First Yanukovych government

The first Yanukovych Government was the Ukrainian cabinet of ministers between 21 November 2002 and 5 January 2005, led by Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych had been elected Prime Minister of Ukraine with 234 votes, only 8 more than needed.[1]

First Yanukovych Government
9th Cabinet of Ukraine (since 1990)

Date formed	21 November 2002
Date dissolved	5 January 2005
People and organisations
Head of state	Leonid Kuchma
Head of government	Viktor Yanukovych
Deputy head of government	Mykola Azarov
No. of ministers	20
Member party	Party of Regions Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) Labour Ukraine
Status in legislature	Majority
Opposition party	Our-Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc
Opposition leader	Viktor Yushchenko Yulia Tymoshenko
History
Legislature term(s)	5 years
Predecessor	Kinakh government
Successor	First Tymoshenko government

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On December 1, 2004 (during the Orange Revolution) the Ukrainian Parliament passed a vote of no-confidence.[2] The government supported NATO membership of Ukraine (2002) and sent Ukrainian troops to Iraq in 2003.[3]

Composition[4]

Viktor Yanukovych – Prime Minister
Mykola Azarov – First Deputy Prime Minister
Vitaly Hayduk – Deputy Prime Minister for fuel and energy complex
Ivan Kyrylenko – Deputy Prime Minister
Dmytro Tabachnyk – Deputy Prime Minister for humanitarian issues
Serhy Ryzhuk – Agricultural Policy
Yury Smirnov – Interior Affairs
Vasyl Shevchuk – Environment and Natural Resources
Valery Khoroshkovsky – Economy and European Integration
Anatoliy Zlenko – Foreign Affairs
Hryhory Reva – Emergency Situations and Chernobyl Cleanup
Yury Bohutsky – Culture and the Regions
General Volodymyr Shkidchenko – Defence
Vasyl Kremen – Education and Science
Andry Pidayev – Health
Oleksandr Lavrynovych – Justice
Serhy Yermilov – Fuel and Energy
Mikhail Papiyev – Labour and Social Policy
Anatoliy Myalytsya – Industrial Policy
Heorhiy Kirpa – Transport

References

All Cabinets of Ukraine*
Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–20)	First Vynnychenko government (1917) Second Vynnychenko government (1917–18) Holubovych government (1918) Vasylenko government (1918) Lyzohub government (1918) Gerbel government (1918) Chekhivsky government (1919) Ostapenko government (1919) Martos government (1919) Mazepa government (1920) Prokopovych government (1920) Livytskyi government (1920)
Ukrainian SSR (1917–91)	People's Secretariat (1917–18) Provisional Workers' and Peasants' Government of Ukraine (1918–19) All-Ukrainian Revolutionary Committee (1919–20) Council of People's Commissars (1919–46) Khrushchev government (1944–47) Second Korotchenko government (1948–54) First Kalchenko government (1954–57) Second Kalchenko government (1957–61) First Shcherbytsky government (1961–63) Kazanets government (1963–65) Second Shcherbytsky government (1965–68) Third Shcherbytsky government (1968–72) First Lyashko government (1972–76) Second Lyashko government (1976–81) Third Lyashko government (1981–86) First Masol government (1987–90)
Ukraine (1991–present)	Fokin government (1990–92) Kuchma government (1992–93) Second Masol government (1994–95) Marchuk government (1995–96) Lazarenko government (1996–97) Pustovoitenko government (1997–99) Yushchenko government (1999–2001) Kinakh government (2001–02) First Yanukovych government (2002–04) First Tymoshenko government (2005) Yekhanurov government (2005–06) Second Yanukovych government (2006–07) Second Tymoshenko government (2007–10) First Azarov government (2010–12) Second Azarov government (2012–14) First Yatsenyuk government (2014) Second Yatsenyuk Government (2014–16) Hroysman Government (2016–2019) Honcharuk Government (2019–2020) Shmyhal Government (2020–present)
*Acting cabinets not included

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