Svyatoslav Mykhaylovych Piskun (, born 1 March 1959) was 3 times Prosecutor General of Ukraine. He served in this role in 2002–2003, 2005 and 2007 until
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Viktor Yushchenko
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In March 2006 he was elected as a people's deputy of the
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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
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wins a parliament seat) located in
Zhytomyr Oblast
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. In the
2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election
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Khoroshkovskyi tried to return to national politics this time from the party of
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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
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and refused to drop proceedings against
Petro Poroshenko
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Viktor Yushchenko
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'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
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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
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.
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
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