Taras Kutovy Explained

Taras Kutovy
Native Name Lang:uk
Office:Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine
Primeminister:Volodymyr Groysman
Term Start:14 April 2016[1]
Term End:22 November 2018
Predecessor:Oleksiy Pavlenko
Successor:Maxim Martynyuk (acting)
Office1:People's Deputy of Ukraine
Constituency1:Poltava Oblast, No. 151
Term Start1:12 December 2012
Term End1:2 December 2014
Predecessor1:Constituency established
Successor1:Ruslan Bogdan
Birth Date:1976 2, df=yes
Birth Place:Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Death Place:Poltava Oblast, Ukraine
Party:Petro Poroshenko Bloc
Otherparty:Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform
Occupation:Economist, statesman
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Taras Viktorovych Kutovy (Ukrainian: Тарас Вікторович Кутовий; 25 February 1976 – 21 October 2019) was a Ukrainian economist and politician who served as Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food from 2016 to 2018. He previously served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 2012 to 2014, representing Ukraine's 151st electoral district in northern Poltava Oblast.

Biography

Kutovy was first elected to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) in 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election, as the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform candidate in Ukraine's 151st electoral district.[2] He was re-elected in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, this time as part of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc.[3]

On 14 April 2016, he was appointed minister of agrarian policy and food of Ukraine in the Groysman government.[4] On 23 May 2017, he announced that he wanted to resign from this position and asked lawmakers to support his decision.[4] [5] On 22 November 2018, the parliament approved his resignation.[6] Kutovy died in a helicopter crash in Ukraine's Poltava Oblast on 21 October 2019 at the age of 43.[7]

Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20170201195257/http://ukranews.com/ua/news/422293-rada-zatverdyla-novyy-kabmin-groysmana Rada approved the new Groysman Government (full list, photo) (Рада затвердила новий Кабмін Гройсмана (повний список, фото))
  2. http://itd.rada.gov.ua/mps/info/expage/15805/8 Taras Kutovy
  3. http://itd.rada.gov.ua/mps/info/page/15805 Taras Kutovy
  4. Web site: Agrarian Policy Minister of Ukraine Kutoviy resigns. Interfax-Ukraine. en. 2019-10-21.
  5. Web site: Ukraine's agriculture minister resigns, waits for parliament's green light. www.unian.info. en. 2019-10-21.
  6. Assign new to. at. Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food, Ukrayinska Pravda (7 December 2018)
  7. Web site: В авіакатастрофі під Полтавою загинув екс-міністр Тарас Кутовий. www.unian.ua. uk. 2019-10-21.