Viktor Yanukovych "individual study programs" such as Yanukovych's were commonly viewed as a diploma mill for state officials. Yanukovych was married to Lyudmyla Oleksandrivna. The couple married in 1971. In February 2017, Yanukovych admitted that after 45 years of marriage he had divorced Lyudmyla. With his former wife, Yanukovych had two sons, Oleksandr and Viktor, and three grandsons Viktor, Oleksandr and Iliya. From 2006 to 2014, the younger Viktor was a member of the Parliament of Ukraine; he drowned in 2015. In February 2017, Yanukovych stated he was living in an "unofficial marriage" with then 39 year old Lybov Polezhay. Polezhay is
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