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
Viktor Yanukovych the transitional government went to representatives of the right-wing extremist nationalist group Svoboda, condemned by the EU in 2012 (see Svoboda Party). Unlike his 28 February press conference, Yanukovych did not take questions from reporters. On 28 March 2014, Yanukovych asked the Party of Regions to exclude him. He was excluded on 29 March during a party congress along with several senior figures of his régime. On 13 April, Yanukovych again gave a press conference in Rostov-on-Don, this time accompanied by former Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka and former interior minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko. On 13 June 2014, Yanukovych released a video