Oleksandr Peklushenko former Ukrainian President (until the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution) Viktor Yanukovych also died in mysterious circumstances in the 6 weeks before his death. In 2003 he received Honorary Diploma of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. Oleksandr Peklushenko Oleksandr Peklushenko (; August 29, 1954, Zaporizhia – March 12, 2015, Soniachne, Zaporizhia Raion) was a Ukrainian politician and public figure, member of the Verkhovna Rada of IV, V, VI convocation, chairman of Zaporizhia Regional State Administration in 2011–2014 and member of the Political Council of the Party of Regions. On March 12, 2015 he was found dead in his house in the
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