Valeriy Pustovoitenko

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Early life and career

Valeriy Pavlovych Pustovoitenko was born 23 February 1947 in the village of Adamivka, in Berezanka Raion (now part of the rural settlement of Berezanka).Template:Sfn He worked in Odesa from 1961 to 1966, first as a teacher and later as a factory worker before serving in the Soviet Army for two years from 1966 to 1968. After leaving the army, he worked as a mechanic at Odesa Polytechnic Institute from 1969 to 1971 before studying at Dnipropetrovsk Civil Engineering Institute (now Prydniprovska State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture) from 1971 to 1975, graduating with a specialisation in mechanical engineering. He completed his Candidate of Sciences thesis in 1996 and his Doctor of Sciences thesis in 2002.Template:Sfn

Pustovoitenko began working at Dniprobudmekhanizatsiia, a company in Dnipropetrovsk (present-day Dnipro) in 1975. Within nine years, he had become the company's director.Template:Sfn He later became a member of the Dnipropetrovsk Mafia.Template:Sfn From October 1993 to July 1994 he was deputy chairman of Ekspobank, a credit union.Template:Sfn

Political career

Pustovoitenko became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1979. at the time of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he was a member of the Revision Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.Template:Sfn

Pustovoitenko entered politics in 1986, becoming head of the executive committee of Babushkinskyi District, Dnipropetrovsk and a deputy of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council. The next year, he was appointed as deputy chairman of the Dnipropetrovsk urban executive committee, with a portfolio of communal housing affairs. He was mayor of Dnipropetrovsk from 1989 to April 1993.Template:Sfn During this time, he publicly opposed efforts to raise the national flag of Ukraine in the city, favouring the maintenance of the flag of the Soviet Union.Template:Sfn According to Template:Ill, who raised the flag in Dnipropetrovsk, said that Pustovoitenko had encouraged him to raise the flag.Template:Sfn

Pustovoitenko was elected to the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in the 1990 Ukrainian Supreme Soviet election, representing Dnipropetrovsk's October District. He was a member of the Commission on Construction, Architecture and Communal Housing. Pustovoitenko sought re-election in the district during the 1994 Ukrainian parliamentary election, but he was defeated by Template:Ill, placing second with 46.13% of the vote.Template:Sfn From April to September 1993 Pustovoitenko was Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers. He later served in the position from July 1994 to July 1997.Template:Sfn

During the 1994 Ukrainian presidential election, Pustovoitenko was one of the managers of Leonid Kuchma's campaign staff, alongside Volodymyr Horbulin. Kuchma was ultimately successfully elected, defeating incumbent President Leonid Kravchuk.Template:Sfn

Prime Minister of Ukraine

Pustovoitenko was appointed as Prime Minister of Ukraine by Kuchma in 1997, being confirmed by the Verkhovna Rada by a vote of 226 to 91 on 16 July.Template:Sfn Coming after a public fallout between Kuchma and Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko that led to the latter's dismissal, Pustovoitenko's appointment was viewed as a move towards stability, according to academic Adrian Karatnycky. The Pustovoitenko government, including a heterogenous mixture of former nomenklatura members, young technocrats and private-sector businessmen,Template:Sfn was tasked with a process of intense economic reforms, designed to improve Kuchma's popularity before the 1999 presidential election. Kuchma addressed the Verkhovna Rada and the leadership of Ukraine's regions on 13 July 1997, declaring his future tasks to be the formation of a "Supreme Economic Council", a parliamentary working group on economic reforms between the Rada, the cabinet and the presidency, the postponement of the 1998 parliamentary and local elections, and a memorandum of understanding between Kuchma and the Rada. Pustovoitenko, according to academic Volodymyr Zviglyanich, was to play a critical role in accomplishing all of these.Template:Sfn

While in office, Pustovoitenko improved collections on income taxes, value-added taxes and tariffs, pursued budgetary discipline and increased exports to other post-Soviet countries.Template:Sfn In August 1998, he assembled a group of businessmen in the Palace "Ukraine" in Kyiv and threatened to lock them in the building until they paid their taxes. Those who were uncooperative were conscripted into the military and had their cars seized by the government.Template:Sfn Pustovoitenko also signed an October 1999 agreement with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that transferred 600 Ukrainian-made cruise missiles and 11 bomber planes to the Russian Armed Forces in return for decreases in natural gas prices. These weapons were later used by Russia during their invasion of Ukraine.Template:Sfn

Following Kuchma's victory in the 1999 election, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank expressed dissatisfaction with what they perceived to be inconsistent economic policies with Ukraine, and United States Vice President Al Gore told Kuchma that the U.S. wished for him to be replaced by National Bank of Ukraine head Viktor Yushchenko as Prime Minister.Template:Sfn Kuchma initially considered reappointing Pustovoitenko, but ultimately determined to replace him with Yushchenko in December 1999 in order to unlock a resumption of IMF loans for Ukraine's economy.Template:Sfn

People's Democratic Party

During the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Pustovoitenko was leader of one of two factions of the People's Democratic Party (Template:Langx, abbreviated NDP). Pustovoitenko's wing, representing the nomenklatura and newly-established business interests, clashed with Anatoliy Matviyenko's pro-democratic wing.Template:Sfn Pustovoitenko led efforts to transform the NDP into a party of power including all of Ukraine's governing elite that would support Kuchma's programme.Template:Sfn

Pustovoitenko was elected as the first candidate on the NDP's proportional list in the 1998; he resigned from his seat in the Verkhovna Rada to continue serving as Prime Minister.Template:Sfn The results of the election were humiliating for the NDP, with only 5% of the vote and 29 seats. In the aftermath of the election, however, as a result of several agreements between deputies, the NDP's number grew to a peak of 93 deputies. This coalition ultimately proved fragile, and by 1999 it had effectively dissolved into several different factions.Template:Sfn Pustovoitenko replaced Matviyenko as leader of the rump NDP that year.Template:Sfn Between 9 June 2001 and 30 April 2002 he was Minister of Transportation.Template:Sfn

During the 2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Pustovoitenko was re-elected to the Verkhovna Rada, this time as the sixth candidate on the proportional representative list of the For United Ukraine! party. Following For United Ukraine's collapse, he led the People's Democratic Party in the Rada, additionally being co-leader of Labour Ukraine and the Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine. He was chair of the Commission on Construction, Transport, Communal Housing and Infrastructure.Template:Sfn

The NDP provided ministers to both the Yushchenko government and the first Yanukovych government.Template:Sfn Pustovoitenko reluctantly supported Viktor Yanukovych's candidacy in the 2004 presidential election after coming under pressure from Kuchma, saying at the NDP's July 2004 congress, "We have no other choice but to go along with the authorities". Pustovoitenko's decision caused a split in the party, with most local branches favouring Yushchenko's candidacy.Template:Sfn

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