Valeriy Mykolayovych Voshchevsky (; born June 12, 1956) is a Ukrainian entrepreneur and politician who served as

Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine is a government post of the Cabinet of Ukraine. In the absence of the prime minister of Ukraine, the first vice prime minister performs his or her duties as the acting prime minister. In 1991, the post was ...

from December 2014 until September 2015.

Biography

Voshchevsky started his career as a

Chernobyl disaster On 26 April 1986, the no. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine), exploded. With dozens of direct casualties, it is one of only ...

cleaner in 1991. He then had several jobs that lead to him heading in 1995 the corporation "Ahronaftoprodukt". In 2001 he became one of Agribusiness lobbyists in government, joining the Coordinating Council of the agricultural sector under the Kinakh Government. In 2002 he was appointed deputy head of the Department of internal policy of Presidential Administration Leonid Kuchma. In 2003 he held the position of First Deputy Minister of Economy and European Integration under Valery Khoroshkovsky. In 2000, Voschevsky became head of the Ukrainian Peasant Democratic Party; he held this post until 2008. In the 2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2002 parliamentary elections, Voshchevsky was fifth on the election list of the electoral alliance ''Team of Winter Generation''. The alliance won 2.0% of the popular vote and no seats. In the parliamentary elections of 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2006, as a part of Lytvyn's People's Bloc", and in 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2007, in the Peasants' Bloc "Agrarian Ukraine", he again failed to gain a parliamentary seat. From 2005 to 2006 and from 2008 to 2010 Voschevsky was chairman of the Board of JSC "SSC" Roads of Ukraine ". Voshchevsky headed the road construction and maintenance agency under former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich in March and April 2010. In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, he was elected to parliament at number 8 in the list of the Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko. In parliament he became deputy head of the faction. At the time he was chairman of the Supervisory Board of OJSC "Chernihiv confectionery factory" Strela ". Voshchevsky became

supervising national ecology, infrastructure and construction for Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko, Radical Party in the second Yatsenyuk Government on 2 December 2014. Radical Party left the coalition on 1 September 2015 in protest over a vote in parliament involving a change to the Ukrainian Constitution that would lead to decentralization and greater powers for areas held by War in Donbas (2014–2022), pro-Russian separatists.Ukraine Radical Party Quits Ruling Coalition After Deadly Clash
Bloomberg News (1 September 2015) The same day Voshchevsky tendered in his resignation.Ukrainian parliament accepts Deputy PM Voschevsky's resignation
Interfax-Ukraine (17 September 2015) Parliament accepted the resignation on 17 September 2015; after failing to pass the motion four times on 15 September 2015.

Paradise Papers

Voshchevsky's showed in the Paradise Papers release as the majority shareholder of a Maltese company, Marfa Holding Ltd.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Voshchevsky, Valeriy Living people 1956 births People from Chernihiv Oblast Kyiv National Economic University alumni Eighth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada Vice prime ministers of Ukraine Radical Party of Oleh Liashko politicians