Oleh Lyashko

Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
	Олег Валерійович Ляшко
Transl. :	Oleh Valerijovyč Ljaško
Transcr. :	Oleh Valerijowytsch Lyaschko

Oleh Valerijowytsch Lyaschko ( Ukrainian Олег Валерійович Ляшко ; born December 3, 1972 in Chernihiv , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian politician , member of the Verkhovna Rada and former journalist. He is chairman of the Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko .

Election results in the 2014 presidential election for Lyashko to Oblast

Life

Lyashko was born on December 3, 1972 in Chernihiv, but grew up in the village of Lysyne ( Лизине ) near Bilokurakyne in eastern Ukraine. In 1998 he studied at the National Pedagogical University in Kharkiv . Lyashko was involved in several scandals, including a scandal over alleged homosexuality in 2010. He is married and has a daughter.

Political activity

Lyashko was elected to the Rada for the first time in the 2006 parliamentary elections and was re-elected in the 2007 elections, each running on the list of Blok Yuliya Tymoshenko . In 2010 he was expelled from the Fatherland Party for collaborating with the Party of Regions . He has been chairman of the Radical Party since 2011 . In the parliamentary elections in 2012 Lyashko was able to obtain a direct mandate in his constituency in Chernihiv Oblast and thus received another seat in the Verkhovna Rada.

In the presidential election in Ukraine on May 25, 2014, he ran as a candidate for the office of president and received 8.33% of the vote. He achieved the third best result behind Petro Poroshenko and Julija Tymoshenko . In his homeland of Chernihiv he even received 16.59% of the votes cast.

During the crisis in Ukraine in 2014 , Lyashko took positions that were rated as nationalist or populist . He also attracted attention with partly militant demands and actions. So Lyashko was in the arrest of a pro-Russian politician in in March 2014 Luhansk involved, referred in June 2014, use of physical force a television crew of the Russian television from the Ukrainian Parliament and confessed to the assault of an administrative building in the gate in the Donetsk Oblast , in which two people were killed and another injured. In May 2014, Lyashko avowed himself on his website for the arrest and interrogation of pro-Russian activist Igor Kakidzianov . According to a report by Amnesty International , video footage shows a direct involvement of Lyashko and a group of armed men in the mistreatment of the injured Kakidzianov and another man near Mariupol airfield on May 7, 2014. In early August 2014, Amnesty International accused Lyashko of having one Campaigning violence, intimidation and kidnapping in violation of the norms of international law. The Ukrainian political scientist Anton Schechowzow called Lyashko a "populist without ideology". His party benefits from the widespread thought in Ukrainian society that the government is not doing enough against Russian aggression. The Minsk Protocol was "a capitulation Poroschenkos disguised form" of Lyashko in September 2014 before Putin called.

Lyashko is a co-founder of the Ukrainian voluntary combat unit Battalion Shakhtar .

Lyashko and his Radical Party became the fifth largest party in the Verkhovna Rada in the parliamentary elections in Ukraine on October 26, 2014 .

As a presidential candidate in the 2019 presidential election in Ukraine , he came in 7th place with 5.48%.

The Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko also adopted in 2019 at the parliamentary election in part, but reached less than 5 percent of the vote and has since no longer represented in the Verkhovna Rada.

Web links

Commons : Oleh Lyaschko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Personal website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Official portal of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian) ; Retrieved May 28, 2014
2. ↑ biography on politrada.com (Russian) ; Retrieved May 28, 2014
3. ↑ Homosexual scandal on rus.newsru.ua from October 8, 2010 ( memento of the original from June 3, 2013 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 October 25, 2014 
4. ↑ Wife Lyashko: Joke about his orientation is not funny ; on tabloid.pravda of May 3, 2013, accessed October 25, 2014
5. ↑ Ukrainian right-wing populist - A "simple guy" from the country , article in the taz from September 25, 2014
6. ↑ Central Electoral Commission of Ukraine - Voting Results of the 2014 Presidential Election ( Memento of the original from May 28, 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. ; accessed on May 27, 2014 (Ukrainian) 
7. ↑ Central Electoral Commission of Ukraine - Lyashko's voting results in the 2014 presidential election ( Memento of the original from May 28, 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. ; accessed on May 28, 2014 (Ukrainian) 
8. ↑ Article in Kyiv Post on May 22, 2014 , accessed on July 12, 2014
9. ↑ Website segodnya.ua from March 10, 2014
10. ↑ Contribution of the station 5 Kanal on the website ukrstream.tv
11. ↑ Militia backed by presidential candidate Lyashko takes credit for assassination of Russian-backed separatist , Kyiv Post, May 23, 2014
12. ↑ Lyaschko's website, entry from May 7, 2014 ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
13. ↑ [1]
14. ↑ Impunity reigns for abductions and ill-treatment by pro-Kyiv vigilantes in eastern Ukraine , Amnesty International website , August 6, 2014
15. ↑ Interview with A. Schechowzow in Der Standard from 23 August 2014
16. ^ Eastern Ukraine: No War, No Peace Article in the Badische Zeitung from September 15, 2014
17. ↑ Lyaschko's website, July 8, 2014 ( Memento of the original from July 18, 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. 
18. ↑ Central Electoral Commission of Ukraine - Extraordinary Elections of the People's Deputies of Ukraine on October 26, 2014 ( Memento of the original from October 31, 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 October 28, 2014 
19. ↑ Results of the presidential elections in Ukraine 2019 on the website of the Central Electoral Commission of Ukraine on March 31, 2019; accessed on May 10, 2019 (Ukrainian).
20. ↑ Results of the parliamentary elections in Ukraine 2019 on the official website of the Central Committee for Elections in Ukraine / Central Electoral Commission of Ukraine. Retrieved July 23, 2019 (Ukrainian)