Poroshenko Marina Anatolyevna, even without being the first lady of Ukraine, always looked like an aristocratic and discreet beauty at social events. And those who got to know her better discovered that she was not without a sense of humor, a very sociable and easy-to-communicate person, with whom it was easy to talk about a variety of topics.
And, by the way, Marina emphasizes that she does not really like the term “first lady” in relation to herself, since she sees in it a certain isolation, isolation from the rest of society, while she is ready to do everything necessary and roll up her sleeves to help to my husband.
In the article we will try to talk in more detail about what the wife of the fifth president of Ukraine is like - Marina Poroshenko (the biography of this woman cannot but arouse interest).
Some facts from the biography of the president's wife
Having the surname Perevedentseva as a girl, the future first lady was born in 1962 in Lipetsk, where her father worked at that time. Later, when he was promoted and appointed deputy. Minister of Health of the Ukrainian SSR, their family moved to Kyiv, and it was there that Marina Poroshenko graduated from medical institute and received a diploma with honors as a cardiologist.
The nationality of the president’s wife is Russian, and before the events of Euromaidan she belonged to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.
Petro Poroshenko's wife - photo, personal life
Poroshenko Pyotr Alekseevich is a state political figure of Ukraine. Until recent events, he was the fifth president of this country, who, according to some sources, came to power by force. The biography of the former head of the country is open to everyone, but causes controversial opinions. Petro Poroshenko's wife Marina Anatolyevna Poroshenko (maiden name Perevedentseva), walking alongside her husband through life, being the first lady of the State, became a style icon for her people.
Love story
The future first lady met Petro Alekseevich Poroshenko during her student years at a university disco. And, according to Marina, they had a mutual feeling immediately. However, in her interviews she emphasizes that even after decades she was not disappointed in the object of her love - Marina Poroshenko was always proud of her husband and felt his reliable support.
And at the beginning of their relationship, the young people had to wait another six months for the next meeting. And it happened - on a collective farm. The fact is that, regardless of their future profession, all students in the Soviet Union were required to help collective farmers in harvesting. It was during such a “romantic” pastime that the feelings of the future spouses grew stronger.
A year after their first meeting, they decided to get married, but, alas, immediately after submitting an application to the registry office, Peter was drafted into the army (in those days, university students did not have a deferment in conscription). True, soldier Poroshenko was released for 10 days so that he could have his wedding - and the marriage took place. And then he had to return to his unit.
Family of Petro Poroshenko. Curriculum Vitae
Petro Poroshenko. Curriculum Vitae
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Go to photo bank People from the close circle of the President of Ukraine call Poroshenko an impeccable family man, a caring father and a gentle husband, who, from a stern politician with a difficult disposition at work at home, supposedly melts like a chocolate bar.
The president’s eldest son, Alexey, said in 2020 that he was ready to lend a helping hand to his father in working for the good of the Motherland. His other son, Mikhail, noted that he always takes his father’s example. His daughters praised him for his determination and hard work for the good of the people.
Users on the Internet often discuss the family of the Ukrainian leader. Spouses and children do charity work for the sake of the head of the family's ratings, they take pictures together in national embroidered shirts to emphasize the country's independence, they are even depicted on a fresco in the form of saints. The publication Ukraina.ru collected information about the closest relatives of Petro Poroshenko .
Alexey Poroshenko (father of the fifth president of Ukraine)
Ukrainian politician, business leader, ex-deputy of the Vinnytsia Regional Council, Hero of Ukraine Alexey Ivanovich Poroshenko was born in Romania.
In 1959 he graduated from the Lvov Agricultural Institute and became a mechanical engineer. Then he worked in Belgrade, Odessa region, as chief engineer of the regional association of agricultural machinery.
In 1976, he became director of a research experimental and repair plant in the city of Bendery in Moldova. But nine years later he was detained on suspicion of theft of material assets on an especially large scale.
He spent six months in the Bendery pre-trial detention center, and on July 20, 1986, he was sentenced by the criminal board of the Supreme Court of the MSSR to five years in prison, serving the sentence in a general regime correctional labor colony with confiscation of property and deprivation of the right to occupy leadership positions for a period of five years.
“In 1985, he was detained on the border with Finland; he wanted to smuggle vodka worth several thousand rubles there. Probably under the guise of factory products. <…> He resigned of his own free will, but we were already preparing papers for his dismissal under an article of the Labor Code. <…> Other directors of the plant did a lot for the members of the labor collective, but Alexey Poroshenko did nothing for the workers,” said Valentin Pitersky, a former toolmaker and chairman of the council of the plant’s labor collective.
According to the former personal driver of the ex-director of the plant Vasily Beryl , Poroshenko’s case was handled by two colonels of the prosecutor’s office at once.
“And Alexey Ivanovich himself was a very strong leader, a very strong personality! But he was a little arrogant, maybe that’s what it should have been... He lacked intelligence, he was boorish,” added Beryl.
Mariupol residents believe that Poroshenko already has everything and wish him to endure the people of Ukraine
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Go to photo bank It is noteworthy that it was in Moldova that the family of the current president carried out the primary accumulation of capital in the 1990s.
Father Poroshenko was called one of the first Soviet millionaires. It should also be noted that Alexey Poroshenko received his title of Hero of Ukraine in 2009, just when his son Peter served as chairman of the board of the National Bank of Ukraine.
Mikhail Poroshenko (brother of the current president)
The elder brother of the Ukrainian leader, together with his father, created their business empire and was one of the founders. However, he died tragically in 1997 under unclear circumstances. The family refuses to disclose the details of what happened. According to one official version, he died in a car accident, according to another, he drowned while vacationing in Cyprus.
Alexander Dubinsky , known for his investigations , published a number of documents related to Poroshenko’s business activities in Moldova.
One of the papers talks about operational information that “some members of criminal groups created by Poroshenko P.A. and Madan P.G., were involved in the murders of Poroshenko M.A. <…> This information was not processed to the end, since this criminal case with all the materials on June 23, 2005 was sent by the Prosecutor General’s Office, within its competence, to the TsBEPCb (Center for Combating Economic Crimes and Corruption).”
This document has no heading, no date, no author. However, the presence of a criminal case number and specific names, as well as specific companies in the document speaks in favor of reliability.
Moreover, this is not the first time this has been mentioned. Thus, on September 22, 2020, the leader of the opposition Moldovan “Native Party” Renato Usatii showed copies of documents on the TV8 channel, one of which “clearly states that a group of individuals led by Petro Poroshenko, namely Petru Madan and others, created a number of organized crime groups who committed a number of particularly serious crimes on the territory of Moldova from 1996 to 2004, such as fraud on an especially large scale, theft, it is written that there are suspicions [against Petro Poroshenko] of organizing the murder of his brother, Mikhail Poroshenko." .
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In addition, there is a package of documents from law enforcement agencies, presented on November 30, 2020 on the Internet resource News Front.
The documents refer to criminal cases brought against Petro Poroshenko and Moldovan Madan regarding the fraudulent acquisition of property in Moldova. One of them, a certificate from the Romanian Ministry of Internal Affairs on the family of Alexei Mikhailovich Poroshenko, says: “Poroshenko M.A. in August 1997, on the 28th, on his birthday, he was drowned in Cyprus while swimming. According to available data from the Romanian Ministry of Internal Affairs, the drowning was organized by his brother Poroshenko P.A., with whom he was in hostile relations. The reason was the division of the property of the Gemini department store, shares of the Bukuri candy factory, shares of a glass container factory in the city of Chisinau.”
Marina Poroshenko (first lady of the country)
Marina Perevedentseva (maiden name) was born in Kyiv. Father is a former deputy minister of health in the Ukrainian SSR, mother is an employee.
Graduated from Bogomolets Medical University. He is a cardiologist, candidate of medical sciences, author of the first dissertation in independent Ukraine.
She met Poroshenko as a student at a disco. They got married in 1984, on their second try. After submitting an application to the registry office, Poroshenko was suddenly drafted into the army, and the couple signed up only on their first leave. After the birth of her first son Alexei, Marina Poroshenko devoted herself entirely to her family.
In 2014, in a television interview, she said that she plans to deal with the country's social and cultural problems. In 2020, by decree of the Minister of Culture, she was appointed chairman of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation, which was allocated 207.5 million hryvnia from the country’s budget in 2020.
President of the Fund for Humanitarian Development of Ukraine Natalya Zabolotnaya, in her column on Ukrayinska Pravda, called the situation with the appointment of Marina Poroshenko vulgar. She explained that the world experience of first ladies contains many examples of how presidential wives led socially significant initiatives (including Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Princess Diana). However, according to Zabolotnaya, they were not heads of state agencies that should distribute taxpayers’ money.
Poroshenko's wife: True Ukrainian identity is in the USA
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According to experts, Marina Poroshenko’s trips to the regions with support for cultural initiatives under the patronage of the authorities can increase the low political rating of Petro Alekseevich.
Also, through the fund, one can effectively reward with prizes or grants - or, for example, punish, depriving of support - public organizations and figures, the media, even the largest ones. In this way, for example, it is possible to suppress criticism of the president in the media.
In addition, through such a fund it is possible to finance nationalist groups like C14 (remember, as we already know, it receives funding, including in the form of state and regional grants through its “Educational Assembly”).
Last year, Marina Poroshenko hosted a sports section on the Ukraine channel, which belongs to Rinat Akhmetov , which also caused a great resonance in society. The column was closed a month later, and the TV channel said that the program with Poroshenko was a humanitarian action, the purpose of which was to help a sports boarding school in the Lugansk region.
Alexey Poroshenko (eldest son of the President of Ukraine)
He is a Ukrainian politician, businessman, and people's deputy. Married to top manager of the consulting company Yulia Poroshenko . The family has two children.
In 2008 he graduated from the Institute of International Relations of the Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. He also studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a business school in France.
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In 2010, he was deputy head of the trade and economic mission of the Consulate General in Shanghai (Petro Poroshenko was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine during this period). Afterwards he held the position of vice-consul for economic affairs at the consulate.
In 2013, he became a deputy of the Vinnytsia Regional Council, a member of the permanent commission of the regional Council on socio-economic development, budget and finance.
It is curious that Poroshenko Jr. was initially elected to the local council on the list of the Batkivshchyna party, whose leader, former prime minister and Poroshenko’s rival Yulia Tymoshenko was in prison at that time. According to Alexey, it was her party that he considered as the main opposition to Yanukovych.
But soon after Euromaidan, Alexey Poroshenko joined the party of his father BPP. In October 2014, he was elected to parliament in a majoritarian constituency in Vinnitsa.
According to Alexey, in August - September 2014, during the armed conflict in Donbass, he was assigned to a mortar unit under a false name and served near Kramatorsk.
“This is an artillery unit, we shot there and helped our others fight,” Poroshenko Jr. said on the 1+1 TV channel.
No photo or video materials confirming the fact that Alexey served in units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine appeared in the media.
Poroshenko's son won a grant for a trip to Singapore at state expense
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Go to photobank Also in 2014, Vinnitsa journalist Alisa Myslovskaya denied rumors that the eldest son of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was fighting at the front against the army of Novorossiya.
She said that the son of the head of state, Alexey, along with his wife and son, live with the president’s father, Alexey Ivanovich Poroshenko, not far from Vinnitsa. The correspondent conducted her own investigation, visiting Poroshenko’s father’s country house, where she discovered the commander-in-chief’s son allegedly at the front. In the fall of 2014, after early parliamentary elections, Alexey became a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the VIII convocation, a member of the committee on tax and customs policy. He expressed dissatisfaction with the level of salaries of people's deputies of 5-6 thousand hryvnia.
Poroshenko is the chairman of the deputy group on interparliamentary relations between Ukraine and the Republic of Singapore. In the summer of 2017, he completed an internship in the field of public administration and planning in Singapore and met with the former Prime Minister of the Republic Goh Chok Tong. This trip caused a strong reaction among social media users. The politician was criticized for using public funds and doubts were raised about the objectivity of the selection of candidates for the trip.
Twins Alexander and Evgeniy Poroshenko and son Mikhail (the president’s youngest children)
The president's daughters were born in 2000, Mikhail - in 2001.
Evgenia played a cameo role in the series about the everyday life of the Russian police, “The Return of Mukhtar 8.”
The sisters and Mikhail also became the heroines of the video of their godmother Oksana Bilozir, a singer and ex-Minister of Culture. The video for the song was filmed at the presidential residence in the village of Kozin near Kiev.
The girls studied in two countries at once. Alexandra and Evgenia were students of the capital's Klov Lyceum of Foreign Languages No. 77 and students of one of the most prestigious and expensive colleges in the UK (Concord College). According to unverified information, the president’s eldest son, Alexey, advised sending the sisters abroad.
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A year later, younger brother Misha joined the girls; he will receive education at this institution for another year.
Tuition at Concord costs about 37,800 pounds sterling per year, or almost one and a half million hryvnia. It turns out that Poroshenko paid about 4.5 million hryvnia annually for the education of three children.
In 2020 Mikhail Poroshenko found himself at the center of a scandal when a photo of him wearing a T-shirt with the inscription Russia, which Bosco produced specifically for the Russian national team during the Sochi Olympics, appeared on social networks. President Petro Poroshenko himself condemned his son for the T-shirt and explained that it was a “nativity scene in nature.” He also emphasized that he had a serious conversation with his son on this topic.
After this incident, Mikhail came to the filming of his mother’s sports program wearing a patriotic T-shirt with the inscription “Ukraine”.
What does Marina Poroshenko consider most valuable?
Photos of the first lady can be seen in all media, and most often she is depicted in them in the company of her husband. This says a lot. It’s not for nothing that the Poroshenko couple is considered one of the most prosperous in Ukrainian politics. Over thirty years of marriage, the couple gave birth to four children: Alexei, twins Evgenia and Alexandra, and Mikhail (who is affectionately called Mika in the family).
Despite the fact that Marina graduated from medical school with honors and became, by the way, the first candidate of science in the young independent state - Ukraine - she, without hesitation, devoted herself to her family.
True, at first, while Pyotr Alekseevich was finishing his studies at the university, she was the only breadwinner, working as a cardiologist at the Oktyabrskaya Hospital and receiving a salary of 120 rubles.
Journalists have long associated Marina Poroshenko with the high-born wife of the Decembrist. For the sake of her husband, she gave up her career and claims that she has never regretted it. After all, her life credo is to help her husband in everything.
An excerpt characterizing Poroshenko, Marina Anatolyevna
He himself imagined himself to be of enormous stature, a powerful man who threw cannonballs at the French with both hands. - Well, Matvevna, mother, don’t give it away! - he said, moving away from the gun, when an alien, unfamiliar voice was heard above his head: - Captain Tushin! Captain! Tushin looked around in fear. It was the staff officer who kicked him out of Grunt. He shouted to him in a breathless voice: “Are you crazy?” You were ordered to retreat twice, and you... “Well, why did they give me this?...” Tushin thought to himself, looking at his boss with fear. “I... nothing...” he said, putting two fingers to the visor. - I... But the colonel did not finish everything he wanted. A cannonball flying close caused him to dive and bend over on his horse. He fell silent and was just about to say something else when another core stopped him. He turned his horse and galloped away. - Retreat! Everyone retreat! – he shouted from afar. The soldiers laughed. A minute later the adjutant arrived with the same order. It was Prince Andrei. The first thing he saw, riding out into the space occupied by Tushin’s guns, was an unharnessed horse with a broken leg, neighing near the harnessed horses. Blood flowed from her leg like from a key. Between the limbers lay several dead. One cannonball after another flew over him as he approached, and he felt a nervous shiver run down his spine. But the very thought that he was afraid raised him up again. “I cannot be afraid,” he thought and slowly dismounted from his horse between the guns. He conveyed the order and did not leave the battery. He decided that he would remove the guns from the position with him and withdraw them. Together with Tushin, walking over the bodies and under terrible fire from the French, he began cleaning up the guns. “And then the authorities came just now, so they were tearing up,” the fireworksman said to Prince Andrei, “not like your honor.” Prince Andrei did not say anything to Tushin. They were both so busy that it seemed they didn’t even see each other. When, having put the surviving two of the four guns on the limbers, they moved down the mountain (one broken cannon and the unicorn were left), Prince Andrei drove up to Tushin. “Well, goodbye,” said Prince Andrei, extending his hand to Tushin. “Goodbye, my dear,” said Tushin, “dear soul!” “goodbye, my dear,” said Tushin with tears that, for some unknown reason, suddenly appeared in his eyes. The wind died down, black clouds hung low over the battlefield, merging on the horizon with gunpowder smoke. It was getting dark, and the glow of fires was all the more clearly visible in two places. The cannonade became weaker, but the crackle of guns behind and to the right was heard even more often and closer. As soon as Tushin with his guns, driving around and running over the wounded, came out from under fire and went down into the ravine, he was met by his superiors and adjutants, including a staff officer and Zherkov, who was sent twice and never reached Tushin’s battery. All of them, interrupting one another, gave and passed on orders on how and where to go, and made reproaches and comments to him. Tushin did not give orders and silently, afraid to speak, because at every word he was ready, without knowing why, to cry, he rode behind on his artillery nag. Although the wounded were ordered to be abandoned, many of them trailed behind the troops and asked to be deployed to the guns. The same dashing infantry officer who jumped out of Tushin’s hut before the battle was, with a bullet in his stomach, placed on Matvevna’s carriage. Under the mountain, a pale hussar cadet, supporting the other with one hand, approached Tushin and asked to sit down. “Captain, for God’s sake, I’m shell-shocked in the arm,” he said timidly. - For God's sake, I can't go. For God's sake! It was clear that this cadet had more than once asked to sit somewhere and was refused everywhere. He asked in a hesitant and pitiful voice. - Order him to be imprisoned, for God's sake. “Plant, plant,” said Tushin. “Put down your overcoat, uncle,” he turned to his beloved soldier. -Where is the wounded officer? “They put it in, it’s over,” someone answered. - Plant it. Sit down, honey, sit down. Lay down your overcoat, Antonov. The cadet was in Rostov. He held the other with one hand, was pale, and his lower jaw was shaking with feverish trembling. They put him on Matvevna, on the very gun from which they laid the dead officer. There was blood on the overcoat, which stained Rostov's leggings and hands. - What, are you wounded, darling? - said Tushin, approaching the gun on which Rostov was sitting. - No, I’m shell-shocked. - Why is there blood on the bed? – Tushin asked. “It was the officer, your honor, who bled,” answered the artillery soldier, wiping the blood with the sleeve of his overcoat and as if apologizing for the uncleanness in which the gun was located. Forcibly, with the help of infantry, they took the guns up the mountain, and having reached the village of Guntersdorf, they stopped. It had already become so dark that ten steps away it was impossible to distinguish the uniforms of the soldiers, and the firefight began to subside. Suddenly, screams and gunfire were heard again close to the right side. The shots were already sparkling in the darkness. This was the last French attack, which was answered by soldiers holed up in the houses of the village. Again everyone rushed out of the village, but Tushin’s guns could not move, and the artillerymen, Tushin and the cadet, silently looked at each other, awaiting their fate. The firefight began to subside, and soldiers, animated by conversation, poured out of the side street. - Is it okay, Petrov? - one asked. “Brother, it’s too hot.” Now they won’t interfere,” said another. - Can't see anything. How they fried it in theirs! Not in sight; darkness, brothers. Would you like to get drunk? The French were repulsed for the last time. And again, in complete darkness, Tushin’s guns, surrounded as if by a frame by buzzing infantry, moved somewhere forward. In the darkness, it was as if an invisible, gloomy river was flowing, all in one direction, humming with whispers, talking and the sounds of hooves and wheels. In the general din, behind all the other sounds, the moans and voices of the wounded in the darkness of the night were clearest of all. Their groans seemed to fill all the darkness that surrounded the troops. Their groans and the darkness of this night were one and the same. After a while, there was a commotion in the moving crowd. Someone rode with his retinue on a white horse and said something as they passed. What did you say? Where to now? Stand, or what? Thank you, or what? - greedy questions were heard from all sides, and the entire moving mass began to push on itself (apparently, the front ones had stopped), and rumors spread that they were ordered to stop. Everyone stopped as they were walking, in the middle of the dirt road.
Favorite activities
According to Marina, she never discusses work matters with her husband, believing that at home he should rest and be distracted from worries. This rule was established in the family a long time ago, and the spouses scrupulously adhere to it.
A woman spends most of her time with her family, where another unspoken rule has been established - to celebrate all holidays together. The eldest son Alexei, who got married not long ago, continues to support this tradition.
In general, Marina Poroshenko leads a rather modest life - she loves to sew, embroider and cook. She does not have any exotic preferences that modern VIPs are proud of. Although Marina is rightfully proud of one family tradition. Every year, for many years, her husband gives her a trip to some country in the world for her birthday. So, they have already visited many interesting corners of the planet.
Poroshenko's income
In 2006, the corporation of the future president of Ukraine was reorganized. The result was the creation of the holding PJSC “Closed non-diversified corporate investment fund “Prime Assets Capital”. Poroshenko owns 100% of the shares.
In 2005, Forbes magazine included Peter in the ranking of the country's richest citizens. At that time, his fortune reached $1.3 billion. The financial situation has not worsened due to the war in Donbass and the economic crisis. In 2020, Poroshenko added to his declaration the amount of interest he receives from his two deposits. It was equal to 732 thousand UAH. The politician has about $26.5 million in bank accounts in Ukraine.
There is one scandal associated with Poroshenko’s activities. After the hostilities in Donbass, he promised to close or sell the Roshen factory in Russia, but it operated for a long time. Although the entrepreneur regularly pays taxes to the Russian Federation, Putin only welcomes the company’s work.
“After a holiday I often want to relax”
The family tries to squeeze out the maximum impressions from their trips, not forgetting about their sports hobbies. In winter, everyone loves to ski, and in summer, diving or cycling. “Often, as a result of such a busy vacation program, you want to relax additionally,” Marina Poroshenko laughs.
In her youth (you can see a photo of the first lady during her student years in the article), she had to be very focused and purposeful in order to have time to prepare for defending her dissertation, give birth and raise a small son while her husband served in the army. She taught her children the same discipline. They always had a strict daily schedule, and no disruptions were allowed in it.
Marina considers herself a strict mother, and Pyotr Alekseevich cannot be called a gentle father either. As the president’s wife emphasizes, patriarchy has always reigned in their family: the father’s word is law, not subject to discussion.
Relationship with Peter
Marina and Peter met long before the latter decided to connect his life with politics. This happened at a disco organized in honor of the successful end of the winter session. The young people met and fell in love with each other at first sight, but their relationship began only six months after their first meeting. This happened, again, by accident - during the summer harvest. And a year later, the couple decided to tie the knot and divide the Poroshenko surname into two. Marina was very happy, but after some time Peter was drafted into the army, the wedding was in jeopardy, but he managed to come to an agreement and was released from the unit. The wedding took place, but the very next day the husband was forced to return to work.
About how Marina Poroshenko dresses
Photos of the first lady are now perhaps the most popular in Ukraine. After all, Marina is secretly considered the most elegant of the wives of the presidents who ruled the country. And this is justified - her public appearances always turn out to be a demonstration of impeccable taste in clothes, accessories, and hairstyle.
She prefers a classic style, complementing her outfits with precious jewelry, discreet natural makeup and discreet hairstyles, but she does not shy away from folklore elements. Thus, thanks to the first lady, it became fashionable in the country to wear stylized embroidered shirts.
For special occasions, Poroshenko Marina selects outfits together with the legends of the fashion industry in Ukraine - Victoria Gres and Liliya Pustovit, while also offering her own ideas, once again convincing of her delicate taste and ability to dress.
President of Ukraine
During the events associated with Euromaidan, Petro Poroshenko won popular recognition by participating in the most critical situations of that time. This allowed him to win the 2014 elections after the overthrow of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. He proved himself to be a politician not prone to extremism and radicalism, thanks to which Ukrainians gave him more than 50% of the votes, and in the 1st round of the presidential race. As a result, Petro Poroshenko became the 5th president of Ukraine.
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Petro Poroshenko and Angela Merkel
According to the new president of Ukraine chosen by the Ukrainians, which he said at the inauguration on June 7, 2014, his goals at the highest post of the Ukrainian government were to preserve the unity of the country and return Crimea to Ukraine. At the same time, Poroshenko promised the population to take enhanced measures to provide Ukrainians with a visa-free regime to Europe, and also gave hope that Ukraine would join the European Union.
From the first days, Poroshenko's presidency changed the opinion of Ukrainians about him, and therefore he lost allies who considered him a humanist, business executive, intellectual and principled politician. Less than a month after he took the presidency, he decided to overcome the protests of the population of the southeast of the country in a far from peaceful way by sending the Ukrainian army there. As a result of the military conflict in Donbass, according to official information from the OSCE, more than 6 thousand civilians and tens of thousands of security forces died.
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Petro Poroshenko and Emmanuel Macron
These figures did not bother the government, and even after the signing of the peace agreement in Minsk, Kiev continued to make attempts to return Donbass, as confirmed by numerous violations of the ceasefire in the territories of the southeast controlled by the militia forces, as recorded by international observers.
Despite the fact that during the reign of Pyotr Alekseevich negotiations were held in the “Normandy format”, no concrete result followed. The fighting continued, and society accused the head of Ukraine of being interested in receiving additional dividends and economic benefits due to the war.
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Commander-in-Chief Petro Poroshenko
Western media have repeatedly reported that the US authorities do not want to maintain this state of affairs. In February 2020, Poroshenko met with Donald Trump, President of the United States, at which the parties discussed ways to resolve the military conflict in Donbass. In 2020, European politicians have repeatedly stated the need to reconsider the concept and approach to solutions that will help stop the fighting in eastern Ukraine.
It was Poroshenko who bore the burden of responsibility for the failures in the military conflict in Donbass, the currency collapse, and the economic disaster in Ukraine. He did not fulfill any of his promises when ascending to the post of President of Ukraine, replacing freedom of speech in the state with “pseudo-patriotism”, and social benefits and budget salaries with payments for an IMF loan.
If you want to know what a man is like, look at his companion
Every man is made by his woman. This wisdom also extends to the image of Marina, who invested all the feminine wisdom and remarkable strength of her personality into the business growth of her life partner.
In September 2020, Marina Poroshenko and her husband, the president, celebrated their thirty-first wedding anniversary. And the head of state, having published in the media a touching photograph of his family, which depicts him, his wife, children and grandson, signed it with words of gratitude. This is probably what every woman in the world lives for - to hear words of gratitude from her beloved after several decades spent side by side!
Business
Poroshenko’s business dates back to his student years. In his youth, he created the Center-Service enterprise, whose activities were based on the conclusion and payment of contracts. Poroshenko’s earnings then amounted to 1.5% of the transaction amount, but this allowed him to purchase a Volga car in his 5th year at university. Using the money he earned from Center Service, Peter, together with his classmate Sergei Zaitsev, began to deal with scarce supplies of goods to the USSR. In particular, his craft was supplying cocoa beans from Belgium and Holland to confectionery factories.
Factory "Roshen" in Vinnitsa / Facebook
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Pyotr Alekseevich's skills in this business allowed him to take control of several confectionery factories, which became the basis of his largest concern, Roshen, in Ukraine. The successful activity of the future president in business brought Peter Alekseevich a fortune, against the background of which he began to be called the Chocolate King.
In addition to the Roshen chocolate empire, Poroshenko owns a large number of enterprises. His business includes several bus and automobile production facilities, a glass factory, several starch production enterprises, the Leninskaya Kuznya shipyard, an insurance company, and two sports and fitness complexes, but the manufacturing business in the portfolio of Poroshenko’s corporation does not belong to him entirely.
Factory "Roshen" in Kyiv / Facebook
The oligarch owns a number of media assets, including the Ukrainian Channel Five, the KP Media company, the Korrespondent publication, the radio stations Nashe Radio, Next, Retro FM, and Your Radio. From 1993 to 1998, he was also the CEO of the family company, which he founded together with his father and brother.
After the reorganization of Poroshenko’s corporation in 2006, a diversified holding PJSC “Closed non-diversified corporate investment fund “Prime Assets Capital”” was created, 100% of the shares of which are owned by Petro Poroshenko. According to the financial and economic magazine Forbes, in 2014, the President of Ukraine, thanks to his fortune of $1.3 billion, took 6th position among the richest citizens of the country. But a year later, this figure was almost halved and amounted to $750 million.
Interior of the Roshen brand store / Facebook
It soon became known that the president’s business was not sold, but “hidden” on the territory of the Russian Federation, despite the fact that Pyotr Alekseevich repeatedly spoke of Russia as an “aggressor.”
Ukrainian society was outraged that the Roshen factory was still operating in Russia. In Lipetsk, a confectionery enterprise operates successfully, despite the statements and promises of the Ukrainian leader to close this concern.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stated that he welcomes the work of this company on Russian territory, since the company regularly pays taxes to the Russian treasury.
Rumors and scandals
Although according to official data the first lady is a native Ukrainian, other information suggests that Marina was not born in Kiev, but in Lipetsk, where her father Anatoly Perevedentsev was from, who at that time lived in Russia, and moved to Ukraine a little later. After Petro Poroshenko was elected president, the information about his wife’s place of birth was promptly corrected.
As president of the state, Petro Poroshenko founded a Charitable Foundation of the same name, the head of the board of which, naturally, was his wife. Her tenure alone caused several scandals. For example, the European publication Luxembourg Herald accused the first lady of theft. During their investigation, journalists found that a large number of funds registered with us, which accepted significant amounts of money from the United States and European countries for humanitarian aid, were quickly closed, and the money received was transferred to offshore accounts.
Another situation interested the Ukrainian media: the election of Marina Poroshenko by supposedly transparent voting to the post of head of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation. Journalists from the “Schemes” program note that the president’s wife only created the appearance of voting, but in fact, among the candidates, in fact, there was only herself. Now Marina Poroshenko legally participates in the distribution of state budget funds.
Marina Poroshenko prefers classic and ethnic styles
Marina Anatolyevna Poroshenko is rightfully considered the most elegant of all the wives of the Presidents of Independent Ukraine.
Marina Poroshenko’s business style can be safely called the ideal combination of current classics, elegant smart casual and bright Ukrainian ethno.
Marina Poroshenko's wardrobe is dominated by clothes in a classic style
Marina Poroshenko's everyday style is, of course, smart casual, and very sophisticated. Wherever she appears, she always wears comfortable and elegant clothes.
Marina Poroshenko's everyday style is elegance and comfort
Marina Poroshenko loves the combination of black and white, black and red, as well as blue.
Poroshenko's spouses
Marina Poroshenko during the opening of the exhibition “Vikna” in Mystetskyi Arsenal:
Marina Poroshenko easily combines classic and ethnic styles
On Children's Day, June 1, 2016, the President's wife wore a small black dress and a red jacket, see photo:
Marina Poroshenko on Children's Day
Marina Poroshenko at the opening of the Book Arsenal with a student from the inclusive educational institution School No. 168 for children with special needs:
At the opening of the Book Arsenal, Marina Poroshenko wore a café-au-lait blouse and a black pencil skirt
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The favorite length of dresses and skirts is midi, and in addition to semi-fitted silhouettes, the First Lady also loves the A-line silhouette.
The First Lady of Ukraine pays a lot of attention to ethnic motifs in her images. The colors of the National Flag, beautiful embroidered shirts, massive accessories in the Ukrainian style are indispensable components of her dress code.
Marina Poroshenko with children in embroidered shirts
