Volodymyr Lytvyn

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Volodymyr Lytvyn
Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
Володимир Михайлович Литвин
Transl. : Volodymyr Mychajlovyč Lytvyn
Transcr. : Volodymyr Mychajlowytsch Lytvyn
Cyrillic ( Russian )
Владимир Михайлович Литвин
Transl .: Vladimir Michajlovič Litvin
Transcr .: Vladimir Mikhailovich Litvin

Volodymyr Mychajlowytsch Lytwyn (born April 28, 1956 in Sloboda Romaniwska , Zhytomyr Oblast ) is a Ukrainian politician. He was President of the Ukrainian Parliament from 2002 to 2006 and again from December 2008 to December 2012 .

Life

Volodymyr Lytvyn graduated from the Faculty of History of Kiev State University in 1978 . He then stayed at the university as a lecturer until 1986. From 1986 to 1989 he worked in the Ministry of Education of the Ukrainian SSR and then worked in the apparatus of the Central Committee of Ukrainian Communists . In 1991 he returned to the university, where he taught until 1994, after which he began his political career in the now independent Ukraine.

Lytwyn was initially assistant to the newly elected President Leonid Kuchma from August 1994 and rose to the position of deputy head of the presidential office in November 1995 . From 1999 he headed the presidential office.

According to media reports, Lytvyn, as the head of the presidential office at the time, was implicated in the kidnapping and murder of the journalist Heorhiy Gongadze in 2000, without a judicial conviction. In 2003 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine .

In the 2002 parliamentary elections , Lytvyn was elected to the Verkhovna Rada , the Ukrainian parliament. He ran on the list of the electoral alliance Sa Jedinu Ukrajinu ("For a United Ukraine"), in which the Party of Regions was also involved. Lytwyn was then elected President of Parliament and held this office until the parliamentary elections in 2006 , including during the so-called " Orange Revolution ". In 2004 he became chairman of Narodna Partija . In the 2006 elections, his electoral alliance Narodnyj Blok Lytwyna ("People's Block Lytwyn") failed because of the three percent hurdle .

In the parliamentary elections in 2007 , the alliance, which now bears the name “Block Lytwyn”, made it into parliament with just under 4% of the votes. After the breakup of the governing coalition and the election of parliamentary president Arseniy Yatsenjuk , Lytvyn was elected for the second time as parliamentary president on December 9, 2008. At the same time the entry of his parliamentary group into a government coalition with the blok Juliji Tymoshenko and the NU-NS was announced.

Volodymyr Lytvyn ran in the 2010 presidential election but only received 2.35% of the vote. In the parliamentary elections in 2012 he was able to win a direct mandate in the Zhytomyr Oblast and moved back into the Verkhovna Rada. On December 13, 2012, Volodymyr Rybak was elected as the new President of Parliament, Lytwyn lost this office. After the parliamentary elections in Ukraine in 2014 , he is a member of the “People's Will” group in the Verkhovna Rada .

Lytwyn received an honorary doctorate from the Turkish Gazi Universitesi .

Web links

Commons : Wolodymyr Lytwyn  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.ukraine.ru/catalog/persona/litvin.html
  2. ↑ Kiev settles the Kuchma affair , Wiener Zeitung of December 14, 2011
  3. ↑ Website of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine ( Memento of the original dated December 3, 2016 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. - Volodymyr Lytwyn membership site, accessed November 30, 2016  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nas.gov.ua
  4. ↑ NEWSru.ua : Володимира Литвина обрали головою Верховної Ради. Він оголосив коаліцію БЮТ, НУ-НС, БЛ ( Memento of the original from December 12, 2008 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.newsru.ua
  5. ↑ Volodymyr Rybak was elected chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Ukrinform on December 13, 2012
  6. ^ Composition of the group "Volkswille" , accessed on February 29, 2016
  7. ↑ http://www.tbmm.gov.tr/develop/owa/meclis_bulteni.bulten_sayfa?psayi=105&psayfa=0023
personal data
SURNAME Lytwyn, Volodymyr
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lytwyn, Volodymyr Mychajlowytsch; Литвин, Володимир Михайлович (Ukrainian); Литвин, Владимир Михайлович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Sloboda Romaniwska , Zhytomyr Oblast , Soviet Union