Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk (Ukrainian: born May 22, 1974) is a Ukrainian politician, economist and lawyer. He is a former Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) and a former Foreign Minister of Ukraine. Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk was born on May 22, 1974 in Chernivtsi, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (modern-day Ukraine). After he began studying at the Chernivtsi University in 1992, Yatsenyuk set up a student law firm. He graduated from the university in 1996, and later attended the Chernivtsi Trade-Economics Institute of the Kiev National Trade-Economics Institute in 2001. From December 1992 to September 1997 he was the president of "Yurek Ltd." law firm, based in Chernivtsi. From January 1998 until September 2001, Yatsenyuk worked in the postal and pension "Aval" bank, based in Kiev. From September until November 2001, Arseniy served as an "acting" Minister of Economy of Crimea, and from November of the same year until January 2003, served as the official Minister of Economy of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. From November 2003 to February 2005, Yatsenyuk served as the first vice-president of the head of the National Bank of Ukraine under Serhiy Tyhypko. After Tyhypko left the National Bank, Arseniy Yatsenyuk was put in charge of the National Bank. After Vasyl Tsushko was appointed as the new Governor of Odessa Oblast, Tsushko asked Yatsenyuk to serve as his vice-governor, which he served from March 9 to September 2005. From September 27, 2005 to August 4, 2006, he served as the Minister of Economy of Ukraine in the Yuriy Yekhanurov-led government. Arseniy Yatsenyuk then headed talks about Ukrainian membership in the World Trade Organization. Yatsenyuk also heads the Ukraine-European Union commission. Yatsenyuk meeting wit... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=10315349