUSSIA.
3. PROMISED TO WND THE CONFLICT IN
SEVERAL HOURS, NOT IN MONTHS IN
DONBASS  ANTI[TERRORIST
OPERATION IN THE EAST OF UKRAINE
(ATO). HE APOLOGIZED FOR BEING
HAVING MADE A MISTAKE.
4. THE FIRST PRESIDENT, WHO SPOKE
FLUENT ENGLISH AND COULD
COMMUNICATE WITHOUT AN
INTERPRETER.
5. HRYVNA’S DEVALUATION AND
ECONOMY’S DECLINE – 2014-2015.
6. HE DEPORTED EX-PRESIDENT OF GEORGIA
FROM UKRAINE.
7. MINSK AGREEMENT TO STOP MILITARY
ACTIONS IN DONBASS.
8. AGREEMENT ABOUT THE ASSOCIATION
WITH THE EU, VISA-FREE REGIME FOR
UKRAINIANS.
9. THE AGREEMENT ON FRIENDSHIP AND
COOPERATION WITH RUSSIA WAS
REVOKED.
10. CONSTITUTIONAL CONFIRMATION OF
UKRAINE’S GOAL TO JOIN THE NATO AND
THE EU.
11. LOBBYING THE TOMOS FROM THE
WORLD PATRIARCH FOR THE UKRAINIAN
AUTOCEPHALOUS CHURCH INDEPENDENT
FROM MOSCOW.

QUOTATIONS:

“TO LIVE IN A NEW WAY” – about the

negative sides of life in Ukraine.
“THE LIPETSK FACTORY” – the name of a
confectionary factory of Poroshenko in
Russia- the demand of getting rid of that

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‘THE BLIND TRUST” – the Trust he

delivered all his actives for governing- a
critical expression of the president.

“JUST A FEW WEEKS” – the promise about

the visa-free status.

‘AWAY FROM MOSCOW!” – the phrase of

the Ukrainian classic Mykola Khvyliovii.

6. VOLODYMYR ZELENSKIY: 2019-

1. REVIVAL OF THE NORMAND FORMAT.
2. SUPPORT OF ALLIES IN AMENDMENTS TO
THE MINSK AGREEMENTS.
3. FREEING OF A PART OF PRISONARS OF
WAR AND HOSTAGES HAT WERE KEPT IN
RUSSIA – OLEH SENTSOV, OLEXANDR
KOL’CHENKO AND ROMAN SUSHCHENKO
INCLUDED.
4. UKRAINIAN VESSELS’ CREWS RETURNED
FROM RUSSIAN CAPTIVITY.
5. TWO SEA BOATS AND A SEA TUG WERE
RETURNED.
6. WITHDRAWAL OF TROOPS IN LUHANSK
VILLAGE.
7. ENTRY-EXIT CHECKPOINTS (EECP)
“HONCHAR” AND “KOLONCHAk’ WERE
BUILT ON THE BORDER WITH THE
ANNEXED CRIMEA.
8. A TV CHANNEL “DIM/DOM” (HOME) WAS
CREATED FOR BROADCASTING ON THE
OCCUPIED TERRITORY WITH UKRAINIAN
CONTENT AND ENTERTAINMENT
PROGRAMS.
9. THE PARLIAMENT SYSTEM OF “BUTTON-
PRESSING” FOR OTHER DEPUTIES HAS
BEEN MINIMALIZED.
10. THE DEPUTIES’ IMMUNITY HAS BEEN
LIQUIDATED.
11. THE NEW ELECTIONS CODEX HAS BEEN
ADOPTED.
12. THE EARTH MARKET HAS BEEN
LAUNCHED IN UKRAINE.
13. THE LAW ON PRESIDENT’S
IMPEACHEMENT HAS BEEN APPROVED.
14. NATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION BUREAU

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WHICH IS OPERATIONALLY
INDEPENDENT.
15. THE EXCHANGE RATE OF THE UKRAINIAN
CURRENCY RAISED BY NEARLY 15%.
16. THE NATIONAL GOLDEN CURRENCY
RESERVE HAS RAISED UP TO $25 MLRD.
17. UNBOUNDLING OF OIL-AND-GAS
INDUSTRY.
18. AGREEMENT WITH RUSSIA ON
TRANSPORTATION OF GAS THROUGH THE
TERRITORY OF UKRAINE.
19. RUSSIA PAID $2,9 MLRD ACCORDING THE
DECISION OF THE STOCKHOLM COURT
FROM THE OVERALL AMOUNT OF $5
MLRD.
20. THE SPLIT BETWEEN THE NBU AND THE
NATIONAL COMISSION OF SECURITIES
AND THE FUNDING MARKET A
FINANCIAL SYSTEM THAT COMPLIES WITH
INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS.
21. FORMATION OF A REAL CONCESSION
MECHANISM THAT INVOLVES
EXPERIENCED INTERNATIONAL
INVESTORS IN THE UKRAINIAN
INFRASTRUCTURAL OBJECTS.
22. MEASURES TO POSTPONE PAYMENTS
FOR CREDIT AND INTEREST.
23. NEW PROGRAM “LARGE CONSTRUCTION”
TO BUILD HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF
ROADS, THOUSANDS OF SOCIALLY
IMPORTANT OBJECTS, TO CREATE
THOUSANDS OF JOBS.
24. RAISED THE LIMITS OF EARNINGS FOR
INDIVIDUAL ENTREPRENEURS.
25. CREDITS FOR SMALL BUSINESSES.
26. THE LAW ARTICLE ABOUT FAKE
ENTERPRENEURSHIP HAS BEEN
CANCELLED AS IT ALLOWED TO
BLACKMAIL BUSINESS.
27. THE LAWS THAT ALLOW TO EXPORT
UKRAINIAN GOODS TO THE EU
COUNTRIES HAVE BEEN ADOPTED.
28. THE CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS HAVE
BEEN SIMPLIFIED AND MODERNIZED.
29. THE LAW THAT REQUIRES TO CONDUCT
STATE PURCHASES BEGINNING FROM 50
THOUSAND HRYVNAS.

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TENS OF STATE ENTERPRISES.
31. THE TARIFS FOR HEATING AND WATER
HAVE BEEN LOWERED BY 30%.
32. A PROGRAM TO HELP THE PEOPLE WHO
WILL LOSE THEIR JOBS DURING THE
CRISIS.
33. A MECHANISM FOR THE RETIRED OF THE
ELDERLY GOUP: AFTERPAYMENTS FOR
THOSE WHO GET THE PENSION LESS
THAN 5 THOUSAND HRYVNAS.
34. THE UKRAINIAN VOLUNTEERS WHO
FOUHGT IN THE EAST OF UKRAINE
AGAINST THE RUSSIAN AGGRESSION
HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED THE STATUS OF
COMBATANTS .
35. MAIN CONSTRUCTION WORKS HAVE
BEEN COMPLETED OF THE PROTECTION
OF THE MOTHER AND THE CHILD
TREATING AND DIAGNOSTICS PAVILLION.

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