Interviews & Articles
2009
11/12/2009, Supper with the FT: Victor Pinchuk
Victor Pinchuk had to have lunch with the prime minister of Ukraine, so we end up eating supper together instead. At least getting a reservation isn’t a problem: Pinchuk has booked an entire hotel restaurant. That’s the sort of thing you can do if you’re one of the richest men in Ukraine (with a net worth of $2.6bn according to Forbes), own a home in London that cost a reported £80m, and avidly collect contemporary art
Source: Financial Times
2008
Steel billionaire Victor Pinchuk said he was one of the buyers of Damien Hirst's works at a Sotheby's auction in London earlier this month. Read the source
Source: Bloomberg
12/09/2008, New Europe is being created in Yalta
Every year the Ukrainian resort town meets the outstanding personalities from all over the world to discuss the global future of the planet in general and European future in particular.
19/03/2008, Victor Pinchuk: interview
Ukrainian collector, businessman, former politician and philanthropist Victor Pinchuk is one of the most significant collectors of the former USSR, and certainly the most important in Ukraine.
Source: Flash Art
2007
10/10/2007, Viktor Pinchuk. The art of retirement
Having mixed business and politics, the Ukrainian oligarch has refound his innocence again by turning into a philanthropist and amateur supporter of contemporary art.
Source: Le Monde
24/08/2007, St Paul in retirement
Now at least this oligarch from the Ukraine wants to spend his money wisely. He sponsors culture, drives the EU entry campaign - and earns respect for himself.
Source: FT Deutschland
25/07/2007, Ukraine’s Philanthropist-and-Promoter-in-Chief
An Interview with Victor Pinchuk, Founder, Interpipe Corporation and Founder and Chairman, Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Kiev, Ukraine
Source: Leaders
Then, there was this concert on Maidan with more than 200 thousands of listeners and everyone was really happy. The people came together irrespective of their political slants.
Source: Ukrayinska pravda
I protect myself by protecting the country. I do it through implementation of democratic reforms. I always state the importance of EU membership which is the only effective way to implement these reforms.
Source: Ukrayinska pravda
The Dniepropetrivsk billionaire has managed to double his capital for the last year. Accordingly, compared to the last year ranking made by Korrespondent, Pinchuk outrode his closest pursuer, Igor Kolomoiskiy, (No. 3) by more than $ 2 bln
Source: Korrespondent
02/04/2007, Volunteering wealthmen
Bill Gates and Warren Buffet — the USA, Ingvar Kamprad — Sweden, Lakshmi Mittal — India, Konosuke Matsushita — Japan, Silvio Berlusconi — Italy, Roman Abramovich — Russia... Each country aspiring to become a trendsetter in the world economy has its own face. Who is worthy of representing Ukraine abroad?
Source: Kontrakty
Accompanied by Viktor Pinchuk, the second-richest man in Ukraine, Mr Kwasniewski followed a route from Lviv, in the west, to Donetsk, in the east, which exposed the fault lines running through this country of 50 million people. While the West spies a chance to rejoin its European kin, the pro-Russian East holds firmly to family ties with Moscow.
Source: The Times
28/03/2007, Optimism of Davos and Kiev Sadness
“In 1996”, says Yevhen Marchuk, former Prime Minister of Ukraine, “I chaired the first Ukrainian panel in Davos. It was called ‘Where Ukraine Heading?’, just as the one held eleven years on, in 2007. I propose a toast that we may live to see the day when it finally becomes clear where exactly our country has arrived!”
Source: Expert Ukraine
27/02/2007, Ukraine's Interpipe signs contract with Italian co to build modern electric steel making facility
Leading steel company INTERPIPE, signed a major new contract
yesterday with Italian company Danieli to build a state of the art electric
steel making facility.
Source: Business Wire
27/02/2007, Ukraine to launch costly upgrade of steel plants
Ukraine's steel barons are pushing ahead with costly upgrades aimed at
reducing their dependence on increasingly expensive natural gas imports
from Russia and central Asia.
Source: Financial Times
12/02/2007, Interview: Citizen multi-millionaire
V.Pinchuk is one of the wealthiest people in Ukraine, a son-in-law of the former president Kuchma, businessman and a PM. He doesn’t give interviews for Ukrainian and Russian media. Victor prefers to communicate with the foreign media, making an image of the public figure of European level.
Source: Korrespondent
18/01/2007, The Observer's "Persons of the Year" 2006
Ukrainians should be rightly understood as a generous lot. Walk around Kyiv, for example, and watch the people taking care of stray animals outside their flats, or dropping their pocket change into the cups of street singers and the old, whose pensions sit firmly on the poverty line. However, organized charities are often seen as foreign entities, and the best-known do come from abroad. But that perception is changing, and charitable foundations created by members of Ukraine's industrial elite are gaining the limelight.
Source: The Observer
11/01/2007, Viktor Pinchuk: a man of the year
A prominent industrialist and media magnate Victor Pinchuk has been damaged by the last change of the country’s president more than the other oligarchs.
Source: Korrespondent
01/01/2007, VICTOR PINCHUK: a film, a mission, and a vision
The setting was a historic Kiev theater. More than 2,000 people-including Ukraine's president and prime minister-gathered together on a chilly, moonlit October night.
Source: Lifestyles Magazine
2006
In the interview to Delo paper Viktor Pinchuk talked on the Ukrainian lunch in Davos. President Klinton and Kwasniewski as well as WTO Director Genral Pascal Lami are invited...
Source: Delo
The advance of our country toward the European Union has no alternative. Still to oppose the EU integration of Ukraine and strengthening of our ties with Russia is either slyness, or just stupidity.
Source: CORRESPONDENT
17/07/2006, Interview: Ms. Tymoshenko is one of the the most potent and effective domestic politicians
Here are the answers of Pinchuk to the questions from a dozen of journalists from various publications.
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11/07/2006, Ukraine: Firmly planted in East and West
Orange or blue? West or east? EU or CIS? Ukraine seems to be confined to making “either-or” choices and thus condemned to cutting the Gordian knot. But must it be resolved like this? For Ukrainians and those interested in Ukraine, the answer is no.
Source: International Herald Tribune
2005
23/12/2005, Capital. Victor Pinchuk
At the approach of the regular elections to Verkhovna Rada it is getting much clearer that several political forces, running for the parliamentary mandates, are determined to set up their campaigns against large-scale business, indulging in classical "anti-oligarch" eloquence.
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15/09/2005, Interview: Her main weapon is populism
In his interview for "Vedomosti", Victor Pinchuk was telling about his business prospects and on how the developments around his Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant had influenced the political events in the Country.
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Victor Pinchuk speaks about new government, about relations with his father-in-law and a joint project with Steven Spielberg
Source: Facty i kommentarii
2004
Though both candidates for the presidency have taken their families away from Kiev for security reasons, the son-in-4aw of the Ukrainian president has announced that he is an optimist and he is not going to take his children anywhere.
Source: Facty
