Petro Poroshenko: connections. Family, friends, business-partners

PETRO POROSHENKO was born on 26 September 1965.
President of Ukraine. Ukrainian oligarch. Owner of ROSHEN confectionary.
Minister of Foreign Affairs (2008-2011) in .
Minister of Trade and Economic Development (2012) in Mykola Azarov government (president - Viktor Yanukovych).



CONNECTIONS

Relatives

Wife: Maryna Poroshenko, born in Lypetsk, Russia.
Oldest son: Oleksiy Poroshenko, member of Parliament of Ukraine  (faction of Petro Poroshenko Block - BPP). Married with ...
Son:
Daughters:
Father: Oleksiy Poroshenko, businessmen. Ex-member of Vinnytsya Regional Council.



Kums (godfathers and godmothers of children who become close like relatives, which is traditional for Ukraine)

Yurii LUTSENKO, Prosecutor General of Ukraine. Married with Iryna LUTSENKO, member of Parliament of Ukraine (faction of Petro Poroshenko Block - BPP).

Yurii STETS, Minister of Information politics of Ukraine. Ex-general producer of '5' TV-channel owned by the president.

Viktor YUSHCHENKO, ex-president of Ukraine.

Oksana BILOZIR, singer, member of Parliament of Ukraine (faction of Petro Poroshenko Block - BPP).



Friends & business partners

Ihor KONONENKOmember of Parliament of Ukraine (faction of Petro Poroshenko Block - BPP), first deputy head of presidential faction. Old friend of Poroshenko - they served in Soviet army together. Old business partner of Poroshenko as well.

Oleh GLADKOVSKY (SVYNARCHUK), first deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defence council of Ukraine.
Went to the same class in primary school with Ihor KONONENKO.
Old business partner of Poroshenko. Before the high government appointment in 2015 was serving as a head of BOGDAN automotive corporation, controlled by the president.
Changed surname from Svynarchuk (in Ukrainian 'svynya' means 'pig') to Gladkovsky.

Poroshenko, Kononenko and Svynarchuk-Gladkovsky are so close that even bought the neigboring villas in Spain (to be continued).

Yurii KOSYUK, businesmen.

Valeria HONTAREVA.

Borys LOZHKIN. Old business partner of Poroshenko.

Micheil SAAKASHVILI - Poroshenko's fellow student (Kyiv Foreign Affairs institute).
Ex-president of Georgia (...).
Was granted the Ukrainian citizenshyp by president Poroshenko and appointed as the Governor of Odesa Region (...). Then after leading an anti-president people movement was (against the Constitution of Ukraine) denaturalized and deported from Ukraine to Poland.

TO BE CONTINUED.




Ihor KONONENKO

Member of Parliament of Ukraine (faction of Petro Poroshenko Block - BPP), first deputy head of presidential faction. 

Old friend of the president of Ukraine Petro POROSHENKO - they served in Soviet army together. Old business partner of Poroshenko as well.