Sergey Rakhmanin

Date of Birth: 17.04.1969

Sergei Ivanovich Rakhmanin - Journalist, publicist, television host, first deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper 'Wochen Spiegel'. Member of the Ukrainian parliament, former faction leader of the Golos party in the IX Congress.

Place of Birth. Education. He was born on April 17, 1969, in Kharkiv. In 1986, he began his studies at the Faculty of Journalism at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, graduating in 1993.

Career. From 1983 to 1987, he worked as a freelancer for the Kyiv newspaper 'Young Guard', from 1989 to 1990 he was its permanent freelancer, and from 1991 to 1992 he was its correspondent.

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In 1992, he was a correspondent for the magazine 'Morning Hour'.

From 1992 to 1998, he worked as a reporter, correspondent, special correspondent, deputy editor-in-chief of the political department, editor-in-chief of the political department, deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper 'Kyiv News'.

Since October 1998, he has been the political editor of the newspaper 'Wochen Spiegel'.

Since September 2001, he has been a member of the All-Ukrainian Commission for Journalistic Ethics.

In 2001, he was a co-founder of the public organization 'Charter-4'. From 2002-2003, he was a member of the Journalists' Strike Committee.

In July 2012, after the adoption of the bill 'On the Principles of State Language Policy', he went on a hunger strike. During the clashes at the Ukrainian House, he suffered a heart attack.

From June 2014 to 2019, he hosted the show 'The Game of Classics' on the ZIK channel.

From 2018, he hosted the show 'Apocrypha' on Radio NV.

Political Career. In the early elections to the Ukrainian parliament in 2019, he was elected as a deputy of the Golos party in the IX Congress, No. 8 on the list.

From August 29, 2019, to December 28, 2020, he was the faction leader of the Golos party in the Ukrainian parliament of the IX Congress.

Author. Author of the book 'Hands That Rock the Cradle of Democracy' (2002), the script of the documentary 'Independence. Ukrainian Variant' (2003).

15.04.2022.