Taras Kutovy

Taras Kutovy
Тарас Кутовий
Kutovy in 2015
Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine
In office
14 April 2016[1] – 22 November 2018
Prime MinisterVolodymyr Groysman
Preceded byOleksiy Pavlenko
Succeeded byMaxim Martynyuk (acting)[2]
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office
12 December 2012 – 2 December 2014
Preceded byConstituency established
Succeeded byRuslan Bogdan
ConstituencyPoltava Oblast, No. 151
Personal details
Born(1976-02-25)25 February 1976
Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Died21 October 2019(2019-10-21) (aged 43)
Poltava Oblast, Ukraine
Political partyPetro Poroshenko Bloc
Other political
affiliations
Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform
Alma mater
OccupationEconomist, statesman

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

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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.[3] He was re-elected in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, this time as part of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc.[4]

On 14 April 2016, he was appointed minister of agrarian policy and food of Ukraine in the Groysman government.[5] On 23 May 2017, he announced that he wanted to resign from this position and asked lawmakers to support his decision.[5][6] On 22 November 2018, the parliament approved his resignation.[2] Kutovy died in a helicopter crash in Ukraine's Poltava Oblast on 21 October 2019 at the age of 43.[7]

References

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  1. ^ Rada approved the new Groysman Government (full list, photo) (Рада затвердила новий Кабмін Гройсмана (повний список, фото)). Ukrainian News. 14 April 2016
  2. ^ a b (in Ukrainian) Assign new to. at. Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food, Ukrayinska Pravda (7 December 2018)
  3. ^ Taras Kutovy at Verkhovna Rada website
  4. ^ Taras Kutovy at Verkhovna Rada website
  5. ^ a b "Agrarian Policy Minister of Ukraine Kutoviy resigns". Interfax-Ukraine. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  6. ^ "Ukraine's agriculture minister resigns, waits for parliament's green light". www.unian.info. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  7. ^ "В авіакатастрофі під Полтавою загинув екс-міністр Тарас Кутовий". www.unian.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 21 October 2019.
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Political offices
Preceded by Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food
2016-2018
Succeeded by