Nikolai Rudkovsky
He was born in the village of Stary Bykiv, Bobrovitsky District, Chernihiv Oblast. According to his autobiography, he graduated from high school with a gold medal and with honors from the Chernihiv State Pedagogical Institute named after T.G. Shevchenko (History Department). In 1990, he graduated from the School of Business at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. A year later, he passed the language exam and became a student at the Vienna University of Economics, studying for a degree in Business Studies, according to Politrada.
Career
He worked for several years as a manager for Austrian companies and, having gained relevant experience, founded his own company in Vienna. Since 1994, N. Rudkovsky has been the chief consultant to the Administration of the President of Ukraine. Since 1996, he has been the director of the State Investment Committee of Ukraine (apparently, this refers to the State Investment Committee of Ukraine, which was "successfully" liquidated in 2000 at the initiative of the Accounting Chamber due to numerous violations.) Since January 1998, he has been deputy chairman of the board of JSC Ukrgazprom.
After the company's reform into Naftogaz Ukrainy, he became deputy general director of the Trading House Group of Companies of Naftogaz Ukrainy. In 2001, N. Rudkovsky, a member of the Socialist Party of Ukraine, headed the Chernihiv regional committee of the SPU. He was an assistant to a socialist deputy. Valentina Semenyuk. He then twice became a people's deputy on the Socialist Party electoral list—in 2002 and 2006. Again in 2006, he simultaneously ran for mayor of Chernihiv and won. However, just a month after the vote, he resigned from the mayoralty in favor of a parliamentary mandate, plunging his fellow countrymen into yet another tedious and costly election cycle. In August 2006, on the nomination of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, the Verkhovna Rada appointed him Minister of Transport and Communications of Ukraine. He replaced the "orange" Viktor Bondar in this post.
Incidentally, according to some observers, it was N. Rudkovsky who was one of the main proponents of the idea of the Socialist Party of Ukraine (SPU) entering into a coalition with the Party of Regions and the Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU), the implementation of which disappointed many supporters of the Socialist Party and its leader, Oleksandr Moroz (as evidenced by a number of sociological surveys). In December 2007, after the Socialist Party's defeat in the snap parliamentary elections and the formation of a coalition between the BYuT and NU-NS, N. Rudkovsky handed over the ministerial portfolio to his former party colleague and now BYuT member, Iosif Vinsky.
Family
Family. The politician is married and has two daughters (born in 2000 and 2005).
Hobbies
At one point, the publication "Ukrainska Pravda" published a photo of the politician driving an expensive Aston Martin sports car and posed the question: can the Socialist MP Rudkovsky afford such luxury? More recently, the same publication examined the Minister's living conditions in "Golden Gate," one of the most prestigious cottage communities in the Kyiv region. The journalists' conclusion: the conditions do not match the information in his income declaration.
Reviews about the policy
Ignoring the Minister's declaration, he has long been considered a wealthy man, connected (or formerly connected) to the oil industry in the Poltava region, and one of the main sponsors of the Socialist Party of Ukraine (SPU). In an interview, Ivan Boky, a high-ranking socialist and parliamentary faction leader, humorously assessed the financial status of his fellow party minister: "We don't have oligarchs... Is Rudkovsky an oligarch? So-so, a mere oligarch."
Kompromat
Self compromising on politics
The Ministry of Internal Affairs has new incriminating evidence against Rudkovsky. February 8, 2008. The State Service for Combating Economic Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has uncovered new violations of the law by senior officials of the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Ukraine, primarily by former Minister of Transport and Communications Mykola Rudkovsky, the Ministry of Internal Affairs' Public Relations Department reported. Specifically, it was established that in the fourth quarter of 2007, former Minister of Transport Mykola Rudkovsky issued an order granting permission to alienate real estate belonging to the 36th Joint Detachment of the State Special Transport Service. "The minister alienated an entire property complex under the guise of separately identified property, despite the fact that the right to sell such complexes belongs exclusively to the State Property Fund of Ukraine," the Department explained. Moreover, the ministry's department notes, the proceeds from the sale of this property, amounting to 8,5 million hryvnias, did not enter the state budget and were subsequently used by the Ministry of Transport's leadership "at their own discretion." In addition, it was established that the minister, by his orders, illegally granted permission for the alienation of the property of the construction and installation departments of the Donetsk Railway and the free transfer of fixed assets of the Popasnyansky Wagon Repair Plant state enterprise with a residual value of 73,600 hryvnias to the ownership of the Lisichansk branch of Luhansk Energy Association LLC.
A preliminary investigation is also underway into alleged abuses related to the transfer of authority to issue one-time permits for international road transport to the First Deputy Director of the State Enterprise "International Road Transport Service." The decision on whether to initiate criminal proceedings will be made after the financial losses caused by the illegal actions of these government officials are calculated, the DOS reported.
After completion, the materials of the pre-investigation investigation into allegations of abuse involving officials of the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Ukraine will be sent to the Prosecutor General's Office for procedural decisions. As reported, a criminal case has been opened against former Minister of Transport and Communications Mykola Rudkovsky for the misuse of budget funds.
Compromising evidence against his political strength
29.05.2010 16:58 Moroz snatches microphone from Rudkovsky. Moroz snatches microphone from Rudkovsky. During a meeting of the Socialist Party's political council at the Bratislava Hotel in Kyiv, its chairman, Oleksandr Moroz, snatched the microphone from his deputy, Mykola Rudkovsky. This occurred during a speech by party member Ivan Bokyi, who accused Rudkovsky of supporting the opposition and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
"Where have you ever seen such a thing?" Ivan Bokiy began his speech. "Rudkovsky finances Safik Shuster's show, and he supports Yulia Tymoshenko. So, the Socialist Party supports its own opponents, supports the opposition. And no one has invited the Socialists on air for a year." Rudkovsky, who was sitting at the same table with Moroz, wanted to respond and pushed the microphone toward himself. But Moroz snatched it from his hands. "I'm chairing the meeting," he told Rudkovsky. "You'll speak when the meeting is over." When Bokiy began talking about freedom of speech in Ukraine, Moroz lost his temper and declared into the microphone: "In Ukraine, freedom of speech belongs to whoever is in power."
Material status
Income statement: In 2006, N. Rudkovsky's income amounted to 173,336 hryvnias, including 141,020 hryvnias from his parliamentary salary and 32,315 hryvnias from his salary as the head of the Ministry of Transport and Communications. Furthermore, according to a declaration published in the newspaper "Uriadovyi Kurier," Mykola Rudkovsky owns a 101,9 square meter apartment in Kyiv. His family members had no income.
August 03 2011
Socialist Party of Ukraine (SPU) leader candidate Mykola Rudkovsky is confident that if he takes over the SPU, the party will enter the Verkhovna Rada in the next elections. He stated this in an interview with Glavkom.
Rudkovsky noted that he believes in the party's future. "Otherwise, I wouldn't take it so seriously," he said.
"I believe my experience running election campaigns as party leader will help us get into parliament not just by a small margin, but by securing a decent percentage of the vote. In the local elections, I led the list in Chernihiv Oblast, and we secured the third-largest faction in the regional council. My goal is for the Socialists to take third place in the number of deputies in the next parliamentary elections," Rudkovsky stated.
He also stated that if he is elected SPU chairman on August 14, he will initiate a practice whereby the leader remains at the helm only as long as the party continues to win more votes in elections. "That is, if we take 5-7% in these parliamentary elections, 15% in the next, and then the result returns to 12%, then the party leader should submit a letter of resignation and groom young leaders to replace him. Only with this approach can we achieve a situation where the socialists gain a majority in parliament, as is the case in many European countries. According to sociological research, 60% of the population shares social democratic and socialist ideology. But they vote for charismatic individuals who represent liberal ideology. Then the people suffer and wonder why such pension legislation is being passed or why land is being put up for sale," Rudkovsky said.
10 September 2010
The Socialist Party must secure at least 3% of the vote in the local elections to ensure its return to mainstream politics. This was stated by Mykola Rudkovsky, head of the SPU campaign headquarters, according to the party's press service.
“We want to be different from other parties, most of which have put portraits of their leaders on billboards,” Tigipko"We are working with Tymoshenko and Yatsenyuk. "For us, it's more important to draw Ukrainians' attention to pressing issues during the local elections," he noted. Among the pressing issues, Rudkovskyi singled out "rising prices, land sales, and raising the retirement age." "We are identifying key issues familiar to everyone and proposing solutions. Especially since the Socialist Party of Ukraine is a well-known party with experience. This is especially true at the local level, where we have over 20 socialists serving in local councils," he stated.
06 May 2009
Former Minister of Transport and Communications Nikolai Rudkovsky, who was released from Lukyanivske Pretrial Detention Center No. 13 yesterday by court order, promised he would not flee Ukraine. However, Rudkovsky would like to clearly demonstrate to those who "ordered" his imprisonment that a pretrial detention center is not a five-star hotel. At least, if only through a tour. "I won't say much; anyone who's been in a correctional facility knows that prison is prison," said Nikolai Rudkovsky. "I think those who wanted to portray me as being in a five-star hotel there should at least visit it once, at least for a tour."
All the promises
August 03 2011
In 2008, the case against Mykola Rudkovskyi in Kyiv's Pechersky District Court was heard by the same judge who is now presiding over the trial of former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko, Serhiy Vovk. When Lutsenko was Interior Minister and I was being tried in the Pechersky District Court, he urged the government leadership to pressure the Pechersky District Court. He claimed that if Rudkovskyi were sentenced, it would be a demonstration of the fight against corruption. But the judges, even under pressure, could find no grounds for this and ultimately dismissed the case. Incidentally, Vovk, who is presiding over Lutsenko's trial, is the same judge who ordered my arrest.
06 May 2009
Nikolai Rudkovsky calls the information about his involvement in the activities of the United Center "an absurd canard." He believes it was started by those who want to "distract attention from the activities of a so-called politician," he said, referring to Nestor Shufrich.
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