Yuriy Boyko

Yuriy Boyko Anatolijowytsch (Ukrainian Юрій Анатолійович Бойко; Russian Юрий Анатольевич Бойко; born October 9, 1958 in Gorlowka ) is a Ukrainian politician. From December 2012, he was Deputy Prime Minister in the Cabinet of Mykola Azarov.

Boyko graduated in the 1980s, first studying to become a chemical engineer and later gained a bachelor's degree in economics. After he had passed in the 1990s refineries and chemical plants in eastern Ukraine, he was appointed at the beginning of 2002 as director of the state enterprise Naftohas and at the same time as Secretary of State. In 2003, the then Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych appointed him Deputy Minister of Fuel and Energy.

In this role, Boyko elements contributed to establish the company RosUkrEnergo as an intermediary for the supply of natural gas, which Ukraine receives from Russia and Central Asian countries. Since then, he is considered a key figure in the lucrative and politically always delicate natural gas transactions between the Ukraine and Russia. Boyko is also considered a close confidant of the businessman Dmytro Firtash the 45 % of the shares of RosUkrEnergo belong.

After the Orange Revolution in 2005 Boyko dismissed from his post at the beginning of the year. In August 2006, he was appointed by the now again to the office of the Prime Minister appointed Yanukovych to the Minister of Fuel and Energy. Boyko succeeded in this role in the fall of 2007 to reach an agreement on the security of gas supplies to Ukraine with Russia.

In the 2007 parliamentary elections Boyko was elected to the Verkhovna Rada. In December 2007, he initially lost his ministerial post. After the election victory of Yanukovych in the 2010 presidential election, he was then re-appointed Minister of Fuel and Energy on 11 March 2010. In the reshuffle of the Cabinet after the parliamentary elections in 2012 in December 2012 Boyko became the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. He was a close confidant of Yanukovych and Dmytro Firtash.

Boyko was awarded the Order of Hero of Ukraine, the highest award of the country in 2004. Boyko is married and has six children.

In the presidential elections in Ukraine in 2014, he appears as an independent candidate.