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Pavlo Lazarenko

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Pavlo Ivanovych Lazarenko (Ukrainian: Павло Іванович Лазаренко; born 23 January 1953) is a Ukrainian convicted criminal, international fugitive, and a former politician who served as Prime Minister of Ukraine from 1996 to 1997. Born in 1953 to a peasant family in southern Ukraine, Lazarenko was active in agricultural activities before joining politics in the late 1980s. Originally Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Lazarenko was in 1995 made First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine for energy affairs, placing him in charge of acquiring energy from foreign countries. Less than a year later, he was appointed by President Leonid Kuchma as prime minister, serving for just over a year before being replaced by Valeriy Pustovoitenko on 2 July 1997. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pavlo Lazarenko is the 9,679th most popular politician (up from 9,859th in 2019), the 370th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 401st in 2019) and the 103rd most popular Ukrainian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Pavlo Lazarenko ranks 9,679 out of 19,576Before him are Georgios Kondylis, John I, Margrave of Brandenburg, Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen, Abe no Nakamaro, Arnaldo Ochoa, and Zhu of Xia. After him are Amaury de Montfort, Wollert Konow, Grigori Sokolnikov, Sami al-Hinnawi, Ihor Kolomoyskyi, and Publius Decius Mus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Pavlo Lazarenko ranks 148Before him are Larry Miller, Masami Kurumada, Amy Irving, Mitsuo Kato, Lars Saabye Christensen, and Ian Khama. After him are Myung-whun Chung, Nadezhda Olizarenko, Tico Torres, Gil Birmingham, Annemarie Moser-Pröll, and Robert Wisdom.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Pavlo Lazarenko ranks 370 out of 1,365Before him are Yevgeny Vuchetich (1908), Oleh Protasov (1964), Vasili Eroshenko (1890), Myroslav Skoryk (1938), Yevhen Petrushevych (1863), and Danylo Apostol (1654). After him are Grigori Sokolnikov (1888), Ihor Kolomoyskyi (1963), Dmytro Dontsov (1883), Emanuel Feuermann (1902), Vladimir Lyakhov (1941), and Jacques Bergier (1912).

Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Pavlo Lazarenko ranks 103Before him are Dmitry Manuilsky (1883), Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko (1883), Vitaliy Masol (1928), Yaakov Dori (1899), Igor Sergeyev (1938), and Yevhen Petrushevych (1863). After him are Grigori Sokolnikov (1888), Ihor Kolomoyskyi (1963), Maria Dobroniega of Kiev (null), Petro Shelest (1908), Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski (1520), and Abraham Zapruder (1905).