Roman Bessmertnyj

Roman Bessmertnyj 2011

Roman Petrowytsch Bessmertnyj (born November 15, 1965 in Motyshyn , Kiev Oblast , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Ukrainian politician.

Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
	Роман Петрович Безсмертний
Transl. :	Roman Petrovyč Bezsmertnyj
Transcr. :	Roman Petrowytsch Bessmertnyj
Cyrillic ( Russian )
	Роман Петрович Бессмертный
Transl .:	Roman Petrovič Bessmertnyj
Transcr .:	Roman Petrovich Bessmertny

education

Roman Bessmertnyj studied from 1983 to 1990 at the History Faculty of the Kiev Pedagogical Institute and is a history teacher according to his profession. He received his doctorate in 1997 on a political science topic at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and holds the title of Kandydat politytschnych nauk , which corresponds to a German doctoral degree.

Political career

Bessmertnyj was first elected to the Verkhovna Rada , the Ukrainian parliament, in 1994. He was a member of the faction of the Ukrainian Republican Party , which he soon left. In the 1998 parliamentary elections, he ran for the People's Democratic Party and was re-elected to the Rada. From 1997 to 2002 he was the official representative of President Leonid Kuchma in parliament. After the dismissal of the then Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko in 2001, Bessmertnyj continued to work with him and in the following year submitted his resignation as an employee of the President. Before the parliamentary elections in 2002 , he headed the preparatory staff of the Nascha Ukrajina electoral block of the future President Yushchenko and was re-elected to parliament. Before the 2004 presidential elections , he was again significantly involved in the internal party preparations and later in the organization of the mass protests of the so-called "Orange Revolution".

At the beginning of 2005, after Yushchenko was elected president , the Nascha Ukrajina negotiated coalition with the Socialist Party and Blok Juliji Tymoshenko . He came out vehemently against Yulia Tymoshenko as a possible Prime Minister and refused to accept the post of Deputy Prime Minister under Tymoshenko.

After the dismissal of the Tymoshenko government in September 2005, Bessmertnyj joined Prime Minister Yury Jechanurov's cabinet as Vice-Prime Minister . In November 2005 he left the government to prepare his party for possible new elections. From May to December 2006 he was chairman of the parliamentary group of the Nascha Ukrajina.

On April 4, 2007, he was appointed Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the President , where he is responsible for information policy. In the summer of 2007 he announced his resignation as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Nascha Ukrajina - Narodna samooborona electoral bloc .

Web links

Commons : Roman Bessmertnyj  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Biography at "Chto je chto w Ukrajini" (Ukrainian)