Yuriy Kostenko

Yuriy Ivanovych Kostenko (Ukrainian: Юрій Іванович Костенко; born 6 December 1951[1]) is a Ukrainian politician and leader of the Ukrainian People's Party.[2]

For other uses, see Kostenko.
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming conventions, the patronymic is Ivanovych and the family name is Kostenko.

Yuriy Kostenko
Юрій Костенко
Kostenko in December 2009
Minister of Natural Environment Protection
In office
13 October 1992 – May 1998
President
Prime Minister
Preceded byYuriy Shcherbak
Succeeded byVasyl Shevchuk
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office
23 November 2007 – 12 December 2012
ConstituencyNUNS, No. 16
In office
15 May 1990 – 25 May 2006
Preceded byPosition established
Constituency
Personal details
Born (1951-06-12) 12 June 1951
Nova Obodivka, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Political partyPeople's Movement of Ukraine (1989–1999)
Alma materZaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University

Biography

Kostenko holds a Ph.D. from the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University. In 1989, he became one of the founders of People's Movement of Ukraine (Rukh) and served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 1990 to 2006 and from 2007 to 2012,[3][4] and in 2002 as a member of Our Ukraine.[5] From 1992 to 1998, he served as the minister of environmental protection.[3] Kostenko was a candidate at the 1999 Ukrainian presidential election where he received 2.17% of votes.[2] Kostenko was involved in Ukraine’s nuclear disarmament, which he later regretted, and in dealing with the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster.[6]

Before the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election Kostenko initiated the creation of a coalition known as Ukrainian National Bloc of Kostenko and Plyushch who has acquired 1.9% of the vote and did not exceed the 3% threshold of the election.

In July 2007 Kostenko and Ivan Plyushch joined together the bloc Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc and both got re-elected as People's Deputy of Ukraine. Unlike many allies of Yushchenko, Kostenko did not defect from the Our Ukraine grouping in parliament.[6]

Kostenko was a candidate in the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election, his party program included recognizing Ukrainian Insurgent Army veterans,[6] during the election he received 0,22% of the votes.[7]

Kostenko's Ukrainian People's Party competed on one single party under "umbrella" party Our Ukraine in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election, together with Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists; this list won 1.11% of the national votes and no constituencies, and thus failed to win parliamentary representation.[8][9] Kostenko was second the election list of Our Ukraine.[10] He did not participate in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[11]

References
  1. "Our Campaigns - Candidate - Yuriy Kostenko".
  2. Ukrainian People’s Party nominates its leader Kostenko for president Archived October 27, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, Interfax-Ukraine (24 October 2009)
  3. "Untitled Document". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  4. "The Makeup of the New Verkhovna Rada / Ukrayinska Pravda". Archived from the original on 17 March 2008. Retrieved 11 June 2008.
  5. http://gska2.rada.gov.ua:7777/site/dep_eng/Kostenko_Y.HTM%5B%5D
  6. Kostenko will pick up votes in west, but not in other regions, Kyiv Post (14 January 2010)
  7. (in Ukrainian) ЦВК оприлюднила офіційні результати 1-го туру виборів, Gazeta.ua (25 January 2010)
  8. (in Ukrainian) Proportional votes Archived October 30, 2012, at the Wayback Machine & Constituency seats Archived November 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
  9. "НУ, УНП и КУН объединились в "Союз патриотических сил" для участия в выборах". 31 July 2012.
  10. (in Ukrainian) "Наша Україна" хоче бути альтернативою усім учасникам виборів "Our Ukraine" wants to be an alternative to all election participants , BBC Ukrainian (31 July 2012)
  11. (in Ukrainian) Alphabetical Index of candidates in 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Central Election Commission (Ukraine).
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