{"id":"valeriy-khoroshkovskyi","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/valeriy-khoroshkovskyi","language":"en","name":"Valeriy Khoroshkovskyi","name_en":"Valeriy Khoroshkovskyi","name_ne":null,"description":"Ukrainian businessman","headline":"Ukrainian businessman","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Valeriy Ivanovych Khoroshkovskyi (Ukrainian: Валерій Іванович Хорошковський; born 1 January 1969) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician who served as head of the Security Service of Ukraine from 2010 to 2012 and as Minister of Finance and First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine briefly in 2012. According to Ukrainian and East European media Khoroshkovskyi is one of Ukraine's richest people.","summary_more":["While being in public office Khoroshkovskyi had large stakes in various Ukrainian media and metallurgy industries. In 2006 Khoroshkovskyi stated: \"I owned mid-sized businesses that had no kind of political influence. I cannot say I gained something for my business thanks to politics or that I had any political advantages thanks to business\"."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"1 January 1969","date":"1969-01-01"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q982749#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Kyiv","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1899"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q982749#P19"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Ukraine","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q212"},{"text":"Monaco","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q235"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q982749#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"economist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q188094"},{"text":"politician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82955"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q982749#P106"}},{"key":"party","label":"Political party","values":[{"text":"People's Democratic Party","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2636074"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q982749#P102"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"Faculty of Law of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12173050"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q982749#P69"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine (22 February 2012 – 14 December 2012)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16147568","start":"2012-02-22","end":"2012-12-14"},{"text":"Minister of Finance of Ukraine (18 January 2012 – 22 February 2012)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25525260","start":"2012-01-18","end":"2012-02-22"},{"text":"Head of the Security Service of Ukraine (11 March 2010 – 18 January 2012)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16171716","start":"2010-03-11","end":"2012-01-18"},{"text":"Minister of Economy of Ukraine (2002–2004)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107694043","start":"2002-12","end":"2004-01"},{"text":"People's Deputy of Ukraine (12 May 1998 – 14 May 2002)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12132454","start":"1998-05-12","end":"2002-05-14"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q982749#P39"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Honored Economist of Ukraine","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4188158"},{"text":"Registered firearms","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4200240"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q982749#P166"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeriy_Khoroshkovskyi","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q982749"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Valeriy Khoroshkovskyi born?","a":"Valeriy Khoroshkovskyi was born on 1 January 1969 in Kyiv."},{"q":"What positions has Valeriy Khoroshkovskyi held?","a":"Positions held by Valeriy Khoroshkovskyi include: First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine (2012–2012); Minister of Finance of Ukraine (2012–2012); Head of the Security Service of Ukraine (2010–2012); Minister of Economy of Ukraine (2002–2004); People's Deputy of Ukraine (1998–2002)."},{"q":"Where did Valeriy Khoroshkovskyi study?","a":"Valeriy Khoroshkovskyi was educated at Faculty of Law of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv."}],"related":[{"name":"Pavlo Lazarenko","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pavlo-lazarenko"},{"name":"Yevhen Marchuk","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/yevhen-marchuk"},{"name":"Valentyn Symonenko","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/valentyn-symonenko"},{"name":"Yukhym Zvyahilsky","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/yukhym-zvyahilsky"},{"name":"Yulia Svyrydenko","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/yulia-svyrydenko"},{"name":"Oleksandr Turchynov","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/oleksandr-turchynov"},{"name":"Mykola Azarov","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mykola-azarov"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/valeriy-khoroshkovskyi-6781c5260d.jpg","width":225,"height":300,"license":"CC BY-SA 3.0","credit":"Party of Regions website. 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