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Viktor Fedorovytch Ianoukovytch , né le 9 juillet 1950 à Ienakiieve , est un homme d'État ukrainien, président du pays du 25 février 2010 au 22 février 2014.

Membre du Parti des régions, une formation politique pro-russe, il devient Premier ministre de l'Ukraine en 2002. Candidat à l'élection présidentielle de 2004, il doit concéder l'organisation d'un nouveau second tour en raison de la révolution orange : il perd ce scrutin face à Viktor Iouchtchenko, meneur de la révolution. Il quitte alors la tête du gouvernement.

Les résultats de son parti aux élections législatives de 2006 le conduisent de nouveau au poste de Premier ministre. Redevenu principal dirigeant de l'opposition après le scrutin législatif de l’année suivante, il remporte l'élection présidentielle de 2010 avec 48,95 % des voix face à Ioulia Tymochenko.

Sa présidence est marquée par les accords de Kharkiv avec la Russie, par la dégradation de la situation financière de l'Ukraine et, selon ses opposants, par une dérive autoritaire, avec notamment une réforme de la Constitution renforçant les pouvoirs du chef de l’État. En 2014, un violent mouvement de contestation — provoqué par sa décision de suspendre l’accord d'association entre l'Ukraine et l'Union européenne — conduit à son exil en Russie et à sa destitution par le Parlement. Il est ensuite condamné par contumace en Ukraine. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. juillet 1950
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Viktor Ianoukovytch: Citations en anglais

“If to cast aside spread by our opponents' nonsense, I’ll use chess-players phrase: we have sacrificed quantity to quality and showed such respect to our partners and readiness to properly account for their interests which others neither could or wished to reveal.”

Viktor Yanukovych

Source: "Speech by Prime Minister of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych at the International conference "Ukraine and European Union: new approaches"" http://old.kmu.gov.ua/kmu/control/en/publish/article?art_id=69148733&cat_id=244315174 (28 February 2007)

“And I would like to say: Glory to Ukraine, and I hope everything will be fine in my country.”

Viktor Yanukovych

Source: "Transcript: Ukraine’s Viktor Yanukovych on the situation in his country" in The Washington Post https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DGoGVKRGNYMJ:https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/transcript-ukraines-viktor-yanukovych-on-the-situation-in-his-country/2014/03/11/ffb8fefe-a942-11e3-8599-ce7295b6851c_story.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us (11 March 2014)

“I would like you to warn that the economic situation in Ukraine is going to degenerate, and those who usurp the power are going to shift the blame for this economic crisis on my shoulders, and perhaps even on Russia.”

Viktor Yanukovych

Source: "Transcript: Ukraine’s Viktor Yanukovych on the situation in his country" in The Washington Post https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DGoGVKRGNYMJ:https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/transcript-ukraines-viktor-yanukovych-on-the-situation-in-his-country/2014/03/11/ffb8fefe-a942-11e3-8599-ce7295b6851c_story.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us (11 March 2014)

“The United States and a number of other countries have been stressing that I have allegedly lost my legitimacy because I fled the country. Let me say again: I never fled anywhere.”

Viktor Yanukovych

Source: "Transcript: Ukraine’s Viktor Yanukovych on the situation in his country" in The Washington Post https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DGoGVKRGNYMJ:https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/transcript-ukraines-viktor-yanukovych-on-the-situation-in-his-country/2014/03/11/ffb8fefe-a942-11e3-8599-ce7295b6851c_story.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us (11 March 2014)

“I would like to remind you that I am not only the -- not only the legitimate president of Ukraine, but I’m also the chief of staff, the commander of the army.”

Viktor Yanukovych

Source: "Transcript: Ukraine’s Viktor Yanukovych on the situation in his country" in The Washington Post https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DGoGVKRGNYMJ:https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/transcript-ukraines-viktor-yanukovych-on-the-situation-in-his-country/2014/03/11/ffb8fefe-a942-11e3-8599-ce7295b6851c_story.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us (11 March 2014)

“I supported the ostriches, what's wrong with that? They just lived there. What am I supposed to do, go around with my eyes closed?”

Viktor Yanukovych

Source: "Viktor Yanukovych accepts blame for Ukraine bloodshed, defends zoo" in The Sydney Morning Herald https://www.smh.com.au/world/viktor-yanukovych-accepts-blame-for-ukraine-bloodshed-defends-zoo-at-his-residence-20150623-ghvvj9.html (24 June 2015)

“My principles which I always follow are that no authority, no power is worth a drop of blood.”

Viktor Yanukovych

Source: "Yanukovych: 'I Was Wrong' To Ask Russian Troops Into Crimea" in NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/04/02/298385578/yanukovych-i-was-wrong-to-ask-russian-troops-into-crimea (2 April 2014)

“We must search for ways ... so that Crimea may have the maximum degree of independence possible ... but be part of Ukraine.”

Viktor Yanukovych

Source: "AP Interview: Yanukovych admits mistakes on Crimea" in Associated Press https://apnews.com/article/8b795952e78a47a3beff026800eb508a (2 April 2014)

“I will say that no one envies me. Do you believe this or not? No one envies me. [...] I live with my family and, as they say, I don't count your money, please don't count mine.”

Viktor Yanukovych

2018
Source: * Янукович у Москві поскаржився на бідність ** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQjqkefINDM ** en ** 2022-06-12

“Ukraine is our strategic partner.”

Viktor Yanukovych

2014, Conference in Rostov-na-Donu
Source: * Янукович: Украина - наш стратегический партнер ** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To_rOnhrGl0 ** en ** 2022-06-12
Source: [2014-02-28, Свіжі ляпи Януковича: "я не міг літати на повітрі" і "Україна – наш партнер", https://tsn.ua/politika/svizhi-lyapi-yanukovicha-ya-ne-mig-litati-na-povitri-i-ukrayina-nash-partner-337299.html, 2022-06-12, ТСН.ua, uk]

“Healthcare is the field which should go ahead, like smoke from a steam train.”

Viktor Yanukovych

2012
Source: [Янукович: Медицина должна идти впереди, как дым от паровоза, https://zn.ua/POLITICS/yanukovich_meditsina_dolzhna_idti_vperedi,_kak_dym_ot_parovoza_.html, 2022-06-12, Mirror Weekly]

“Be as happy as the sea of Monaco, as the spoil tips of Donbas!”

Viktor Yanukovych

Source: [2011-09-14, Янукович: я був у Монте-Карло – Донбас круче! - Укрaїнa - ТСН.ua, https://web.archive.org/web/20110914001604/http://tsn.ua/ukrayina/yanukovich-ya-buv-u-monte-karlo-donbas-kruche.html, 2022-06-12, web.archive.org]

“Our sacred duty is to overcome the shadows of the past, make new tragedies possible. Any encroachments on the peaceful future of Ukraine will meet with instant and resolute response...”

Viktor Yanukovych

Source: [2011-06-22, Янукович обмовився, пообіцявши "уможливити нові трагедії", https://tsn.ua/video/video-novini/yanukovich-obmovivsya-poobicyavshi-umozhliviti-novi-tragediyi.html, 2022-06-12, ТСН.ua, uk]

“It is important for me to feel that the barometer, which the business is, helps me understand whether the winds blow the right way or not.”

Viktor Yanukovych

Source: [2011-06-23, Янукович хочет понять, куда движется Украина, https://news.liga.net/economics/news/yanukovich-khochet-ponyat-kuda-dvizhetsya-ukraina, 2022-06-12, LIGA, ru]

“I may say without exaggeration that this is a revolutionary approach; it is very painful, because this system of permission was the underpinning of the great bureaucratic system on all levels. And that democratic system, a corrupt one, it has been built for years and decades.”

Viktor Yanukovych

Source: [2011-06-21, В Страсбурге Янукович перепутал демократию с бюрократией, https://focus.ua/politics/190373, 2022-06-12, ФОКУС, ru]

“I am against the idea when we, so to say, throw someone behing the bars, which is the place where they would hide and flee from responsibility. We will surely find them, but they first have to return public money.”

Viktor Yanukovych

Source: [Янукович про корупціонерів: ховатись не будуть, - одна розмова, будуть – інша, https://www.unian.ua/politics/482166-yanukovich-pro-koruptsioneriv-hovatis-ne-budut-odna-rozmova-budut-insha.html, 2022-06-12, www.unian.ua, uk, 2011-04-11]

“I don't want to drop salt on the wound, as it already hurts.”

Viktor Yanukovych

Speaking of the proposed increases of utility prices
Source: [Янукович взялся за старое, хоть и не хочет “капать соль на рану”, http://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2009/05/28/4487095/, 2022-06-12, Украинская правда, ru, 2009-05-28]

“I'd rather go to prison for the third time rather than let the current government [of Yulia Tymoshenko] assume power. It would cost the country less for one person to suffer than for the whole country to suffer.”

Viktor Yanukovych

2009
Source: [2020-10-27, Янукович пожалел, что в третий раз не сел в тюрьму - Украина - TCH.ua, https://tsn.ua/ru/ukrayina/yanukovich-pozhalel-chto-v-tretii-raz-ne-sel-v-tyurmu.html, https://web.archive.org/web/20201027065326/https://tsn.ua/ru/ukrayina/yanukovich-pozhalel-chto-v-tretii-raz-ne-sel-v-tyurmu.html, 2020-10-27, 2022-06-12, web.archive.org]

“Speaking of the agriculture, we should at least stop selling grain but instead we should process it, for example, into meat or meat products.”

Viktor Yanukovych

Source: * Янукович: Перерабатывать зерно в мясо ** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAmDEwlydIw ** en ** 2022-06-12 ** 2009-12-25

“I would like to say that in the end, our task should be, if we are speaking of metal, to process it to the highest depth so that we can trade with the most sophisticated products...”

Viktor Yanukovych

Source: * Янукович: Перерабатывать зерно в мясо ** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAmDEwlydIw ** en ** 2022-06-12 ** 2009-12-25

“I am sure... I don't remember who said that "beauty would always win"? Who said these words?”

Viktor Yanukovych

Yanukovych misquoted Dostoyevsky's Idiot; the original was: "beauty will save the world"
Source: [“Завжди перемагає краса! Хто сказав ці слова?...” Янукович не склав екзамен по Достоєвському, http://www.pravda.com.ua/articles/2007/01/31/3203615/, 2022-06-12, 2007-01-31, Українська правда, uk]

“What is happening in our country is a slow-motion coup d'état.”

Viktor Yanukovych

Speaking of the Orange Revolution
Source: [2004-12-06, Янукович назначил нового руководителя своего штаба и ушел в отпуск, https://www.newsru.com/world/06dec2004/yanuk.html, NewsRU]

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