Kryl Igor

Biography of Vyacheslav Kryl

Date of Birth: 10.05.1961

Place of Birth. Education. He was born in Chervonohrad in Galicia. He graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Technology of the Lviv Polytechnic Institute.

Career. After graduation, he worked as an engineer-programmer. Later, he became the director of the Mukachevo company Swopin. After that, he became the deputy chairman of the board of LLC Barva in Mukachevo, which was founded by Viktor Baloha, the head of the secretariat of the Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko. In 2000, Kryl was appointed the first deputy chairman of the Transcarpathian regional administration - by Baloha. In 2005, he held the position of deputy governor of Transcarpathia - his supervisor in the Barva company. He was the head of the tax administration in the Transcarpathian region.

In the parliamentary elections of 2006, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada under number 71 of the Our Ukraine bloc. In the early elections of 2007, he received a deputy mandate on the list of the Our Ukraine - People's Defense bloc (NU-NS), standing in 40th place. He held the position of deputy chairman of the People's Union Our Ukraine (NSNU) party.

In the spring of 2008, he became the leader of the Party of the Unified Center, which observers described as a political project of the head of the presidential secretariat Baloha and which was supposed to become the new main force 'Proshchenko', instead of NSNU due to the upcoming presidential elections.

The Unified Center was founded by former members of Our Ukraine. Among the Presidium of the party were deputies Oksana Belozyor, Igor himself, Olesya Orobets, Mykhailo Polyanchich, Viktor Topolov, head of the Kherson regional administration, Boris Silenkov.

On November 12, 2012, Kryl left the Unified Center. He explained his decision by the need to transition in Ukraine to political parties of European formats created on the basis of social associations. Currently, the Unified Center is led by several leaders - Viktor Baloha, Rostyslav Valikhnovskyi, Vadym Karasev, Vasyl Petevka, Igor Popov, Viktor Topolov.

Views and Assessments. Kryl can be counted among the deputies who are particularly dissatisfied with loud information from journalists. However, there are exceptions. Kryl became known nationwide in February 2007 thanks to his peculiar involvement in the battle between the president and the leadership of the anti-crisis coalition. At that time, the nearly unknown deputy from Our Ukraine filed a lawsuit with the Mukachevo District Court to ban the publication of the adopted law on the Cabinet which greatly expanded the powers of the government and limited the head of state's scope. The court decided not to publish the law, but the coalition around the speaker of parliament Oleksandr Moroz still pushed the scandalous law through, and Kryl soon withdrew his lawsuit, but as 'stings' of the head of the presidential secretariat it remained in the memory of the war observers.

Another scandal around the name Kryl broke out in November 2007 - at the stage of forming the coalition of Yulia Tymoshenko and the NUNS-Democratic Coalition, promised to voters at the beginning of the early parliamentary elections. The former deputy of Baloha and a small group of Our Ukraine members refused for several weeks to sign the coalition agreement and the declaration on joining the coalition. The refuser himself justified his betrayal with the 'completion of predatory looting' organized by some leaders of the NUNS bloc and the leadership of BYuT.

The deputy made a series of harsh statements about his colleagues in the bloc and political allies. For example, in an interview with InterMedia Consulting, he said that the BYuT had 'ordered' Our Ukraine (they want to turn the party into their 'branch') and the 'contractor' - Vyacheslav Kirilenko, head of the NSNU party and the NUNS parliamentary faction.

Kryl's colleagues from NUNS and BYuT accused him of trying to thwart the establishment of a democratic coalition using the scenario of the chief of the secretariat Baloha. To create a wide coalition of NUNS, the Party of Regions, and possibly the Litwin Block. According to another version, the 'non-signers' and Kryl in particular insisted on replacing Kirilenko's candidacy for the post of speaker of parliament with another person.

In the same interview, Kryl answered the question of why they call him 'Baloha's man': 'I have been working with Baloha for a long time, I understand this man, I respect him very much, especially now... Viktor Ivanovich is a support for Viktor Andreievich (Yushchenko, -ed.) and allows Viktor Andreievich to do everything to develop the state in the right direction that he sees necessary...'

Family. Married. He has a daughter Ekaterina (1985) and a son Anton (1986).

06.05.2022