Andriy Klyuyev

Andrij Petrowytsch Kliuev (Ukrainian Андрій Петрович Клюєв; born August 12, 1964 in Donetsk ) is a Ukrainian politician. From 11 March 2010 to 14 February 2012, he was First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov at the Cabinet of. From February 2012 to January 2014 he was secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. From 23 January 2014 to February 22, 2014, he was Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine.

Kliuev graduated from the National Technical University Donetsk study for a mining engineer. Since 1991, he held senior positions in various industrial companies in the space Donetsk active. In 1996 he was appointed deputy head of the city administration of Donetsk and Deputy Chairman in 1998 the administration of the Donetsk Oblast under the then governor Viktor Yanukovych.

In the parliamentary elections of 2002, 2006 and 2007, he was elected for the Party of Regions in the Verkhovna Rada, since 2001 is Kliuev member of the Presidium of the party.

From 10 December 2003 to 29 December 2004, he was Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Cabinet of Yanukovych and in this position responsible for the energy sector of the country for the first time.

During the presidential election of 2004 Kliuev was deputy head of the campaign staff of Yanukovych. He was during the Orange Revolution repeatedly accused of having been involved in the manipulation of the election results, and it never came to a court conviction.

From August 2006 to December 2007, he was again Deputy Prime Minister in the government of Viktor Yanukovych.

Kliuev was considered a close ally of Yanukovych and was named after its election victory in the 2010 presidential election to the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Development and Trade. In February 2012, he was released from these offices and appointed secretary of the National Security and Defense Council. On January 23, 2014 Yanukovych Kliuev appointed as the new Head of the Presidential Administration. As part of the reporting on the Euromaidan he was referred to in some media repeatedly as a hardliner. After the fall of Yanukovych Andrij Kliuev and his brother Serhiy internationally have been advertised for investigation, his whereabouts were initially unknown. The accounts of the Kliuev brothers in Switzerland and Austria were locked. According to reports from the Ukrainian media, Andrij Kliuev holds since the end of February 2014, in Russia.

Andrij Kliuev is married and has three sons. Together with his younger brother, the entrepreneur and politician Serhiy Kliuev, the Ukrainian magazine Focus counted him in 2010 the richest men in Ukraine.