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Career
In 1986 Tabachnyk graduated from the faculty of History of Kyiv University.Initially he worked in the State Archives as a curator of materials about the Kyiv chapter of the Komsomol.
In 1990 he became a delegate to the Kyiv City Council. From 1991–92 he was a consultant in the Secretariat of the Verkhovna Rada. From 1993 he was in charge of Information and Press for the Cabinet of Ministers.
In 1994 he became the head of the Committee to elect Leonid Kuchma as president of Ukraine where he was accused of falsification of sociological data.Tabachnyk was a Member of Parliament from March 1998 through March 2003 for Labour Ukraine.In November 2002 through February 2005, he served as vice premier in the First Yanukovych Government. April 2006 through December 2007, Tabachnyk was a vice premier in the Second Yanukovych Government. He became a Party of Regions MP again following the 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election.In 1996 he was accused of influencing peddling the Supreme Court regarding the death penalty given to a terrorist action perpetrated by a Russian national in Simferopol.He was forced to resign from Parliament because he illegally procured for himself the military title of colonel.From 1997–8 he was an advisor to President Kuchma.
In 2002–2005 he became vice-premier minister of Ukraine under Victor Yanukovych. During this period he was involved with the scandal of donating letters by Ukrainian historian Mykhailo Hrushevsky to the Ukrainian archive in Kyiv which had previously been stolen from the Lviv archives.In March 2006, he was elected to the Supreme Council of Crimea as a deputy of the For Yanukovych! Bloc.
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