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UKROP Politicians
UKROP ( in Russian), short for the Ukrainian Association of Patriots (), was a political party in Ukraine.Ukrop political party launched by oligarch Kolomoisky obtains registration (18 June 2015) UKROP was established months after the Euromaidan Revolution of February 2014. The core of the party comprised civil society activists, participants of Euromaidan, volunteers and members of [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taras Batenko
Taras Ivanovych Batenko (; born 20 June 1974) is a Ukrainian politician and historian currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 123rd electoral district since 27 November 2014. Early life and career Taras Ivanovych Batenko was born on 20 June 1974 in the city of Lviv. From 1990, Batenko was a member of the Ukrainian Republican Party, additionally editing the party's journal, , from 1993 to 1996. The same year, he graduated from University of Lviv with a degree in political science. In 1999, he defended his thesis, "The Role of the Opposition Leader in the Public and Political Process of Ukraine in the Second Half of the 20th Century". From 1996 to 1997, Batenko worked in the Lviv Oblast State Administration as an informational and analytical specialist. Afterwards, he shifted into political research, where he remained until he rejoined the Lviv Oblast State Administration as head of its press service. Batenko was also the head of Viktor Yushchenko's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Ukrainian Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 21 July 2019. Originally scheduled to be held at the end of October, the elections were brought forward after newly inaugurated President of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dissolved parliament on 21 May 2019, during his inauguration. The elections resulted in an outright majority, a novelty in Ukraine, for Zelenskyy's Servant of the People party, which won 254 seats. About 80 percent of the elected candidates were new to parliament, while 83 deputies were re-elected from 8th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada, the previous parliament and 13 deputies from earlier convocations. All deputies from Servant of the People were political newcomers. 61 percent of the new MPs had never before been engaged in politics. The elections were suspended in 26 of the 225 constituencies due to the Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, March 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia and the War in Donbas (2014–2022), ongoing occupation of parts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor Of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
The governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast is the head of executive branch for the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. The office of governor is an appointed position, with officeholders being appointed by the president of Ukraine, on recommendation from the prime minister of Ukraine, to serve a four-year term. Due to the current Russo-Ukrainian War, since 24 February 2022, the governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast is officially called ''Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Civil Administration''. The official residence for the governor is located in Dnipro. Governors Representative of the President * Pavlo Lazarenko (1992–1994) Heads of the Administration * Pavlo Lazarenko (1995) * Mykola Derkach (1995–1997) * Viktor Zabara (1997–1998) * Oleksandr Migdeyev (1998–1999) * Mykola Shvets (1999–2003) * Volodymyr Yatsuba (2003–2004) * Volodymyr Meleshchyk (2004–2005) (acting) * Serhii Kasyanov (2005) * Ivan Chornokur (2005) (acting) * Yuriy Yekhanurov (2005) * Nadiia Deyev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ihor Kolomoyskyi
Ihor Valeriyovych Kolomoyskyi (; ; born 13 February 1963) is a Ukrainian-born Israeli billionaire businessman, once considered the leading oligarch in Ukraine. Already an entrepreneur in the last years of Soviet Ukraine, in 2010 Kolomoyskyi was rated as the second richest person in Ukraine, and as one of the country's most influential oligarchs. In 1992, he had co-founded PrivatBank and its informal stable of companies, Privat Group. He subsequently acquired extensive media holdings. Between 2014 and 2016, Kolomoyskyi served as Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast until his dismissal by President Petro Poroshenko. That year, his undercapitalised bank was declared a threat to Ukraine's financial security and taken into state ownership. In 2019, Kolomoyskyi's media power and funding supported Volodymyr Zelenskyy's successful presidential campaign to unseat Poroshenko. In 2020, he was indicted in the United States on charges related to large-scale bank fraud. In 2021, the U.S. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korrespondent
''Korrespondent'' (; ; literally: ''Correspondent'') is a weekly printed magazine published in Ukraine in the Russian and Ukrainian languages. It is part of United Media Holding group, created by Boris Lozhkin and owned by Serhiy Kurchenko."Kyiv's court rules to seize fugitive oligarch Kurchenko's UMH assets" UNIAN (28 December 2017) History and profile ''Korrespondent'' was established in 2002. The Korrespondent.net is its sister project - an influential Ukrainian and Russian-language |
Volodymyr Parasiuk
Volodymyr Zinoviyovych Parasyuk (; born 9 July 1987) is a Ukrainian military commander and politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 27 November 2014 to 29 August 2019. Previously, he served as a member of the Dnipro Battalion and as a protest leader during Euromaidan. Biography Volodymyr Zinoviyovych Parasyuk was born on 9 July 1987 in the village of Maidan, in Ukraine's Lviv Oblast. Parasyuk took part in the Euromaidan protests, where he was a ''sotnik'' (commander) of a group of defenders of the Maidan (a ''sotnia''). He became known for his Euromaidan speech on 21 February 2014, in which he rejected the terms of an agreement between opposition leaders and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. In his speech, Parasyuk delivered an ultimatum, demanding Yanukovych's resignation and vowing his group would storm Yanukovych's Mezhyhirya Residence at 10 a.m. the next day without it. The next morning, Yanukovych left the country. Later, Parasyuk fought in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borys Filatov
Borys Albertovych Filatov (; born 7 March 1972) is a Ukrainian politician, journalist, lawyer, businessman, and the current mayor of Dnipro. In 2014 and 2015 he was a member of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament. He is one of the leaders and founders of the political party Proposition. He is a member of the Presidium of the First Congress of Local and Regional Authorities under the President of Ukraine. On 4 March 2014, he was appointed Deputy Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration for Internal Policy. On 6 November 2014, by the decision of the Central Election Commission of Ukraine, he was declared the winner of the elections in the 27th electoral district (Dnipro). Early life Borys Filatov was born on 7 March 1972 in Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro) into a family of teachers. His father, Albert Borysovych Filatov, was a lecturer at the Department of Philosophy at Dnipro State University, where he worked for 20 years. His mother, Luiza Trokhymivna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boryslav Bereza
Boryslav Yukhymovych Bereza (; born 13 June 1974) is a former member of the Ukrainian parliament and a former spokesperson for Right Sector (2014). In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election he lost reelection as an independent candidate in a single-seat constituency. Biography Bereza was born on 13 June 1974 in Kyiv. He claims he is a graduate of the Kyiv National Economic University, but the university claims that this is not the case.Battle for Kyiv. Life, career, promises of Klitschko, Vereshchuk, Palchevsky and others (15 September 2020) In 1991, after the |
Andriy Biletsky (politician)
Andriy Yevheniiovych Biletsky ( ; born 5 August 1979) is a Ukrainian far-right politician. He is the leader of political party National Corps. He was the first commander of the volunteer militia Azov Battalion, which he founded in 2014, and a co-founder of the nationalist movement Social-National Assembly. From 2014 until 2019, Biletsky was a People's Deputy of Ukraine. Biography Andriy Biletsky was born in 1979 in Kharkiv, Soviet Union. Biletsky's father Yevheniy Mykhailovych Biletsky hailed from an old Cossacks, Cossack family that founded the village of Krasnopavlivka in Kharkiv Oblast, while Biletsky's mother Olena Anatoliyivna Biletsky (''née'' Lukashevych) descended from a noble family from Zhytomyr region, to which belong the Decembrist who founded the . In his youth, Biletsky practiced several types of martial arts and boxing. Unlike many Ukrainians, he declined to join the Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization. Biletsky, along with senior schoolmates, raised ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmytro Yarosh
Dmytro Anatoliiovych Yarosh (; born 30 September 1971) is a Ukrainian activist, politician, nationalist and military commander who is the main commander of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army. From 2013 to 2015, he led the Right Sector nationalist organisation,Profile: Ukraine's key protest figures (27 January 2014)Yarosh quits as Right Sector leader Interfax Ukraine (11 November 2015) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian Parliament
The Verkhovna Rada ( ; VR), officially the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, is the unicameral parliament of Ukraine. It consists of 450 deputies presided over by a speaker. The Verkhovna Rada meets in the Verkhovna Rada building in Ukraine's capital Kyiv. The Verkhovna Rada developed out of the systems of the republican representative body known in the Soviet Union as the Supreme Soviet (Supreme Council) that was first established on 26 June 1938 as a type of legislature of the Ukrainian SSR after the dissolution of the Congress of Soviets of the Ukrainian SSR.Verkhovna Rada in the Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine The 12th convocation of the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reappropriation
In linguistics, reappropriation, reclamation, or resignification is the cultural process by which a group reclaims words or artifacts that were previously used in a way disparaging of that group. It is a specific form of a semantic change (i.e., change in a word's meaning). Linguistic reclamation can have wider implications in the fields of discourse and has been described in terms of personal or sociopolitical empowerment. Characteristics A ''reclaimed'' or ''reappropriated'' word is a word that was at one time pejorative but has been brought back into acceptable usage, usually starting within its original target, i.e. the communities that were pejoratively described by that word, and later spreading to the general populace as well. Some of the terms being reclaimed have originated as non-pejorative terms that over time became pejorative. Reclaiming them can be seen as restoring their original intent. This, however, does not apply to all such words as some were used in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
