Iryna Herashchenko (politician)

Iryna Herashchenko (2013)

Iryna Volodymyrivna Herashchenko ( Ukrainian Іри́на Володи́мирівна Гера́щенко , born May 15, 1971 in Cherkassy , Ukrainian SSR ), is a Ukrainian journalist , politician and - with interruption - since 2007 a member of the Verkhovna Rada .

In June 2014 President Poroshenko appointed her "Special Envoy for the Peaceful Solution to the Situation in the Donetsk and Lugansk Regions ".

Life

In 1993 Herashchenko completed her journalism studies at the Taras Shevchenko University in Kiev . From 1993 to 2005 she worked first for the Ukrainian television channel UT-1 , then as editor-in-chief of the news channel Inter , which is now controlled by Dmytro Firtasch , and finally as an author for the television news agency Profi TV . From February 2005 to September 2006 she was head of the press service of President Viktor Yushchenko and from 2002 to 2005 she was active as honorary press chief for his party Nascha Ukrajina (“Our Ukraine - National Self-Defense”). From November 2006 she was the president of the UNIAN news agency , which now belongs to Ihor Kolomojskyj . From 2007 to 2012 Herashchenko was a member of the Nascha Ukrajina parliamentary group for the first time in the Verkhovna Rada. She joined the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform faction in the 2012 parliamentary election and was head of the Rada Committee for European Integration from December 2012 .

On October 26, Herashchenko was re-elected to the Verkhovna Rada at number 9 in the Petro Poroshenko bloc . In the course of the war in Ukraine that began in 2014 , she was appointed by a presidential decree on June 17, 2014 as “Special Representative on the Peaceful Resolution of the Situation in the Donetsk and Luhansk Regions ”. From April 14, 2016, she was the first deputy of the parliamentary speaker Andrij Parubij .

Private

Herashchenko is married with two daughters and one son.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Геращенко Ирина Владимировна. file.liga.net. Retrieved September 1, 2014.
2. ↑ Ukraine conflict: Russian journalist killed in combat . Mirror. June 17, 2014. Retrieved September 1, 2014.
3. ↑ Media pluralism à la Ukraine - money and power put radio reporting in shackles Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom from February 15, 2013 ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 25, 2014  
4. ↑ The Ukraine: Power Vacuum Between Russia and the European Union by Winfried Schneider-Deters, page 278
5. ↑ Геращенко Ірина Володимирівна. Verkhovna Rada (website). Retrieved September 1, 2014.
6. ↑ Central Election Commission, Electoral list of PARTY "BLOK PETRA POROSHENKA", Official Website, cvk.gov.ua ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 8, 2015 
7. ↑ УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАЇНИ № 533/2014. ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. president.gov.ua. June 17, 2014. Retrieved September 1, 2014.  
8. ↑ UDAR MP Heraschenko becomes Poroshenko's envoy for peaceful settlement in southeastern Ukraine on June 17, 2014 , accessed on March 8, 2015
9. ↑ Iryna Herashchenko became first deputy spokeswoman on ukranews on April 14, 2016; accessed on June 30, 2017 (Ukrainian)