Viktor Viktorovych Yanukovych Ukraine" and "the most massive SMS poll in Ukraine." In 2011, Parliament adopted at first reading a bill on an experiment in information technology, co-authored by Viktor Yanukovych. According to this bill, domestic IT companies will be granted a "tax holiday" for 5 years. Viktor Yanukovych supported the policy of state patronage of the Ukrainian film industry. This policy provides for the protection and promotion of national films on both domestic and international markets through tax incentives, financial and legal support. As a result, an amendment to the Tax Code of Ukraine which came into effect from 1 January 2011.
Oleksandr Turchynov political figure from Dnipropetrovsk. They used to have a common business in Dnipropetrovsk. In December 1993, Turchynov co-founded and became Vice President of Ukrainian Union of Industrialist and Entrepreneurs. In 1994 he created the political party Hromada together with Pavlo Lazarenko, a business ally of Tymoshenko. Turchynov was also director of the Economic Reforms Institute from January 1994 to March 1998 and was head of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences' Laboratory of Shadow Economy Research. In 1998, he was elected to parliament as a member of Hromada but after the scandal around Lazarenko, he left the faction and party