George Tuka

George Tuka Георгій Тука


Deputy Minister for the temporarily occupied territories and internally displaced persons
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 April 2016
Prime Minister	Volodymyr Groysman
Minister	Vadym Chernysh^[1]
Governor of Luhansk Oblast
In office 22 July 2015 – 29 April 2016
President	Petro Poroshenko
Preceded by	Yuriy Klimenko (acting)
Succeeded by	Yuriy Harbuz^[2]
Personal details
Born	(1963-11-24) 24 November 1963 Kyiv, Ukraine
Residence	Ukraine

George Tuka or Heorhiy/Georgiy Tuka (Ukrainian: Георгій Борисович Тука; born 24 November 1963^[3]) is a Ukrainian politician and activist. Since 29 April 2016 Tuka is Deputy Minister for the temporarily occupied territories and internally displaced persons in the Groysman government.^[4] In 2015 and 2015 he was governor of Luhansk Oblast.

Personal life

George Tuka was born on 24 November 1963 in Kyiv.^[3] He graduated from the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in 1986.^[3] He has a son who volunteered for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Career

In 2009–2010, Tuka worked as head of sales at En Ti Telekom LLC.^[3] From 2011 to 2012 he was the director of Zenit-Telecom.^[3]^[5]

Tuka joined the Euromaidan protests early on and was wounded by the Berkut special police force on 18 February 2014.^[6] He is a co-founder and coordinator of Narodnyi Tyl, a community volunteer movement.^[7] In 2014 he co-founded and was fifth on the list of the political party Ukraine is One Country (Ukrayina – Yedyna Krayina) during the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.^[6]

In 2014, Narodnyi Tyl established a website titled "Peacemaker",^[8] which lists the personal data of citizens described as "separatists" or "Kremlin agents" by the authors of the site.^[9] Several media have reported that it provided the personal data, including home address, of an assassinated former MP from the Party of Regions, Oleg Kalashnikov,^[9] and journalist and writer Oles Buzina.^[10] When asked about possible responsibility for the illegal distribution of personal data, he stated, "This site contains data on more than 25,000 men. More than 300 of them are either arrested or killed. So why should I worry about some two lowlifes who are guilty of war?"^[11]

On 22 July 2015,^[12] President Petro Poroshenko appointed Tuka governor of Luhansk Oblast.^[13] He was dismissed from this post by Poroshenko on 29 April 2016.^[14]

Later on 29 April 2016 Tuka was appointed Deputy Minister for the temporarily occupied territories and internally displaced persons in the Groysman government.^[4]

Awards

Order of Merit, III grades^[15]

References

External links

Ukrainian crisis

General
topics

War in Donbass

Timeline	April–June 2014 July–September 2014 October–December 2014 January–March 2015 April–June 2015 July–September 2015 October–December 2015 January–March 2016 April 2016–present

Battles	Siege of Sloviansk (12 April – 5 July 2014) Battle of Kramatorsk (12 April – 5 July 2014) Battle of Mariupol (6 May – 14 June 2014) 1st Battle of Donetsk Airport (26–27 May 2014) Siege of the Luhansk Border Base (2–4 June 2014) Zelenopillya rocket attack (11 July 2014) Battle in Shakhtarsk Raion (16 July – 26 August 2014) Battle of Horlivka (20 July – 6 September 2014) Battle of Ilovaisk (10 August – 2 September 2014) Novosvitlivka refugee convoy attack (18 August 2014) Battle of Novoazovsk (25–28 August 2014) Mariupol offensive (4–8 September 2014) 2nd Battle of Donetsk Airport (28 September 2014 – 21 January 2015) Battle of Debaltseve (16 January – 20 February 2015) Mariupol rocket attack (24 January 2015) Shyrokyne standoff (10 February – 3 July 2015) Battle of Maryinka (3 June 2015) Dokuchaievsk skirmish (4–5 March 2016)

Related	Humanitarian situation International reactions

Other events

Crimean status referendum (16 March 2014)
Odessa clashes (2 May 2014)
Donbass status referendums (11 May 2014)
Ukrainian presidential election (25 May 2014)
40th G7 summit (4–5 June 2014)
Ukrainian Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 shoot-down (14 June 2014)
Shelling of Donetsk, Russia (13 July 2014)
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 shoot-down (17 July 2014)
- reactions
UNSC Resolution 2166 (21 July 2014)
NATO summit in Wales (4–5 September 2014)
Minsk Protocol (5 September 2014)
Ukrainian parliamentary election (26 October 2014)
Donbass general elections (2 November 2014)
2014 G20 Brisbane summit (15–16 November 2014)
Volnovakha bus attack (13 January 2015)
Donetsk bus attack (22 January 2015)
Minsk II ceasefire agreement (12 February 2015)
Kharkiv bombing (22 February 2015)

Proclaimed
states

Republic of Crimea (17–18 March 2014)
Donetsk People's Republic (since 7 April 2014)
Luhansk People's Republic (since 27 April 2014)
Novorossiya (24 May 2014 – 20 May 2015)

Background

Pre-1917 Novorossiya
1918 Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic
1918 Taurida Soviet Socialist Republic
2004 South-East Ukrainian Autonomous Republic
2012 law on languages
2014 Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement

Main places

Donetsk
- International Airport
- Druzhba Arena
Luhansk
- International Airport
Kharkiv
Odessa
Donetsk Oblast
- Bakhmut
- Debaltseve
- Dobropillia
- Druzhkivka
- Dzerkalne
- Horlivka
- Hrabove
- Ilovaisk
- Karlivka
- Khartsyzk
- Kirovske
- Kostiantynivka
- Kramatorsk
- Krasnoarmiisk
- Lyman
- Makiivka
- Maryinka
- Mariupol
- Mykolaivka
- Novoazovsk
- Pisky
- Savur-Mohyla
- Shakhtarsk
- Siversk
- Sloviansk
- Snizhne
- Staromykhailivka
- Toretsk
- Torez
- Volnovakha
- Vuhlehirsk
- Yampil
- Yasynuvata
- Yenakiieve
- Zhdanivka
Luhansk Oblast
- Alchevsk
- Antratsyt
- Chornukhyne
- Izvaryne
- Kirovsk
- Krasnodon
- Krasnyi Luch
- Lysychansk
- Metalist
- Novosvitlivka
- Oleksandrivsk
- Pervomaisk
- Pobieda
- Popasna
- Rubizhne
- Shchastya
- Sievierodonetsk
- Stakhanov
- Stanytsia Luhanska
- Sverdlovsk

(Pro-)
Russian

Organizations	Russian Armed Forces United Armed Forces of Novorossiya List of equipment Army of the South-East Russian Orthodox Army Vostok Battalion Donetsk Republic (political party) New Russia Party Communist Party of the Donetsk People's Republic Peace for Lugansk Region Borotba Antifascist Committee of Ukraine Ukrainian Choice Russophone Ukraine Night Wolves The Other Russia Eurasian Youth Union

Lead figures	Vladimir Putin Vladislav Surkov Sergey Shoygu Vladimir Antyufeyev Igor Bezler Valery Bolotov Alexander Borodai Mikhail Chumachenko Aleksandr Dugin Pavel Gubarev Ekaterina Gubareva Igor Kakidzyanov Alexander Khodakovsky Arsen Klinchaev Vladimir Kononov Aleksey Mozgovoy Igor Plotnitsky Vyacheslav Ponomarev Andrei Purgin Denis Pushilin Igor Strelkov Oleg Tsaryov Alexander Zakharchenko

Ukrainian

Organizations	Yatsenyuk Government Ministry of Internal Affairs National Guard of Ukraine Armed Forces of Ukraine Ukrainian Ground Forces Ukrainian Air Force Ukrainian Airmobile Forces Security Service of Ukraine SBU Alpha Group State Border Guard Service of Ukraine Right Sector Territorial defense battalions Aidar Battalion Azov Battalion Dnipro Battalion Donbas Battalion Kharkiv Battalion Sich Battalion Svyatyi Mykolai Battalion

Lead figures	Petro Poroshenko Oleksandr Turchynov Arseniy Yatsenyuk Andriy Parubiy Arsen Avakov Valentyn Nalyvaichenko Valeriy Heletey Mykhailo Koval Mykhailo Kutsyn Oleh Makhnitskyi Viktor Muzhenko Vitaly Yarema Oleh Lyashko Dmytro Yarosh Ihor Kolomoyskyi Serhiy Taruta Ihor Baluta Semen Semenchenko Hennadiy Moskal Nadiya Savchenko

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