Mykola Prysyazhnyuk | |
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Микола Присяжнюк | |
Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine | |
In office 11 March 2010 – 27 February 2014 | |
Prime Minister | Mykola Azarov |
Preceded by | Yuriy Melnyk |
Succeeded by | Ihor Shvaika |
Personal details | |
Born | Ksaveriv (Zhytomyr Oblast) | January 13, 1960
Political party | Party of Regions |
Mykola Prysyazhnyuk (Ukrainian: Микола Володимирович Присяжнюк; born 3 January 1960[1]) is the former Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine.[1][2]
Prysyazhnyuk graduated from Voronezh University and the Donbas Mining-Metallurgical Institute.[1] He has worked as a diamond cutter before becoming a chief process engineer at Ordzhonikidzevugillya coal mine.[1] In the years 2002-2005 he was the first deputy chairman of Zhytomyr Regional State Administration and in the years 2005-2007 head of the National Association of Meat and Meat Products Producers before becoming a member of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) for the Party of Regions[3][4][5] in the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary elections, keeping his seat in the 2007 elections.[1] He did not participate in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election and 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[6]