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| native_name_lang = uk| image = Oleksandr Turchynov in August 2014.jpg| caption = Turchynov in 2014National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine>National Security and Defence Council| president = Petro Poroshenko| term_start = 16 December 2014| term_end = 19 May 2019| predecessor = Andriy Parubiy| successor = Oleksandr Danylyuk| office1 = President of Ukraine| order1 = Acting(acting)}}Arseniy Yatsenyuk| term_start1 = 23 February 2014| term_end1 = 7 June 2014| predecessor1 = Viktor Yanukovych| successor1 = Petro Poroshenko| office2 = Prime Minister of Ukraine| order2 = Acting(acting)}}| term_start2 = 22 February 2014| term_end2 = 27 February 2014Serhiy Arbuzov {{small>(acting)}}| successor2 = Arseniy Yatsenyuk| president3 = Viktor Yanukovych| term_start3 = 4 March 2010| term_end3 = 11 March 2010| predecessor3 = Yulia Tymoshenko| successor3 = Mykola Azarov| office4 = Director of the Security Service of Ukraine| primeminister4 = Yulia Tymoshenko| term_start4 = 4 February 2005| term_end4 = 8 September 2005| predecessor4 = Ihor Smeshko| successor4 = Ihor Drizhchanyi{{Collapsed infobox section begin|Positions in the Verkhovna Rada}}| president4 = Viktor Yushchenko| office5 = Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada| term_start5 = 22 February 2014| term_end5 = 27 November 2014Volodymyr Vasylyovych Rybak>Volodymyr Rybak| successor5 = Volodymyr Groysman| office6 = People's Deputy of Ukraine| term_start6 = 12 May 1998| term_end6 = 19 December 2007

• Hromada, No. 12 (1998–2002)WEB, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the III convocation,weblink Official portal, Verkhovna Rada, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 22 December 2014, uk, 8 May 2013,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130508112543weblink">weblink live,
• Batkivshchyna, No. 7 (2002–2005)WEB, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the IV convocation,weblink Official portal, Verkhovna Rada, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 22 December 2014, uk, 24 January 2016,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160124071826weblink">weblink dead,
• Batkivshchyna, No. 2 (2005–2007)WEB, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the V convocation,weblink Official portal, Verkhovna Rada, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 22 December 2014, uk, 12 May 2015,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150512032925weblink">weblink dead, WEB, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VI convocation,weblink Official portal, Verkhovna Rada, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 22 December 2014, uk, 12 May 2015,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150512034305weblink">weblink dead,

}}| term_start7 = 12 December 2012WEBSITE=OFFICIAL PORTALVERKHOVNA RADA>VERKHOVNA RADA OF UKRAINELANGUAGE=UK,

• Batkivshchyna, No. 4 (2012–2015)WEB, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VII convocation,weblink Official portal, Verkhovna Rada, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 22 December 2014, uk, 24 January 2016,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160124071826weblink">weblink dead,
• People's Front, No. 3WEB, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VIII convocation,weblink Official portal, Verkhovna Rada, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 22 December 2014, uk, 5 September 2014,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140905081637weblink">weblink dead,

}}{{Collapsed infobox section end}}196431|df=y}}Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic>Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union(now Dnipro, Ukraine)European Solidarity {{small>(2020-present)}}

• Communist Party of the Soviet Union {{small|(1987-1991){edih}
• Hromada {{small|(1994–1999)}}
• Batkivshchyna {{small|(1999–2014)}}
• Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc {{small|(2001–2012)}}
• Dictatorship Resistance Committee {{small|(2011–2014)}}
• People's Front {{small|(2014-2019)}}

}}| spouse = Hanna Turchynova| children = Kyrylo| alma_mater = National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine| allegiance = {{UKR}}| website = Official website| signature = Oleksandr Turchynov Signature 2014.png}}Oleksandr Valentynovych Turchynov (, {{IPA-uk|ɔ.lekˈsan.dr ʋɐ.lenˈtɪ.nɔ.ʋet͡ʃ turˈt͡ʃɪ.nɔu̯|IPA}}; born 31 March 1964) is a Ukrainian politician, screenwriter, Baptist ministerWEB,weblink Ukraine Names Baptist Pastor as Acting President, 24 February 2014, WEB,weblink Baptist Pastor, Oleksandr Turchynov, Named Acting President of Ukraine; Christians Thank God for Peace, 25 February 2014, WEB,weblink Baptist pastor Oleksandr Turchynov now Ukraine's acting President as country faces revolution, 28 February 2014, and economist. He is the former Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine.In 2005, Turchynov served as the head of the Security Service of Ukraine. Turchynov is a former acting President of Ukraine from the removal from power of President Viktor Yanukovych on 21 February 2014,NEWS,weblink Ukraine: Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov named interim president, BBC News, 23 February 2014, 26 February 2014, live,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140223115150weblink">weblink 23 February 2014, dmy-all, NEWS,weblink Ukraine protests timeline, BBC News, 23 February 2014,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20081201194141weblink">weblink 1 December 2008, live, dmy-all, NEWS, 26 February 2014, 26 February 2014,weblink Turchynov assumes duties of supreme commander-in-chief of Ukrainian Armed Forces, Interfax-Ukraine, 15 April 2014,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140415022832weblink">weblink live, dmy-all, until Petro Poroshenko was sworn in as Ukrainian President on 7 June 2014. He then became Chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament until 27 November 2014. Turchynov also served as acting Prime Minister in 2010 (when he was the First Vice Prime Minister in the absence of a prime minister after Yulia Tymoshenko's government was dismissed on 3 March 2010NEWS, 4 March 2010,weblink Press secretary: Tymoshenko vacates premier's post, Kyiv Post, 16 February 2014, Interfax-Ukraine, 7 March 2010,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20100307140238weblink">weblink live, dmy-all, ) until the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) appointed Mykola Azarov as Prime Minister on 11 March 2010.NEWS, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych forms coalition, BBC News, 11 March 2010, 16 February 2014,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20100312052933weblink">weblink 12 March 2010, live, dmy-all, NEWS, UNIAN, 11 March 2010,weblink Azarov became Prime Minister, 16 February 2014, 14 March 2010, live,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20100314085313weblink">weblink dmy-all, Turchynov was the first deputy chairman of the political party Batkivshchyna (All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland") and a close associate of party leader Yulia Tymoshenko.NEWS,weblink Turchynov is summoned for interrogation to SBU today – BYUT, Ukrainian Independent Information Agency, UNIAN, 20 September 2010, 7 October 2010,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140227045553weblink">weblink 27 February 2014, live, dmy-all, NEWS, 14 June 2013, 14 June 2013,weblink Batkivschyna to nominate Tymoshenko for presidency, Yatseniuk heads party's political council, Kyiv Post, Interfax-Ukraine, 15 June 2013,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130615114353weblink">weblink live, dmy-all, NEWS,weblink BYT-Batkivschyna replaces its leader, Kyiv Post, Interfax-Ukraine, 7 December 2011, 14 December 2011, 7 December 2011,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20111207124431weblink">weblink live, dmy-all, He started the new political party People's Front in September 2014, now together with Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. In June 2020 Turchynov became one of the managers of the headquarters of European Solidarity, a political party led by former president Petro Poroshenko.

Early life and career

Oleksandr Turchynov was born in Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro). He graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute in 1986, after which he worked at Kryvorizhstal, a large Ukrainian steel producer. From 1987 to 1990, he served as head of the agitation and propaganda division of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Komsomol (Communist Youth League) Committee, which was led by Serhiy Tihipko. Tihipko and Turchynov became political advisers of Leonid Kuchma, then head of Dnipropetrovsk-based Pivdenmash missile manufacturer. Kuchma and his entire team, including Tihipko and Turchynov, moved to Kyiv in 1992, after Kuchma was appointed Prime Minister. In 1993, Turchynov was formally appointed an advisor on economic issues to Prime Minister Kuchma.Turchynov is a long-time ally of Yulia Tymoshenko, another prominent Ukrainian political figure from Dnipropetrovsk. They used to have a common business in Dnipropetrovsk. In December 1993, Turchynov co-founded and became Vice President of Ukrainian Union of Industrialist and Entrepreneurs. In 1994 he created the political party Hromada together with Pavlo Lazarenko, a business ally of Tymoshenko. Turchynov was also director of the Economic Reforms Institute from January 1994 to March 1998 and was head of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences' Laboratory of Shadow Economy Research.Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko members biography's, Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko official website {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080126231934weblink |date=26 January 2008 }}NEWS, Who Is Who in Tymoshenko's Government?,weblink 23 December 2007, 23 February 2014, Ukrayinska Pravda, 13 March 2008,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080313173732weblink">weblink dead, dmy-all,

Political life

File:Yatsenyuk and Tyahnybok.jpg|thumb|left|Turchynov, Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Oleh Tyahnybok with coalition agreement before 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election2012 Ukrainian parliamentary electionFile:Tyahnybok Turchynov 24-02-14.jpg|thumb|left|Turchynov and Oleh TyahnybokOleh TyahnybokIn 1998, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada as a member of Hromada. Following Lazarenko's flight from Ukraine, he left the faction and party (during May 1999) together with Yulia Tymoshenko's All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland". He was re-elected to parliament in 2002 and 2006 as part of the BYuT.On 4 February 2005, Turchynov was appointed and served as the first‐ever civilian head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). With the approval of Turchynov as the head of the SBU, he dissolved the investigation team that was investigating the Georgiy Gongadze case since 2002. According to the first deputy head of the Main Investigation Department of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine Roman Shubin, Turchynov ordered not to provide operational data on the Gongadze case to the investigation group of the Security Service of Ukraine.WEB,weblink ru:Генпрокуратура: Люди Турчинова дезинформируют общественность, podrobnosti.ua, ru, 25 April 2006, 21 March 2018, WEB, ru:Дело Гонгадзе: Пукач скрывается в Украине?,weblink Segodnya, ru, 16 November 2007, 21 March 2018, WEB,weblink ru:Авантюры дилетантов, Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, ru, 28 April 2006, 21 March 2018, On 15 June 2005, after the SBU had started an investigation by Turchynov in May 2005, Tymoshenko charged that Dmytro Firtash and others, including his Nicosia, Cyprus-based Highrock Holdings had been central to over $1 billion stolen from Ukraine through his Turkmenistan gas scheme involving both Eural Trans Gas and RosUkrEnergo. On 8 September 2005, Yushchenko dismissed Tymoshenko and subsequently, on 23 September 2005, the SBU investigation into the missing money was halted by direct order of Yushchenko according to Turchynov.{{sfn|Global Witness|2006|p=40-43}}NEWS, Kupchinsky, Roman, Roman Kupchinsky,weblink Ukraine: Criminal Cases Filed Over Gas Schemes, Radio Free Europe, 5 July 2005, 22 January 2021, 2 October 2005,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20051002071859weblink">weblink NEWS, Kupchinsky, Roman, Roman Kupchinsky,weblink Ukraine: A Conflict Over Gas And Power, Radio Free Europe, 12 September 2005, 22 January 2021, 29 September 2005,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20050929064903weblink">weblink NEWS, Kupchinsky, Roman, Roman Kupchinsky,weblink Ukraine: Battle Against Corruption Grinds To A Halt, Radio Free Europe, 26 September 2005, 22 January 2021, 27 September 2005,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20050927030651weblink">weblink In August 2007, Turchynov replied to the accusation that his stance on same-sex marriage is typically conservative, "I do not agree. If a man has normal views, then you label him a conservative, but those who use drugs or promote sodomy, you label them a progressive person. All of these are perversions".WEB,weblink Overview of Lesbian and Gay rights in Eastern Europe, The Lesbian & Gay Foundation, 12 August 2009, 20 August 2008,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080820220202weblink">weblink dead, dmy-all, In the spring of 2008, he was the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and the Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc candidateWEB,weblink ru:Тимошенко и Луценко объявили Турчинова единым кандидатом от коалиции, Tymoshenko and Lutsenko announced Turchynov the only candidate from the coalition, 19 June 2008, 22 May 2008, Korrespondent.net, ru,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20081122073438weblink">weblink 22 November 2008, live, dmy-all, for the Mayor of Kyiv election he placed second at the election with 218,600 votes (19.13% of total vote).NEWS,weblink UNIAN News Agency, 19 June 2008, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080612161310weblink">weblink 12 June 2008, In December 2009, during the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election campaign, Turchynov accused President Viktor Yushchenko and opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych of coordinating their actions in their attempts to topple the Second Tymoshenko Government.NEWS, 4 December 2009, 5 December 2009, live,weblink Western Information Agency: Yushchenko and Yanukovych are playing ball, Kyiv Post, 28 January 2011,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110128111547weblink">weblink dmy-all, From December 2009 until March 2010, the adviser to Turchynov in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine was Andriy Slyusarchuk, a Ukrainian fraudster.WEB, Turchynov is summoned for interrogation on "Doctor Pi" case, Ukrainian Independent Information Agency,weblink 10 May 2012, 4 September 2014,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140904180808weblink">weblink live, dmy-all, On 4 March 2010, after the fall of the second Tymoshenko Government, Yulia Tymoshenko resigned from her post as Prime Minister on 4 March 2010, and Turchynov was empowered to fulfill the Prime Minister's duties until a new government was formed.NEWS,weblink Cabinet: Turchynov will fulfill premier's duties until new government is formed, Kyiv Post, Interfax-Ukraine, 4 March 2010,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20100307045046weblink">weblink 7 March 2010, live, dmy-all, On 11 March 2010, the Azarov Government was elected,NEWS,weblink Ukraine's new government puts final nail in coffin of the Orange Revolution, The Guardian, 11 March 2010, 14 March 2010,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20100314055548weblink">weblink live, dmy-all, and Mykola Azarov was appointed Prime Minister the same day.According to WikiLeaks, Prosecutor-General of Ukraine Oleksandr Medvedko ordered former Minister of Internal Affairs Yuriy Lutsenko to arrest Yulia Tymoshenko's allies – Oleksandr Turchynov and Andriy Kozhemiakin – for destroying the documents of the Security Service of Ukraine in which the connection between Tymoshenko and the criminal businessman Semion Mogilevich was proven.WEB,weblink Wikileaks: Турчинов уничтожил компромат СБУ на Тимошенко, Segodnya, ru, 29 November 2010, 11 April 2018, In 2012 he was re-elected into the Verkhovna Rada, on the party list of Batkivshchyna.NEWS,weblink uk:Список депутатів нової Верховної Ради, List of Parliament Members of the new Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine, UA, Ukrayinska Pravda, 11 November 2012,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20121113192113weblink">weblink 13 November 2012, 9 January 2013, live, uk, dmy-all, In the final days of Euromaidan, on 21 February 2014 the Verkhovna Rada passed a law that reinstated the 8 December 2004 amendments of the constitution. This was passed under simplified procedure without any decision of the relevant committee and was passed in the first and the second reading in one sitting by 386 deputies. The law was approved by 140 MPs of the Party of Regions, 89 MPs of Batkivshchyna, 40 MPs of UDAR, 32 of the Communist Party, and 50 independent lawmakers.Ukrainian parliament reinstates 2004 Constitution, Interfax-Ukraine (21 February 2014) According to Radio Free Europe, however, the measure was not signed by the then-President Viktor Yanukovych, who was subsequently removed from office.WEB, Sindelar, Daisy,weblink Was Yanukovych's Ouster Constitutional?, Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty (Rferl.org), 23 February 2014, 25 February 2014, Yanukovych, however, failed to sign the measure., The reinstitution of the 2004 amendments was proscribed in the Agreement on settlement of political crisis in Ukraine to be adopted within 48 hours after signing of the agreement (21 February 2014). All of that was taking place during the already ongoing concealed annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and the 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine. Under the provision of the Constitution with 2004 amendments, a chairman of parliament is the next in succession of power in the country and such provision existed before adaptation of the Constitution back in 1996.On 22 February 2014, he was elected as speaker of Verkhovna Rada. On 23 February 2014, Turchynov was designated as acting Prime Minister of Ukraine following the impeachment of Viktor YanukovychWEB, Sofia News Agency,weblink's+Parliament+to+Appoint+Opposition+Leader+Acting+PM, Ukraine's Parliament Appoints Opposition Leader Acting PM, Novinite, 22 February 2014, 23 February 2014,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140223051846weblink">weblink's+Parliament+to+Appoint+Opposition+Leader+Acting+PM, live, dmy-all, per the reinstated constitutional provisions of the 2004 amendments. On 25 February Turchynov assumed the (Presidential power of) command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. A day earlier were also scheduled early presidential elections on 25 May,"Rada removes Yanukovych from office, schedules new elections for May 25", Interfax-Ukraine (24 February 2014) for which Oleksandr Turchynov did not register. On 27 February, Arseniy Yatsenyuk was appointed the new Prime Minister under acting president Turchynov.In early March 2014, Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, stated he did not regard Turchynov as the legitimate Ukrainian President.NEWS, Dave Boyer,weblink Obama tells Putin stop "meddling" in Ukraine and withdraw troops from Crimea, The Washington Times, 4 March 2014, 5 March 2014,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140304183810weblink">weblink 4 March 2014, live, dmy-all, Following attacks on law enforcement, security institutions and capture of government buildings, Turchynov offered for the unmarked militants with Russian flags to lay down arms and vacate government buildings for negotiations. Upon refusal, he finally sanctioned a big scale anti-terrorist operation headed by the Security Service of Ukraine. Earlier on 8 April 2014 another short-term anti-terrorist operation led by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine freed up government buildings in Kharkiv.Ukraine launches 'anti-terrorist' operation in eastern city, 70 arrested. Reuters. 8 April 2014On 13 April 2014, Russia confirmed that it began a large scale military exercise in the Rostov, Belgorod and Kursk Oblasts, on the border with Ukraine, involving more than 8,000 troops and which would continue until the end of March.Ukraine crisis: Russia begins new military exercises. BBC News. 13 March 2014 In April 2014, Russia announced another military exercise in the same region (Southern Russia).Putin's military exercises are more than a game. The Guardian. 23 April 2014On 14 April 2014, while talking on the phone with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Turchynov asked for the United Nations's support regarding the crisis in eastern Ukraine, to which the Secretary-General replied that peacekeepers may be sent in should Russia withhold its veto. Meanwhile, Turchynov issued a deadline to the pro-Russian insurgents to disarm and dismantle their barricades, but the deadline passed without incident.NEWS, Ukraine asks for UN peacekeepers as pro-Russia militants flout deadline, 14 April 2014, 15 April 2014, Windsor Star,weblink 15 April 2014,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140415032317weblink">weblink dead, dmy-all, Before he issued a deadline, which was scheduled for 9 am,NEWS,weblink Separatists Ignore Ultimatum, Tighten Grip on East Ukraine, The New York Times, Reuters, 14 April 2014, 15 April 2014, 7 September 2014,weblink" title="archive.today/20140907050930weblink">weblink live, he tried to negotiate with insurgents and even proposed to hold referendum on the same day as elections which will be on 25 May. His proposition was questioned by journalists{{which|date=June 2020}} who feared that the referendum might be sabotaged by pro-Russia insurgents.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}NEWS, Tehran Times,weblink Separatist unrest spreads in Ukraine, no sign of military crackdown, 14 April 2014, 15 April 2014, 15 April 2014,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140415171547weblink">weblink live, dmy-all, Petro Poroshenko was elected President of Ukraine on 25 May 2014.NEWS,weblink Ukraine talks set to open without pro-Russian separatists, The Washington Post, 14 May 2014, 29 May 2014, NEWS, 22 May 2014,weblink Ukraine elections: Runners and risks, BBC News Online, 29 May 2014, live,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140527092109weblink">weblink 27 May 2014, dmy-all, NEWS, 7 February 2010,weblink Q&A: Ukraine presidential election, BBC News, 29 May 2014, 29 April 2014, live,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140429045939weblink">weblink dmy-all, WEB,weblink Poroshenko wins presidential election with 54.7% of vote – CEC, Radio Ukraine International, 29 May 2014, 29 May 2014, 29 May 2014,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140529212731weblink">weblink dead, dmy-all, NEWS,weblink ru:Внеочередные выборы Президента Украины, Results election of Ukrainian president, Телеграф, 29 May 2014, 29 May 2014, 29 May 2014,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140529233925weblink">weblink live, ru, dmy-all, NEWS, Interfax-Ukraine,weblink New Ukrainian president will be elected for 5-year term – Constitutional Court, 16 May 2014, 29 May 2014,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140517121006weblink">weblink 17 May 2014, live, dmy-all, Poroshenko was sworn in as Ukrainian President on 7 June 2014, this ended the presidential powers of Turchynov.NEWS,weblink Petro Poroshenko to Be Inaugurated as Ukraine President June 7, Lukas Alpert, The Wall Street Journal, 29 May 2014, 29 May 2014, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140529234158weblink">weblink 29 May 2014, NEWS, Interfax-Ukraine,weblink Rada decides to hold inauguration of Poroshenko on June 7 at 1000, 3 June 2014, live,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140603165249weblink">weblink 3 June 2014, dmy-all, NEWS, Interfax-Ukraine, 7 June 2014,weblink Poroshenko sworn in as Ukrainian president, 1 July 2014, live,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140701184604weblink">weblink dmy-all, On 10 September 2014, Turchynov became founding member the new party People's Front.NEWS,weblink uk:Яценюк очолив політраду "Народного фронту", Турчинов - голова штабу, Yatsenyuk became a leader of the "People's Front" political council, while Turchynov is a head of its headquarters, Ukrayinska Pravda, 10 September 2014, 10 September 2014, 11 September 2014, live,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140911002615weblink">weblink uk, dmy-all, In an interview with the BBC, Turchynov admitted that in 2014, when the first volunteers went to war, he was personally giving them weapons, but not all were clean in the eyes of the law: "And I personally signed the orders for the weapons, many were worried about what would happen if they did not follow those orders with a weapons. Indeed, we didn't check anyone at that time, if they were convicted previously or not – whoever said that they are ready to defend the country, signed up, received weapons and went to the East of our country."NEWS,weblink ru:Александр Турчинов: "Наша задача — продвигаться на восток", BBC, Svyatoslav Khomenko, Vyacheslav Shramovich, BBC News Русская Служба, 14 April 2017, 22 June 2018, ru, WEB,weblink ru:Турчинов рассказал, как в начале войны вооружал уголовников, Segodnya, 14 April 2017, 22 June 2018, ru, WEB,weblink ru:Турчинов об АТО: Я открывал склады с оружием, потому что офицеры отказались, ICTV (Ukraine), ICTV, 14 April 2017, 22 June 2018, ru, In an interview given to VICE, he declared concerning his decision: "If it happened again, I would do the same thing".{{Citation|last=VICE|title=Out of Control: Ukraine's Rogue Militias|date=25 May 2018|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMMXuKB0BoY |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/wMMXuKB0BoY |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|access-date=2019-02-09}}{{cbignore}} (2 minutes, 50 seconds)On 21 September 2014, he said that Russia doesn't admit that their soldiers are fighting in Ukraine. He also stated that Russia is the main aggressor, and that during the conflict, Ukraine had lost over 1,000 lives with hundreds missing. During the same Facebook message, he compared the conflict to the butterflies, a metaphor to one of Ray Bradbury's works.NEWS, Segodnya, 21 September 2014,weblink Турчинов: Россия цинично не признает перед своим народом, что их солдаты воюют в Украине, Turchynov: Russia cynically doesn't admit in front of its people, that their soldiers are fighting in Ukraine, 26 September 2014, Turchynov was elected his party's faction leader on 27 November 2014.{{in lang|uk}} In Parliament created a faction, Ukrayinska Pravda (27 November 2014)On 16 December 2014, President Poroshenko appointed Turchynov as Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine.Turchynov becomes secretary of Ukraine's NSDC, Interfax-Ukraine (16 December 2014)President Poroshenko decides to appoint Turchynov Ukraine's NSDC secretary – source, Interfax-Ukraine (16 December 2014)According to the social poll of the "Sofia" centre, in June 2017, only 0.9% of respondents said that they completely trust Turchynov, 9.5% trust him, 24.1% do not trust him, 57.4% do not trust him at all.WEB, 7 June 2017, ru:Турчинову и Авакову не доверяют 82% украинцев, а Яценюку - более 90%, Turchynov and Avakov are not trusted by 82% of Ukrainians, and Yatsenyuk - more than 90%,weblinknews/74794-82-ukraincev-ne-doveryayut-avakovu.html, 20 September 2018, Strana.ua, ru, WEB, https:ukranews.com/news/501390-sekretaryu-snbo-turchynovu-doveryaet-vsego-1-ukrayncev, Ukrainian News Agency, 7 June 2017, ru:Секретарю СНБО Турчинову доверяет всего 1% украинцев, Only 1% of Ukrainians trust to Secretary of the NSDC Turchynov, 20 September 2018, ru, On 1 November 2018, Turchynov was included in the Russian sanctions list in connection with Ukraine's unfriendly actions towards citizens and legal entities of the Russian Federation.WEB,weblink ru:О мерах по реализации Указа Президента России «О применении специальных экономических мер в связи с недружественными действиями Украины в отношении граждан и юридических лиц Российской Федерации», Government of Russia, 1 November 2018, 21 May 2019, ru, On 11 December 2018, in response to the fact that 66 city councils and 12 regional councils had adopted the term "gender" instead of "sex", he published on his website an article he wrote called "Neo-Marxism or a trip to the abyss".WEB,weblink 290 церковних і громадських організацій підтримали Турчинова у захисті сімейних цінностей, 18 January 2019, risu.org.ua, 2019-02-07, In this article he drew a parallel between Marxists and "neo-Marxists", and declared the latter "offe[r] society a struggle for the rights of the new "oppressed", assigning to them the role of emancipated women, homosexuals, lesbians, transgender people, and others like that."WEB,weblink Неомарксизм або подорож у безодню, 11 December 2018, turchynov.com, Neo-Marxism or a trip to the abyss, 2019-02-07, In his article he also criticized LGBT activists and compared the "invented subjects" of gender studies to the academic degrees of "Scientific Communism" and "Marxist-Leninist philosophy". He also called for the restoration of the term "sex" instead of the term "gender" in the national registration where the term "gender" was in use. In response to this, 160 church communities and 130 public organizations publicly supported his article. In March 2019, at the All-Ukrainian Forum of the Family, Turtchynov declared he opposed the "hundreds of genders" in the Ukrainian legislation and declared his support for "eternal gospel values".WEB,weblink Турчинов за побудову України на "вічних євангельських цінностях" та проти "сотні гендерів" у законах, 1 March 2019, risu.org.ua, 2019-03-01, On 17 May 2019, after the Ukrainian elections, he resigned from his office as secretary of the NSDC; his resignation was accepted on 19 May.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}}In June 2020 Turchynov became head of the 2020 Ukrainian local elections headquarters of the party European Solidarity.{{in lang|uk}} Turchynov will head the Eurosolidarity headquarters and will look for effective managers, Ukrayinska Pravda (30 June 2020) Turchynov stated he was "not interested in a parliamentary mandate or public positions, but to help the unification process and train quality staff of effective managers".

Business activity

On 10 September 2014, Oleksandr Turchynov published a letter in which he urged retailers to take a closer look at the products of Tarasove Dzherelo, a small producer of mineral water. He proposed to conclude deals with that company. Some market experts assessed the actions of Turchynov as lobbyism.WEB,weblink ru:Маркетинг-агентство «Рада»: как Александр Турчинов продвигает частного производителя воды, Forbes, Bohdan Khlymonenko, 3 October 2014, 9 August 2018, ru, According to the journalistic investigation, Turchynov's mother-in-law, Tamara Beliba, owns the largest data center in the Baltic states — MC-office. Beliba owns the Ekonomikos Institutas company, which owns a data center located in Kaunas, Lithuania. The total volume of investments was $200 million.WEB,weblink ru:Украиной рулят девять уголовников и клиент психбольницы, Komsomolskaya Pravda, 24 April 2014, 4 April 2018, ru, WEB,weblink ru:Теща Турчинова строит огромный дата-центр в Литве, Ukrainian News Agency, 4 May 2017, 4 April 2018, ru, WEB,weblink uk:Теща Турчинова пов'язала голову РНБО з величезним дата-центром у Литві, bihus.info, Maxim Opanasenko, 4 May 2017, 4 April 2018, uk, Tamara Beliba is also the owner of the company "Ekostilkom", which in turn owns a house near Kyiv with a size of 1,000 m2 with a plot of land of 0.5 hectares. Turchynov's mother-in-law is the owner of warehouses with a total area of 6,000 m2 in Kyiv on the Akademika Koroleva Prospect. Another company of Tamara Beliba owns three facilities with the size of more than 200 m2 each in the centre of Kyiv on Konovalets street.WEB,weblink uk:Записаний на тещу будинок в тисячу квадратів і ресторан у тестя. Журналісти знайшли нові маєтки сім'ї Турчинова, nv.ua, 12 January 2017, 13 August 2018, uk, WEB,weblink uk:«Свята земля»: Як родина Олександра Турчинова обросла маєтками і ділянками, Hromadske.TV, 12 January 2017, 13 August 2018, uk, According to the United State Register of Legal Entities, Individual Entrepreneurs and Public Organizations of Ukraine, the entire business in the Turchynov family is executed on his mother-in-law Tamara Beliba, mother Valentina and wife Anna. The family is engaged in economic research, film production, providing communication services and building data centres. This business is related with economic research, film production, the provision of telecommunications services and data centers.WEB,weblink ru:Бизнесом в семье Турчинова руководит его теща, TSN / 1+1 (TV channel), 1+1, 25 February 2014, 8 October 2018, ru, WEB,weblink ru:Турчинов Александр Валентинович, whoswhos.org, 18 July 2014, 8 October 2018, ru, 8 October 2018,weblink dead, On 1 May 2017, the journalistic investigation of the program Our money with Denis Bigus (channel 24) proved the connection between Oleksandr Turchynov and people's deputy Ruslan Lukyanchuk with three large companies (Absolut Finance, Magnate and Octave Finance) that own 1,200 exchange points of 3,500 legal currency exchange offices in Ukraine. These points exchanged currencies without cash registers, which violates the requirements of the law, since in this case automatic tax reporting is not provided to the State Fiscal Service. All these companies are listed on the nominees — Oksana and Ilona Brodovskaya and Hryhoriy Pron'ko (Oksana's father). However, their connection with the joint business of Turchynov and Lukyanchuk was proved by journalists — Oksana and her husband Valentin Brodovsky were assistants of Ruslan Lukyanchuk during four convocations of the Verkhovna Rada.WEB,weblink uk:Кому належать пункти обміну валют і чому податкова "не бачить" податків нардепа, TV-channel 24, uk, 1 May 2017, 27 April 2018, WEB,weblink ru:СМИ связали с Турчиновым и Лукьянчуком обменники, совладелицей которых является 23-летняя модель, TSN, ru, 3 May 2017, 27 April 2018, WEB,weblink ru:Обменные пункты Турчинова избегают налоговой — СМИ, Корреспондент.net, ru, 4 May 2017, 27 April 2018, Investigations on this subject were published in the Ukrainian media earlier.WEB, 27 July 2016, Страна, ru:Какое отношение имеет Турчинов к обменным пунктам в Украине,weblink 27 April 2018, «Страна.ua», ru, Oleksandr Turchynov's father-in-law Vladimir Beliba together with businessman Ihor Tynnyy opened in 2013 in the center of Kyiv a restaurant of Italian cuisine "Montecchi v Capuleti". This was reported in May 2016 by the journalists of Nashi hroshi project.WEB,weblink ru:«Наші гроші»: Тесть Турчинова открыл итальянский ресторан в центре Киева, gordonua.com, ru, 11 May 2016, 5 November 2018, WEB,weblink uk:Після Євромайдану тесть Турчинова відкрив італійський ресторан з Тинним, nashigroshi.org, uk, 10 May 2016, 5 November 2018, WEB,weblink ru:У тестя Турчинова нашли ромео-ресторан в центре Киева, vesti-ukr.com, ru, 10 May 2016, 5 November 2018, WEB,weblink uk:Тесть Турчинова володіє рестораном в центрі Києва - ЗМІ, Ukrayinska Pravda, uk, 10 May 2016, 5 November 2018, According to media reports, Turchynov is involved in establishment of the following companies: "Institute for Economic Reforms" LLC,WEB,weblink uk:Про реєстрацію списку кандидатів у народні депутати України від політичної партії Всеукраїнське об'єднання "Громада" в багатомандатному загальнодержавному виборчому окрузі по виборах народних депутатів України 29 березня 1998 року, Verkhovna Rada, uk, 29 March 1998, 1 November 2018, "Information Technologies of the 21st Century" CJSC, "Pharmacor" LLC, "ZET" LLC, "Europe-X" LLC, "Editorial board of Vecherniye Vesti newspaper" LLC, "VV" LLC, "SVV" LLC, "Janus" Real Estate Agency LLC.WEB,weblink ru:И вот она нарядная…, Novaya Gazeta, Aleksandra Gordiyenko, ru, 3 March 2005, 1 November 2018, WEB,weblink ru:Турчинов, Александр, Lenta.ru, ru, 2012, 16 November 2018, WEB,weblink ru:Александр Турчинов, polittech.org, ru, 2012-09-21, 1 November 2018,

Controversies

In June 2003, the Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Shokin announced his intention to send the proposal to the Ukrainian Parliament an idea to bringing to trial the deputies Oleksandr Turchynov, Stepan Khmara and Mykolay Rudkovsky. According to Shokin, the People's deputies were insulting and beating the staff of the Lukyanivska Prison. Deputies demanded the release of Gennady Tymoshenko and Antonina Bolyura. They were incriminated with three cases of the Criminal Code: "Capturing state buildings", "Threat to law enforcement officers", and "Excess of power with the use of weapons and verbal insulting of law enforcement officers."WEB,weblink ru:Генпрокуратура планирует привлечь к уголовной ответственности депутатов, штурмовавших СИЗО, podrobnosti.ua, ru, 27 July 2003, 2 April 2018, WEB,weblink ru:Генпрокуратура хочет привлечь к ответственности трех депутатов Верховной Рады (обновлено), Korrespondent.net, ru, 27 July 2003, 2 April 2018, WEB,weblink ru:Турчинов, Хмара, Рудьковский — криминальные хулиганы?, Ukrayinska Pravda, ru, 27 July 2003, 2 April 2018, On 13 September 2003, tax officials detained at the office of the "Fatherland" party Ruslan Lukyanchuk, one of the assistants of Oleksandr Turchynov. He was charged with involvement in illegal currency exchange. The Prosecutor General of Ukraine Svyatoslav Piskun then stated that the detention of Turchynov's assistant was part of a planned process of initiating a criminal case. According to Piskun, about hundreds of thousands of illegally converted dollars were sent to the office of the "Fatherland" party.WEB,weblink ru:Возбуждено уголовное дело против Турчинова, podrobnosti.ua, 2 October 2002, 27 March 2018, ru, In February 2006 state prosecutors opened a criminal case against Turchynov and his SBU deputy Andriy Kozhemyakin for destroying a file about FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive, organized crime boss Semyon Mogilevich, from the SBU archive. The case was dismissed four months later.NEWS,weblink Peter, Byrne, New and conflicting details emerge over Mogilevich's alleged involvement in nation, Kyiv Post, 10 December 2010, 15 December 2010, 14 December 2010,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20101214053146weblink">weblink live, dmy-all, WikiLeaks documents mention Turchynov, then head of Ukraine's SBU, as having destroyed documents implicating Yulia Tymoshenko's alleged connections to Mogilevich.NEWS, 10 December 2010, 23 February 2014,weblink Peter Byrne, New and conflicting details emerge over Mogilevich's alleged involvement in nation, Kyiv Post,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20121003052951weblink">weblink 3 October 2012, live, dmy-all, According to the Komsomolskaya Pravda in Ukraine newspaper referring to deputy mayor of Kyiv Leonid Chernovetskyi, Mr. Turchynov is related to unlawful construction in the Landscape Valley (Peyzazhna aleya) district of Kyiv. In autumn of 2004 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine signed an investment contract with JSC Ukrainian Property (OAO "Ukrayinsʹke mayno") on the construction of an apartment building in this district. With this the share of the MFA in the project made just 20%. The Ministry actually became a cover for the businessmen.WEB,weblink ru:СМИ: Турчинов причастен к незаконной застройке на Пейзажной аллее, from-ua.com, 7 May 2008, 19 March 2018, ru, WEB,weblink ru:Стройку на Пейзажной аллее инициировал Турчинов – Кильчицкая, Segodnya, 17 April 2008, 19 March 2018, ru, As of 1 January 2007, 91.1% of the JSC Ukrainian Property shares belonged to Eclad Invest Ltd. (USA), and 8.2% to Valery Kovalenko. Previously, the shares of JSC Ukrainian Property belonged to JSC Financial holding "L-Holding", the largest shareholder of which was JSC Centre of Financial Technologies. Oleksandr Turchynov owned 26.2% of the shares of this company. On 23 April 2008, the Kyiv District Administrative Court ruled that Oleksandr Turchynov had no personal relationship with the construction of the Landscape Valley.WEB,weblink ru:Суд установил, что Турчинов на Пейзажной аллее ничего не строит, Ukrainian Independent Information Agency, UNIAN, 23 April 2008, 19 March 2018, ru, In 2005, Oleksandr Turchynov ordered to organize an illegal wiretapping of the journalist of Segodnya newspaper Oleksandr Korchinsky. This fact was made public at a press conference by Viktor Shokin, former Prosecutor General of Ukraine. The telephone of the journalist was tapped from 25 June – 12 July 2005. Turchynov personally took this decision. The journalist's phone was bugged without sanctions of the court.WEB,weblink ru:Турчинов считает свое уголовное дело политически заказанным, Ukrainian Independent Information Agency, UNIAN, 23 April 2006, 16 March 2018, ru, WEB,weblink ru:Сбу слушала журналиста "сегодня" по санкции суда — внеся на него представление как на сотрудника правоохранительных органов, fakty.ua, Irina Rybinskaya, 25 March 2006, 16 March 2018, ru, WEB,weblink ru:БЮТ хочет поменять Генпрокуратуру, korrespondent.net, 5 June 2006, 16 March 2018, ru, On 14 March 2006, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine have opened a criminal case on the fact of illegal wiretapping of senior officials. Most of these wiretapping took place in 2005, when Oleksandr Turchynov was the head of SSU.WEB,weblink ru:На Украине подслушали послов, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Ivanna Gorina, 16 March 2006, 30 March 2018, ru, WEB,weblink ru:Олег Рыбачук: "К сожалению, уже после победы "оранжевой" власти были факты прослушивания высших должностных лиц государства", fakty.ua, 14 March 2006, 30 March 2018, ru, In August 2016, journalists of the Economichna Pravda (Ukrayinska Pravda project) accused Oleksandr Turchynov of influencing the leadership of the State Special Communications Service of Ukraine (DSTSZI). Despite the introduction of the system of electronic declarations on the incomes of civil servants and officials, those declarations without a DSTSZI's security certificate could not have legal force in court cases. A number of analysts accused Turchynov of disrupting the launch of the e-declaration system.NEWS,weblink Alyona Zhuk, Oleg Sukhov, E-declaration system doesn't work despite formal launch, Kyiv Post, 2 December 2016, 18 April 2018, en, NEWS,weblink Failure to launch E-system for asset declaration fully – what threats are there for Ukraine?, UCMC, 15 August 2016, 18 April 2018, en, NEWS,weblink uk:Хто зірвав електронне декларування статків: хронологія та документи, eurointegration.com.ua, Serhiy Sydorenko, 14 August 2016, 18 April 2018, uk, NEWS, 15 August 2016, ru:За срывом запуска е-декларирования может стоять Турчинов — СМИ, ru, Страна,weblink 18 April 2018, On 15 August 2016, Serhiy Kaplin, Secretary of the Committee for National Security and Defense of the Verkhovna Rada, published an open appeal to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine and the Prosecutor General demanding to confirm the attitude of Oleksandr Turchynov to private arms manufacturers. Turchynov actively lobbies the entry of these manufacturers to the market.WEB,weblink ru:Депутат: Антикоррупционное бюро и ГПУ должны проверить работу Турчинова, KP (newspaper), KP, ru, 15 August 2016, 28 April 2018, WEB,weblink ru:Каплин потребовал от НАБУ и ГПУ проверить "обогащение" Турчинова на кризисе в Украине, Vesti Ukraine, ru, 15 August 2016, 28 April 2018, WEB,weblink ru:Каплин требует от НАБУ и ГПУ проверить факты "обогащения" Турчинова на кризисе в Украине, RBC-Ukraine, ru, 15 August 2016, 28 April 2018, Kaplin also demands the Prosecutor General to open cases against Turchynov and Serhiy Pashynskyi on the surrender of Crimea and Donbas.WEB,weblink ru:Каплин требует от ГПУ дела против Турчинова и Пашинского по сдаче Крыма и Донбасса, KP (newspaper), KP, ru, 1 August 2016, 1 June 2018, WEB,weblink ru:От ГПУ требуют открыть дело по сдаче Крыма и Донбасса, Korrespondent.net, ru, 2 August 2016, 1 June 2018, In March 2017, former people's deputy Oleksandr Shepelev accused Turchynov and Ruslan Lukyanchuk of stealing and withdrawing $800 million from the state budget with the assistance of the International Monetary Fund. According to Shepelev, in 2009 Turchynov and Lukyanchuk "were taxed by the heads of ministries and state enterprises", and received money from them to the accounts of the European Bank for Rational Financing (EBRD). There, hryvnias were converted into the cash dollars, which then were withdrawn to offshores through the Baltic banks and shell companies. The largest of these companies was Fortex, owned by Lukyanchuk and registered in the UK. Turchynov urged the NABU to investigate the charges against him.WEB, 14 March 2017, Страна, ru:Турчинов призвал НАБУ расследовать выдвинутые против него обвинения в краже $800 миллионов,weblink 22 May 2018, Strana.ua, ru, WEB,weblink ru:Экс-нардеп Шепелев заявил, что Турчинов и Лукьянчук вывели в офшоры $800 млн из госбюджета и помощи МВФ, Gordonua.com, ru, 10 March 2017, 22 May 2018, WEB,weblink ru:Турчинова и Лукьянчука обвинили в выводе в оффшоры $800 млн, RIA Novosti, ru, 10 March 2017, 22 May 2018, According to the Ukrainian lawyer living in Russia and disgraced former First Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Renat Kuzmin, the court ordered National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine to initiate the criminal proceedings against Turchynov for theft and withdrawal of $800 million to offshore companies. The NSDC press service said that Kuzmin's publication contains false information that "Russian secret services are replicating in order to discredit the Secretary of the Turchynov Council." Turchynov later appealed to the State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine and the National Anti-Corruption Bureau with a request to conduct a check of the statements of the former members of the Yanukovych team hiding out in Russia that he withdrew $800 million from the state budget to the offshore.WEB, 23 May 2017, Страна, ru:Суд обязал НАБУ расследовать дело об офшорах Турчинова - Кузьмин,weblink 23 July 2018, Strana.ua, ru, WEB,weblink ru:Кузьмин заявил, что суд обязал НАБУ расследовать злоупотребления Турчинова, в СНБО опровергают информацию, Gordonua.com, ru, 23 May 2017, 23 July 2018, WEB,weblink ru:Турчинов попросил проверить обвинения в свой адрес о расхищении госбюджета, Gordonua.com, ru, 14 March 2017, 13 August 2018,

Non-official activities

In 2004 Turchynov published a book Illusion of Fear.NEWS,weblink Turchynov campaign draws scrutiny, Kyiv Post, 24 April 2008, 6 April 2012, 30 January 2011,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110130205443weblink">weblink dead, dmy-all, In 2005 he also wrote a script to the same name movie that is based on the book.NEWS, 22 May 2008, 6 April 2012,weblink 'Illusion of Fear' from Turchynov, Kyiv Post, 25 February 2014,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140225004105weblink">weblink live, dmy-all, The movie was released in Ukraine in September 2008 and was the 2008 Ukrainian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.NEWS,weblink Ukraine submits 'Illusion' for Oscar race, Ukrainian Independent Information Agency, UNIAN, 16 October 2008, 6 April 2012,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140223061134weblink">weblink 23 February 2014, live, dmy-all,

Earnings

According to an electronic declaration, in 2019, Turchynov received ₴410,690 (US$15,210) as salary. He received interest of ₴1.319 million (US$48,852) from bank deposits. Another ₴250,000 formed an income from other sources. In bank accounts, Turchynov had ₴236,000, US$1,052,000, and about €10,000. He also declared US$675,000, €3,000, and ₴57,000 in cash.WEB, Declarations: Turchynov Oleksandr Valentynovych from the NACP,weblink 2020-07-07, declarations.com.ua, en, Turchynov has a collection of ancient Bibles, paintings, as well as copyrights to books and films. His spouse has declared ₴446,000 of income. Oleksandr Turchynov also declared a 2018 TOYOTA LC 150 Prado car and a 2015 LEXUS LX570 car.

Awards

On 31 October 2014, at the ceremony of rewarding the participants of the war in Donbas, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov awarded Turchynov a compact self-loading pistol PSM-05 for services to the ministry. The Minister expressed the hope that he will assist the Ministry in the future.WEB,weblink ru:Аваков наградил Турчинова карабином за заслуги перед МВД, RBK Group, RBK, ru, 31 October 2014, 14 May 2018, Turchynov also has three more award weapons - a revolver of Alfa 3541 caliber .357 Magnum (30 April 2014), a pistol machine gun Fort-226 (30 March 2015), and a semi-automatic pistol Mauser C96 with 105 bullets.WEB,weblink ru:Яценюку подарили "гангстерский" автомат, korrespondent.net, 23 February 2016, 14 May 2018, ru, In May 2016, Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov confirmed that Turchynov was awarded the Maxim's machine gun model 1910 (PM M1910).WEB,weblink ru:Аваков подтвердил, что Турчинова наградили пулеметом "Максим", sharij.net, 30 May 2016, 15 June 2018, ru, WEB,weblink ru:Аваков признался, что выдал пулемет не только Яценюку, Segodnya, 30 May 2016, 15 June 2018, ru, On 2 May 2018, by the decree of the President of Ukraine, he was awarded the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise of the Fifth Class.WEB,weblink uk:Указ Президента України від 2 травня 2018 року № 117/2018 «Про відзначення державними нагородами України», The Presidential Administration of Ukraine, 2 May 2018, 14 May 2018, uk,

Personal life

Oleksandr Turchynov's wife, Hanna Turchynova (born 1970) works as dean of the faculty of natural geography and ecology at National Pedagogical Dragomanov University.{{in lang |uk}} Human rights activists demand the release of Turchinov's wife because of homophobia, Ukrayinska Pravda (20 June 2018) They have one son, Kyrylo (born 1994), who finished his master's degree thesis in 2014.NEWS, uk,weblink Son Turchynov has ascended to the draft, Tablo ID, 24 July 2014, 25 July 2014, Turchynov is known to abstain from tobacco and alcohol. He belongs to the 1.9% of Ukraine's population that identify as Protestant. Although some in the media have labelled him a pastor,NEWS, live,weblink Profile: Olexander Turchynov, BBC News, 23 February 2014, 1 March 2014, 26 February 2014,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140226151510weblink">weblink dmy-all, WEB, Antonia Blumberg,weblink Oleksandr Turchynov, Baptist Pastor, Named As Ukraine's Acting President, The Huffington Post, 25 February 2014, 1 March 2014, WEB,weblink Ukraine Names Baptist Pastor as Acting President, 24 February 2014, Christianity Today, 1 March 2014,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140415025136weblink">weblink 15 April 2014, live, dmy-all, the Associated Baptist Press and the European Baptist Federation reportBob Allen, Elevation of Ukrainian leader puts spotlight on Baptists, baptistnews.com, USA, February 26, 2014 WEB, 1 March 2014,weblink European Baptist Federation, European Baptist Federation, EBF, 25 May 2014,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140525193648weblink">weblink live, dmy-all, that he is an elder and occasional lay preacher at his Kyiv church, the Word of Life Center, which is a member of the Evangelical Baptist Union of Ukraine. Social networks have nicknamed him the "Bloody Pastor" (). He responds to this nickname with irony: "I think this nickname is much better than what the Ukrainians gave to Putin".WEB,weblink ru:"Кровавый пастор" Турчинов прокомментировал своё прозвище: видео, Strana.ua, ru, 17 December 2014, 3 July 2018, NEWS,weblink ru:Александр Турчинов: "Наша задача — продвигаться на восток", BBC, Святослав Хоменко, Вячеслав Шрамович, BBC News Русская Служба, ru, 14 April 2017, 3 July 2018, Some media occasionally regard Turchynov as the "Consigliere of Yulia Tymoshenko".WEB , {{qn|date=July 2021}}{{qn|date=July 2021}}{{clear}}

References

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• NEWS,weblink Веселящий Газ: Абсурдность в Газовой торговле Между Туркменистаном и Украиной, Laughing gas: Absurdity in Gas Trade Between Turkmenistan and Ukraine, ru, Global Witness, 1 April 2006, 22 January 2021, 16 October 2009,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20091016050128weblink">weblink

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