MOSCOW, July 9 (RAPSI) - Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Tuesday appointed Anton Yanchuk, Dr. jur., Associate of Arzinger, Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine for European Integration, Arzinger reports on its website.

According to the firm’s statement, Yanchuk practiced in the areas of contract law and foreign trade, intellectual property rights and competition as well as healthcare and retail trade.

According to Timur Bondaryev, Managing Partner of Arzinger, as a result of the last month’s reboots in the government two legal experts of Arzinger were appointed to important government posts (in May, Arzinger’s partner Vitalii Kasko was appointed Deputy Attorney General for International Legal Cooperation). 

Arzinger is an independent law firm headquartered in Kieiv with regional offices in Western and Southern Ukraine.

Mass protests under the title started in Kiev’s Independence Square in November 2013 after Ukraine’s government announced a halt to European integration. The unrest ultimately resulted in the overthrow of President Viktor Yanukovych in a coup on February 22, when radicals seized power in violation of the February 21 agreement on the settlement of the crisis, signed by Ukraine’s opposition leaders and President Viktor Yanukovich in the presence of the French, German and Polish foreign ministers.

The Verkhovna Rada announced the deposition of Yanukovich, reinstated the 2004 constitution and set early presidential elections for May 25, which were subsequently won by Ukrainian chocolate king Pyotr Poroshenko.