Volodymyr Makeyenko as number 19 on the Party of Regions national election list. On 25 January 2014 Makeyenko was appointed head of the Kiev City State Administration by President Viktor Yanukovych. The same day Oleksandr Popov was fired as Head of Kiev City Administration. Acting President Oleksandr Turchynov dismissed Makeyenko from the post of the head of Kyiv City State Administration on 7 March 2014. In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Makeyenko was placed 31st on the electoral list of Strong Ukraine. In the election Strong Ukraine failed to clear the 5% election threshold (it got 3.11% of the votes) thus he
2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots Automaidan activists by 3 a.m. blocked all roads exiting Yanukovych's Mezhyhyria mansion. In the early morning, protesters in central Kiev continued supplying molotov cocktails and advanced on police cordons while fortifying barricades to their rear as police continuously used water cannons, fired rubber bullets, and jammed cell phone signals. By the evening, Vitali Klitschko had arranged a night-time meeting with President Viktor Yanukovych at his presidential mansion "Mezhyhirya" in an attempt to argue for snap elections in order to defuse the situation from escalating into further violence. The meeting ended with Yanukovych promising to resolve the crisis with a 'special