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<strong>Directory</strong> <strong>of</strong> MPs <strong>of</strong> <strong>Ukrainian</strong> Parliament <strong>of</strong> sixth convocation<br />
(by faction, as <strong>of</strong> January <strong>28</strong>, 2009)<br />
Party <strong>of</strong> Regions<br />
Members: 175<br />
Faction leader: Viktor Yanukovych<br />
Deputy leaders: Hanna Herman, Vasyl Dzharty, Oleksandr Yefremov, Oleksandr Lavrynovych,<br />
Serhiy Lyovochkin, Volodymyr Makeyenko, Andriy Klyuyev, Serhiy Klyuyev, Borys<br />
Kolesnikov, Oleksandr Peklushenko, Volodymyr Rybak.<br />
YANUKOVYCH, Viktor Fedorovych; born 1950; leader, Party <strong>of</strong> Regions; former prime<br />
minister (2002-04; 2006-<strong>07</strong>) and presidential candidate (2004); former Donetsk Region governor<br />
(1997-2002)<br />
CHORNOVIL, Taras Vyacheslavovych; born 1964; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous <strong>parliament</strong>s (from People's Movement <strong>of</strong> Ukraine (Rukh), 2000-02; from Viktor<br />
Yushchenko's Our Ukraine bloc, 2002-06; from Party <strong>of</strong> Regions, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); son <strong>of</strong> late<br />
nationalist party leader and Soviet era dissident Vyacheslav Chornovil<br />
BOHOSLOVSKA, Inna Hermanivna; born 1960; unaffiliated; former leader <strong>of</strong> Viche party<br />
(2001-<strong>07</strong>); member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (1998-2002); former deputy justice<br />
minister (20<strong>07</strong>)<br />
SHUFRYCH, Nestor Ivanovych; born 1966; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; former member, first<br />
deputy head <strong>of</strong> United Social Democratic Party <strong>of</strong> Ukraine (1996-20<strong>07</strong>); member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (1998-2002; 2002-06); former emergencies minister (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
AZAROV, Mykola Yanovych; born 1947; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; former first deputy prime<br />
minister and finance minister (2004, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); former acting prime minister (2005); former head<br />
<strong>of</strong> State Tax Administration (1996-2002); member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament<br />
(1994-98, 2006)<br />
AKHMETOV, Rinat Leonidovych; born 1966; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); president <strong>of</strong> Shakhtar Football Club (Donetsk) (since<br />
1996); owner <strong>of</strong> 90 per cent stake in System Capital Management company; Ukraine's richest<br />
businessman (according to Polish magazine Wprost)<br />
YEFREMOV, Oleksandr Serhiyovych; born 1954; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); president <strong>of</strong> Luhansk regional branch <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Ukrainian</strong> Union <strong>of</strong> Industrialists and Entrepreneurs; former Luhansk Region governor (1998-<br />
2005); board chairman <strong>of</strong> Ukrkomunbank commercial bank (since 1996)<br />
ZVYAHILSKIY, Yukhym Leonidovych; born 1933; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; chairman <strong>of</strong><br />
board <strong>of</strong> lessees <strong>of</strong> Zasyadko coal mine (Donetsk Region); director <strong>of</strong> Zasyadko coal mine<br />
(1979-92); member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (1990-94, from Apr 1994; 1998-<br />
2002, 2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); former first deputy prime minister (1993); former acting prime<br />
minister (1993-94)<br />
KOLESNIKOV, Borys Viktorovych; born 1962; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous
<strong>parliament</strong> (2006-<strong>07</strong>); member <strong>of</strong> supervisory board <strong>of</strong> Azovstal metallurgical plant; board<br />
chairman <strong>of</strong> Kyiv-Konti confectionery plant (since 1991); former head <strong>of</strong> Donetsk regional<br />
council (2001-06); former vice-president <strong>of</strong> Shakhtar Football Club (1995-99)<br />
BOHUSLAYEV, Vyacheslav Oleksandrovych; born 1938; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member<br />
<strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); director-general (1988-2006), board chairman<br />
(1994-2006) <strong>of</strong> Motor Sich aircraft engine plant in Zaporizhzhya<br />
SKUDAR, Heorhiy Markovych; born 1942; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); director (1991-94), director-general, board<br />
chairman (since 1994) <strong>of</strong> Novokramatorsk machine-building plant (Donetsk Region); co-owner<br />
<strong>of</strong> Novokramatorsk machine-building plant<br />
RYBAK, Volodymyr Vasylyovych; born 1946; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (1998-2002, 2002-06, Apr-Sep 2006); former deputy prime minister<br />
and minister for construction, architecture and public utilities (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former Donetsk mayor<br />
(1992, 1994)<br />
KLYUYEV, Andriy Petrovych; born 1964; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; former deputy prime<br />
minister for industry, fuel and energy and agriculture; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong><br />
Parliament (2002-06, Apr-Sep 2006); former deputy prime minister for fuel and energy sector<br />
(2003-04); director-general <strong>of</strong> Ukrpidshypnyk company (1993-94); owner <strong>of</strong> 47 per cent stake in<br />
Ukrpidshypnyk corporation, Servis-Invest energy supply company and Miskenerho (City<br />
Energy); brother <strong>of</strong> MP Serhiy Klyuyev<br />
YANKOVSKIY, Mykola Andriyovych; born 1944; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (1998-2002, 2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); director-general (1988-<br />
1995), president, board chairman (1995-98) <strong>of</strong> Stirol chemical plant (Horlivka, Donetsk Region);<br />
honorary president <strong>of</strong> Stirol chemical plant<br />
LYTVYNOV, Leonid Fedorovych; born 1944; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); board chairman, director-general <strong>of</strong> Yenakiyeve<br />
steelworks (Donetsk Region) (1996-2005); adviser to director-general <strong>of</strong> Yenakiyeve steelworks<br />
(2005-06)<br />
VASYLYEV, Hennadiy Andriyovych; born 1953; unaffiliated; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (1994-98, 1998-2002, 2002-03); former prosecutor-general (Nov<br />
2003-Sep 2004); former Donetsk Region prosecutor (1991-96, 1997-98)<br />
LANDYK, Valentyn Ivanovych; born 1946; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (1994-98, 2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); former deputy prime minister for<br />
charge <strong>of</strong> foreign trade and investment (1993-94); director-general (1987-93), president (1998-<br />
2001) <strong>of</strong> Donetsk-based Nord Group home appliances producer; controls Nord Group home<br />
appliances producer<br />
TYKHONOV, Viktor Mykolayovych; born 1949; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (1990-94, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); former head <strong>of</strong> Luhansk regional<br />
council (1998-2006)<br />
TABACHNYK, Yakiv Pinevych; born 1945; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; accordion player;
member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); deputy director-general for social<br />
issues at Steel Track company (Kyiv) (since 2000)<br />
PRYHODSKIY, Anton Vikentiyovych; born 1950; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); president <strong>of</strong> Interregional Industrial Union<br />
corporation (since 2001); former director-general <strong>of</strong> Donetsk-based Embrol Ukrayina Ltd<br />
company (1996-2004)<br />
DZHARTY, Vasyl Heorhiyovych; born 1958; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; former minister <strong>of</strong><br />
environmental protection (2006-<strong>07</strong>); member <strong>of</strong> previous <strong>parliament</strong> (Apr-Sep 2006); head <strong>of</strong><br />
Party <strong>of</strong> Regions election HQ (2005-06); former first deputy Donetsk regional governor (2002-<br />
05); former mayor <strong>of</strong> Makiyivka (Donetsk Region) (2000-02)<br />
BAKHTEYEVA, Tetyana Dmytrivna; born 1953; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); director-general (since 1997), chief<br />
doctor (1999-2002) <strong>of</strong> Donetsk regional medical association<br />
STOYAN, Oleksandr Mykolayovych; born 1943; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (1994-98, 1998-2002, 2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); former head <strong>of</strong> Federation<br />
<strong>of</strong> Trade Unions <strong>of</strong> Ukraine (1992-2005)<br />
KHARA, Vasyl Heorhiyovych; born 1947; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
<strong>parliament</strong>s (1998-2002, 2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); head <strong>of</strong> Party <strong>of</strong> Regions election HQ (2005); head<br />
<strong>of</strong> Donetsk regional council <strong>of</strong> trade unions (since 1994)<br />
TURMANOV, Viktor Ivanovych; born 1945; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); head <strong>of</strong> Trade Union <strong>of</strong> Coal Industry<br />
Employees (since 1998)<br />
LUKASH, Olena Leonidivna; born 1976; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
<strong>parliament</strong> (2006-<strong>07</strong>); first deputy minister <strong>of</strong> Cabinet <strong>of</strong> Ministers (minister without portfolio)<br />
and head <strong>of</strong> directorate <strong>of</strong> legal support at Cabinet <strong>of</strong> Ministers secretariat; Viktor Yanukovych's<br />
lawyer in Supreme Court case over legitimacy <strong>of</strong> second round <strong>of</strong> 2004 presidential election<br />
KIVALOV, Serhiy Vasylyovych; born 1954; unaffiliated; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong><br />
Parliament (1998-2002, 2002-04, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); former chairman <strong>of</strong> Central Electoral Commission<br />
(Feb-<strong>Dec</strong> 2004);former rector (1997-98), president (1998-2004) <strong>of</strong> Odessa National Law<br />
Academy<br />
DEYCH, Borys Davydovych; born 1938; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); former first deputy speaker (1998-2002),<br />
speaker (2002-06) <strong>of</strong> Crimean <strong>parliament</strong><br />
KOSTUSYEV, Oleksiy Oleksiyovych; born 1954; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; chairman <strong>of</strong><br />
Antimonopoly Committee <strong>of</strong> Ukraine from 2001 to March 2008, resigned to take up seat as MP<br />
<strong>of</strong> Party <strong>of</strong> Regions; member <strong>of</strong> previous <strong>parliament</strong>s (from Socialist Party, 1998-2001; from<br />
Party <strong>of</strong> Regions, Apr-Oct 2006)<br />
PISKUN, Svyatoslav Mykhaylovych; born 1959; unaffiliated; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation<br />
<strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former prosecutor-general (2002-03, 2004-05, 26 Apr-24 May <strong>07</strong>)<br />
SAVCHUK, Oleksandr Volodymyrovych; born 1954; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong>
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); board chairman, director-general (since 2003) <strong>of</strong><br />
Mariupol Heavy Machine-Building Plant (Mariupol, Donetsk Region); president, board<br />
chairman (since 2000) <strong>of</strong> Azovmash machine-building company<br />
BILIY, Oleksiy Petrovych; born 1961; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former director-general (2002-06) <strong>of</strong> Azovstal<br />
metallurgical plant (Mariupol, Donetsk Region)<br />
TABACHNYK, Dmytro Volodymyrovych; born 1963; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; deputy prime<br />
minister (2006-<strong>07</strong>); member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (1998-2002, 2002-03);<br />
former deputy prime minister (2002-05); former head <strong>of</strong> President Leonid Kuchma's<br />
administration (1994-96); head <strong>of</strong> campaign HQ <strong>of</strong> Leonid Kuchma (1994)<br />
KYSELYOV, Vasyl Oleksiyovych; born 1948; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former first deputy speaker (2002-06), speaker (1996-97)<br />
<strong>of</strong> Crimean <strong>parliament</strong><br />
PETROV, Borys Fedorovych; born 1952; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former board chairman, director-general <strong>of</strong> Zaporizhzhyabased<br />
<strong>Ukrainian</strong> Graphite company (1997-2006)<br />
HORBAL, Vasyl Mykhaylovych; born 1971; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); board chairman <strong>of</strong> Ukrhazbank (since<br />
1997)<br />
KLIMOV, Leonid Mykhaylovych; born 1953; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); honorary president <strong>of</strong> Chornomorets football<br />
club (Odessa), president <strong>of</strong> Prymorye financial-industrial group<br />
KRUHLOV, Mykola Petrovych; born 1950; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); former transport minister (1997); former<br />
Mykolayiv Region governor (1996-97, 1997-99)<br />
SAFIULLIN, Ravil Safovych; born 1955; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
<strong>parliament</strong>s (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); first vice-president <strong>of</strong> Shakhtar Football Club (1994-<br />
2000),president <strong>of</strong> Pr<strong>of</strong>essional Football League (since 2000)<br />
KUZMUK, Oleksandr Ivanovych; born 1954; unaffiliated; former deputy prime minister for<br />
defence and security (20<strong>07</strong>); former defence minister (1996-2001, 2004-05); member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06)<br />
VOLKOV, Oleksandr Anatoliyovych; born 1964; unaffiliated; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation<br />
<strong>of</strong> Parliament from pro-presidential Our Ukraine Bloc (2006-<strong>07</strong>); founder and president <strong>of</strong> Kyiv<br />
Basketball Club (1999); former Olympic basketball champion (1988)<br />
PRASOLOV, Ihor Mykolayovych; born 1962; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former director-general <strong>of</strong> MP Rinat Akhmetov's System<br />
Capital Management company (2000-05); supervisory board chairman <strong>of</strong> Azovstal metallurgical<br />
plant<br />
PEKLUSHENKO, Oleksandr Mykolayovych; born 1954; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); board chairman <strong>of</strong> Zaporizhzhya
Regional Consumer Union (1986-2002)<br />
LYOVOCHKIN, Serhiy Volodymyrovych; born 1972; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; head <strong>of</strong> Prime<br />
Minister Viktor Yanukovych's <strong>of</strong>fice (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former first aide to President Leonid Kuchma<br />
(2002-05)<br />
MAKEYENKO, Volodymyr Volodymyrovych; born 1965; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member<br />
<strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); former board chairman <strong>of</strong><br />
Ukrhazprombank (1996-98)<br />
HERMAN, Hanna Mykolayivna; born 1959; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych's former press<br />
secretary; former head <strong>of</strong> the Kyiv bureau <strong>of</strong> US-funded Radio Liberty (2003-04)<br />
BOYKO, Yuriy Anatoliyovych; born 1958; unaffiliated; former fuel and energy minister (2006-<br />
<strong>07</strong>); first deputy fuel and energy minister, board chairman <strong>of</strong> Naftohaz Ukrayiny national oil and<br />
gas company (2003-05); deputy state secretary, board chairman <strong>of</strong> Naftohaz Ukrayiny (2002-<br />
03); acting board chairman, board chairman <strong>of</strong> Ukrtatnafta oil company (2001-02)<br />
PAVLENKO, Eduard Ivanovych; born 1947; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; former Communist<br />
Party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (from Communist Party, 1994-<br />
98; from Party <strong>of</strong> Regions, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); former representative <strong>of</strong> ombudsman in Parliament (1999-<br />
2006)<br />
HUMENYUK, Ihor Mykolayovych; born 1961; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); director-general (1992-2002), president (2005-06) <strong>of</strong><br />
ARS company (which owns stakes in several coal mines, Horlivka coke plant, Viktoriya hotel<br />
complex, Sverdlovsk engineering works (Versii.com website)).<br />
KOLOTSEY, Yuriy Oleksandrovych; born 1948; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former vice-president (1991-2002), executive director<br />
(2002-04), secretary-general (2004-06) <strong>of</strong> Shakhtar Football Club<br />
KINAKH, Anatoliy Kyrylovych; born 1954; unaffiliated; former leader <strong>of</strong> Party <strong>of</strong> Industrialists<br />
and Entrepreneurs; chairman <strong>of</strong> Union <strong>of</strong> Industrialists and Entrepreneurs <strong>of</strong> Ukraine (since<br />
1996); member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (from Our Ukraine bloc, 2006-<strong>07</strong>; from<br />
For a United Ukraine! bloc, 2002; from People's Democratic Party, 1998-2001; as Communist<br />
party member, 1990-92); former economics minister (20<strong>07</strong>); former National Security and<br />
Defence Council secretary (September 2005-May 2006); former prime minister (2001-02);<br />
former first deputy prime minister (2005, 1999); former deputy prime minister for industrial<br />
policy (1995-96); former head <strong>of</strong> Mykolayiv regional council (1994-95)<br />
LYESHCHYNSKIY, Oleksandr Olehovych; born 1964; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); owner <strong>of</strong> Ukrinterprodukt (which<br />
controls bakeries, sugar refineries, confectionery plants and meat processing plants)<br />
PRUTNIK, Eduard Anatoliyovych; born 1973; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; head <strong>of</strong> State<br />
Committee for Television and Radio; board chairman <strong>of</strong> Sotsium expert analytical centre;<br />
member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (April-October 2006); former adviser to Viktor<br />
Yanukovych when he was prime minister (2002-05); former deputy Donetsk Region governor<br />
(2002) when Yanukovych was governor; former deputy head <strong>of</strong> Donetsk regional council (2001-<br />
02); owner <strong>of</strong> <strong>Ukrainian</strong> Business Bank, Kalininska central ore enrichment plant, Skhid-
Investprom, former owner <strong>of</strong> NTN TV channel (Korrespondent.net website)<br />
DZHYHA, Mykola Vasylyovych; born 1949; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former rector <strong>of</strong> Interior Ministry's Kyiv Law Institute<br />
(2004-06); former first deputy interior minister (1998-2000, 2000-01)<br />
MOMOT, Serhiy Vasylyovych; born 1963; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); vice-president (from 1995), acting president (1996),<br />
president (1997-2006) <strong>of</strong> Donetsk-based Danko company (which owns shares in coal mines and<br />
ore enrichment plants)<br />
SAMOYLENKO, Yuriy Pavlovych; born 1944; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former head <strong>of</strong> Donetsk regional directorate <strong>of</strong> Security<br />
Service <strong>of</strong> Ukraine<br />
VILKUL, Oleksandr Yuriyovych; born 1974; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); director-general <strong>of</strong> Northern Ore-Enrichment Combine<br />
(Kryvyy Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Region) (2004-06)<br />
BEVZENKO, Valeriy Fedorovych; born 1946; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
<strong>parliament</strong> (2006-<strong>07</strong>); director-general (since 1990), supervisory board chairman (since 2000) <strong>of</strong><br />
Keramet investment company (Donetsk)<br />
KORZH, Pavlo Petrovych; born 1953; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); director-general <strong>of</strong> Pavlohrad coal mine (Dnipropetrovsk<br />
Region) (since 2004)<br />
KLYUYEV, Serhiy Petrovych; born 1969; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
<strong>parliament</strong> (2006-<strong>07</strong>); vice-president, supervisory board chairman (1994-2000), chairman <strong>of</strong><br />
board <strong>of</strong> directors (2000-02, 2005-06) <strong>of</strong> Ukrpidshypnyk corporation; brother <strong>of</strong> MP Andriy<br />
Klyuyev<br />
AKIMOVA, Iryna Mykhaylivna; born 1960; unaffiliated; director-general <strong>of</strong> Bureau <strong>of</strong><br />
Economic and Social Techniques analytical centre<br />
MALYSHEV, Volodymyr Stepanovych; born 1950; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); director <strong>of</strong> security department, System Capital<br />
Management (since 2005); former Donetsk regional police head (2000-05)<br />
LARIN, Serhiy Mykolayovych; born 1962; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); former head <strong>of</strong> the Donetsk-based Fund for<br />
Legal Reform (2002-03)<br />
MALTSEV, Volodymyr Oleksandrovych; born 1974; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former aide to director-general <strong>of</strong> Lyuks<br />
company (2005-06)<br />
LAVRYNOVYCH, Oleksandr Volodymyrovych; born 1956; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; former<br />
People's Movement <strong>of</strong> Ukraine member; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (from<br />
Our Ukraine bloc, 2002; from People's Movement <strong>of</strong> Ukraine, 1998-2001 and 1994-98); former<br />
justice minister (2006-<strong>07</strong>, 2002-05)
SUKHIY, Yaroslav Mykhaylovych; born 1951; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); deputy director-general <strong>of</strong> Motor Sich aircraft<br />
engine plant in Zaporizhzhya (1991-2000)<br />
KIY, Serhiy Viktorovych; born 1969; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former aide to president <strong>of</strong> Shakhtar Football Club (2001-<br />
06)<br />
KORZHEV, Anatoliy Leonidovych; born 1944; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); lawyer <strong>of</strong> Donetsk Region Lawyers Collegium (1979-<br />
2006); worked in Soviet Interior Ministry (1966-77)<br />
ARKALLAYEV, Nurulislam Hadzhyyevych; born 1961; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); supervisory board chairman <strong>of</strong> Akvilon company,<br />
head <strong>of</strong> Donetsk judo federation<br />
YAROSHCHUK, Volodymyr Ivanovych; born 1969; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>);<br />
VASYLYEV, Oleksandr Andriyovych; born 1951; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); former head <strong>of</strong> the Control and<br />
Auditing Directorate in Donetsk Region (1997-2003), former head <strong>of</strong> State Tax Administration<br />
in Donetsk Region (2003-04)<br />
VOROPAYEV, Yuriy Mykolayovych; born 1955; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); director <strong>of</strong> Voropayev and Partners law firm;<br />
lawyer for MP Rinat Akhmetov (Versii.com website)<br />
PAPIYEV, Mykhaylo Mykolayovych; born 1960; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; former minister <strong>of</strong><br />
labour and social policy (2002-05, 2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
VECHERKO, Volodymyr Mykolayovych; born 1953; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); director-general <strong>of</strong> Soyuzprominvest-Donbass<br />
gas-trading company<br />
HELLER, Yevhen Borysovych; born 1974; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former commercial director <strong>of</strong> Ukrsplav (<strong>Ukrainian</strong> alloys,<br />
a Donetsk-based scrap metal trader, 1997-2004); former president <strong>of</strong> Shakhtar indoor football<br />
club (2004-06)<br />
SIVKOVYCH, Volodymyr Leonidovych; born 1960; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); supervisory board chairman <strong>of</strong> Vita<br />
airlines (2001-02); head <strong>of</strong> STB TV channel (1997-98); worked for Soviet KGB (1983-92)<br />
SANDLER, Dmytro Mykhaylovych; born 1961; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
MELNYK, Stanislav Anatoliyovych; born 1961; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); director-general <strong>of</strong> Lyuks company; director <strong>of</strong> Donetskbased<br />
Sarmat brewery (1999-2005)<br />
TULUB, Serhiy Borysovych; born 1953; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; former minister <strong>of</strong> coal
industry (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former president <strong>of</strong> national nuclear energy-generating company<br />
Enerhoatom (2002-06); former fuel and energy minister (1999-2000, 2004-05)<br />
DEMYANKO, Mykola Ivanovych; born 1947; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former head <strong>of</strong> the administrative and economic affairs<br />
directorate <strong>of</strong> Donetsk Region state administration (1997-2002)<br />
TOLSTOUKHOV, Anatoliy Volodymyrovych; born 1956; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; former<br />
minister <strong>of</strong> Cabinet <strong>of</strong> Ministers (2005-<strong>07</strong>, 2003-05, 1997-99); member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations<br />
<strong>of</strong> Parliament (from For a United Ukraine! bloc, 2002-04, from People's Democratic Party, 1998;<br />
1990-94)<br />
KONOVALYUK, Valeriy Illich; born 1966; unaffiliated; former Working Ukraine party leader<br />
(since 2005); member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 1998-2002)<br />
CHERTKOV, Yuriy Dmytrovych; born 1962; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
SALAMATIN, Dmytro Albertovych; born 1965; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former adviser to president <strong>of</strong> International Coal Mining<br />
Congress; worked as a manager for a number <strong>of</strong> companies in Moscow in 1991-99; moved to<br />
Ukraine in 1999<br />
DARDA, Oleksandr Panasovych; born 1954; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); board chairman <strong>of</strong> Transfer company, a producer <strong>of</strong> library<br />
furniture<br />
KLYMETS, Pavlo Anatoliyovych; born 1967; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); board chairman <strong>of</strong> Olimp vodka maker<br />
SLAUTA, Viktor Andriyovych; born 1952; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; former deputy prime<br />
minister (2006-<strong>07</strong>); member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06); former deputy<br />
Donetsk Region governor, former agricultural policy minister (2004)<br />
YANUKOVYCH, Viktor Viktorovych; born 1981; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); deputy chairman <strong>of</strong> Union <strong>of</strong> Youth <strong>of</strong> Regions<br />
<strong>of</strong> Ukraine; son <strong>of</strong> former Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych<br />
KHOMUTYNNIK, Vitaliy Yuriyovych; born 1976; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>), leader <strong>of</strong> Youth <strong>of</strong> Regions, an NGO<br />
LELYUK, Oleksiy Volodymyrovych; born 1969; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
HOLOVATIY, Serhiy Petrovych; born 1954; unaffiliated; former justice minister (1995-97,<br />
2005-06); member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (from Our Ukraine bloc, 2006-<strong>07</strong>;<br />
from Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, 2002-05; from Forward, Ukraine! bloc, 1998-2002; 1994; as<br />
Communist, 1990-94)<br />
KOZAK, Volodymyr Vasylyovych; born 1959; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; director-general <strong>of</strong>
Ukrzaliznytsya State Railway Administration; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament<br />
(2006-<strong>07</strong>); director-general <strong>of</strong> Interregional Industrial Union corporation; former deputy head <strong>of</strong><br />
Donetsk railways company (1996-2000); former head <strong>of</strong> <strong>Ukrainian</strong> railways monopoly<br />
Ukrzaliznytsya (2006)<br />
MKHITARYAN, Nver Mnatsakanovych; born 1960; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (from For a United Ukraine! bloc, 2002-06); chairman <strong>of</strong><br />
board <strong>of</strong> directors (1996-99), president (1999-2002) <strong>of</strong> Poznyakyzhytlobud housing construction<br />
company (Kyiv)<br />
DERKACH, Andriy Leonidovych; born 1967; unaffiliated; former Socialist Party member;<br />
former director-general <strong>of</strong> Ukratomprom state holding company controlling most <strong>of</strong> the country's<br />
nuclear assets; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (from Socialist Party, 2006; from<br />
For a United Ukraine! bloc, 2002-06; 1998-2002); attended courses at the Academy <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Russian Security Ministry (1990-93), worked for the Security Service <strong>of</strong> Ukraine in<br />
Dnipropetrovsk Region (1993-94); honorary president <strong>of</strong> Telegraf media group (Kiyevskiy<br />
Telegraf newspaper, Era TV and radio)<br />
POPOV, Oleksandr Pavlovych; born 1960; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; former minister <strong>of</strong><br />
housing and utilities (20<strong>07</strong>), worked for KGB and then Security Service <strong>of</strong> Ukraine (1987-93)<br />
ZUBYK, Volodymyr Volodymyrovych; born 1958; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament from Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (2002-06); director for<br />
economic issues and fund-raising at Svit Dytyny charity (Lviv)<br />
HRYTSAK, Vasyl Mykolayovych; born 1961; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06), former head <strong>of</strong> the Interior Ministry's Main Directorate for<br />
Military and Material Provision (2001-05)<br />
KHMELNYTSKIY, Vasyl Ivanovych; born 1966; unaffiliated; former Fatherland party member;<br />
member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (from Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, 2006-<strong>07</strong>; 2002-<br />
06; 1998-2002); co-owner <strong>of</strong> Zaporizhstal steelworks in Zaporizhzhya<br />
BUKAYEV, Valeriy Oleksandrovych; born 1976; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; president <strong>of</strong><br />
Luhansk-based Zorya football club, DIED on January <strong>28</strong>, 2009, not replaced as <strong>of</strong> January <strong>28</strong>,<br />
2009<br />
MYRNIY, Ivan Mykolayovych; born 1954; unaffiliated; vice-president <strong>of</strong> EEC-Avia airlines<br />
YATSUBA, Volodymyr Hryhorovych; born 1947; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; former minister <strong>of</strong><br />
regional development and construction; first deputy head <strong>of</strong> former President Leonid K uchma's<br />
administration (1995-98); former Dnipropetrovsk Region governor (2003-04)<br />
HUREYEV, Vasyl Mykolayovych; born 1952; unaffiliated; former Party <strong>of</strong> Industrialists and<br />
Entrepreneurs <strong>of</strong> Ukraine member; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (from Our<br />
Ukraine bloc, 2006-<strong>07</strong>; 2002-06); former economics minister (1995-97), former minister for<br />
machine-building, military-industrial complex and conversion (1997-2000); former industrial<br />
policy minister (2001-02)<br />
NOVIKOVA, Yulia Volodymyrivna; born 1977; unaffiliated; head <strong>of</strong> supervisory board <strong>of</strong><br />
Mykolayiv bakery; sister <strong>of</strong> MP Serhiy Lyovochkin
REVA, Dmytro Oleksiyovych; born 1975; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; director-general <strong>of</strong> DEMY<br />
production and commercial company<br />
KHARLIM, Valeriy Mykhaylovych; born 1972; unaffiliated<br />
LISIN, Mykola Pavlovych; born 1964; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, from the United Social Democratic Party, 2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
PLOKHOY, Ihor Ivanovych; born 1968; unaffiliated; former head <strong>of</strong> the Odessa Region customs<br />
checkpoint <strong>of</strong> Peresyp (1994-99); former first deputy head <strong>of</strong> the Bolhrad District state<br />
administration (Odessa Region, 2000-01)<br />
ZLOCHEVSKIY, Mykola Vladyslavovych; born 1966; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06); first vice-president <strong>of</strong> International Lawyers<br />
Charity Foundation; former head <strong>of</strong> the State Committee for Natural Resources (2003-05)<br />
IVANYUSHCHENKO, Yuriy Volodymyrovych; born 1959; unaffiliated; president <strong>of</strong> UHK-<br />
2000 company<br />
SOLOSHENKO, Mykola Pavlovych; born 1950; unaffiliated; chief adviser for development <strong>of</strong><br />
production and new technologies <strong>of</strong> Dniprostal (Dnieper Steel) company; honorary board<br />
chairman <strong>of</strong> Novomoskovsk pipe factory (Dnipropetrovsk Region)<br />
PRYSYAZHNYUK, Mykola Volodymyrovych; born 1960; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member<br />
<strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06); chairman <strong>of</strong> National Meat and Meat Products<br />
Producers Association; former first deputy head <strong>of</strong> the Zhytomyr Region state administration<br />
(2003-05)<br />
TSARYOV, Oleh Anatoliyovych; born 1970; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
SMITYUKH, Hryhoriy Yevdokymovych; born 1961; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06); worked for law-enforcement agencies (1982-91);<br />
former director-general <strong>of</strong> Antares electronic equipment manufacturer (1994-2003); former<br />
deputy head <strong>of</strong> President Leonid Kuchma administration's Directorate for State Affairs (2003)<br />
POTAPOV, Vasyl Ivanovych; born 1948; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); former head <strong>of</strong> Kupyansk (Kharkiv Region)<br />
town council, former head <strong>of</strong> the Kupyansk town executive committee, former Kupyansk mayor,<br />
former first deputy head <strong>of</strong> Kharkiv Region state administration (1991-98)<br />
ORLOV, Andriy Viktorovych; born 1970; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06); director for production <strong>of</strong> Vuhleprodukt (Coal Product,<br />
based in Donetsk) company<br />
SKUBASHEVSKIY, Stanislav Valerianovych; born 1949; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06); former deputy director-general <strong>of</strong> Klasychne<br />
Strakhuvannya (Classic Insurance, 2005-06); former deputy head <strong>of</strong> Donetsk Region state
administration (1998-2002); former head <strong>of</strong> the prime minister's service (2002-05)<br />
DEMISHKAN, Volodymyr Fedorovych; born 1949; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; head <strong>of</strong> State<br />
Motorways Service<br />
YEDIN, Oleksandr Yosypovych; born 1960; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (from Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, 2006-<strong>07</strong>; 2002-06)<br />
LEBEDEV, Pavlo Valentynovych; born 1962; unaffiliated; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong><br />
Parliament from Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (2006-<strong>07</strong>); head <strong>of</strong> department for scientific and<br />
technical information at Institute for Environment and Energy Conservation<br />
SVYATASH, Dmytro Volodymyrovych; born 1971; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>, 2002-06); co-owner <strong>of</strong> Avtoinvestbud (Auto<br />
Investment Construction)<br />
MOSHAK, Serhiy Mykolayovych; born 1965; unaffiliated; former aide to member <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>parliament</strong>; former forestry department head at the presidential administration's Directorate for<br />
State Affairs<br />
KRAVETS, Andriy Vitaliyovych; born 1973; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; former director-general<br />
<strong>of</strong> Ukrbudinvest construction company and director <strong>of</strong> (Party <strong>of</strong> Regions HQ) Zoryaniy cinema<br />
in Kyiv (2004-06), former deputy minister <strong>of</strong> Cabinet <strong>of</strong> Ministers (2006-<strong>07</strong>),<br />
PRYTYKA, Dmytro Mykytovych; born 1942; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former chairman <strong>of</strong> Supreme Arbitration Tribunal (1991-<br />
2006)<br />
LANDIK, Volodymyr Ivanovych; born 1949; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); brother <strong>of</strong> MP Valentyn Landyk<br />
SELIVAROV, Andriy Borysovych; born 1972; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former Donetsk-based private businessman<br />
HOROSHKEVYCH, Oleksandr Serhiyovych; born 1964; unaffiliated; former Our Ukraine<br />
People's Union party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament from Our Ukraine<br />
bloc (2006-<strong>07</strong>); director-general <strong>of</strong> Chornomornaftohaz (Black Sea Oil and Gas) state company<br />
SULKOVSKIY, Pavlo Hnatovych; born 1953; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); former head <strong>of</strong> the Rivne District state<br />
administration (1994-98)<br />
BONDYK, Valeriy Anatoliyovych; born 1964; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; former first deputy<br />
justice minister (20<strong>07</strong>); member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former aide to<br />
member <strong>of</strong> previous Parliament; former member <strong>of</strong> Central Electoral Commission<br />
MATVIYCHUK, Eduard Leonidovych; born 1963; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); former inspector and chief inspector at<br />
the Chop customs, Transcarpathia (1989-96); former president <strong>of</strong> Verkhovyna football club<br />
(1997-98)<br />
TEDEYEV, Elbrus Soslanovych; born 1974; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former wrestling coach, Olympic wrestling champion<br />
(2004)<br />
KOVALYOVA, Yulia Viktorivna; born 1951; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former vice-president <strong>of</strong> Kharkiv-based Heya company<br />
BURLAKOV, Pavlo Mykolayovych; born 1963; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
CHECHETOV, Mykhaylo Vasylyovych; born 1953; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); first deputy head, then head <strong>of</strong> State Property<br />
Fund (1999-2005)<br />
PLOTNIKOV, Oleksiy Vitaliyovych; born 1965; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former head <strong>of</strong> department in Institute <strong>of</strong> World<br />
Economics and International Relations, National Academy <strong>of</strong> Sciences <strong>of</strong> Ukraine<br />
KOMAR, Mykola Stepanovych; born 1945; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); former head <strong>of</strong> Kostyantynivka District council<br />
(Donetsk Region, 1994-2001), former head <strong>of</strong> Kostyantynivka District State administration<br />
(1995-2002)<br />
ZASUKHA, Tetyana Volodymyrivna; born 1964; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); wife <strong>of</strong> former Kyiv Region state<br />
administration head Anatoliy Zasukha<br />
VERNYDUBOV, Ivan Vasylyovych; born 1951; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); a former prosecutor in Kyiv (1978-1993),<br />
Sevastopol prosecutor (1993-97), State Tax Administration head in Sevastopol (1999-2002)<br />
ZHURAVKO, Oleksiy Valeriyovych; born 1974; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); director-general <strong>of</strong> Union <strong>of</strong> Active and Able-Bodied<br />
Invalids<br />
SHENTSEV, Dmytro Oleksiyovych; born 1964; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); vice-president <strong>of</strong> Kharkiv-based Tekhinprom company<br />
SHPENOV, Dmytro Yuriyovych; born 1978; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; director-general <strong>of</strong><br />
Institute for Strategic Studies<br />
MIROSHNYCHENKO, Yuriy Romanovych; born 1970; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; former<br />
leader <strong>of</strong> New Generation party; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>);<br />
president <strong>of</strong> Effective Management Centre<br />
MYRONENKO, Mykhaylo Ivanovych; born 1954; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); deputy director <strong>of</strong> Buddetal (Construction<br />
Accessories) plant<br />
SUPRUNENKO, Oleksandr Ivanovych; born 1971; unaffiliated; director <strong>of</strong> Equitas law centre<br />
BONDARENKO, Olena Anatoliyivna; born 1974; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former head <strong>of</strong> press service <strong>of</strong> Donetsk regional
council (2002-06)<br />
KOLYESNIKOV, Dmytro Valeriyovych; born 1972; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; former first<br />
deputy minister <strong>of</strong> industrial policy (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
ILLYASHOV, Hryhoriy Oleksiyovych; born 1965; unaffiliated; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former operative <strong>of</strong> the special department <strong>of</strong> the KGB in<br />
the Central Asian border district (1988-92), worked for Luhansk Region directorate <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Security Service <strong>of</strong> Ukraine (1992-2003), former head <strong>of</strong> the Yalta directorate <strong>of</strong> the Security<br />
Service <strong>of</strong> Ukraine (2003-04), former head <strong>of</strong> the Luhansk Region directorate <strong>of</strong> the Security<br />
Service <strong>of</strong> Ukraine (2004-05)<br />
PSHONKA, Artem Viktorovych; born 1976; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former aide to and then deputy prosecutor <strong>of</strong> Kramatorsk<br />
(Donetsk Region, 1998-2005), former senior aide to Donetsk's Kirovskyy district prosecutor<br />
BONDARENKO, Viktor Viktorovych; born 1967; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); deputy director <strong>of</strong> Ukrahroinvest holding<br />
company<br />
BEREZHNA, Iryna Hryhorivna; born 1980; unaffiliated; private notary<br />
HLAZUNOV, Serhiy Mykolayovych; born 1958; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; former first deputy<br />
minister <strong>of</strong> environmental protection (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
MOROKO, Yuriy Mykolayovych; born 1953; unaffiliated; director-general <strong>of</strong> MMDC-<br />
Ukrayina, a cable TV operator<br />
PYSARCHUK, Petro Ivanovych; born 1955; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
LUKYANOV, Vladyslav Valentynovych; born 1964; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); president <strong>of</strong> Fin-Fort company<br />
LYSOV, Ihor Volodymyrovych; born 1958; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former deputy head <strong>of</strong> Kyiv city state administration,<br />
former head <strong>of</strong> main directorate for municipal property <strong>of</strong> Kyiv city state administration (2003-<br />
06)<br />
SHKIRYA, Ihor Mykolayovych; born 1965; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); former owner <strong>of</strong> Ilitash transport corporation<br />
and Ilitash travel company (1990-2002)<br />
NAKONECHNIY, Volodymyr Leontiyovych; born 1952; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
TITENKO, Serhiy Mykhaylovych; born 1954; unaffiliated; chairman <strong>of</strong> National Energy<br />
Regulatory Commission<br />
SYNYTSYA, Artem Mykolayovych; born 1975; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former head <strong>of</strong> internal audit department <strong>of</strong> MPS<br />
corporation
FESENKO, Leonid Ivanovych; born 1949; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former chairman <strong>of</strong> Luhansk regional court <strong>of</strong> appeals<br />
HORINA, Iryna Anatoliyivna; born 1967; unaffiliated; director-general <strong>of</strong> Konsent company<br />
KOZHARA, Leonid Oleksandrovych; born 1963; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former first secretary <strong>of</strong> political section <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Ukrainian</strong> embassy in USA (1994-97); former <strong>Ukrainian</strong> ambassador to Sweden (2003-04)<br />
SHCHERBAN, Artem Volodymyrovych; born 1974; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); director-general <strong>of</strong> Hefest company; son <strong>of</strong><br />
former Sumy, Donetsk regional governor Volodymyr Shcherban<br />
HLUSHCHENKO, Ihor Mykolayovych; born 1962; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; president <strong>of</strong><br />
national Energy Company <strong>of</strong> Ukraine<br />
CHERNOMOROV, Oleksandr Mykolayovych; born 1953; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member<br />
<strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former head <strong>of</strong> department for foreign<br />
relations and investment <strong>of</strong> Yalta city executive committee<br />
KARAKAY, Yuriy Vasylyovych; born 1967; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former first vice-president <strong>of</strong> International Trade<br />
Chamber's <strong>Ukrainian</strong> National Committee Association<br />
BORT, Vitaliy Petrovych; born 1972; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong><br />
Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
MANKOVSKIY, Hryhoriy Volodymyrovych; born 1954; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
DEMYDKO, Volodymyr Mykolayovych; born 1952; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
KALYUZHNIY, Vitaliy Anatoliyovych; born 1979; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
KORZH, Viktor Petrovych; born 1957; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; former minister <strong>of</strong> family,<br />
youth and sports (20<strong>07</strong>)<br />
POPESKU, Ivan Vasylyovych; born 1964; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); president <strong>of</strong> Romanian Society in Ukraine<br />
ZUBETS, Mykhaylo Vasylyovych; born 1938; unaffiliated; former Fatherland party member;<br />
member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
KOLESNICHENKO, Vadym Vasylyovych; born 1958; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
RYZHUK, Serhiy Mykolayovych; born 1950; Party <strong>of</strong> Regions member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former agricultural policy minister (2002-04) and<br />
Zhytomyr regional governor (2004)
FEDUN, Oleksiy Leonidovych; born 1962; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament<br />
(2006-<strong>07</strong>); replaced senior MP BOHATYRYOVA, Rayisa Vasylivna in June 2008, who took up<br />
her post in the executive branch as secretary <strong>of</strong> National Security and Defence Council.<br />
Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc<br />
Members: 156<br />
Leader: Ivan Kyrylenko<br />
Deputy leaders: Andriy Kozhemyakin (first deputy leader), Bohdan Hubsk iy, Oleh Bilorus,<br />
Oleksandr Abdulin.<br />
TOMENKO, Mykola Volodymyrovych; born 1964; Fatherland party member; director <strong>of</strong><br />
Institute <strong>of</strong> Politics; former deputy prime minister for humanitarian issues (2005); member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
SHEVCHENKO, Andriy Vitaliyovych; born 1976; unaffiliated; journalist, expert at Internews-<br />
Ukraine International NGO; former vice-president <strong>of</strong> National Television Company <strong>of</strong> Ukraine<br />
(2005); member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
OMELCHENKO, Hryhoriy Omelyanovych; born 1951; Fatherland Party member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
KURYLO, Vitaliy Semenovych; born 1957; Fatherland Party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former rector <strong>of</strong> Taras Shevchenko National Pedagogical<br />
University (Luhansk, 1997-2006)<br />
PETRUK, Mykola Mykolayovych; born 1950; unaffiliated; former commander-in-chief <strong>of</strong><br />
ground troops <strong>of</strong> <strong>Ukrainian</strong> armed forces; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<br />
<strong>07</strong>)<br />
PYLYPENKO, Volodymyr Pylypovych; born 1962; unaffiliated; sworn in as MP on June 3,<br />
2008.<br />
BILORUS, Oleh Hryhorovych; born 1939; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previo us<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); former <strong>Ukrainian</strong> ambassador to the USA<br />
(1992-94)<br />
VLASENKO, Serhiy Volodymyrovych; born 1967; <strong>Ukrainian</strong> Social Democratic Party member;<br />
deputy head <strong>of</strong> State Tax Administration, sworn in as MP on June 3, 2008.<br />
FEDORCHUK, Yaroslav Petrovych; born 1936; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
SUSLOV, Yevhen Ivanovych; born 1981; Fatherland party member; former mayor <strong>of</strong> Skvyra<br />
(Kyiv Region); member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
SHKIL, Andriy Vasylyovych; born 1963; Fatherland party member; president <strong>of</strong> <strong>Ukrainian</strong>-<br />
European Initiatives Foundation NGO; former leader <strong>of</strong> radical nationalist UNA-UNSD<br />
(<strong>Ukrainian</strong> National Assembly-<strong>Ukrainian</strong> National Self-Defence); member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
VOLYNETS, Mykhaylo Yakovych; born 1956; unaffiliated; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations
<strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); head <strong>of</strong> Independent Trade Union <strong>of</strong> Coal Miners<br />
SEMYNOHA, Anatoliy Ivanovych; born 1960; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliaments (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); former deputy head <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Ukrainian</strong> Social<br />
Democratic Party (2001)<br />
SAS, Serhiy Volodymyrovych; born 1957; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); head <strong>of</strong> the Mriya farm in Kirovohrad Region<br />
(1987-96)<br />
TARAN, Viktor Vasylyovych; born 1941; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
<strong>parliament</strong>s (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); Soviet-era dissident, former top <strong>of</strong>ficial <strong>of</strong> People's Movement<br />
<strong>of</strong> Ukraine<br />
ZUBOV, Valentyn Serhiyovych; born 1946; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); former lecturer at the Uman Agricultural<br />
Institute (1985-97)<br />
KYRYLCHUK, Yevhen Ivanovych; born 1940; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); former member <strong>of</strong> Volyn Region council (1985-<br />
93)<br />
SHEVCHUK, Serhiy Volodymyrovych; born 1955; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); former state secretary at Health<br />
Ministry (2001-02)<br />
YAVORIVSKIY, Volodymyr Oleksandrovych; born 1942; Fatherland party member; member<br />
<strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); head <strong>of</strong> National Union <strong>of</strong> Writers <strong>of</strong><br />
Ukraine<br />
KOZHEMYAKIN, Andriy Anatoliyovych; born 1965; unaffiliated; former deputy chairman <strong>of</strong><br />
SBU (Security Service <strong>of</strong> Ukraine) in charge <strong>of</strong> investigating high-pr<strong>of</strong>ile crimes; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
TERYOKHIN, Serhiy Anatoliyovych; born 1963; unaffiliated; former economics minister<br />
(2005); member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
SOBOLYEV, Serhiy Vladyslavovych; born 1961; Reforms and Order party member; head <strong>of</strong><br />
group <strong>of</strong> experts at Central European Agency<br />
SHVETS, Viktor Dmytrovych; born 1954; unaffiliated; former head <strong>of</strong> main directorate <strong>of</strong><br />
Prosecutor-General's Office for monitoring compliance with law in State Tax Administration and<br />
on transport; Yulia Tymoshenko's former lawyer in various court cases; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
HUBSKIY, Bohdan Volodymyrovych; born 1963; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); head <strong>of</strong> Ukraine XXI Century<br />
Intellectual Cooperation Foundation; owns several sugar refineries, filling stations in Cherkasy<br />
Region (Versii.com website)<br />
KALCHENKO, Valeriy Mykhaylovych; born 1947; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former emergencies minister (1996-99), former
deputy emergencies minister (2005), former mayor <strong>of</strong> Kirovohrad (2006)<br />
LYASHKO, Oleh Valeriyovych; born 1972; unaffiliated; former editor-in-chief <strong>of</strong> Svoboda<br />
(Liberty) newspaper; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
MOSTIPAN, Ulyana Mykolayivna; born 1944; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former social protection <strong>of</strong>ficial at Kyiv Region state<br />
administration, Social Protection Ministry (1991-99)<br />
ODARCHENKO, Yuriy Vitaliyovych; born 1960; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former president <strong>of</strong> Budmekhanizatsiya<br />
construction company (1993-2002), supervisory board chairman <strong>of</strong> Budmekhanizatsiya (2002)<br />
LEVTSUN, Volodymyr Ivanovych; born 1952; <strong>Ukrainian</strong> Social Democratic Party member;<br />
member <strong>of</strong> previous <strong>parliament</strong>s (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); former board member <strong>of</strong> the United Social<br />
Democratic Party <strong>of</strong> Ukraine (1996-98)<br />
VOROTNYUK, Ihor Borysovych; born 1962; <strong>Ukrainian</strong> Social Democratic Party member;<br />
member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); head <strong>of</strong> Autohaus Kyiv GmbH car<br />
dealer (1995-2005)<br />
ZABZALYUK, Roman Omelyanovych; born 1960; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
SHLEMKO, Dmytro Vasylyovych; born 1950; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former lecturer at Ivano-Frankivsk Oil and Gas University<br />
(1995-2005); former deputy Ivano-Frankivsk governor (2005)<br />
KURPIL, Stepan Volodymyrovych; born 1959; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former editor-in-chief <strong>of</strong> Lviv-based Vysokyy Zamok<br />
newspaper (1991-2006)<br />
DEREVLYANIY, Vasyl Tym<strong>of</strong>iyovych; born 1962; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); head <strong>of</strong> Ternopil regional branch <strong>of</strong> Fatherland<br />
party; former Ternopil Region council member (2002-06)<br />
SUSHKEVYCH, Valeriy Mykhaylovych; born 1954; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); president <strong>of</strong> National Committee for<br />
Sport <strong>of</strong> Invalids <strong>of</strong> Ukraine<br />
PETRENKO, Vadym Mykhaylovych; born 1946; Fatherland party member; former deputy<br />
Poltava regional governor; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
VASADZE, Tariel Shakrovych; born 1947; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); head <strong>of</strong> campaign headquarters in Zaporizhzhya<br />
Region; president <strong>of</strong> Ukravto corporation, biggest car-maker and dealer<br />
HRYNIV, Ihor Oleksiyovych; born 1961; Reforms and Order party member; a co-founder <strong>of</strong><br />
People's Movement <strong>of</strong> Ukraine (1989); president <strong>of</strong> Middle European Agency law firm<br />
FELDMAN, Oleksandr Borysovych; born 1960; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); owner <strong>of</strong> several major businesses
VEREVSKIY, Andriy Mykhaylovych; born 1974; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
BAHRAYEV, Mykola Heorhiyovych; born 1964; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); president <strong>of</strong> Tavriya Games company; organizer<br />
<strong>of</strong> music festivals, beauty contests<br />
SIHAL, Yevhen Yakovych; born 1955; unaffiliated, member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong><br />
Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
KORZH, Vitaliy Terentiyovych; born 1938; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); president <strong>of</strong> Global-Ukraine Internet service<br />
provider<br />
ABDULLIN, Oleksandr Rafkatovych; born 1962; Fatherland party member; deputy head <strong>of</strong><br />
campaign headquarters; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06; 2006-<strong>07</strong>);<br />
former correspondent, director <strong>of</strong> Robitnycha Hazeta newspaper (1987-92)<br />
POLOKHALO, Volodymyr Ivanovych; born 1949; Fatherland party member; political scientist;<br />
member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
OSYKA, Serhiy Hryhorovych; born 1955; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
<strong>parliament</strong>s (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); former foreign economic relations and trade minister (1995-99)<br />
HASYUK, Petro Petrovych; born 1951; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
KOVZEL, Mykola Olehovych; born 1966; <strong>Ukrainian</strong> Social Democratic Party member; member<br />
<strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
SIDELNYK, Ivan Ivanovych; born 1939; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former head <strong>of</strong> affairs <strong>of</strong> the apparatus <strong>of</strong> the Sumy<br />
Region council (1998-2001)<br />
SHEPELEV, Oleksandr Oleksandrovych; born 1970; unaffiliated; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
LUKYANCHUK, Ruslan Valeriyovych; born 1972; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
MISHCHENKO, Serhiy Hryhorovych; born 1971; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former deputy Darnytsya district prosecutor in<br />
Kyiv, former Podil district prosecutor in Kyiv (1998-2001); former Kyiv Region prosecutor<br />
(2001-02); deputy prosecutor <strong>of</strong> Kyiv (2002-03); former aide, senior aide to prosecutor-general<br />
(2003-04)<br />
PORTNOV, Andriy Volodymyrovych; born 1973; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); lawyer<br />
PAVLENKO, Viktor Viktorovych; born 1966; Fatherland party member; sworn in as MP on<br />
June 3, 2008.
LOHVYNENKO, Oleksiy Stepanovych; born 1955; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); director <strong>of</strong> regional policy institute at Kharkiv<br />
National University<br />
FILENKO, Volodymyr Pylypovych; born 1955; Reforms and Order party member;<br />
SKYBINETSKIY, Oleksandr Matviyovych; born 1947; unaffiliated; former head <strong>of</strong> the Main<br />
Counterintelligence Directorate <strong>of</strong> the Security Service <strong>of</strong> Ukraine (1993-995); former deputy<br />
chairman <strong>of</strong> the Security Service <strong>of</strong> Ukraine (1995); former first deputy chairman <strong>of</strong> the Security<br />
Service <strong>of</strong> Ukraine (1996-98, 2005); member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
ZHEVAHO, Kostyantyn Valentynovych; born 1974; unaffiliated; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); owner <strong>of</strong> Ferrexpo company, head <strong>of</strong> Finansy i<br />
Kredyt group<br />
STESHENKO, Oleksandr Mykolayovych; born 1952; Fatherland party member; sworn in as MP<br />
on June 3, 2008.<br />
SENCHENKO, Andriy Vilenovych; born 1959; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); owner <strong>of</strong> Black Sea TV and Radio Company (Telekritika<br />
website, Versii.com website)<br />
KUROVSKIY, Ivan Ivanovych; born 1951; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); director-general <strong>of</strong> Zhytlo-Bud housing construction<br />
company<br />
KOROLEVSKA, Nataliya Yuriyivna; born 1975; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former chair <strong>of</strong> the board <strong>of</strong> Luhanskholod ice-cream<br />
maker (2001-06)<br />
KEMENYASH, Oleksandr Mykhaylovych; born 1965; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
LEMZA, Volodymyr Dmytrovych; born 1949; Fatherland party member; sworn in as MP on<br />
June 3, 2008.<br />
UNHURYAN, Pavlo Yakymovych; born 1979; Fatherland party member; sworn in as MP on<br />
June 3, 2008.<br />
BURYAK, Oleksandr Vasylyovych; born 1970; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); brother <strong>of</strong> Serhiy Buryak<br />
KYRYLENKO, Ivan Hryhorovych; born 1956; <strong>parliament</strong>ary faction leader; Fatherland party<br />
member; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former minister for agrarian<br />
policy (2000-02), former deputy prime minister for agriculture (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
KOSTENKO, Pavlo Ivanovych; born 1966; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
PASHYNSKIY, Serhiy Volodymyrovych; born 1966; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong>
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
PYSARENKO, Valeriy Volodymyrovych; born 1980; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
SHYSHKINA, Elina Viktorivna; born 1982; unaffiliated<br />
MAKIYENKO, Volodymyr Petrovych; born 1955; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
KRUK, Yuriy Borysovych; born 1941; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (1994-98, 1998-2002, 2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); former deputy transport<br />
minister (1993-95)<br />
SOCHKA, Oleksandr Oleksandrovych; born 1971; unaffiliated; sworn in as MP on June 3, 2008.<br />
RYBAKOV, Ihor Oleksandrovych; born 1976; unaffiliated; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong><br />
Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
YATSENKO, Anton Volodymyrovych; born 1977; unaffiliated; acting senior research <strong>of</strong>ficer <strong>of</strong><br />
Institute <strong>of</strong> World Economy and International Relations <strong>of</strong> <strong>Ukrainian</strong> Academy <strong>of</strong> Sciences<br />
SHAHO, Yevhen Petrovych; born 1941; Fatherland party member; former first deputy minister<br />
<strong>of</strong> Cabinet <strong>of</strong> Ministers (2005); member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>);<br />
former head <strong>of</strong> Yulia Tymoshenko's United Energy Systems <strong>of</strong> Ukraine company<br />
SERBIN, Yuriy Serhiyovych; born 1949; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); president <strong>of</strong> Ekobud company<br />
SHYSHKINA, Zoya Leonidivna; born 1954; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
CHUDNOVSKIY, Vitaliy Olehovych; born 1969; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
TRYNDYUK, Yuriy Hryhorovych; born 1968; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
BODNAR, Olha Borysivna; born 1965; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
OLIYNYK, Svyatoslav Vasylyovych; born 1975; unaffiliated; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation<br />
<strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); lawyer<br />
CHEPYNOHA, Vitaliy Mykhaylovych; born 1969; Fatherland party member; Fatherland party's<br />
press secretary; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
LABUNSKA, Anzhelika Viktorivna; born 1967; unaffiliated; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation<br />
<strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former legal department head <strong>of</strong> Kyiv-based Prohres plant (2006)<br />
BONDARENKO, Olena Fedorivna; born 1955; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); a former <strong>of</strong>ficial at People's Movement <strong>of</strong>
Ukraine (1989-2001)<br />
YERESKO, Ihor Henadiyovych; born 1956; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former deputy Cherkasy Region governor (2005-06)<br />
POLYNYEYEV, Yuriy Volodymyrovych; born 1956; unaffiliated; president <strong>of</strong> International<br />
Management Institute (MIM-Kyiv); former representative <strong>of</strong> EBRD<br />
SHAMANOV, Valeriy Viktorovych; born 1968; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); president <strong>of</strong> <strong>Ukrainian</strong> judo federation<br />
ZOZULYA, Ruslan Petrovych; born 1966; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
SHUSTIK, Olena Yuriyivna; born 1968; <strong>Ukrainian</strong> Social Democratic Party member; directorgeneral<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Ukrainian</strong> Legal Consulting Company<br />
SHEVCHUK, Oleh Borysovych; born 1968; unaffiliated; director <strong>of</strong> Institute <strong>of</strong> Information<br />
Society<br />
LOZINSKIY, Viktor Oleksandrovych; born 1963; unaffiliated; director-general <strong>of</strong> Manzhurka<br />
agricultural company<br />
KUZMENKO, Petro Pavlovych; born 1954; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
BUDZHERAK, Oleksandr Oleksandrovych; born 1943; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); lawyer<br />
KAMCHATNIY, Valeriy Hryhorovych; born 1955; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); head <strong>of</strong> the apparatus <strong>of</strong> Kharkiv Region state<br />
administration (2005-06)<br />
BONDARENKO, Volodymyr Dmytrovych; born 1952; Reforms and Order party member<br />
LUKASHUK, Oleh Hryhorovych; born 1951; <strong>Ukrainian</strong> Social Democratic Party member;<br />
member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
PYERYEDYERIY, Vyacheslav Hryhorovych; born 1943; unaffiliated; former deputy health<br />
minister<br />
VETVYTSKIY, Dmytro Oleksandrovych; born 1968; Fatherland party member; board chairman<br />
<strong>of</strong> Evolution Public Initiatives Foundation charity<br />
RADKOVSKIY, Oleh Volodymyrovych; born 1960; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
DANILOV, Vitaliy Bohdanovych; born 1967; unaffiliated; president <strong>of</strong> DIKE law firm<br />
ARUTYUNOV, Harehin Rafaelovych; born 1964; Fatherland party member; businessman<br />
RADOVETS, Arnold Anatoliyovych; born 1937; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
HLUS, Stepan Karlovych; born 1947; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
BABAYEV, Oleh Meydanovych; born 1965; Fatherland party member; president <strong>of</strong> Vorskla<br />
football club in Poltava<br />
HNATKEVYCH, Yuriy Vasylyovych; born 1940; Fatherland party member; Soviet-era<br />
dissident; former head <strong>of</strong> the Kyiv Region branch <strong>of</strong> Prosvita (Enlightenment, pro-<strong>Ukrainian</strong><br />
culture NGO)<br />
ZADYRKO, Henadiy Oleksandrovych; born 1967; Fatherland party member; former head <strong>of</strong><br />
NIS TV in Mykolayiv<br />
BIRYUK, Lev Vasylyovych; born 1946; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); <strong>of</strong>ficial with People's Movement <strong>of</strong> Ukraine<br />
(1989-2003)<br />
BONDARYEV, Kostyantyn Anatoliyovych; born 1972; Fatherland party member; board<br />
member <strong>of</strong> People's Right regional NGO<br />
DENKOVYCH, Ivan Vasylyovych; born 1963; Fatherland party member; former deputy head <strong>of</strong><br />
Lviv regional council (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
PUDOV, Borys Mykolayovych; born 1951; unaffiliated; head <strong>of</strong> Kyiv city branch <strong>of</strong> Society for<br />
Support <strong>of</strong> Defence <strong>of</strong> Ukraine<br />
MALICH, Oleh Volodymyrovych; born 1960; <strong>Ukrainian</strong> Social Democratic Party member;<br />
deputy board chairman <strong>of</strong> Kyiv Construction Company-2<br />
SKUBENKO, Volodymyr Petrovych; born 1958; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
DONCHAK, Volodymyr Andriyovych; born 1947; unaffiliated; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
ZIMIN, Yevhen Ihorovych; born 1960; unaffiliated; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong><br />
Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
KONSTANTYNOV, Yevhen Semenovych; born 1937; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
KOSIV, Mykhaylo Vasylyovych; born 1934; Reforms and Order party member; Soviet-era<br />
dissident; active member, then deputy head <strong>of</strong> People's Movement <strong>of</strong> Ukraine (1989-2001)<br />
RYABEKA, Oleksandr Hryhorovych; born 1959; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); operative <strong>of</strong> special KGB departments in Belarus and<br />
Russia (1985-88); deputy department head, then department head at the Main<br />
Counterintelligence Directorate <strong>of</strong> the Security Service <strong>of</strong> Ukraine (1992-95)<br />
DUBOVOY, Oleksandr Fedorovych; born 1976; Fatherland party member; president o f
Goodness and Love Foundation International Charity<br />
SOKOLOV, Mykhaylo Volodymyrovych; born 1967; Fatherland party member; acting director<br />
<strong>of</strong> Tekhn<strong>of</strong>arma company<br />
HEYMAN, Oleh Ayzikovych; born 1957; Fatherland party member; director <strong>of</strong> Radiorelay<br />
Plant, a state company<br />
MOVCHAN, Pavlo Mykhaylovych; born 1939; unaffiliated; poet, translator; <strong>of</strong>ficial at People's<br />
Movement <strong>of</strong> Ukraine (1999-2003)<br />
PODHORNIY, Serhiy Petrovych; born 1956; Fatherland party member<br />
CHERPITSKIY, Oleh Zenovych; born 1964; Fatherland party member<br />
KONDRATYUK, Olena Kostyantynivna; born 1970; Reforms and Order party member; director<br />
<strong>of</strong> Radnyk (Adviser) PR agency<br />
DAVYMUKA, Stepan Antonovych; born 1947; unaffiliated; former People's Movement <strong>of</strong><br />
Ukraine member; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06; from Our Ukraine<br />
bloc, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); vice-president <strong>of</strong> Public Opinion <strong>Ukrainian</strong> Foundation<br />
TREHUBOV, Yuriy Valentynovych; born 1973; unaffiliated; deputy prosecutor <strong>of</strong><br />
Dnipropetrovsk Region<br />
SAVCHENKO, Ihor Vasylyovych; born 1966; unaffiliated; director-general <strong>of</strong> Kyiv Region<br />
Institute <strong>of</strong> Land Relations company<br />
KRAYNIY, Valeriy Hryhorovych; born 1948; Fatherland party member; deputy board chairman<br />
<strong>of</strong> Zaporizhzhya Car Factory<br />
BORODIN, Vsevolod Volodymyrovych; born 1963; Fatherland party member; head <strong>of</strong><br />
department <strong>of</strong> affairs <strong>of</strong> executive secretariat <strong>of</strong> Fatherland party's political council<br />
SEMERAK, Ostap Mykhaylovych; born 1972; Reforms and Order party member; deputy head<br />
<strong>of</strong> Kyiv regional state administration<br />
PROKOPCHUK, Yuriy Volodymyrovych; born 1964; Fatherland party member; military<br />
pensioner<br />
IVANENKO, Volodymyr Hryhorovych; born 1955; Fatherland party member; instructor coach<br />
<strong>of</strong> Viktoriya Children and Youth Sport School <strong>of</strong> Cherkasy city executive council's committee<br />
for physical culture and sport<br />
BABENKO, Valeriy Borysovych; born 1964; Fatherland party member; former aide to first<br />
deputy secretary <strong>of</strong> National Security and Defence Council <strong>of</strong> Ukraine; former aide to head <strong>of</strong><br />
the Security Service <strong>of</strong> Ukraine (2006)<br />
DUBIL, Valeriy Oleksandrovych; born 1963; unaffiliated; member <strong>of</strong> <strong>Ukrainian</strong> Social<br />
Democratic Party; sworn in as MP on June 3, 2008.
YAHOFEROV, Anatoliy Mykolayovych; born 1948; Reforms and Order party member;<br />
pensioner, sworn in as MP on June 3, 2008.<br />
BOHDAN, Ruslan Dmytrovych; born 1972; Reforms and Order party member; first deputy<br />
director <strong>of</strong> Enerhotorh gas trader<br />
UKOLOV, Viktor Oleksandrovych; born 1968; Fatherland party member; head <strong>of</strong> department <strong>of</strong><br />
executive secretariat <strong>of</strong> Fatherland party's political council<br />
KAPLIYENKO, Volodymyr Volodymyrovych; born 1970; Fatherland party member<br />
SOROCHYNSKA-KYRYLENKO, Rayisa Mykolayivna; born 1946; Fatherland party member;<br />
former chief doctor at Kyiv's Shevchenkivskyy district hospital (2002)<br />
OLIYNYK, Viktor Stepanovych; born 1972; Fatherland party member; adviser to head <strong>of</strong> Volyn<br />
regional council<br />
TRAYDUK, Mykola Fedorovych; born 1951; Fatherland party member; head <strong>of</strong> Dzerzhynskyy<br />
district council in Kryvyy Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Region<br />
HATSKO, Valeriy Petrovych; born 1957; Fatherland party member<br />
BARVINENKO, Vitaliy Dmytrovych; born 1981; Fatherland party member; head <strong>of</strong> Fatherland<br />
party's Odessa regional branch<br />
KOROTYUK, Vadym Ivanovych; born 1963; Fatherland party member<br />
DOBRYAK, Yevhen Dmytrovych; born 1973; Fatherland party member; assistant <strong>of</strong> operational<br />
surgery and topographic anatomy department <strong>of</strong> Institute <strong>of</strong> Ecology and Medicine<br />
TROFYMENKO, Vadym Vsevolodovych; born 1961; Reforms and Order party member<br />
VELIZHANSKIY, Serhiy Kostyantynovych; born 1960; Fatherland party member; chairman <strong>of</strong><br />
supervisory board <strong>of</strong> Krymzalizobeton (Crimean reinforced concrete) company<br />
KRAVCHUK, Vasyl Petrovych; born 1967; Fatherland party member; chairman <strong>of</strong> Te<strong>of</strong>ipol<br />
District council; Khmelnytskiy Region<br />
HUDYMA, Oleksandr Mykolayovych; born 1950; Fatherland party member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (1998-2002, 2002-06); founder and president <strong>of</strong> the<br />
<strong>Ukrainian</strong> Energy Association; former Lviv Region council member; member <strong>of</strong> supervisory<br />
board <strong>of</strong> Naftohaz Ukrayiny (Ukraine's state-run oil and gas company)<br />
PAVLOVSKIY, Andriy Mykhaylovych; born 1965; Fatherland party member; deputy head <strong>of</strong><br />
Fatherland's Kyiv branch; director <strong>of</strong> the Centre for High Technology and Innovation, which is<br />
funded by the Kyiv city council; former director-general <strong>of</strong> <strong>Ukrainian</strong>-Czech wood processing<br />
firm Houfek (2004-05)<br />
BOLYURA, Antonina Volodymyrivna; born 1949; Fatherland party member; control and audit<br />
director at the Market Group Trading House; used to be a key manager at Tymoshenko's United<br />
Energy Systems <strong>of</strong> Ukraine; faced corruption charges together with Tymoshenko in 2004; both<br />
said they were politically motivated
POTAPCHUK, Mykola Leontiyovych; born 1949; Fatherland party member; leader <strong>of</strong><br />
Fatherland's Volyn branch<br />
KOSHYN, Serhiy Mefodiyovych; born 1959; Fatherland party member; director <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Dubrovytsya driving school in Rivne Region<br />
SHYYANOV, Borys Anatoliyovych; born 1958; Fatherland party member; director-general <strong>of</strong><br />
WPI Ukraine; a telecoms firm<br />
ZARUDNIY, Oleksiy Borysovych; born 1970; not a member <strong>of</strong> any party; former deputy head<br />
<strong>of</strong> Pension Fund (2002-06)<br />
Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defence bloc<br />
Members: 72<br />
Leader: Vyacheslav Kyrylenko<br />
Deputy leaders: Borys Tarasyuk, Taras Stetskiv, Roman Zvarych, Ruslan Knyazevych<br />
KYRYLENKO, Vyacheslav Anatoliyovych; born 1968; Our Ukraine People's Union party<br />
leader; former labour minister, deputy prime minister for humanitarian affairs (2005-06);<br />
member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
YATSENYUK, Arseniy Petrovych; born 1974; unaffiliated; No 3 on propresidential Our<br />
Ukraine-People's Self-Defence bloc's election list; former foreign minister (20<strong>07</strong>); former deputy<br />
head <strong>of</strong> President Viktor Yushchenko's secretariat (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former deputy Odessa Region<br />
governor (2005); former economics minister (2005); former first deputy chairman, acting<br />
chairman <strong>of</strong> National Bank <strong>of</strong> Ukraine (2002-05); former Crimean economics minister (2001-<br />
02); elected <strong>parliament</strong>ary speaker on 4 <strong>Dec</strong>ember 20<strong>07</strong>, dismissed as speaker in November<br />
2008.<br />
HRYTSENKO, Anatoliy Stepanovych; born 1957; unaffiliated; former defence minister (2005-<br />
<strong>07</strong>)<br />
KATERYNCHUK, Mykola Dmytrovych; born 1967; European Party <strong>of</strong> Ukraine member;<br />
member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>);<br />
HERASYMYUK, Olha Volodymyrivna; born 1958; Our Ukraine People's Union party member;<br />
former producer-general, Studio One Plus One TV company; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation<br />
<strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
LYAPINA, Kseniya Mykhaylivna; born 1964; Our Ukraine People's Union party member;<br />
member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); head <strong>of</strong> analytical group <strong>of</strong><br />
Institute <strong>of</strong> Competitive Society NGO<br />
KNYAZEVYCH, Ruslan Petrovych; born 1974; Our Ukraine People's Union party member;<br />
former member <strong>of</strong> Central Electoral Commission; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong><br />
Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
ARYEV, Volodymyr Ihorovych; born 1975; unaffiliated; investigative TV journalist; director <strong>of</strong><br />
Zmina Studio company
TARASYUK, Borys Ivanovych; born 1949; leader <strong>of</strong> People's Movement <strong>of</strong> Ukraine (Rukh);<br />
former foreign minister (1998-2000, 2005-06); member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament<br />
(2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
HRYHOROVYCH, Liliya Stepanivna; born 1957; Our Ukraine People's Union party member;<br />
member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
OMELCHENKO, Oleksandr Oleksandrovych; born 1938; unaffiliated; former Kyiv mayor<br />
(1999-2006)<br />
BOBYLOV, Oleksandr Fadiyovych; born 1963; unaffiliated; on <strong>Dec</strong>ember 25, 2008 replaced<br />
VAKARCHUK, Svyatoslav Ivanovych, whose mandate was cancelled at his request by<br />
Parliament on <strong>Dec</strong>ember 16, 2008<br />
KOSTENKO, Yuriy Ivanovych; born 1951; leader <strong>of</strong> <strong>Ukrainian</strong> People's Party (Rukh); former<br />
environment minister (1992-95)<br />
SPODARENKO, Ivan Vasylyovych; born 1931; unaffiliated; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations<br />
<strong>of</strong> Parliament from Socialist Party <strong>of</strong> Ukraine (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); deputy editor-in-chief <strong>of</strong><br />
Silski Visti newspaper<br />
OROBETS, Lesya Yuriyivna; born 1982; unaffiliated; private entrepreneur; daughter <strong>of</strong> late Our<br />
Ukraine MP Yuriy Orobets<br />
HERASHCHENKO, Iryna Volodymyrivna; born 1971; unaffiliated; president <strong>of</strong> UNIAN news<br />
agency; President Viktor Yushchenko's former spokeswoman<br />
KLYUCHKOVSKIY, Yuriy Bohdanovych; born 1949; Our Ukraine People's Union party<br />
member; member <strong>of</strong> previous <strong>parliament</strong>s (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); active member <strong>of</strong> People's<br />
Movement <strong>of</strong> Ukraine (1989-2005)<br />
ZHVANIYA, Davyd Vazhayevych; born 1967; unaffiliated; former member <strong>of</strong> Our Ukraine<br />
People's Union party; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>);<br />
former emergencies minister (2005); head <strong>of</strong> Brinkford company<br />
MATVIYENKO, Anatoliy Serhiyovych; born 1953; leader <strong>of</strong> <strong>Ukrainian</strong> Republican Party<br />
Sobor; member <strong>of</strong> previous <strong>parliament</strong>s (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); former Crimean prime minister<br />
(2005), former deputy head <strong>of</strong> President Viktor Yushchenko's secretariat (2005-06); former head<br />
<strong>of</strong> People's Democratic Party; former Vinnytsya Region governor; president <strong>of</strong> Open Politics<br />
Institute<br />
PLYUSHCH, Ivan Stepanovych; born 1941; unaffiliated; former secretary <strong>of</strong> National Security<br />
and Defence Council <strong>of</strong> Ukraine (20<strong>07</strong>); former <strong>parliament</strong>ary speaker (2000-02); member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament<br />
STRETOVYCH, Volodymyr Mykolayovych; born 1958; leader, Christian Democratic Union<br />
party; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
DZHEMILYEV, Mustafa; born 1943; unaffiliated; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong><br />
Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); leader <strong>of</strong> Crimean Tatar Majlis (ethnic government)
STETSKIV, Taras Stepanovych; born 1964; unaffiliated; former president <strong>of</strong> Nationa l TV<br />
Company (2002-05); member <strong>of</strong> previous <strong>parliament</strong>s (1990-94; 1994-98; 1998-2002; 2002-06)<br />
ZAYETS, Ivan Oleksandrovych; born 1952; <strong>Ukrainian</strong> People's Party (Rukh) member; member<br />
<strong>of</strong> previous <strong>parliament</strong>s (1990-94; 1994-98; 1998-2000; 2002-06)<br />
KASKIV, Vladyslav Volodymyrovych; born 1973; member <strong>of</strong> Pora civic party; board chairman<br />
<strong>of</strong> Institute <strong>of</strong> Political Development NGO<br />
POLYACHENKO, Volodymyr Avrumovych; born 1938; Our Ukraine People's Union party<br />
member; former board chairman <strong>of</strong> Kyivmiskbud (Kyiv City Construction) holding company;<br />
member <strong>of</strong> previous <strong>parliament</strong> (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
SHEMCHUK, Viktor Viktorovych; born 1970; unaffiliated; former deputy <strong>Ukrainian</strong><br />
prosecutor-general, former Crimean prosecutor<br />
HUMENYUK, Oleh Ivanovych; born 1970; Our Ukraine People's Union party member, head <strong>of</strong><br />
central executive committee <strong>of</strong> Our Ukraine People's Union; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations<br />
<strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
POLYANCHYCH, Mykhaylo Mykhaylovych; born 1958; Our Ukraine People's Union party<br />
member; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>);<br />
ZVARYCH, Roman Mykhaylovych; born 1953; Our Ukraine People's Union party member;<br />
former justice minister (2005); member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<br />
<strong>07</strong>); ethnic <strong>Ukrainian</strong> born in New York, moved to Ukraine in 1991 and gave up US citizenship<br />
in 1993<br />
DONIY, Oleksandr Serhiyovych; born 1969; unaffiliated; president <strong>of</strong> Centre for Political<br />
Values Studies<br />
KOVAL, Vyacheslav Stanislavovych; born 1945; deputy leader <strong>of</strong> People's Moveme nt <strong>of</strong><br />
Ukraine (Rukh); member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
YUSHCHENKO, Petro Andriyovych; born 1946; Our Ukraine People's Union party member;<br />
brother <strong>of</strong> President Viktor Yushchenko; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-<br />
06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
KRIL, Ihor Ivanovych; born 1961; Our Ukraine People's Union party member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
MOSKAL, Henadiy Henadiyovych; born 1950; unaffiliated; former deputy interior minister;<br />
president <strong>of</strong> Pravozakhyst law firm<br />
SLOBODYAN, Oleksandr Vyacheslavovych; born 1956; <strong>Ukrainian</strong> People's Party (Rukh)<br />
member; director-general <strong>of</strong> Obolon brewery (Kyiv)<br />
MOYSYK, Volodymyr Romanovych; born 1957; Our Ukraine People's Union party member;<br />
member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>);<br />
BILOZIR, Oksana Volodymyrivna; born 1957; Our Ukraine People's Union party member;<br />
singer; former culture minister (2005); member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-
06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); pr<strong>of</strong>essor at Kyiv National Culture and Arts University<br />
NOVIKOV, Oleh Volodymyrovych; born 1967; Forward, Ukraine! party member; deputy<br />
director <strong>of</strong> Varyah security firm<br />
STOYKO, Ivan Mykhaylovych; born 1961; People's Movement <strong>of</strong> Ukraine (Rukh) member;<br />
former Ternopil Region governor (2005-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
VYAZIVSKIY, Volodymyr Mykhaylovych; born 1963; Our Ukraine People's Union party<br />
member; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>);<br />
MARTYNENKO, Mykola Volodymyrovych; born 1961; Our Ukraine People's Union party<br />
member; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
LUKYANOVA, Kateryna Yevheniyivna; born 1969; deputy leader, Forward, Ukraine! Party;<br />
private entrepreneur<br />
KLYMENKO, Oleksandr Ivanovych; born 1965; <strong>Ukrainian</strong> People's Party member; financial<br />
director <strong>of</strong> Leasing Centre leasing company<br />
SHKUTYAK, Zinoviy Vasylyovych; born 1948; Our Ukraine People's Union party member;<br />
former Ivano-Frankivsk mayor; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
STETS, Yuriy Yaroslavovych; born 1975; unaffiliated; general producer at NBM TV and Radio<br />
Company (TV 5 Kanal)<br />
TKACH, Roman Volodymyrovych; born 1962; People's Movement <strong>of</strong> Ukraine (Rukh) member;<br />
former Ivano-Frankivsk Region governor (2005-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
DOVHIY, Stanislav Oleksiyovych; born 1954; Our Ukraine People's Union party member;<br />
former member <strong>of</strong> Party <strong>of</strong> Industrialists and Entrepreneurs <strong>of</strong> Ukraine; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
TOPOLOV, Viktor Semenovych; born 1945; Our Ukraine People's Union party member;<br />
member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former coal industry minister (2005-<br />
06)<br />
KULYKOV, Kyrylo Borysovych; born 1969; Forward, Ukraine! Party member; former head <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Ukrainian</strong> bureau <strong>of</strong> Interpol<br />
KARMAZIN, Yuriy Anatoliyovych; born 1957; leader, Defenders <strong>of</strong> Fatherland party; member<br />
<strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament; former presidential candidate<br />
TRETYAKOV, Oleksandr Yuriyovych; born 1970; Our Ukraine People's Union party member;<br />
former first aide to President Viktor Yushchenko (2005); member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong><br />
Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); businessman<br />
PETYOVKA, Vasyl Vasylyovych; born 1967; Our Ukraine People's Union party member;<br />
former mayor <strong>of</strong> Mukacheve (Transcarpathian Region)<br />
BUT, Yuriy Anatoliyovych; born 1967; unaffiliated; lecturer at Kyiv National Culture and Arts<br />
University
DAVYDENKO, Andriy Anatoliyovych; born 1976; <strong>Ukrainian</strong> People's Party member; advisor<br />
to head <strong>of</strong> Directorate <strong>of</strong> State Affairs<br />
ARZHEVITIN, Stanislav Mykhaylovych; born 1961; Our Ukraine People's Union party<br />
member; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former deputy emergencies<br />
minister (2006)<br />
KARPUK, Volodymyr Heorhiyovych; born 1954; Our Ukraine People's Union party member;<br />
member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former deputy Volyn Region<br />
governor<br />
MARUSHCHENKO, Volodymyr Stanislavovych; born 1967; deputy leader, Christian-<br />
Democratic Union party; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
BONDAR, Oleksandr Mykolayovych; born 1955; deputy leader, <strong>Ukrainian</strong> Republican Party<br />
Sobor member; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former chairman <strong>of</strong><br />
State Property Fund<br />
ZHEBRIVSKIY, Pavlo Ivanovych; born 1962; Our Ukraine People's Union party member;<br />
former Zhytomyr Region governor; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
PALYTSYA, Ihor Petrovych; born 1972; unaffiliated; board chairman <strong>of</strong> Ukrnafta oil company<br />
KHAROVSKIY, Serhiy Yuriyovych; born 1962; Forward, Ukraine! party member<br />
CHORNOVOLENKO, Oleksandr Vilenovych; born 1955; People's Movement <strong>of</strong> Ukraine<br />
(Rukh) member; head <strong>of</strong> Kyiv branch <strong>of</strong> People's Movement <strong>of</strong> Ukraine (Rukh); member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
BORYSOV, Valeriy Dmytrovych; born 1957; Our Ukraine People's Union party member;<br />
member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former first deputy head <strong>of</strong> Kyiv city<br />
state administration<br />
KULCHYNSKIY, Mykola Heorhiyovych; born 1947; Our Ukraine People's Union party<br />
member; editor <strong>of</strong> Nashe Slovo newspaper<br />
HRYMCHAK, Yuriy Mykolayovych; born 1965; Forward, Ukraine! party member<br />
DZHODZHYK, Yaroslav Ivanovych; born 1960; deputy chairman <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Ukrainian</strong> People's<br />
Party; member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (1998-2002, 2002-06)<br />
ZEYNALOV, Eduard Dzhanhirovych; born 1963; Our Ukraine People's Union party member;<br />
member <strong>of</strong> previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); leads the Kirovohrad Region branch<br />
<strong>of</strong> Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defence; used to head a number <strong>of</strong> companies involved in fuel<br />
trade<br />
VASYLENKO, Serhiy Volodymyrovych; born 1971; former head <strong>of</strong> the Emergencies Ministry's<br />
main directorate in Crimea (2005-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
KENDZYOR, Yaroslav Mykhaylovych; born 1941; member <strong>of</strong> the political council <strong>of</strong> the<br />
People's Movement <strong>of</strong> Ukraine; member <strong>of</strong> all five previous <strong>Ukrainian</strong> <strong>parliament</strong>s since
independence (1990-94, 1994-98, 1999-2002, 2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); Soviet-era dissident<br />
KRUTS, Mykola Fedorovych; born 1952; Our Ukraine People's Union party member; member<br />
<strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-06, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); former director <strong>of</strong> the Ivano-<br />
Frankivsk cement factory (1999-2002)<br />
PARUBIY, Andriy Volodymyrovych; born 1971; Our Ukraine People's Union party member;<br />
advisor to head <strong>of</strong> Lviv Region state administration<br />
Communist Party<br />
Members: 27<br />
Leader: Petro Symonenko<br />
SYMONENKO, Petro Mykolayovych; born 1952; Communist Party leader; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (1994-98; 1998-2002; 2002-06; 2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
VOLYNETS, Yevhen Valeriyovych; born 1978; Communist Party member; Donetsk Region<br />
coal miner (1996-2005)<br />
PERESTENKO, Maryna Volodymyrivna; born 1966; Communist Party member; head <strong>of</strong> Mars<br />
farm in Crimea<br />
DANYLENKO, Volodymyr Andriyovych, born 1952, Communist Party <strong>of</strong> Ukraine from Sumy<br />
Region, replaced HERASYMOV, Ivan Oleksandrovych in June 2008, who died.<br />
HAYDAYEV, Yuriy Oleksandrovych; born 1954; unaffiliated; former health minister (20<strong>07</strong>)<br />
MARTYNYUK, Adam Ivanovych; born 1950; Communist Party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament; first deputy speaker <strong>of</strong> previous <strong>parliament</strong> (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
BEVZ, Valeriy Ananiyovych; born 1953; Communist Party member; deputy minister <strong>of</strong><br />
emergency situations (20<strong>07</strong>)<br />
TKACHENKO, Oleksandr Mykolayovych; born 1939; Communist Party member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament; former <strong>parliament</strong> speaker (1998-2000)<br />
HOLUB, Oleksandr Volodymyrovych; born 1967; Communist Party member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-05, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); former reporter for a number <strong>of</strong><br />
newspapers (1988-98)<br />
ALEKSYEYEV, Ihor Viktorovych; born 1960; Communist Party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-05, 2006-<strong>07</strong>);<br />
KHRAPOV, Serhiy Anatoliyovych; born 1981; Communist Party member; first secretary <strong>of</strong><br />
Communist Party's Novomoskovsk city committee (Dnipropetrovsk Region)<br />
MATVYEYEV, Valentyn Hryhorovych; born 1943; Communist Party member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-05, 2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
BABURIN, Oleksiy Vasylyovych; born 1949; Communist Party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (1998-2002, 2002-05, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); first deputy commercial director at
the Zaporizhzhya car factory (1991-98)<br />
MARMAZOV, Yevhen Vasylyovych; born 1938; Communist Party member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>); former adviser to head <strong>of</strong> Energy Standard Group<br />
Ukraine<br />
KILINKAROV, Spiridon Pavlovych; born 1968; Communist Party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
KALETNIK, Ihor Hryhorovych; born 1972; unaffiliated; director <strong>of</strong> department at State<br />
Customs Service <strong>of</strong> Ukraine<br />
SAMOYLYK, Kateryna Semenivna; born 1951; Communist Party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-05, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); formed Russian language teacher in Kherson<br />
Region (1990s)<br />
TSYBENKO, Petro Stepanovych; born 1949; Communist Party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliaments (1994-98, 1998-2002, 2002-05, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); former school teacher in<br />
Luhansk Region (1975-94)<br />
ALEKSANDROVSKA, Alla Oleksandrivna; born 1948; Communist Party member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-05, 2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
SHMELYOVA, Svitlana Oleksandrivna; born 1948; unaffiliated; editor-in-chief <strong>of</strong> Kyyivskyy<br />
Visnyk newspaper<br />
HRACH, Leonid Ivanovych; born 1948; Communist Party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-05, 2006-<strong>07</strong>); former Crimean <strong>parliament</strong> speaker (1998-<br />
2002)<br />
KRAVCHENKO, Mykola Vasylyovych; born 1945; Communist Party member; member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (2002-05, 2006-<strong>07</strong>)<br />
NAYDYONOV, Andriy Mykhaylovych; born 1978; Communist Party member; head <strong>of</strong><br />
department at Kherson Institute <strong>of</strong> Interregional Academy <strong>of</strong> Personnel Management<br />
HORDIYENKO, Serhiy Volodymyrovych; born 1957; Communist Party member; head <strong>of</strong><br />
department <strong>of</strong> affairs <strong>of</strong> Orzhytsya District council (Poltava Region)<br />
TSARKOV, Yevhen Ihorovych; born 1974; Communist Party member; replaced<br />
TYMOSHENKO, Mykola Mykhaylovych on <strong>Dec</strong>ember 23, 2008, as former took up a post in<br />
state executive<br />
DEMYANCHUK, Viktoriya Oleksandrivna; born 1970; Communist Party member; first<br />
secretary <strong>of</strong> Communist Party's Kirovohrad regional branch<br />
MATVYEYEV, Volodymyr Yosypovych; born 1943; Communist Party member<br />
Lytvyn Bloc<br />
Members: 20
Leader: Volodymyr Lytvyn<br />
LYTVYN, Volodymyr Mykhaylovych; born 1956; head <strong>of</strong> People's Party; former <strong>parliament</strong>ary<br />
speaker (2002-06); former head <strong>of</strong> ex-President Leonid Kuchma's administration (1999-2002);<br />
vice-president <strong>of</strong> National Academy <strong>of</strong> Sciences <strong>of</strong> Ukraine<br />
HRYNEVETSKIY, Serhiy Rafayilovych; born 1957; People's Party member; former Odessa<br />
Region governor (1998-2005); director <strong>of</strong> external economic relations at Khlibna Havan Trading<br />
House (Odessa)<br />
DERKACH, Mykola Ivanovych; born 1949; People's Party member; head <strong>of</strong> People's Party's<br />
Dnipropetrovsk regional branch; former first deputy Dnipropetrovsk Region governor (1997-<br />
2001); Ukraine's ambassador to Lithuania (2001-04); former economics and European<br />
integration minister (2004-05)<br />
POLISHCHUK, Oleh Viktorovych; born 1968; president <strong>of</strong> Albor Ltd, replaced<br />
PYLYPYSHYN, Viktor Petrovych in June 2008, as the former became leader <strong>of</strong> the Lytvyn<br />
Bloc faction in the Kyiv city council.<br />
BARANOV, Valeriy Oleksiyovych; born 1957; People's Party member; mayor <strong>of</strong> Berdyansk,<br />
Zaporizhzhya Region<br />
RUDCHENKO, Mykola Mykolayovych; born 1951; People's Party member; head <strong>of</strong> People's<br />
Party's Zhytomyr regional branch; former Zhytomyr Region governor (2001-04); member <strong>of</strong><br />
previous convocation <strong>of</strong> Parliament (1994-98)<br />
SHPAK, Vasyl Fedorovych; born 1946; People's Party member; board chairman <strong>of</strong><br />
Lizynhtehtrans state company<br />
SHERSHUN, Mykola Kharytonovych; born 1951; People's Party member; head <strong>of</strong> People's<br />
Party's Rivne regional branch; former director <strong>of</strong> the Rivne forestry company (1988-2002)<br />
SINCHENKO, Viktor Mykolayovych; 1949, member <strong>of</strong> Labour Party <strong>of</strong> Ukraine, sworn in<br />
September 5 2008, replaced SYROTA, Mykhaylo Dmytrovych, who died in August 2008.<br />
TERESHCHUK, Serhiy Mykolayovych; born 1961; People's Party member; head <strong>of</strong> People's<br />
Party's Cherkasy regional branch<br />
SHAROV, Ihor Fedorovych; born 1961; People's Party member; member <strong>of</strong> previous<br />
convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (1995-98, 1998-2002, 2002-06); oil businessman; head <strong>of</strong><br />
International Economic Committee<br />
PAVLENKO, Serhiy Hryhorovych; born 1956; Labour Party <strong>of</strong> Ukraine member; head <strong>of</strong><br />
department <strong>of</strong> Institute <strong>of</strong> Investment Strategy <strong>of</strong> Regional Development<br />
ZARUBINSKIY, Oleh Oleksandrovych; born 1963; active member <strong>of</strong> the People's Democratic<br />
Party (since 1996); member <strong>of</strong> previous convocations <strong>of</strong> Parliament (1998-2002, 2002-06)<br />
LYTVYN, Yuriy Oleksiyovych; born 1968; People's Party member; head <strong>of</strong> main directorate for<br />
agroindustrial development <strong>of</strong> Kirovohrad regional state administration;<br />
BELOUSOVA, Iryna Anatoliyivna; born 1954; Labour Party <strong>of</strong> Ukraine member; assistant
pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> accounting and audit department <strong>of</strong> Zhytomyr State Technology University<br />
HERASYMCHUK, Volodymyr Volodymyrovych; born 1974; Labour Party <strong>of</strong> Ukraine member;<br />
consultant <strong>of</strong> Multiaudit company<br />
SHMIDT, Mykola Olehovych; born 1962; Labour Party <strong>of</strong> Ukraine member; deputy director <strong>of</strong><br />
Melni Import-Export GmbH (Austria) company's <strong>of</strong>fice in Ukraine<br />
HOLOVCHENKO, Ihor Borysovych; born 1960; Labour Party <strong>of</strong> Ukraine member; head <strong>of</strong><br />
editing and publishing department <strong>of</strong> Litera Ltd company<br />
HRYVKOVSKIY, Vadym Oleksandrovych; born 1967; Labour Party <strong>of</strong> Ukraine member;<br />
director <strong>of</strong> SIB-BROK company<br />
VASHCHUK, Kateryna Tym<strong>of</strong>iyivna; born 1947; deputy head <strong>of</strong> People's Party; former leader<br />
<strong>of</strong> Agrarian Party