Office of the President of Ukraine explained

Agency Name:Presidential Office
Nativename:Офіс президента України
Formed:25 February 2010
Jurisdiction:Government of Ukraine
Headquarters:Kyiv, Ukraine,
Bankova, 11[1]
Employees:400
Budget:₴1.03 billion
Chief1 Name:Andriy Yermak[2]
Chief1 Position:
Head of President's Office
Parent Agency:State Management of Affairs

The Office of the President of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Офіс Президента України|Ofis Prezydenta Ukrainy), formerly the Administration of the President of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Адміністрація Президента, Administratsiia Prezydenta), is a standing advisory body set up by the President of Ukraine pursuant to clause 28, Article 106 of the Constitution of Ukraine. The Office consists of the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Deputies of the Head, Chief of Staff, First Assistant to the President, Advisors, Authorized Advisors, Press Secretary, Representatives of the President, Cabinet of the President, Cabinet of the Head of the Office, Services, Directorates, and Departments.

Overview

After Ukraine declared independence in 1991, President Leonid Kravchuk established the Administration of the President on 13 December as an advisory body to the President (the Ukrainian SSR formally ceased to exist on 26 December 1991[3]). The Administration is headquartered on 11 Bankova in Kyiv.

President Leonid Kuchma kept the name Administration for the period of his two terms in office.

Under President Yushchenko, the administration was reorganized into the Secretariat on 24 January 2005 in accordance with Clause 28 of Article 106 of the Constitution of Ukraine.[4] [5]

President Viktor Yanukovych restored the name Administration of the President of Ukraine on 25 February 2010.[6] On 20 June 2019 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree that transformed the Presidential Administration of Ukraine into the Office of the President of Ukraine.[7]

The Office consists of the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Deputies of the Head, Chief of Staff, First Assistant to the President, Advisors, Authorized Advisors, Press Secretary, Representatives of the President, Cabinet of the President, Cabinet of the Head of the Office, Services, Directorates, and Departments.[8]

Heads of the Administration / Secretariat / Office

List of Chiefs-of-Staff

Secretary of the Presidential Administration
PictureChiefYearsPresident of Ukraine
1Mykola Khomenko13 December 1991 – 15 July 1994Leonid Kravchuk
Chief-of-Staff of the Presidential Administration
PictureChiefYearsPresident of Ukraine
1Dmytro Tabachnyk21 July 1994 – 10 December 1996Leonid Kuchma
2Yevhen Kushnariov20 December 1996 – 23 November 1998
3Mykola Biloblotsky25 November 1998 – 22 November 1999
4Volodymyr Lytvyn22 November 1999 – May 2002
5Viktor Medvedchuk12 June 2002 – 21 January 2005
State Secretary
PictureChiefYearsPresident of Ukraine
6Oleksandr Zinchenko24 January 2005 – 6 September 2005 Viktor Yushchenko
Ivan Vasiunyk (acting)6 September 2005 – 7 September 2005
7Oleh Rybachuk7 September 2005 – 22 September 2005
Chief-of-Staff of the Secretariat of the President
PictureChiefYearsPresident of Ukraine
7Oleh Rybachuk22 September 2005 – 15 September 2006 Viktor Yushchenko
8Viktor Baloha15 September 2006 – 19 May 2009
9Vira Ulyanchenko19 May 2009 – 24 February 2010
Chief-of-Staff of the Presidential Administration
PictureChiefYearsPresident of Ukraine
10Serhiy Lyovochkin25 February 2010 – 17 January 2014 Viktor Yanukovych
11Andriy Klyuyev24 January 2014[9] – 23 February 2014[10] [11]
(acting)[12] 26 February 2014 – 5 March 2014 Oleksandr Turchynov (acting)
Serhiy Pashynskyi (acting)5 March 2014 – 10 June 2014
12Boris Lozhkin10 June 2014[13] – 29 August 2016Petro Poroshenko
13Ihor Rainin29 August 2016[14] – 21 May 2019[15]
Head of President's Office
PictureChiefYearsPresident of Ukraine
14Andriy Bohdan21 May 2019 – 11 February 2020 Volodymyr Zelenskyy
15Andriy Yermak11 February 2020 – incumbent

Structure

External links

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Official website. Address (bottom of the page) . Mar 2017.
  2. https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/640533.html Zelensky dismisses head of president's office Bohdan, appoints Yermak instead
  3. https://books.google.com/books?id=x6dFsBVzslkC&dq=The+Soviet+Union+formally+ceased+to+exist+on+December+26,+1991&pg=PA30 Legal Aspects of the Regional Integration Processes in the Post-Soviet Area
  4. Web site: Secretariat of the President of Ukraine . 13 December 2008 . Presidential Administration of Ukraine . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081017182610/http://www.president.gov.ua/en/content/secretariat.html . 17 October 2008 .
  5. ,108/2005. Presidential decree. 108/2005. On the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine. 25 January 2005.
  6. http://www.president.gov.ua/documents/10545.html УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАЇНИ № 265/2010
  7. Zelensky issued several staff decrees in connection with the replacement of the AP on the presidential office, Radio Svoboda (25 June 2019)
    Web site: Zelensky to move Presidential Administration, rename it, shrink staff. Kyiv Post. 20 June 2019. 21 June 2019.
  8. Web site: Structure of the Presidential Administration. Mar 2017.
  9. http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/187249.html Kliuyev appointed presidential chief of staff
  10. http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/192699.html Kliuyev resigns, wounded, no threat to his life - spokesman
  11. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26333587 Ukraine crisis: Turchynov warns of 'separatism' risk
  12. http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/192877.html Rafalsky appointed acting head of presidential administration
  13. http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/208630.html Borys Lozhkin appointed head of Ukraine's presidential administration
  14. http://www.unian.info/politics/1491994-poroshenko-announces-lozhkins-resignation-appoints-rainin-new-head-of-presidential-administration.html Poroshenko announces Lozhkin's resignation, appoints Rainin new head of presidential administration
  15. Web site: Зеленський призначив п'ятьох заступників глави Адміністрації президента (список). glavcom.ua. 21 May 2019 .