Olejnik Wladimir

Date of Birth: 16.04.1957

Place of Birth. Education. Born in the village of Busiwka in the Shaschkiw district of Cherkasy region. In 1981, he graduated from the Kharkiv Law Institute (specialization - Law, qualification - Lawyer). Candidate of historical sciences.

Career. 1974-1975 - Machinist of the Busiwka branch of the Agricultural Technology Center.

1975-1977 - Military service in the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union.

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1977-1978 - Driver of the Busiwka branch of the Agricultural Technology Center.

1981-1982 - Intern of the people's judge of the Pridneprowski District Court of Cherkasy.

Since 1982 - People's judge of the Pridneprowski District Court of Cherkasy, from 1985 to 1987 - Chairman of this court.

1987-1988 - Head of the Department of Administrative and Trade Financial Bodies of the City Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine in Cherkasy.

1988-1990 - Employee of the State Legal Department of the Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine in Cherkasy.

1990-1994 - Deputy Head of the City Executive Committee of Cherkasy.

1994-2002 - Mayor of Cherkasy.

2005-2006 - Assistant Advisor to the Ukrainian Member of Parliament.

2005-2006 - Deputy Director of the construction company UkrBudTsentr in Cherkasy.

2006-2007 - People's Deputy of Ukraine of the V convocation for the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (No. 30 on the election list). Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Industrial and Regulatory Policy and Entrepreneurship.

From October 2009 to March 2010 - General Director of LLC Information Agency Express-Inform.

From March 2010 to December 2012 - People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VI convocation for the Party of Regions (No. 185 on the list). First Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Legislative Support of Law Enforcement Activities.

Since December 2012 - People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VII convocation for the Party of Regions (No. 17 on the list). Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Legislation to Support Law Enforcement Activities. Member of the Accounting Commission of the Verkhovna Rada.

Together with Vadim Kolesnichenko, he was co-author of the 'Dictator Laws' adopted on January 16, 2014 - a package of anti-monopoly laws that significantly restricted the rights of citizens and freedom of speech.

After Euromaidan. On January 24, 2014, during the protests in Ukraine against the foreign and domestic policies of the Party of Regions, it became known that Wladimir Olejnik was banned from entering the United States of America. This move was a reaction of the USA to the use of violence against protesters by the then government.

In August 2015, he, along with other former officials from the time of Yanukovych's presidency, founded the 'Committee for the Rescue of Ukraine' in Moscow, which acted from the perspective of Russian propaganda.

On August 20, 2015, the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs annulled Wladimir Olejnik's diplomatic passport. According to the ministry's statement, he lost his passport because he '…lost the grounds for using the diplomatic passport and did not return the document prescribed by law to the ministry in time.'

Marital Status. Married.

15.04.2022