Viktor Mykolayovych Kryvenko (, born 9 January 1982) is a Ukrainian politician.

Biography

In 2009–10, he was the deputy director general at the

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. In 2014, Kryvenko became the head of the Technopolis and Industrial Parks National Projects. Appearing fifth on the party list of

Self Reliance "Self-Reliance" is an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. It contains the most thorough statement of one of his recurrent themes: the need for each person to avoid conformity and false consistency, ...

, he was elected to the

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in the

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. Kryvenko was expelled from Self Reliance on 31 August 2015 for his support of amendments to the

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that would lead to

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. On 31 March 2016, he joined the

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parliamentary faction. Kryvenko also joined (the political party)

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in April 2016. On 21 December 2017 Kryvenko left the Petro Poroshenko Bloc parliamentary faction. On 10 January 2019 Kryvenko was chosen the

candidate in the

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and their chairman. In the election he received 0.04% of the vote. In the

2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 21 July 2019. Originally scheduled to be held at the end of October, the elections were brought forward after newly inaugurated President of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dissolved parli ...

Kryvenko failed to win a seat as People's Movement of Ukraine candidate in constituency 151 situated in

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. From May 28, 2017 to July 10, 2021, he was the chairman of the People's Movement of Ukraine political party.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kryvenko, Viktor Mykolayovych 1982 births Living people People from Kamianske Eighth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada Self Reliance (political party) politicians People's Movement of Ukraine politicians Oles Honchar Dnipro National University alumni Candidates in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election