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
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