Oleksandr Tretiakov

Oleksandr Tretiakov Олександр Юрійович Третьяков

Verkhovna Rada
Personal details
Born	Oleksandr Yuriiovych Tretiakov (1970-03-20) 20 March 1970 Kiev
Spouse(s)	Alla Tretiakova
Children	Daria, Daniil and Egor

Oleksandr Yuriiovych Tretiakov is a Ukrainian politician, Member of Ukrainian Parliament (Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine) of the 4th, 5th, and 6th convocations, Head of the Cabinet of the President of Ukraine (2005).

Early life

Born in Kyiv on 20 March 1970. 1987-1992: study at Kyiv Higher Radio Engineering Academy of Air Defense. 1992-1994: service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Discharged with the rank of senior lieutenant.

Personal life

Mother: Liudmyla Ivanivna Tretiakova (born 1946). Wife: Alla Feodosivna Tretiakova (born 1969), married since 1991. Children: daughter Daria (born 2003) and two sons, Daniil and Egor (born 2008). The parents communicate with their children in Ukrainian language, believing that only the family can foster love and respect for native language, history and culture in children.

Business career

After receiving higher education Oleksandr Tretiakov starts own business. From 1995 to 2002 he was the president of ATEK-95, one of the major oil trading companies in Ukraine. Oleksandr Tretiakov’s business interests also include real estate and media.

In 2006 Oleksandr founded Glavred Media, a media holding which included the most influential Ukrainian information agency UNIAN, Glavred magazine and website, Profile and Telecity magazines, Nova and Izvestiya v Ukraine (eng. News in Ukraine) newspapers, Telekritika (eng. Telecritics) website, and City TV channel. Ihor Kolomoyskyi, one of the top Ukrainian businessmen and a co-owner of Privat Group, becomes Oleksandr’s business partner in the media holding. The establishment of the holding was officially announced in August 2007. At the beginning of 2010, after Viktor Yanukovych won the presidential election, Tretiakov sells all his media assets.

Political career

In 2002 Oleksandr entered politics and became actively engaged with it. He was elected a Member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from the People's Movement of Ukraine (Narodnyi Rukh Ukrajiny) of Our Ukraine faction (number 41 on the party list). He was a member of the People's Movement of Ukraine.

Oleksandr Tretiakov becomes one of the closest confidants to the opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, and for a long time he was in the inner circle of the future President and subsequently the Head of the State. He was also one of financial sponsors of Our Ukraine opposition faction.

In the summer of 2004, when the election campaign headquarters of the presidential candidate Yushchenko is formed, Tretiakov is appointed deputy head of the headquarters, managing organizational and financial issues. During the Orange Revolution he was a member of the Committee of National Salvation. Many media sources have mentioned the politician as one of the sponsors of the Orange Revolution. In the autumn of 2004, after poisoning of presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko, he accompanied Yushchenko during his medical treatment in Austria. From September 2004 to the very day of inauguration in January 2005, Viktor Yushchenko and his family lived in Oleksandr Tretiakov’s house because of security concerns.

After inauguration, on 27 January 2005 by one of his first decrees the newly elected President Viktor Yushchenko appoints Oleksandr Tretiakov as his First Assistant – Head of the Cabinet of the President of Ukraine. Tretiakov holds this office until December 2005, during this period introduces the structural reform of the Presidential Secretariat. In March 2005 he becomes one of the founders of Our Ukraine political party, he was actively engaged in party building, being responsible for party organization, media and financial issues. The politician believed that the Yushchenko – Tymoshenko ‘orange team’ should run for the 2006 parliamentary election as a single bloc.

In 2005-2006 Tretiakov was a member of the supervisory board of Ukrnafta, Oschadbank, and Ukrtelecom.

In September 2005, during political crisis in Ukraine that broke out after public accusations of President Yushchenko’s closest aides in corruption, Tretiakov asked the President to suspend him from his position for the time of investigation. At the same time Victor Yushchenko dismissed the Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and the entire government, as also the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Petro Poroshenko. In September 2005 the President eliminated the office of the First Assistant to the President, announcing it during his speech at the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on the day of voting on Yurii Yekhanurov’s appointment as the Prime Minister of Ukraine.

Later, in September–October 2005 an interdepartmental inquiry panel announced that no evidence proving the claims of corruption and no instances of abuse of power were found; in autumn 2005 and March 2006, two interim inquiry panels of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine have also confirmed that the accusations were groundless.

O. Tretiakov won lawsuits in courts of all instances, seeking protection of honor and dignity (on 25 November 2005 Pechersk District Court of Kyiv found groundless all corruption charges brought against him. On 10 July 2006 Kyiv Court of Appeal upheld this judgement).

In December 2005 O. Tretiakov became an external Presidential Adviser, holding this position until October 2006 when he resigned due to disagreement with the personnel policies of the President. In March 2006 the politician was elected to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 5th convocation (number 41 on the party list). In the spring of 2007 as part of a group consisting of 150 deputies wrote a letter of request for early resignation, which allowed President Yushchenko to dissolve the parliament and appoint early election of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. At the early parliamentary elections in October 2007 Oleksandr Tretiakov for the third time became a Member of Parliament from Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense Bloc party list, running from Our Ukraine party (number 56 on the list). During his term at the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 6th convocation he held the office of Deputy Head of Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense (OU-PSD) faction and the First Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Transport and Communication.

O. Tretiakov is a strong supporter of the democratic coalition and one of the key lobbyists of formation of the OU-PSD – YTB (Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc) coalition in December 2007 and the OU-PSD – YTB – Lytvyn Bloc in November 2008. During his term at the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 4th, 5th, and 6th convocations he participated in creation of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, and served as the Assembly’s Co-chairman from Ukraine.

In February 2010, on the eve of the second round of the presidential election, Tretiakov severed himself from Our Ukraine in protest against the introduction of amendments to the Law on Election of the President of Ukraine, when the election commission formation rules were changed just a few days before the voting day, thus creating conditions for election fraud. At that time, some MPs from Our Ukraine party of the OU-PSD faction have voted, along with the Party of Regions, for the amended law and President Yushchenko signed it.

After Viktor Yanukovych won presidential election Oleksandr Tretiakov went into opposition.

Tretiakov took part in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election as an independent candidate in single-member districts number 218 (first-past-the-post wins a parliament seat) located in Kiev.^[1] But lost this election too Volodymyr Ariev.^[2]

In the 2014 parliamentary election Tretiakov was again re-elected after again winning single-member districts number 219 in Kiev; this time as a Petro Poroshenko Bloc candidate.^[3]

Political views

He advocated the unity of the democratic team and the need for the Yushchenko – Tymoshenko team to run for the 2007 parliamentary election as a single bloc. He stands for fast-track policy of Ukraine's European integration and opposes Ukraine's accession to the Eurasian Economic Community and Customs Union. Believes that renunciation of Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic integration is a mistake. Convinced that Ukraine's accession to NATO will provide security for the State and protect its independence and sovereignty. Supports diversification of the sources of energy supplies to Ukraine and market relationships between Ukraine and Russia in the energy sphere. Opposed Viktor Yushchenko’s participation in the 2010 presidential election. According to O. Tretiakov the main mission of President Viktor Yushchenko in 2010 should have been organization of fair election and the democratic team should’ve been represented by the highest-rated candidate, who at the time was Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Supports the proportional electoral system with open lists. Harshly criticizes any manifestations of separatism, and supports the single, undivided Ukraine. Stands for banning the monuments to Stalin and others involved in organization of the Great Holodomor of 1932-1933.

Hobbies

Chess. Travelling.

Favorite expression

People live by signs, symbols, myths.

Awards and titles

• 1st Class Civil Servant (May 2005) • Cross of Officer of the Order for Merits to Lithuania (June 2004)

Notes

References

External links

• Personal page on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/site/p_deputat?d_id=5504 (in Ukrainian)

• About Oleksandr Tretiakov in ‘LIGA. Dossier’ http://file.liga.net/person/312-aleksandr-tretyakov.html (in Russian) • Ukrainian files. The Dossier of O. Tretiakov http://uafiles.com/tretjakov_aleksandr_dose.html (in Russian)

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