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Leonid Kuchma

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Leonid Danylovych Kuchma (Ukrainian: Леонід Данилович Кучма, IPA: [leoˈn⁽ʲ⁾id dɐˈnɪlowɪtʃ ˈkutʃmɐ]; born 9 August 1938) is a Ukrainian politician who was the second president of Ukraine from 19 July 1994 to 23 January 2005. The only President of Ukraine to serve two terms, his presidency was marked by democratic backsliding and the growth of the Ukrainian oligarchs, as well as several scandals and improvement of Russia–Ukraine relations. After a successful career in the machine-building industry of the Soviet Union, Kuchma began his political career in 1990, when he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian parliament); he was re-elected in 1994. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonid Kuchma has received more than 1,233,992 page views. His biography is available in 79 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Leonid Kuchma is the 810th most popular politician (down from 728th in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 24th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

Leonid Kuchma is most famous for being the president of Ukraine from 1994 to 2005. He was in office when the country became independent from the Soviet Union.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Leonid Kuchma ranks 810 out of 19,576. Before him are Al-Ma'mun, Igor of Kiev, Andromache, Charles XIII of Sweden, Publius Quinctilius Varus, and Alexis of Russia. After him are Roger II of Sicily, Mary of Hungary, Nikolai Bukharin, Ehud Olmert, William I of the Netherlands, and Farah Pahlavi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Leonid Kuchma ranks 12. Before him are Claudia Cardinale, Rudolf Nureyev, Queen Sofía of Spain, Jon Voight, Nico, and Islam Karimov. After him are Farah Pahlavi, Luis Aragonés, Klaus Schwab, Alberto Fujimori, Joe Dassin, and Jerry Brown.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma ranks 25 out of 1,365. Before him are Sviatoslav I of Kiev (942), Mikhail Bulgakov (1891), Stanisław Leszczyński (1677), Stefania Turkewich (1898), Anna Akhmatova (1889), and Viktor Yushchenko (1954). After him are Élie Metchnikoff (1845), Ludwig von Mises (1881), Kliment Voroshilov (1881), Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916), Vaslav Nijinsky (1889), and Edgar de Wahl (1867).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma ranks 12. Before him are John III Sobieski (1629), Hafsa Sultan (1479), Viktor Yanukovych (1950), Sviatoslav I of Kiev (942), Stanisław Leszczyński (1677), and Viktor Yushchenko (1954). After him are Kliment Voroshilov (1881), Ivan Mazepa (1639), Moshe Sharett (1894), Grigory Zinoviev (1883), Leonid Kravchuk (1934), and Volodymyr Zelensky (1978).

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