Denys Olegovich Sylantyev ( uk, Денис Олегович Силантьєв; born 3 October 1976) is a Ukrainian politician and retired swimmer. He competed at four consecutive Olympics between 1996 and 2008 and who won a silver medal in the 200 m butterfly in 2000. At the next Olympics he was the flag bearer for Ukraine.
He won the
Mare Nostrum
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In the decades following the 1861 unification of ...
circuit three times: 2000, 2001 and 2002. In 1998 he was named European Swimmer of the Year.
Sylantyev retired from competitions shortly after the
2008 Olympics
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and focused on politics and development of sport in Ukraine.
In the
2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election
The Ukrainian parliamentary election of 2012 took place on 28 October 2012.Kyiv
Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...
Batkivshchyna
The All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" ( uk, Всеукраїнське об'єднання "Батьківщина", translit=Vseukrains'ke obiednannia "Bat'kivshchyna") referred to as Batkivshchyna (), is a political party in Ukraine led by Peo ...
who gained 31.75% of the votes while Silantyev gained 5.18% and fourth place.
In the 26 October
2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election
Snap elections to the Verkhovna Rada took place on 26 October 2014.
Petro Poroshenko, the President of Ukraine, had pressed for early parliamentary elections since his victory in the presidential election in May.Radical Party was elected into the
Ukrainian parliament
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Верхо́вна Ра́да Украї́ни, translit=, Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, translation=Supreme Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian abbreviation ''ВРУ''), often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the ...
. In the 2019 election he was placed 15th on the election list. But Radical Party lost all its parliamentary seats in the
2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election
Snap elections to the Ukrainian parliament were held on 21 July 2019. Originally scheduled to be held at the end of October, these elections were brought forward after newly inaugurated President of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dissolv ...
, because it gained about 1% to little to clear the 5% election threshold and also did not win an electoral district seat.CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections
Ukrinform
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Ukrayinska Pravda
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(21 July 2019)
In the 2020 Kyiv local election (set for 25 October 2020) Sylantyev is a candidate for the
Kyiv City Council
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Civil movement "Chesno"
Chesno ( uk, Чесно, lit=honestly, fairly) is a Ukrainian public campaign that emerged late 2011 to advance a fair election process. It is widely known for its critical analysis and evaluation of politicians and the Verkhovna Rada (parliame ...
Interfax-Ukraine
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