Olexandr Borysovych Feldman () (born January 6, 1960,

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) is a Ukrainian politician and public figure of Jewish origin,

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(since 2002), businessman, multi-millionaire. He is considered to be one of the most influential people in Kharkiv. In 2013 he entered the rating of the hundred richest Ukrainians of the Ukrainian magazine

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, finishing 35th ($ 287m). Since June 2015, the co-chairman of the political party Our Land.

Biography

He is married and has two sons and a grandson. He graduated from the

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in 2002, as an economist. He is a member of the

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and president of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee. Feldman is also a co-founder of the Institute of Human Rights and the Prevention of Extremism and Xenophobia. Feldman first entered the

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after winning a

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located in

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during the

2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 31 March 2002.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1976 The Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc, Our Ukraine bloc emerged as the largest faction in ...

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LIGA In parliament he joined the United Ukraine faction and when that party merged with

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Feldman joined this party too.Всеукраїнське об'єднання "Батьківщина" ''All-Ukrainian Union Batkivshchyna''

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, poli.in.ua Batkivshchyna was a part of the

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during the

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and

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Feldman was re-elected into parliament on a party ticket of this bloc of political parties. He also was of its Kharkiv regional party organization. In March 2011 Feldman left the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc faction in parliament and joined the

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. He did so citing too much influence of

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in the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. In the

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Feldman won a parliamentary seat in a single-member district located in Kharkiv for

. In the

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Feldman as an independent candidate won the same single-member district as in 2012 with 64.94% of the votes. Feldman joined the party Our Land in August 2015. In 2017, he was elected to the board of the international organization "Religions for Peace", a pacifist organization with headquarters in New York, which has consultative status with

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, UNICEF and the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. In the July

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Feldman was re-elected to parliament after again winning electoral district 174 in Kharkiv, again as an independent candidate. This time with 37.24% of the votes (slightly 4% more than runner-up Viktoria Alekseychuk of the Servant of the People party). In parliament he joined the Opposition Platform — For Life faction. For this party Feldman was candidate in the October 2020 Kharkiv mayoral election.Local elections. Kharkiv: between Kernes and Kernes

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(29 August 2019) He finished second with 14.32%, losing to incumbent mayor Hennadiy Kernes.Kharkiv, the votes in the mayoral election were counted: who wins and whether there will be a second round

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(4 November 2020) On 15 March 2022, following the

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, Feldman left the Opposition Platform — For Life faction stating that the party's actions leading up to and during the war contradicted their previous stance of stressing the need to negotiate agreements to end wars.

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