George Tuka or Heorhiy/Georgiy Tuka ( ua, Георгій Борисович Тука; born 24 November 1963 LB.ua) is a Ukrainian politician and activist.
From 29 April 2016 to 29 August 2019 Tuka was Deputy Minister for the temporarily occupied territories and
internally displaced persons
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governor of Luhansk Oblast
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Personal life
George Tuka was born on 24 November 1963 in
Kyiv
Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the seventh-most populous city in Europe.
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. He graduated from the
Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
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In 2009–2010, Tuka worked as head of sales at En Ti Telekom LLC. From 2011 to 2012 he was the director of Zenit-Telecom.
According to his own words he took part in
Arab Spring
The Arab Spring ( ar, الربيع العربي) was a series of anti-government protests, uprisings and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s. It began in Tunisia in response to corruption and econo ...
protests in Egypt where he lived for two and a half years
Tuka joined the Euromaidan protests early on and was wounded by the Berkut special police force on 18 February 2014. He is a co-founder and coordinator of Narodnyi Tyl, a community volunteer movement. In 2014 he co-founded and was fifth on the list of the political party Ukraine is One Country (''Ukrayina – Yedyna Krayina'') during the
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.Narodnyi Tyl established a website titled "Myrotvorets" ("Peacemaker"), which lists the personal data of citizens described as "separatists" or "Kremlin agents" by the authors of the site. Several media have reported that it provided the personal data, including home address, of an assassinated former MP from the Party of Regions, Oleg Kalashnikov, and journalist and writer
Oles Buzina
Oles Alekseevich Buzina ( ua, Оле́сь Олексі́йович Бузина́, translit=Oles Oleksiyovych Buzyna; 13 July 1969 – 16 April 2015) was a Ukraine, Ukrainian journalist and writer known for his criticism of Ukrainian politi ...
. When asked about possible responsibility for the illegal distribution of personal data, he stated, "This site contains data on more than 25,000 men. More than 300 of them are either arrested or killed. So why should I worry about some two lowlifes who are guilty of war?"
On 22 July 2015,
President
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Petro Poroshenko
Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko ( uk, Петро́ Олексі́йович Пороше́нко, ; born 26 September 1965) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician who served as the fifth president of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. Poroshenko se ...
appointed Tuka governor of
Luhansk Oblast
Luhansk Oblast ( uk, Луга́нська о́бласть, translit=Luhanska oblast; russian: Луганская область, translit=Luganskaya oblast; also referred to as Luhanshchyna, uk, Луга́нщина) is the easternmost oblast ...
internally displaced persons
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A ...
Ukrayinska Pravda
''Ukrainska Pravda'' ( uk, Українська правда, lit=Ukrainian Truth) is a Ukrainian online newspaper founded by Georgiy Gongadze on 16 April 2000 (the day of the Ukrainian constitutional referendum). Published mainly in Ukrai ...