Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine

On Friday, August 5, Verkhovna Rada Chairman Oleksander Moroz announced the approval of the composition of the Cabinet of Ministers. The Cabinet was approved by 269 votes (226 were needed). Below is a breakdown of Cabinet positions, appointees and their party affiliations.

* Messrs. Rybak and Azarov hold two Cabinet positions each and are both deputy heads of the PRU in Parliament.

** Mr. Lutsenko, who was previously a member of the Socialist Party of Ukraine, recently resigned his membership and is now an independent.

Prime Minister	Viktor Yanukovych	(PRU)
First Vice PM, Finance Minister	Mykola Azarov *	(PRU)
Vice PM, Construction, Architecture and Housing and Communal Services	Volodymyr Rybak *	(PRU)
Vice PM	Andrii Kliuyev	(PRU)
Vice PM	Dmytro Tabachnyk	(PRU)
Internal Affairs Minister	Yurii Lutsenko **	(N/A)
Foreign Affairs Minister	Borys Tarasyuk	(OU)
Coal Industry Minister	Serhii Tulub	(PRU)
Culture and Tourism Minister	Ihor Likhovyi	(OU)
Defense Minister	Anatolii Hrytsenko	(OU)
Economy Minister	Volodymyr Makukha	(PRU)
Education and Science Minister	Stanislav Nikolayenko	(SPU)
Fuel and Energy Minister	Yurii Boiko	(PRU)
Labor and Social Policy Minister	Mykhailo Papiyev	(PRU)
Health Minister	Yurii Poliachenko	(OU)
Agricultural Policy Minister	Yurii Melnyk	(CPU)
Industrial Policy Minister	Anatolii Holovko	(CPU)
Environmental Protection Minister	Vasyl Dzharty	(PRU)
Transport and Communications Minister	Mykola Rudkovskyi	(SPU)
Minister for Emergency Situations	Viktor Baloha	(OU)
Youth, Family and Sports Minister	Yurii Pavlenko	(OU)
Justice Minister	Roman Zvarych	(OU)
Minister for Liaison with the Verkhovna Rada	Ivan Tkalenko	(PRU)
Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers	Anatolii Tolstoukhov	(PRU)

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, August 20, 2006, No. 34, Vol. LXXIV

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