Artemenko Yuri
Date of Birth: 28.02.1963
Place of Birth. Education. Born in Zaporizhzhia. In 1989, he graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv with a degree in journalism. In 2002, he graduated from the International Academy of Management Personnel with a specialization in law. National Technical University of Ukraine with a focus on public administration. He speaks English.
Career. From 1981 to 1983, he served in the Soviet Army.
1998-2002 - Komsomolets of Zaporizhzhia newspaper, MIG newspaper (Zaporizhzhia) - correspondent, head of the information department, deputy editor-in-chief, executive editor.
2000-2002 - General Director of the Keramist publishing house (Zaporizhzhia).
From 2001 to 2005, Yuri Artemenko was a founding member, board member, and vice president of the Ukrainian Association of Publishers of Periodical Press.
2002-2005 - Deputy of the IV Congress of Ukraine, member of the Our Ukraine faction. Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada for Freedom of Speech and Information.
From February to November 2005, he was the head of the Zaporizhzhia regional administration (appointed and dismissed by decrees of President Viktor Yushchenko).
2006-2007 - Deputy of the V Congress of Ukraine from the Our Ukraine Bloc (No. 55 on the electoral list). Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Environmental Policy, Nature Management, and the Consequences of the Chernobyl Disaster.
In 2007, Yuri Artemenko left Our Ukraine.
From 2008 to 2010, he headed the Public Council of the State Committee for Television and Radio of Ukraine.
He is a member of the supervisory board of the Ukrainian radio stations Retro and Radio Alla (since 2008 has been the chairman).
Since 2009, he has been the chairman of the supervisory board of the International Charitable Foundation Dopomoga.
By the decision of the Cabinet of Ministers of Mykola Azarov on July 7, 2010, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine (Mykhailo Kulyniak). He supervised tourism issues and the UEFA Euro 2012 (in the part delegated by the Ministry of Culture), was responsible for the Ministry's relations with the Verkhovna Rada.
He was dismissed from his post as Deputy Minister by decree of President Viktor Yanukovych on June 16, 2011.
Since 2013, he has been an external advisor to the Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs.
On July 7, 2014, the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko appointed Yuri Artemenko as a member of the National Council of Ukraine for Television and Radio. He was elected chairman of this regulatory body.
On May 4, 2019, Yuri Artemenko resigned from his position as Chairman of the National Council for Television and Radio.
On the same day he was appointed by the President of Ukraine
On May 7, 2019, Petro Poroshenko appointed Yuri Artemenko as a member of the National Commission for the Regulation of Communications and Informatization.
On May 24, 2019, President Volodymyr Zelenskydismissing Yuri Artemenko from his position as a member of the National Commission for the Regulation of Communications and Informatization and repealed the decree of the fifth president Petro Poroshenko on Artemenko's removal from the post of member of the National Council for Television and Radio.
On September 18, 2019, Yuri Artemenko was appointed Vice President of the Star Media Group.
Since 2020, he has been the chair of the supervisory board of the Kyiv National University of Theater, Film, and Television named after I. K. Karpenko-Kary.
In January 2021, he was appointed to the supervisory board of the Ukrainian Cultural Fund.
Awards. Best journalist of the year in the Zaporizhzhia region (1988). Awarded the Order of the Revolutionary Guard of the I class. Since March 2005, he has been a state official of the 3rd rank.
Family. Wife - Yelena Nikolayevna (born 1963). Children: daughter Natalia (born 1981) and son Denis (born 1992).
03.03.2022