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Viktor Mykolayovych Tikhonov, also spelled Viktor Tykhonov (; 5 March 1949 – 29 August 2020) was a Ukrainian politician.


Biography

Born in
Antratsyt Raion Antratsyt Raion (; ) was a raion (district) in Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine between 1938 and 2020 and the de-facto district of the Luhansk People's Republic, a federal subject of Russia. Its administrative center was the city Antratsyt. The ...
, Tikhonov served in the
Verkhovna Rada The Verkhovna Rada ( ; VR), officially the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, is the unicameralism, unicameral parliament of Ukraine. It consists of 450 Deputy (legislator), deputies presided over by a speaker. The Verkhovna Rada meets in the Verkhovn ...
from 1990 to 1994 and again from 2006 to 2014. He also served as the
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from 11 March 2010 until 1 June 2011, with the Cabinet of
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. Additionally, Tikhonov was chairman of the
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Regional Council in eastern Ukraine from 1998 to 2006. He also served as the ambassador to
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from 2011 to 2012. In a 2016 interview, Tikhonov stated that he now permanently lived in Russian-occupied Crimea. Viktor Tikhonov died from pneumonia in
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on 29 August 2020, at the age of 71.


References

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