Oleksandr Yanukovych Oleksandr Yanukovych Oleksandr Viktorovych Yanukovych (; born July 10, 1973 in Donetsk) is a Ukrainian dentist, businessman and son of the former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych. He has notably become one of the richest men in the country during his father's time in office, leading a group known as "the family" and a conglomerate called Management Assets Company. Since the ouster as President of his father he lives in Russia. He is married and has two sons Viktor born 2000 and Oleksandr born 2009. Yanukovych graduated from the Donetsk National University as a dentist but since 2006 he leads
History of Ukraine the Ukrainian parliament on 22 February voted to remove Yanukovych from power (on the grounds that his whereabouts were unknown and he thus could not fulfil his duties), and to free Yulia Tymoshenko from prison. The same day Yanukovych supporter Volodymyr Rybak resigned as speaker of the Parliament, and was replaced by Tymoshenko loyalist Oleksandr Turchynov, who was subsequently installed as interim President. Yanukovych had fled Kiev, and subsequently gave a press conference in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. In March 2014, the Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation resulted in Crimea being annexed by Russia. Though official results