Kyiv Post
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Inauguration witnesses have high expectations of Poroshenko
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As people began gathering at St. Sophia Square in Kyiv, where the second part of the inauguration of Ukraine’s newly-elected President Petro Poroshenko was going to be held, the heat was increasing and anxiety was rising.
The “chocolate billionaire” Poroshenko won early presidential elections on May 25 in the first round with 54.7 percent of votes after Viktor Yanukovych was ousted in late February.
When Poroshenko finally arrived at 11 a.m., the Ukrainians who came to greet the new head of the state were not disappointed. When he stepped out of the car, he waved to the people and only then proceeded with the ceremony. In the square, the commanders of Ukrainian military forces officially introduced themselves to Poroshenko and the president’s flag was hoisted. After the ceremony, Poroshenko walked into St. Sophia Cathedral to get blessed by church leaders.
Some 2,000 people came to the square to witness the ceremony.
Tamara Maksymenko, one of the visitors, said she was satisfied with the president’s performance at the inauguration.
“He looked calm and confident, I had a pleasant impression,” she said, but added that she wished the ceremony was held at Kyiv’s Independence Square, where EuroMaidan protests took place and “where the power was actually given to him,” she said.
Maksymenko came to St. Sophia Square with the flags of Ukraine and EU in hands. Many in the crowd were dressed in vyshyvankas, Ukrainian national embroidered shirts. Some women had traditional wreathes with ribbons on their heads.
All say they came to support their president and to wish him well in his work. Some even came from other cities to pass on their messages of encouragement.
“I could not stay at home, this inauguration is the realization of our dreams and hopes,” said Ihor Kabaniuk from Dnipropetrovsk. It was the first time Kabaniuk has watched a president's inauguration ceremony in person.
“I have a three-year-old kid and she already sings the anthem by heart and goes everywhere with the flag, and I do believe this president can improve our country for her,” he told Kyiv Post.
Although Kabaniuk feels rather ambivalent about where the inauguration ceremony had to be held, other witnesses supported Poroshenko’s decision to avoid a ceremony at Kyiv’s main square.
“Inauguration is a celebration. And Maidan is a place where blood was shed, a place of grief,” said Oleksandra Yevseeva from Kyiv.
Lidia Romanko, a pensioner from Kirovograd, agreeed with that.
“Our president made the right decision. A lot of people have lost their lives. No more pathos was needed at this ceremony,” she said.
Romanko’s son has been killed by criminals a year ago and the woman believes that the new president can help bring her son’s offenders to justice.
“He is a good organizer, a confident manager, demanding with himself and everyone else. And just a good man,” Romanenko said.
Romanenko says she met Poroshenko in person once and is sure he has the qualities necessary to make a good president.
“He came up to me at (Ukrainian assassinated journalist Georgiy) Gongadze's commemoration rally. I was standing there with banner. He hugged me, and I said it was hard for me to fight the system alone, and he answered ‘You are not alone, I am with you,'” the woman recalled with a proud smile.
Poroshenko welcomes his first grandchild
http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/poroshenko-welcomes-his-first-grandchild-351080.html
Petro Poroshenko has become a grandfather on the day of his inauguration.
Poroshenko said so himself at the reception in Mystetskiy Arsenal art center that followed the inauguration ceremony on June 7, Channel Five's anchor Tetiana Danylenko wrote on her Twitter.
The baby was delivered by Yuliya Poroshenko, the wife of Poroshenko's eldest son Oleksiy, 29.
President Petro Poroshenko
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Petro Poroshenko
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_Poroshenko
Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko (Ukrainian: Петро Олексійович Порошенко; born 26 September 1965) is a Ukrainian billionaire businessman and the current President of Ukraine. Poroshenko served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2009 to 2010, and as the Minister of Trade and Economic Development in 2012. From 2007 until 2012, he headed the Council of Ukraine's National Bank
Poroshenko is married to Maryna since 1984. The couple has four children: Olexiy (born 1985), the twins Yevheniya and Oleksandra (born 2000) and Mykhaylo (born 2001). Olexiy is a representative in the regional parliament of Vinnytsia Oblast.
Maryna Poroshenko is a cardiologist, who does not take part in public life, apart from her participation in the activities of the Petro Poroshenko Charity Foundation. Poroshenko is godfather to the children of former Ukrainian president.
Poroshenko became a grandfather on the day of his presidential inauguration of 7 June 2014.
Among the extreme right in Ukraine, it is taken for granted that Poroshenko is Jewish based on an unproven urban legend that Poroshenko's father was actually named Walzman until he adopted his wife's Yevgenya's last name.
Cultural and political image
In Ukraine, Poroshenko is widely seen as a pragmatic politician who sees Ukraine's future in Europe, but hopes to mend relations with Russia. He is nicknamed 'Chocolate King'; because of his ownership of a large-scale confectionery business.
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Vitali Klitschko adds heavyweight support to Ukraine's chocolate king
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/30/klitschko-heavyweight-ukraines-chocolate-king
Former world boxing champion Vitali Klitschko, considered a strong contender to become Ukraine's next leader, upended the country's presidential race Saturday by announcing he will throw his support instead behind a billionaire chocolate maker.
Klitschko told his UDAR party that he plans to run for mayor of Ukraine's capital city, Kiev, paving the way for current presidential favourite, businessman Petro Poroshenko, in the May 25 vote.
Vitali Klitschko
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Vitali Volodymyrovych Klitschko (/vɨˈtæli ˈklɪtʃkoʊ/; Ukrainian: Віта́лій Володи́мирович Кличко́, [ʋiˈtɑʎiɪ̯ klɪtʃˈkɔ]; born 19 July 1971 in Belovodsk, Kyrgyzstan) is a Ukrainian politician and the current Mayor of Kiev (the capital and biggest city of Ukraine) and former professional boxer. He is the leader of the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform political party and a former Member of the Ukrainian Parliament.He is the former WBC, WBO and The Ring magazine heavyweight champion and has been conferred as Champion Emeritus by the WBC. Klitschko became actively involved in Ukrainian politics in 2005 and combined this with his professional boxing career until his departure from boxing mid-December 2013. Klitschko was the first professional boxing world champion to hold a PhD degree.
Vitali Klitschko is married to Natalia Egorova, a former athlete and model.They met in Kiev and got married on 26 April 1996. He has three children, Yegor-Daniel, Elizabeth-Victoria and Max (named after the former World Heavyweight Champion Max Schmeling)
In 1996, Klitschko graduated from the Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky Pedagogical Institute (Ukraine)and was accepted into the postgraduate study program at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. On 29 February 2000, he presented his doctoral thesis on "talent and sponsorship in sports" at the "Kyiv University of Physical Science and Sports" and his PhD in Sports Science was conferred.
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Interview: Vitali Klitschko
http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-interview-vitali-klitschko/25026636.html