Svyatoslav Mykhaylovych Piskun ( uk, Святослав Михайлович Піскун, born 1 March 1959) was 3 times
Prosecutor General of Ukraine
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. He served in this role in 2002–2003, 2005 and 2007 until
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Viktor Yushchenko
Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko ( uk, Віктор Андрійович Ющенко, ; born 23 February 1954) is a Ukrainian politician who was the third president of Ukraine from 23 January 2005 to 25 February 2010.
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In March 2006 he was elected as a people's deputy of the
Verkhovna Rada
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from
Party of Regions
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list as No.96 - but he was not a party member. Piskun was elected in parliament for Party of Regions again in 2007. He became a full member of Party of Regions in October 2008. Piskun did not return to parliament after the
2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election
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number 63 (
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wins a parliament seat) located in
Zhytomyr Oblast
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. In the
2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election
Snap elections to the Verkhovna Rada took place on 26 October 2014.
Petro Poroshenko, the President of Ukraine, had pressed for early parliamentary elections since his victory in the presidential election in May.Strong Ukraine (placing 16th on the parties election list). But in the election the party failed to clear the 5%
election threshold
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(it got 3.11% of the votes) and thus Piskun was not elected into parliament.
Piskun was only allowed to take part in the election after a court decision validated his entrance in the election, at first the
Central Election Commission of Ukraine
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had refused to register him because in the last 5 years leading up to the election he had not lived in Ukraine.
Dismissals as Prosecutor General of Ukraine
According to Piskun, his dismissal by President Yushchenko in October 2005 came because he stopped criminal proceedings against
Yulia Tymoshenko
Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko ( uk, Юлія Володимирівна Тимошенко, ; Hrihyan ();Petro Poroshenko
Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko ( uk, Петро́ Олексі́йович Пороше́нко, ; born 26 September 1965) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician who served as the fifth president of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. Poroshenko se ...
Viktor Yushchenko
Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko ( uk, Віктор Андрійович Ющенко, ; born 23 February 1954) is a Ukrainian politician who was the third president of Ukraine from 23 January 2005 to 25 February 2010.
As an informal leader of th ...
's government in 2005. and dropping criminal cases regarding back-then Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
Piskun is the only Prosecutor General of Ukraine in Ukraine whose dismissals by two Presidents have been overturned as unlawful by courts. The latest being a 24 April 2009 Kyiv Court of Appeals passing of a ruling saying President Yushchenko's decree dated 24 May 2007, dismissing Sviatoslav Piskun from the post of the prosecutor general was unlawful, but Piskun did not submit any application for his reinstating on the post of Prosecutor General.
Career since 2014
On 30 March 2014 during an interview with Inter TV channel he called for the criminal prosecution of Ukrainian officials who are responsible for allowing the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea.
On 30 July 2020 Prosecutor GeneralIryna Venediktova appointed Piskun as her personal adviser on a voluntary basis.Venediktov took Piskun as an adviser
Ukrayinska Pravda
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(30 July 2020) On 25 August 2020 Venediktova (without communicating the reason) realised him as her personal adviser.Venediktova released Piskun
Ukrayinska Pravda
''Ukrainska Pravda'' ( uk, Українська правда, lit=Ukrainian Truth) is a Ukrainian online newspaper founded by Georgiy Gongadze on 16 April 2000 (the day of the Ukrainian constitutional referendum). Published mainly in Ukra ...