Pavel Lazarenko

Date of Birth: 23.01.1953

Pavel Ivanovich Lazarenko - Prime Minister of Ukraine (1996-1997).

Place of Birth. Education. Born in the village of Karpovka in the Shirokovsky district of Dnipropetrovsk region in a collective farming family. In 1978, he graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk Agricultural Institute with a degree in 'Agronomist'. Doctor of Economic Sciences (1997). Candidate of Agricultural Sciences.

Career. 1970-1971 - Attendee of a driving school, driver in the collective farm 'Zaria kommunizma' of Shirokovsky district of Dnipropetrovsk region.

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1978-1984 (after military service and university graduation) - Chief Agronomist, Chairman of the collective farm Kalinin in Novomoskovsk district of Dnipropetrovsk region.

1984-1985 - Chairman of the Council of the Zarichansky District Agro-Industrial Association, Head of the District Agricultural Administration, First Deputy Chairman of the Zarichansky District Executive Committee, Second Secretary of the Zarichansky District Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

1988-1992 - Head of the Department of Agriculture and Food Industry, Head of the Agricultural Department of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Chairman of the Council of the Agrarian Complex of Dnipropetrovsk Region, Deputy Head of the Oblast Executive Committee.

1990-1992 - People's Deputy of Ukraine of the I Congress.

1992-1995 - Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

From July to September 1995 - Governor of Dnipropetrovsk region.

From September 1995 to May 1996 - First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine.

From May 1996 to July 1997 - Prime Minister of Ukraine.

At the same time, he was a People's Deputy of Ukraine of the II Congress from 1994 to 1998 and Chairman of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council. After resigning as Prime Minister, Pavel Lazarenko became the leader of the parliamentary faction Unity. In September 1997, he became the head of the All-Ukrainian Association Communities.

1998-2002 - People's Deputy of Ukraine of the III Congress. Faction leader of Communities (the party managed to overcome the 4% electoral threshold).

In February 1999, the Supreme Court lifted Lazarenko’s immunity as a deputy and allowed the Prosecutor General's Office to prosecute him. In the same month, Pavel Lazarenko was arrested at an airport in New York with a Panamanian passport for attempting to enter the USA illegally. The arrested requested political asylum from the American authorities.

In February 2002, Lazarenko’s deputy rights in Ukraine were revoked. This was preceded by accusations of contract murders (in particular, of the Donetsk entrepreneur and deputy Yevgeny Shcherban and the former head of the National Bank of Ukraine Vadim Hetman).

In 2006, Pavel Lazarenko attempted, during his imprisonment in the USA, to return to the top of the Verkhovna Rada together with Communities. The Central Election Commission refused to register him as a candidate for parliament.

In October 2012, Lazarenko applied to participate in the next parliamentary elections of the Verkhovna Rada. His registration was denied as he had not lived in Ukraine for the last five years.

Criminal case in the USA. The US Attorney's Office charged Pavel Lazarenko with extortion, fraud, and money laundering amounting to $280 million, seeking an 18-year prison sentence and a fine of $66 million. The Ukrainian politician spent over four years in prison and was released in June 2003 on a $65 million bail.