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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Chapters: Viktor Yanukovych, List of Ukrainian rulers, Leonid Kravchuk, Yuriy Yekhanurov, List of leaders of Ukraine, Volodymyr Horbulin, List of Ukrainian politicians, Hanna Herman, Yuriy Meshkov, Vira Ulianchenko, Oleg Riabokon, Serhiy Komisarenko, Volodymyr Stelmakh, Volodymyr Hrynyov, Ivan Kandyba, Kmit Mykola, Dmytro Korchynskyy, List of governors of Chernigov Governorate, Andriy Chornovil, Hryhoriy Chernysh, Mykola Rohozhynskyy, Roman Mykolayovych Kozak, Oleksandr Bazylyuk, Vladyslav Kryvobokov, Oleksandr Rzhavskyy, Mykola Hrabar. Excerpt: Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych (Ukrainian: ·)) (born July 9, 1950) is a Ukrainian politician who has been the President of Ukraine since February 2010. Yanukovych served as the Governor of Donetsk Oblast from 1997 to 2002. Subsequently he was Prime Minister of Ukraine from November 21, 2002 to December 31, 2004, under President Leonid Kuchma, and he was an unsuccessful candidate in the controversial 2004 presidential election, ultimately losing to Viktor Yushchenko. Yanukovych continued to lead his party, the Party of Regions, after the 2004 election, and he served as Prime Minister for a second time from August 4, 2006 to December 18, 2007 under President Yushchenko. On March 3, 2010, Yanukovych transferred the leadership of the party to Mykola Azarov. Yanukovych was the top vote-getter in the first round of the January 2010 presidential election, and faced Yulia Tymoshenko in the second round of the election. Yanukovych won the second round of the election with 48.95% of the vote against Tymoshenko's 45.47%. He is thus the first directly elected president in Ukraine's history to win with less than 50% of the vote. Viktor Yanukovych at 3 years oldViktor Yanukovych was born in the village of Zhukovka near Yenakiieve in Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. At the time of his birth, the village was part of the Soviet Union. He had a very hard childhood, on which he commented by saying: "My childhood was difficult and hungry. I grew up without my mother who died when I was two. I went around bare-footed on the streets. I had to fight for myself every day." Yanukovych is not ethnically Ukrainian, but rather has Russian, Polish, and Belarusian roots. His mother was a Russian nurse, who died when Yanukovych was two years old, and his father was a Polish-Belarusian locomotive driver, originally from Yanuki, Vitsebsk Voblast. By the time he was a teenager, Yanukovych had lost both his parents and was brought up by his Polish grandmother, originally from Warsaw. His gr