page_title: Petro Poroshenko
section_title: Decommunization and deoligarchization
hierarchical_section_title: Petro Poroshenko / Presidency / Domestic policy / Decommunization and deoligarchization
caption_attribution_description: Українська: Президент України Петро Порошенко під час виступу у Полтаві з нагоди відкриття памятника Івану Мазепі 7 травня 2016 року. Русский: Президент Украины Петр Порошенко во время выступления в Полтаве по случаю открытия памятника Ивану Мазепе 7 мая 2016 года. English: President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko during a speech in Poltava on the occasion of the unveiling of the monument to Ivan Mazepa on May 7, 2016.
context_page_description: Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko is a Ukrainian businessman and politician who served as the 5th President of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019.
  He served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2009 to 2010, and as the Minister of Trade and Economic Development in 2012. From 2007 until 2012, Poroshenko headed the Council of Ukraine's National Bank.
  Outside government, Poroshenko has been a prominent Ukrainian oligarch with a lucrative career in acquiring and building assets. His most recognized brands are Roshen, the large-scale confectionery company which has earned him the nickname of "Chocolate King", and the TV news channel 5 kanal. Due to the scale of his business holdings in the manufacturing, agriculture and financial sectors, his political influence that included several stints at government prior to his presidency, and ownership of an influential mass-media outlet, Poroshenko has long been considered one of the prominent Ukrainian oligarchs even though not the most influential among them.
  He was elected president on 25 May 2014, capturing 54.7% of the vote in the first round, thereby winning outright and avoiding a run-off.
context_section_description: On 15 May 2015, Poroshenko signed a bill into law that started a six months period for the removal of communist monuments and the mandatory renaming of streets and other public places and settlements with a name related to Communism. According to Poroshenko "I did what I had to"; adding
  "Ukraine as a state has done its job, then historians should work, while the government should take care of the future". Poroshenko believes that the communist repression and holodomor of the Soviet Union are on par with the Nazi crimes of the 1940s. The legislation (Poroshenko signed on 15 May 2015) also provides "public recognition to anyone who fought for Ukrainian independence in the 20th century", including the controversial Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) combatants led by Roman Shukhevych and Stepan Bandera.
  Poroshenko said in an interview with Germany's Bild newspaper that "If I am elected, I'll wipe the slate clean and will sell the Roshen concern. As president of Ukraine, I will and want to only focus on the well-being of the nation."
  On 23 March 2015, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko accepted the resignation of billionaire Ihor Kolomoisky as governor of Dnipro region over the control of oil companies. "There will be no more oligarchs in Ukraine," Poroshenko said adding that "oligarchs must pay more [taxes] than the middle class and more than small business." The president underscored that "the program of de-oligarchization will be put into life". Poroshenko promised that he will fight against the Ukrainian oligarchs.
  In December 2018, President Poroshenko confirmed the status of veterans and combatants for independence of Ukraine for the armed units of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).
caption: Poroshenko in Poltava (2016)
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