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Viktor Yanukovych

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Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych (born 9 July 1950) is a former Ukrainian politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014. He also served as the prime minister of Ukraine several times between 2002 and 2007 and was a member of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) from 2006 to 2010. A member of the pro-Russian Party of Regions, Yanukovych provoked mass protests — the Euromaidan — after his unexpected rejection of the European Union–Ukraine Association Agreement approved by the Rada, under the pressure from Russia and was removed from the presidency by the Ukrainian parliament in 2014, at the time neighboring Russia started to annex Ukrainian Crimea and started the Russo-Ukrainian War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Viktor Yanukovych has received more than 6,070,800 page views. His biography is available in 98 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 88 in 2019). Viktor Yanukovych is the 425th most popular politician (down from 308th in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 6th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

Viktor Yanukovych is most famous for being the president of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014. He was impeached in 2014 and fled to Russia.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 98

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Viktor Yanukovych ranks 425 out of 19,576. Before him are Albert II of Belgium, Vitellius, Ludwig II of Bavaria, Harald Fairhair, Hafsa Sultan, and Rehoboam. After him are Józef Piłsudski, Maximilian I of Mexico, Louis VIII of France, Augustus II the Strong, George V, and Horemheb.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Viktor Yanukovych ranks 2. Before him is Narendra Modi. After him are Zaha Hadid, Jay Leno, Sergey Lavrov, Agnetha Fältskog, Steve Wozniak, Abdullah Gül, Goran Bregović, Vicente del Bosque, Stevie Wonder, and Ed Harris.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych ranks 13 out of 1,365. Before him are Stepan Bandera (1909), John III Sobieski (1629), Kazimir Malevich (1879), Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595), Joseph Conrad (1857), and Hafsa Sultan (1479). After him are Ilya Repin (1844), Taras Shevchenko (1814), Helena Blavatsky (1831), Svetlana Alexievich (1948), Stanisław Lem (1921), and Sviatoslav I of Kiev (942).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych ranks 8. Before him are Hurrem Sultan (1502), Leonid Brezhnev (1906), Golda Meir (1898), Stepan Bandera (1909), John III Sobieski (1629), and Hafsa Sultan (1479). After him are Sviatoslav I of Kiev (942), Stanisław Leszczyński (1677), Viktor Yushchenko (1954), Leonid Kuchma (1938), Kliment Voroshilov (1881), and Ivan Mazepa (1639).

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