Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Republic of Crimea | |
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Nominator | Head of the Republic of Crimea |
Appointer | State Council of Crimea |
Term length | 5 years |
Inaugural holder | Vitaliy Kurashyk |
Formation | March 22, 1991 (as Prime Minister of Autonomous Republic of Crimea (in Ukraine)) March 18, 2014 (as Prime Minister of Republic of Crimea (in Russia)) |
Deputy | Deputy Prime Minister of Crimea |
This article is part of a series on the politics and government of |
Crimea |
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Autonomous Republic of Crimea (within Ukraine, 1991–present) |
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Republic of Crimea (territory occupied by Russia 2014–present) |
See also |
Political status of Crimea Politics of Russia • Politics of Ukraine |
The Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Crimea [1] is the head of government of the Republic of Crimea (previously the Autonomous Republic of Crimea located in the southern region of Ukraine).
Until 2014, the Prime Minister, whose nomination was proposed by the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea (Crimean parliament) with the approval of the President of Ukraine and then the Crimean parliament, presided over the Council of Ministers of Crimea. [2] [3]
Following the Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in 2014, the Prime Minister has been appointed by the Head of the Republic of Crimea, once a candidate for Prime Minister has been approved by the State Council of Crimea (Crimean parliament). The Head of the Republic of Crimea could lead the Council of Ministers of Crimea, but he must also be approved by the State Council. [4]
Independent
Republican Party of Crimea
Agrarian Party of Ukraine
People's Party of Crimea
People's Democratic Party
Ukrainian Platform "Sobor"
Our Ukraine
Party of Regions
Labour Ukraine
# | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Political Party | Legislature (Election) | Presidential representative | |||
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1 | Vitaliy Kurashyk (born in 1939) | 22 March 1991 | 20 May 1993 | Independent | I (1991) | Vacant (1992–1994) | |||
2 | Borys Samsonov (1938–2014) | 20 May 1993 | 4 February 1994 | Independent | |||||
3 | Yuriy Meshkov (1945–2019) | 4 February 1994 | 6 October 1994 [lower-alpha 1] | Republican Party of Crimea (Electoral Bloc "Rossiya") | II (1994) | Valeriy Horbatov (1994–1996) | |||
4 | Anatoliy Franchuk (1935–2021) | 6 October 1994 | 22 March 1995 | People's Party of Crimea (Electoral Bloc "Rossiya") | |||||
5 | Anatoliy Drobotov (born in 1951) | 22 March 1995 | 31 March 1995 [lower-alpha 2] | Republican Party of Crimea (Electoral Bloc "Rossiya") | |||||
6 | Anatoliy Franchuk (1935–2021) | 31 March 1995 | 26 January 1996 | People's Party of Crimea (Electoral Bloc "Rossiya") | |||||
7 | Arkadiy Demydenko (1950–2005) | 26 January 1996 | 4 June 1997 | Independent | Dmytro Stepanyuk (1996–1997) | ||||
Vasyl Kiselyov (1997–1999) | |||||||||
8 | Anatoliy Franchuk (1935–2021) | 4 June 1997 | 27 May 1998 | People's Party of Crimea (Electoral Bloc "Rossiya") | Vasyl Kiselyov (1997–1999) | ||||
9 | Serhiy Kunitsyn (born in 1960) | 27 May 1998 | 25 July 2001 | People's Democratic Party (Electoral Bloc of Kunitsyn) | II (1998) | Vasyl Kiselyov (1997–1999) | |||
Anatoliy Korniychuk (1999–2002) | |||||||||
10 | Valeriy Horbatov (born in 1955) | 25 July 2001 | 29 April 2002 | Independent | Anatoliy Korniychuk (1999–2002) | ||||
11 | Serhiy Kunitsyn (born in 1960) | 29 April 2002 | 20 April 2005 | People's Democratic Party (Electoral Bloc of Kunitsyn) | III (2002) | Oleksandr Didenko (2002–2005) | |||
12 | Anatoliy Matviienko [5] (1953-2020) | 20 April 2005 | 21 September 2005 | Ukrainian Platform "Sobor" [5] | |||||
13 | Anatoliy Burdiuhov (born in 1958) | 23 September 2005 | 2 June 2006 | Our Ukraine | Volodymyr Kulish (2005–2006) | ||||
14 | Viktor Plakida [6] (born in 1956) | 2 June 2006 | 17 March 2010 [7] [8] [9] | Party of Regions [10] | IV (2006) | Hennadiy Moskal (2006–2007) | |||
Vacant (2007) | |||||||||
Viktor Shemchuk (2007) | |||||||||
Volodymyr Khomenko (2007) | |||||||||
Vacant (2008) | |||||||||
Leonid Zhunko (2008–2010) | |||||||||
15 | Vasyl Dzharty (1958–2011) | 17 March 2010 [11] | 17 August 2011 [12] | Party of Regions | V (2010) | Serhiy Kunitsyn (2010) | |||
Vacant (2010) | |||||||||
Volodymyr Yatsuba (2011) | |||||||||
Viktor Plakida (acting in 2011) | |||||||||
- | Pavlo Burlakov (born in 1963) | 17 August 2011 | 8 November 2011 | Party of Regions | Viktor Plakida (acting in 2011) | ||||
16 | Anatolii Mohyliov [2] (born in 1955) | 8 November 2011 [13] [14] | 27 February 2014 | Party of Regions | Viktor Plakida (acting in 2011–2012) | ||||
Viktor Plakida (2012–2014) |
# | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Political Party | ||
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- | Sergey Aksyonov [lower-alpha 3] (born in 1972) | 27 February 2014 [15] | 17 March 2014 | Russian Unity |
# | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Political Party | Legislature (Election) | Head of Republic | |||
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1 (17) | Sergey Aksyonov (born in 1972) | 17 March 2014 | 9 September 2014 | United Russia | Vacant | Sergey Aksyonov (since 2014) | |||
9 September 2014 [16] | 20 September 2019 | I (2014) | |||||||
2 (18) | Yury Gotsanyuk (born in 1966) | 20 September 2019 | 1 October 2019 | United Russia | II (2019) | ||||
1 October 2019 [17] | Incumbent |
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