Dmytro Tabachnyk

Dmytro Tabachnyk
Дмитро Табачник
Дмитрий Табачник
Tabachnyk in 2008
Minister of Education
In office
11 March 2010  23 February 2014
Prime MinisterMykola Azarov
Preceded byIvan Vakarchuk
Succeeded bySerhiy Kvit
Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine
on humanitarian policy
In office
4 August 2006  18 December 2007
Prime MinisterViktor Yanukovych
Preceded byVyacheslav Kyrylenko
Succeeded byIvan Vasyunyk
Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine
on humanitarian policy
In office
2 September 2003  3 February 2005
Prime MinisterViktor Yanukovych
Preceded byVolodymyr Semynozhenko
Succeeded byMykola Tomenko
Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine
In office
July 1994  20 December 1996
PresidentLeonid Kuchma
Preceded byMykola Khomenko
Succeeded byYevhen Kushnaryov
Personal details
Born (1963-11-26) November 26, 1963
Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Kyiv, Ukraine)
NationalityUkrainian (until 2023)
Russian
Political partyUnited Russia
Other political
affiliations
Party of Regions
SpouseTatiana Nazarova (1960)

Dmytro Volodymyrovych Tabachnyk (Ukrainian: Дмитро Володимирович Табачник, Russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Табачник; born November 26, 1963) is a Russian and former Ukrainian politician who served as the minister of education and science of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014. Tabachnyk is among former Ukrainian officials who have had their assets frozen by EU and is wanted in Ukraine for embezzlement and abuse of office. As a fugitive, he was believed to be in Israel and Crimea.

Amidst the Russian invasion of Ukraine Tabachnyk reappeared in public as a collaborator with Russia in Russian occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast.