Contents tagged with Azarov

  • Ukraine’s fugitive Prime Minister Azarov plans to return to ‘rebuild Ukraine’

    During a press conference in Moscow, a number of Ukrainian politicians who previously fled to Russia declared   that they plan to return to Ukraine to “rebuild” the country. Among those are: Mykola Azarov, Vitaliy Zakharchenko, Andriy Klyuyev and Stanislav Shuljak.

     “We will definitely return to our country. You can write down, I can sign for it. We are representatives of Ukrainians who do not want to see this current government. We will definitely return, and without fail, rebuild Ukraine, …

  • Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine: Assets of the son of Ukrainian fugitive Prime Minister Azarov seized in three counties

    As part of the criminal investigation against Oleksiy Azarov, the son of the former Prime Minister of Ukraine, Mykola Azarov, his property and bank accounts in Ukraine, Italy, and Switzerland were seized, as stated in the Prosecutor General's Office response to the request of UNN (Ukrainian National News).

    "During the pre-trial investigation, the property belonging to O.M. Azarov was seized, namely land plots and houses in Ukraine and the Italian Republic. Vehicles, as well as cash in the …

  • Ukrainian fugitive Prime Minister wants to form a ‘government in exile’

    The fugitive prime minister of Ukraine, Mykola Azarov, intends to submit a lawsuit to international courts to recognize the Ukrainian revolution of 2014 (Revolution of Dignity) as a coup. He also hopes to become a prime minister of Ukraine forming a so-called “government in exile”. This was stated by Azarov in his interview with Russia’s Izvestia daily.

    Azarov fled Ukraine in 2014 following the Ukrainian evolution of Dignity of 2014. In 2015, he created a so-called “Rescue Ukraine Committee. …

  • Former PM Azarov expressed his wish to return to Ukraine

    The congress of the so-called Union of Political Migrants and Prisoners of Ukraine, under the leadership of the former prime minister of Ukraine, Mykola Azarov, who fled to the Russian Federation during Maidan, was held in Russia.

    “Each of the participants of the congress has had a difficult fate, they had to leave their native land in challenging conditions, go through tortures and abuses,” Azarov wrote on his Facebook page on November 27.

    The former prime minister of Ukraine added that a …

  • $1 billion remains in accounts belonging to Yanukovych and Azarov in Ukrainian banks

    The Chairman of Oschadbank, Andriy Pyshnyy, stated in an interview with Livyi Bereh news agency that over 1 billion dollars remains in the accounts of the former President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, and the former Prime Minister, Mykola Azarov.

    According to Pyshnyy, the accounts belonging to Azarov and Yanukovych have “quite significant sums.”

    “Over $1.15 billion.  Due to bank confidentiality, I cannot comment on some things. But I ask you to understand this. This is a strict legal …