Personal Life
Yanukovych is married to Lyudmyla Oleksandrivna. They have two sons, Oleksandr and Viktor. Viktor is a member of the Parliament of Ukraine. Yanukovych is a member of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).
In March 2012 Yanukovych stated it was a problem for him in 2002 to speak Ukrainian but that "once I had the opportunity to speak Ukrainian, I started to do it with pleasure".
Until 2004, Yanukovych was known as batia ("Dad") among his family members, but since that time he became leader. As Yanukovych himself stated, his wife does not wish for her grandson to pick up the bad habits of his grandfather, albeit Yanukovych did not specify what kind of habits those were.
Yanukovych acquired a sizable estate in a former forest preserve near Kiev in 2007, according to critics through a murky series of companies and transactions. Yanukovych did not reveal the price he paid, although he called it a "very serious price".
Yanukovych has multiple talents one of which is singing. He has been accused of plagiarism regarding a book by him published in August 2011.
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