Oleksandr ponomaryov biography of barack obama
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Obama offers military aid to Eastern European allies
Reporting from WARSAW — As fresh fighting erupted in eastern Ukraine, President Obama sought Tuesday to reassure allies in Eastern Europe with a new offer of military aid to bolster security and counter what he called “provocative actions” by Russia.
Obama promised to ask Congress for money to beef up the U.S. air, land and sea presence, and to increase military exercises and training in the region. The president said he wants U.S. naval forces to increase deployments to the Black and Baltic seas and to deepen NATO partnerships with countries in the region, including Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
Obama, who arrived in Poland for the first stop of a four-day trip to Europe, aimed to allay anxiety that has grown among Russia’s neighbors since Moscow this year seized the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine.
European security is the “cornerstone of our own security and it is sacrosanct.... It is a commitment that is particularly important at this point in time,” Obama said, standing in front of four U.S. F-16 fighter jets.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian authorities claimed significant progress in their off-and-on fight against pro-Russia separatists in the east of the country, but the militants said the claims were exaggerated.
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The Obama direction, in coordination with representation European Combining, has imposed sanctions hold on a figure of Slavic and State entities—including action companies, Putin’s closest associates, banks, standing energy conglomerates—since Russia annexed Crimea seep in March 2014.
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Viktor Yanukovych
President of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014
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Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych[b] (born 9 July 1950) is a former Ukrainian politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014.[4] He also served as the prime minister of Ukraine several times between 2002 and 2007 and was a member of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) from 2006 to 2010. Yanukovych was removed from the presidency in the 2014 Revolution of Dignity, which followed months of protests against him. Since then, he has lived in exile in Russia.[5]
Yanukovych was a member of the pro-Russian Party of Regions. Before entering national politics, Yanukovych was the Governor of his native Donetsk Oblast from 1997 to 2002. He was simultaneously the Chairman of the oblast's legislature from 1999 to 2001.
He first ran for president in the 2004 election, where he was declared the winner against Viktor Yushchenko. However, allegations of electoral fraud and voter intimidation caused widespread protests, in what became known as the Orange Revolution. The Ukrainian Supreme Court nullified the election and ordered a rerun, which Yanukovych lost to Yushchenko. Yanukovych ran for president again in