The Multi-Vector Policy or Multi-Vector Doctrine is a foreign policy doctrine that seeks to maintain balanced and cooperative relations with multiple global powers rather than aligning exclusively wit
Russian president Vladimir Putin, Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Kazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev during a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit
Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma (right) with Russian President Vladimir Putin, 2003. The Multi-Vector Policy supported improved relations between Ukraine and Russia
Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych is a former politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014. He also served as the prime minister of Ukraine several times between 2002 and 2007
Official portrait, 2010
Yanukovych with Donetsk mayor Volodymyr Rybak (left) during his term as regional governor
Yanukovych during a meeting with European Commission president Romano Prodi in 2003
Yanukovych (sitting on the right) attending talks with opposition representatives during the Orange Revolution in Kyiv