Tscherwono Taras
Date of birth: 01.06.1964
Place of birth. Education. Born in Lviv. Son of Vyacheslav Chornovol, a well-known dissident, one of the founders and chairman of the People's Movement of Ukraine, three-time deputy of the Verkhovna Rada. Taras Chernovol's father died in a car accident near Kiev in March 1999. According to the official version of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the politician's death was an accident. According to the opinion of his comrades and opposition colleagues - a political murder during the time of 'Leonid Kuchma's government.'
Work, public activity. After finishing school, Chernovol worked for about a year as a laboratory assistant at the Department of Applied Geodesy of the Lviv Polytechnic Institute. From 1982 to 1984, he served in the Soviet Army. From 1985 to 1989, he was a paramedic in the surgical department of the Lviv City Emergency Medical Hospital. From 1990 to 1992, he headed the Ukrainian Independent Publishing and Information Association. From 1993 to 1997, he was the deputy director, director of the scientific and publishing company 'Meta', and editor-in-chief of the publishing house 'Strim.'
Life in a dissident family and the views of his father, who was a political prisoner, influenced Chornovol's political future in many ways. In his teenage years, he worked on samizdat magazines like Ukrainian Herald and the newspaper Young Ukraine. He was a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Association, a participant in the Lviv Discussion Club, and the Ukrainian Culture Club. In 1990-1994, he gained his first experience as a people's representative in the Lviv Oblast Council.
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Big politics. Chernovol probably rose to the Olympus of domestic politics on the wave of his father's prestige. In 1998-1999, he served as an advisor to Vyacheslav Chornovol - the chairman of the NRU. A year later, he was elected in a by-election in one of the districts of the Lviv region to the Verkhovna Rada. He was a member of the NRU factions, then of the PRP Reform Congress.
In 2002, he was nominated by the Our Ukraine party of Viktor Yushchenko as a candidate for deputies, received a mandate after a clear victory also in one of the districts of the Lviv region. For almost two years, he was a member of the Our Ukraine faction. After a conflict on 'ideological grounds' with the leadership of this political force (especially personally with Yushchenko), he left the faction in March 2004. Shortly thereafter, he worked in the parliamentary group Center.
He soon made a choice of new political partners that thousands of his compatriots and simply supporters of national-democratic forces cannot understand and justify to this day. In December 2004, Chernovol entered the faction of the Regions of Ukraine, became the confidant of Viktor Yanukovych, the leader of the Regions, in the voting of the second round of the presidential elections and headed the election staff of the 'successor of Kuc…gives their voters the impression that Yanukovych is a leader capable of uniting the nation, etc.
Contrary to the forecasts of some observers who predicted the early departure of the Regions from further 'services' of Chernovol, the politician officially joined the ranks of the Party of Regions in March 2005. In the 2006 parliamentary elections, he became the deputy head of the PR election staff, already at that time having the full status of 'the face' of the party in his hands (he won the mandate in the fifth parliament through No. 4 in the ballot) and its 'spokesperson.' As a member of the Regions, Chernovol tirelessly told the Ukrainians that Donetsk is neither Asia nor Russia and that the Party of Regions is not the 'party of one region,' that the 'orange' opponents broke the hopes of their voters long ago and definitively, that Yanukovych is a leader capable of uniting the nation, etc.
In the snap parliamentary elections of 2007, Chernovol received an even higher position on the party list - this time under No. 3. According to experts on the background of Ukrainian politics, his 'leading position' in the Party of Regions differed significantly from the real one, as 'the face of the party' did not belong to the inner circle of those who made the main and responsible decisions for this political force. Nevertheless, junior Chernovol retained his status as one of the most quoted regional representatives in the media.
In October 2008, he submitted an application for withdrawal from the Party of Regions, citing that he was caught up in intrigues, and remained non-faction.
In the fall of 2012, he ran as an independent candidate in single-mandate district No. 212 in Kyiv for the Verkhovna Rada of the VII Parliament, but lost to Vitali Yarema of Batkivshchyna.
Views and assessments. In interviews, Chernovol signals to journalists how he self-made as a politician and reached a solid professional level. He says that unlike many of his deputy colleagues, he always carefully examines the bills in Parliament and also writes the texts or theses of his speeches himself.
As for his political future, Chernovol does not have excessive plans. In an interview with the Lviv newspaper Express, he said that he does not want to become the president or prime minister of Ukraine at any cost. His intentions were to enter parliament in the snap parliamentary elections, possibly participate in the next scheduled elections, and then finish with politics and go into analysis or journalism.
After leaving the Party of Regions, he stated in an interview that he now feels ashamed of supporting Yanukovych in 2004.
Family. Chernovol is married, his wife Maria is a programmer. They have three sons - Maxim, Bohdan, and Markian (born in 1988).
Hobbies. Among the politician's hobbies are the revived Lviv ceramics and the Trypillian culture, in which he claims he knows better than its most famous supporter - Yushchenko.
31.05.2022.