Oleh Lyashko
Date of Birth: 03.12.1972
Oleh Valeriyovych Lyashko – Ukrainian politician, member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine VIII, VII, VI, V, IV convocations (2006-2019), journalist, television host, editor. Leader of the Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko. Candidate in the presidential elections in Ukraine in 2014 and 2019.
Place of Birth. Education. Born in Chernihiv. In 1998, he graduated from the law faculty of the Kharkiv State Pedagogical University Skovoroda.
Career. 1990-1992 - Correspondent, head of the editorial department of the newspaper Young Guard (Kyiv).
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1992-1995 - Editor of the newspaper Economic News of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations of Ukraine.
1995-1996 - Editor of the 'Politics' supplement in the newspaper Pravda of Ukraine.
From August 1996 - Editor-in-chief of the newspaper Politics. In 1999, the publication was closed by a decision of the Moscow District Court of Kyiv 'for disclosing state secrets'.
2000-2006 - Editor-in-chief of the newspaper Freedom (ZAO Editorial Board of the newspaper Politics).
2006-2007 - Member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the V convocation for the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko (No. 26 on the electoral list). Chairman of the Subcommittee for the Organization of the Work of the Verkhovna Rada of the Committee on Rules, Deputy Ethics, and Ensuring the Work of the VR.
2007-2012 - Member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the VI convocation for JUT (No. 29 on the list). Deputy Chairman of the Finance Committee of the VR. Head of the temporary investigative committee of the VR to investigate possible legislative violations in the field of property, land, finances, and other relations with the Mayor of Kharkiv Mikhail Dobkin and the Secretary of the City Council Gennadiy Kernes.
From December 2012 to November 2014 - Member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the VII convocation, elected to the Parliament from constituency No. 208 in the Chernihiv region (nominated by the Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko). Deputy Head of the Finance Committee of the VR. Independent.
On February 25, 2014, he announced his participation in the early presidential elections 2014. On March 5, 2014, he was nominated as a presidential candidate by the extraordinary congress of the Radical Party. On May 25, 2014, he came in third place in the presidential elections, receiving 8.32% of the votes.
In the extraordinary elections in the fall of 2014, he was elected to the VIII Verkhovna Rada under No. 1 on the list of the Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko.
In the extraordinary parliamentary elections of 2019 he headed the electoral list of the Radical Party. Ultimately, the RPL party could not overcome the 5% electoral threshold in the elections to the VRU.
Scandals. Lyashko has had repeated problems with Ukrainian courts. Various sources report about the first serious experience of this kind, unrelated to journalistic activity. In 1994, he was arrested and that same year convicted under several articles of the Ukrainian Criminal Code, including for theft of state and collective property on a particularly large scale, illegal appropriation of powers, etc. The sentence was six years with confiscation of property. A year later, he was released due to an amnesty, and in 1998 his criminal record was expunged early.
In 2001, Lyashko was conditionally sentenced for his professional activities. Some of his materials from the late 1990s about former acting Prime Minister Vasilij Durdints were considered slanderous by the local Themis. In August, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled in the case 'Lyashko v. Ukraine' in favor of the First and recognized a violation of the journalist's right to freedom of expression. In fact, Lyashko entered politics and positioned himself as an investigative journalist, as a fighter for freedom of speech and against corruption and arbitrariness of officials.
At the height of the 'Coalition-2006', when he was already a member of parliament, Lyashko stated that someone had provided him with possible evidence of bribes to the leader of the Social Party Alexander Moroz for the Social Party's joining the coalition with the Party of Regions. Later, a court, upon the complaint of the Parliament speaker, declared the information disseminated by Yulia Tymoshenko's party unreliable and obliged them to refute it.
In 2010, a scandalous video was published on the Internet in which Lyashko was allegedly recorded during an interrogation by a prosecutor, while he spoke on video about his connections with a high-ranking official named Boris. JUT assured that this was no grounds for expelling Lyashko from the faction. A few days later, the JUT faction unanimously decided to expel Lyashko and Serhij Osyka, supposedly because of their cooperation with the majority coalition, particularly for their agreement to changes to the constitution, the law on the cabinet, and the rules of procedure of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
On the night of March 9 to 10, 2014, he kidnapped the deputy of the Luhansk regional council Arsene Klitschev. The process was accompanied by beatings and shootings.
On May 16, 2014, during his election campaign in Ternopil, he sang a song popular among Ukrainian football fans 'Putin is a bastard'.
Rankings. In 2006, he was listed as the 20th among the youngest and most promising Ukrainian politicians by Focus magazine. According to the magazine, his prospects are determined by the fact that Lyashko 'is among the most active representatives of one of the most influential factions in parliament'.
Family. Wife - Rosita, has a daughter Vladislava (2002) and son Alexander (2020).
Hobbies. Collecting coins, ties, and glasses.
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