Anton Yuriyovych Gerashchenko (, born 10 February 1979) is a current official advisor and a former deputy minister at the Ukrainian
Ministry of Internal Affairs
An interior ministry or ministry of the interior (also called ministry of home affairs or ministry of internal affairs) is a government department that is responsible for domestic policy, public security and law enforcement.
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. He is a former member of the Ukrainian parliament (
Verkhovna Rada
The Verkhovna Rada ( ; VR), officially the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, is the unicameralism, unicameral parliament of Ukraine. It consists of 450 Deputy (legislator), deputies presided over by a speaker. The Verkhovna Rada meets in the Verkhovn ...
) from 2014 to 2019, and was the subject of an assassination attempt in part because of his actions, which was prevented by the SBU.
Biography
When
Arsen Avakov
Arsen Borysovych Avakov (, ; born 2 January 1964) is a Ukrainian politician of Armenian descent who served as the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine from 2014 to 2021. He was the Chairman of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration from ...
became the
Minister of Internal Affairs
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in 2014, Gerashchenko became his adviser. In this role, Gerashchenko briefed journalists about the formation of the
Donbas Battalion
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, the
Azov Battalion
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, and the shooting down of
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
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independent candidate
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) on the party's election list. Gerashchenko was one of the founders of a database of separatists called "
Myrotvorets
Myrotvorets or Mirotvorets (, ; ) is a Ukrainian Kyiv-based website that publishes a running list, and sometimes personal information, of people who are considered by authors of the website to be "enemies of Ukraine", or, as the website itself ...
" (Peacekeeper).
He was secretary of the
Verkhovna Rada
The Verkhovna Rada ( ; VR), officially the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, is the unicameralism, unicameral parliament of Ukraine. It consists of 450 Deputy (legislator), deputies presided over by a speaker. The Verkhovna Rada meets in the Verkhovn ...
(Ukraine's national parliament)
Committee
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on Legislative Support of Law Enforcement. In parliament, one of his assistant-consultants was the future Interior Minister
Denys Monastyrsky
Denys Anatoliiovych Monastyrsky (, ; 12 June 1980 – 18 January 2023) was a Ukrainian lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine from 16 July 2021 until his death in a helicopter crash on 18 January 2023.
Civil movement "Chesno"
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In January 2017, it was announced that the
Security Service of Ukraine
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(SBU) had prevented an assassination attempt against Gerashchenko. The SBU had had the two assassins under surveillance for over a month and arrested them in the act with an explosive device in their possession.
The SBU stated that the assassins had been in prison in the Russian-occupied Crimea, until they agreed to assassinate Gerashchenko. The SBU claimed that the assassins were coordinated by Andrey Tikhonov. Tikhonov currently lives in
Belgorod
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It was founded in 1596 as a defensiv ...
in Russia, and used to be a Ukrainian citizen, who had fought against Ukraine on the side of the
Luhansk People's Republic
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.
After the July
2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election
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, Gerashchenko did not return to parliament because he did not take part in the election. On 25 September 2019, the
Cabinet of Ministers
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appointed him one of six or seven deputy ministers at the
Ministry of Internal Affairs
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Ukrayinska Pravda
''Ukrainska Pravda'' is a Ukrainian socio-political online media outlet founded by Heorhii Gongadze in April 2000. After Gongadze’s death in September 2000, the editorial team was led by co-founder Olena Prytula, who remained the editor-in ...
Ukrayinska Pravda
''Ukrainska Pravda'' is a Ukrainian socio-political online media outlet founded by Heorhii Gongadze in April 2000. After Gongadze’s death in September 2000, the editorial team was led by co-founder Olena Prytula, who remained the editor-in ...
Ukrayinska Pravda
''Ukrainska Pravda'' is a Ukrainian socio-political online media outlet founded by Heorhii Gongadze in April 2000. After Gongadze’s death in September 2000, the editorial team was led by co-founder Olena Prytula, who remained the editor-in ...