Nikolay Azarov

Mykola Azarov is a well-known Ukrainian politician who, back in the mid-90s, became part of the political elite of Ukraine and held high-ranking posts at the helm of the country for more than 20 years. 

He became widely known all over the world in connection with the situation at the Euromaidan, which was organized due to the suspension of preparations for the conclusion of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU. At the moment, the politician is wanted by the SBU for abuse of office during the mass protests in Kiev.

Nikolai Yanovich Azarov was born on December 17, 1947 in the native Russian city of Kaluga in the family of a mining engineer of Estonian origin Yan Pakhlo and a railway worker Ekaterina Azarova. The future Prime Minister of Ukraine became an illegitimate child with his parents, so at birth he was recorded in his maternal maiden name, which he carries to this day.

Due to the confusing history at birth, the nationality of Mykola Azarov is still a question for many political scientists today. The politician himself calls himself a Russian man who lived for 28 years on Ukrainian territory and became a citizen of Ukraine. At the same time, he spent all his childhood and school years in his native Kaluga, where he was raised by his maternal grandmother, since his parents separated almost immediately after the birth of Nikolai Yanovich.

In the Kaluga school No. 5, the politician was practically a perfect student, so he managed to earn a silver medal and easily enter the Geological Faculty of Moscow State University. He left the walls of the university as a geologist-physicist with honors, with whom he went to work in the coal sector and moved to Tula. At the Tulaugol plant, Azarov went from the head of the section to a rapid way to the chief engineer, and in 1976 he switched to industrial science, becoming the head of the department at the Novomoskovsk Research Institute of the coal industry.

In 1984 Nikolay Yanovich moved to the city of Donetsk in Ukraine, where he headed DonNTU. Then he defended his doctoral dissertation and became a doctor of geological and mineralogical sciences. In 1990, the biography of Mykola Azarov acquired a political direction, since on the ruins of the USSR he became actively involved in the project to revive an independent Ukraine and led the Labor Party in Donetsk, which included directors of the largest industrial enterprises in the southeast of the country.

Mykola Azarov's entry into big politics was marked by his acquaintance with the first Prime Minister of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma, who later became its long-term leader. At first, Nikolai Yanovich was elected a deputy to the Verkhovna Rada, and then became the head of the country's budget committee. At that time, he actively showed himself in the role of a qualified specialist, for which he was entrusted with creating the State Tax Administration of Ukraine from scratch.

In the role of the chief tax officer, Azarov increased tax collections in the country by 1.5 times, which won himself a whole army of "enemies". But this did not prevent him from retaining the entire STAU, which the government was strenuously trying to subordinate to itself. In 2000, Mykola Yanovich became one of their founders and the sole head of the Party of Regions, which primarily represented the interests of Eastern Ukraine.

In 2002, Azarov was elected First Deputy Prime Minister and at the same time Minister of Finance of Ukraine in the first government of Viktor Yanukovych, and in March 2010 he became Prime Minister of the country, who first of all in his new post reduced the number of government secretariats by half.

Mykola Azarov headed the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in difficult times for the country. Then the gas conflict with Russia was in an acute phase, as a result of which former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was imprisoned. Despite the fact that at that time the whole world was in a difficult financial and economic crisis, at the post of prime minister, Nikolai Yanovich boldly promised the Ukrainians a decent life and bringing the country to a new level.

Azarov's plans were disrupted at the end of 2013, when the population of Ukraine rebelled against the central government due to the suspension of the European integration process, which provided for the introduction of a visa-free regime with the EU. Then Euromaidan was organized in Kiev and thousands of people came to the main metropolitan square, which was the beginning of turbulent political processes in the country and the conflict in Donbass.

In this regard, in January 2014, the Azarov government resigned in order to reveal the possibilities for a socio-political compromise and the settlement of the situation in Ukraine. Then the ex-prime minister had to urgently fly to Vienna on a private plane, since in Ukraine criminal and political prosecution began for him.

Mykola Azarov's personal life is more successful than his political career. He met his future wife Lyudmila during his student years and has not parted since then. Their wedding took place in 1967, and a few years later the first-born Alexey was born in the family, who became a successful businessman and part-time unofficial adviser to the ex-head of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych.

After the resignation of Mykola Azarov from the post of prime minister, his family came under a series of EU sanctions with the freezing of all foreign assets and accounts in European banks. In January 2016, sanctions were partially lifted from the former head of the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers and his son. 

At the moment, according to information from open sources, Nikolai Yanovich lives in Russia for security reasons. He began to appear frequently in the media criticizing the current Ukrainian government, which led the country to a complete collapse and collapse of the economy.

After the "expulsion" from Ukraine, Mykola Azarov announced the creation of the "Committee for the Salvation of Ukraine", which, according to his idea, should create an alternative to the current Ukrainian government. Also in 2015, he wrote the book "Ukraine at a Crossroads", in which he outlined what really happened in the country and caused one of the bloodiest conflicts in all of Europe.

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