Taras Viacheslavovych Chornovil (Ukrainian: Тарас В'ячеславович Чорновіл; born on 1 June 1964) is a Ukrainian politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 2000 to 2012. The son of Ukrainian Soviet dissident leader Viacheslav Chornovil, Chornovil was first elected to the Verkhovna Rada as a member of the People's Movement of Ukraine before joining the Party of Regions during the Orange Revolution, later becoming an independent in 2008.
Taras Chornovil | |
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Тарас Чорновіл | |
 Chornovil in 2011 | |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| In office 5 July 2000 – 15 December 2012[1] | |
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| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
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| Born | 1 June 1964 Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
| Political party | Independent[3][4] |
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| Website | chornovil.openua.net (archived) |
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| Allegiance | Soviet Union |
| Branch/service | Soviet Army |
| Years of service | 1982–1984 |
Early life and career edit
Taras Chornovil was born on 1 June 1964 in Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine), to Viacheslav Chornovil,[5] a Soviet dissident, politician, and founder of the People's Movement of Ukraine, and his wife, Olena Antoniv.
Chornovil studied at the Faculty of Biology at the Lviv University. From 1981-1982, he was a laboratory assistant at Lviv Polytechnic Institute.[5] From 1982-1984, Chornovil served in the Soviet Army.[5] From 1985, he was a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, and one of the founders of the Union of Independent Ukrainian Youth.[5] From 1987, he was an editor in the "Ukrayinskyi Vistnyk" and the main editor of the "Moloda Ukrayina" newspapers.[5]
Political career edit
From 1990 to 1994, Chornovil was a deputy of the Lviv Oblast Council.[5] From 1995 he was the main editor of the Chas newspaper. In 2000 and 2002, Chornovil was elected as a deputy to the Lviv City Council.
Chornovil became a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 115th electoral district on 5 July 2000,[6] succeeding Roman Schmidt.[7] From May 2002, Chornovil was a member of the Our Ukraine fraction of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament).[5] During the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, Chornovil switched from Our Ukraine to the Party of Regions,[5] a party that was antagonistic to Our Ukraine.[5] In December 2004, Taras was the head of the Viktor Yanukovych election committee during the second voting round in the 2004 presidential election. In the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Chornovil was elected as a deputy to the Ukrainian parliament as a member of the Party of Regions (he was 3th[clarification needed] on their party list).[5] On 28 November 2006, he was one of the only two Party of Regions MPs who voted in favour of the law recognizing Holodomor as genocide.[8]
In October 2008 Chornovil left the Party of Regions.[9] In June 2009 Chornovil was excluded from the structure of the Party of Regions faction by a decision of the political council of the Party of Regions.[3]
After the first round of the 2010 presidential election Chornovil called on Ukrainians to vote for Yulia Tymoshenko[10] (with Viktor Yanukovych being the other candidate during that round).[11][12][13]
Chornovil joined Reforms for the Future in February 2011.[14][15] On 9 February 2012 Chornovil left that faction.[4]
In the 2012 parliamentary elections Chornovil was a candidate in single-member district number 212 (first-past-the-post wins a parliament seat) located in Kyiv; he became sixth in this district with 6.47% of the votes thus failed to win parliamentary representation.[16]
References edit
- ^ You Scratch My Back, and I’ll Scratch Yours, The Ukrainian Week (26 September 2012)
- ^ "Косів Михайло Васильович" [Kosiv, Mykhailo Vasyliovych]. Verkhovna Rada (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 11 July 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
- ^ a b Bogoslovska,Chornovil excluded from PR faction, UNIAN (23 June 2009)
- ^ a b Chornovil leaves Reforms for Future group, Interfax Ukraine (9 February 2012)
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j (in Russian) Чорновил Тарас Вячеславович, Информационно-аналитический центр "ЛІГА"
- ^ "Чорновіл Тарас Вячеславович" [Chornovil, Taras Viacheslavovych]. Verkhovna Rada (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 8 November 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
- ^ "Шмідт Роман Михайлович" [Schmidt, Roman Mykhailovych]. Verkhovna Rada (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 7 November 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
- ^ "Проектом Бюджету-2009 видатки на автодороги зменшені на 31% | УНІАН".
- ^ Party of Regions works for Yushchenko – Chornovil, UNIAN (10 October 2008)
- ^ Former Yanukovych staffer calls to vote Tymoshenko, Z I K (23 January 2010)
- ^ (in Ukrainian) Central Election Commission Candidate Results Archived 2010-01-21 at the Wayback Machine, CEC Ukraine (19 January 2010)
- ^ TABLE-Ukraine's presidential election results, Kyiv Post (18 January 2010)
- ^ Ukraine's Orange leader Yushchenko loses election, BBC News (18 January 2010)
- ^ Individual deputies create Reforms for the Sake of Future group in parliament, Kyiv Post (16 February 2011)
- ^ (in Ukrainian) "Реформи заради майбутнього" підтримають Януковича у всьому, але мову не здадуть, NEWSru.ua (19 February 2011)
- ^ (in Ukrainian)Одномандатний виборчий округ №140 Single-mandate constituency № 212, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
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