New Ukrainian Prime Minister is Buryat

[Austrvegr]

Yury Yekhanurov, appointed today Prime Minister of Ukraine, is an ethnic Buryat. Isn't that funny?

[Menydh]

Excuse my ignorance. Which ethnia is the Buryat?

[Ross]

Buryat ethnicity belongs to the Mongol group. Buryatia is located in Russia, in Southern Siberia, on the border with Mongolia.

[Zarathustra]

yeah! That's extremly funny!

[Nestor]

PROFILE OF UKRAINIAN ACTING PREMIER YURIY YEKHANUROV

BBC Monitoring research in English 8 Sep 05
BBC Monitoring Service. United Kingdom, Thu, Sep 08, 2005

President Viktor Yushchenko appointed Dnipropetrovsk Region governor
Yuriy Yekhanurov as caretaker prime minister on 8 September 2005.
Yuriy Yekhanurov is one of the most experienced Ukrainian politicians.

In the mid-1990s Yekhanurov managed the start of Ukraine's privatization
campaign as head of the State Property Fund. He was deputy chief of
Yushchenko's two election campaigns - the parliamentary one in 2002 and
the triumphal presidential election campaign last year.

Yuriy Yekhanurov, an ethnic Buryat, was born in August 1948 in a village in
Russia's north-eastern Yakutia Republic. Yekhanurov went to a secondary
school in Yakutia, but later moved to Ukraine. In 1967 he graduated from a
construction school in Kiev, and in 1973 from the local Institute of
People's Economy (now the Economic University).

In 1974, at the age of 26, he became director of a construction materials
factory in Kiev. Yekhanurov climbed the career ladder in the construction
industry up to the post of deputy chairman of Kiev's main construction
directorate in 1988.

As Ukraine gained independence in 1991, Yekhanurov moved to the Cabinet of
Ministers, where he headed an economic department. In 1992-93 he served a
brief stint as deputy head of the Kiev city administration's economic reform
department, then returned to the Cabinet of Ministers as deputy economics
minister.

In 1994-97 Yekhanurov steered the early stage of Ukraine's privatization as
chairman of the State Property Fund. He joined the People's Democratic
Party (PDP) - the then "party of power"- in 1996. In February 1997 he was
appointed economics minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Pavlo
Lazarenko.

In July 1997, when Lazarenko's cabinet resigned, Yekhanurov took the post of
head of the state committee for enterprise. He was elected to parliament in
March 1998 from a single-seat constituency in Zhytomyr Region, where his
mother lives.

Yekhanurov joined Yushchenko's team in December 1999 as first deputy prime
minister and has been with this team ever since. Yekhanurov left the PDP in
2000. When Yushchenko's cabinet was dismissed in May 2001, the then
President Leonid Kuchma employed Yekhanurov as first deputy head of his
administration.

But he left the administration in November 2001 to become deputy chief of
the election headquarters of Yushchenko's newly formed Our Ukraine
opposition bloc. Yekhanurov was elected to parliament in March 2002 from
Our Ukraine's list. In the legislature he has chaired the committee for
industry and business.

Yushchenko appointed Yekhanurov deputy chief of his election headquarters
for a second time in summer 2004, this time for the presidential polls,
which Yushchenko won. In March 2005 he was elected head of the central
executive committee of Yushchenko's governing Our Ukraine People's Union
party.

On 1 April 2005 Yushchenko appointed Yekhanurov governor of Dnipropetrovsk
Region in place of Serhiy Kasyanov, dismissed amid accusations of combining
his post with business and of having backed Yushchenko's rival Viktor
Yanukovych in the presidential elections.

Yekhanurov is one of the few members of Yushchenko's team who supports
Ukraine's membership of the Single Economic Space with Russia. He also
welcomes the participation of Russian capital in Ukraine's privatization.

Being one of the leading members of Yushchenko's Our Ukraine People's
Union party, Yekhanurov supports plans to create a bloc of pro-democracy
forces on the party's basis for the 2006 parliamentary polls. He has been
one of the most caustic critics of the smaller nationalist parties who
refused to merge with Our Ukraine People's Party earlier this year.

Yekhanurov does not appear to have big stakes in any business. He is
married, with one son. -30

[Menydh]

Apparently half Ukrainian, half Mongolid.


Born in 1948 in Yakutsk to a Buriat father and Ukrainian mother, Yekhanurov moved to Kyiv in the early 1960s

[Ross]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

Apparently half Ukrainian, half Mongolid.


Born in 1948 in Yakutsk to a Buriat father and Ukrainian mother, Yekhanurov moved to Kyiv in the early 1960s

He looks like many ethnic Central Ukrainians, who are said to have significant Turko-Mongol admixture.

[Zrinski]

Oh please....Mongoloid admixture is even twice stronger in Russians....there isn't a saying in vain which says "Scratch a Russian and you'll find a Tatar underneath".

[Menydh]

And the English used to call the Germans, Huns, and blah, blah, blah.

Honestly, the Russians I've seen don't look Mongols to me. But of course they were Russians, not Tatars.

Anyway. You should care more for what some have to say about Croatians. For example, someone posted these pictures on Skadi:

http://www.iinet.net.au/~police/nick1.JPG
http://www.iinet.net.au/~police/nick2.JPG
http://www.iinet.net.au/~police/nick3.JPG

And someone else said: "I've seen a Croatian girl with eyes like that."

Personally I've been in Croatia and I don't remember seeing eyes like that. But then again, I might have not paid attention, as with the Russians.

Or maybe that Croatian girl is only one case among many, and whoever said first that saying confused Soviet with Russian.

[Ross]

Originally Posted by Zrinski

Oh please....Mongoloid admixture is even twice stronger in Russians....

Cite your source.

"Scratch a Russian and you'll find a Tatar underneath".

It refers to culture, not genetics.

[Nestor]

He has a slight accent in his Ukrainain almost Russian but not quite, almost Petersburg in his pronopunciation of sho, but apart from that he speaks well - better than som eo the other "Ukrainian" parliamentarians.

[Zrinski]

Originally Posted by Ross

Cite your source.

It's a natioal saying all over Europe.

It refers to culture, not genetics.

It refers to both.

[Zrinski]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

Anyway. You should care more for what some have to say about Croatians. For example, someone posted these pictures on Skadi:

I couldn't care less actually. They are mainly vicious pro-serbian, anti-croatian propaganda. Like for example as their chauvinist go around racial forums and sites posting craps about Croats being Avars.

And someone else said: "I've seen a Croatian girl with eyes like that."

Personally I've been in Croatia and I don't remember seeing eyes like that. But then again, I might have not paid attention, as with the Russians.

Or maybe that Croatian girl is only one case among many, and whoever said first that saying confused Soviet with Russian.

Actually I don't see nothing wrong these pictures. I've seen English, Germans and Scandinavians with far more slanted eyes that they almost appeared mongoloid at first sight however I do not go around saying English, Germans or Scandinavians are Mongols, Avars, Huns, etc.
I've seen very tanned Greeks, Italians and Spaniards however I do not go around saying Greeks, Italians and Spaniards are Turks. Anyway you understand what I am trying to say.

Btw. Yekhanurov says he is a Russian...so much for that.

[Menydh]

The English called Huns to the Germans (Negroes to the Irish, Moors to the Spaniards, Turks to the Greeks, and whatever to any other nation in Europe). The Germans called Tatars to the Russians. Etc.

The Russians employed Mongoloid troops during the Soviet era. So what? The Germans have employed Turks, the French and the Spaniards Moors, the English Indians, Pakis and Negroes, etc.

I don't see what anything of the above has to do with modern days mass immigration and the spread of multi-racialism and multi-culturalism.

[Zrinski]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

I don't see what anything of the above has to do with modern days mass immigration and the spread of multi-racialism and multi-culturalism.

You are the one who brought this into the subject not me.

[Nestor]

Yushchenko puts new meaning into the phrase "bringing in new blood" into the political scene.

[Ross]

Originally Posted by Zrinski

It's a natioal saying all over Europe.

What do you smoke? "Mongoloid admixture is even twice stronger in Russians...." is a national (SICK!) saying all over Europe?

It refers to both.

Sorry, but by the time the French invented it humankind was not aware of genetics.

[Nestor]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

Apparently half Ukrainian, half Mongolid.


Born in 1948 in Yakutsk to a Buriat father and Ukrainian mother, Yekhanurov moved to Kyiv in the early 1960s

His Ukrainian is very good. It is amzing that this guy can speak it or learn to speak it so well yet some Russians can't.

I heard a joke the other day.

They asked some Russians what they thought of Montreal after having lived there for 6 weeks.

They complained .... because the Montreal City-dwellers still haven't changed over to speaking in Russian.