Ihor Myronovych Baluta ( uk, Ігор Миронович Балута) is a
Ukrainia
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian invas ...
Ukrainia
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian invas ...
n politician and Governor of
Kharkiv Oblast
Kharkiv Oblast ( uk, Харківська́ о́бласть, translit=Kharkivska oblast), also referred to as Kharkivshchyna ( uk, Ха́рківщина), is an oblast (province) of eastern Ukraine. The oblast borders Russia to the north, Luhan ...
Kyiv Post
The ''Kyiv Post'' is the oldest English-language newspaper in Ukraine, founded in October 1995 by Jed Sunden.
History
American Jed Sunden founded the ''Kyiv Post'' weekly newspaper on Oct. 18, 1995 and later created KP Media for his holdings. ...
(March 4, 2014)
Biography
Baluta was born 9 July 1970 in
Kharkiv
Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine.Short bio SQ In 1993 he graduated from Kharkiv Medical Institute (specializing in pediatrics). From 1993 until 1998 he worked at a
children's hospital
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in Kharkiv. Baluta was an assistant at the laboratory of
Clinical Immunology
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and
Allergology
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of the Kharkiv Research Institute of Microbiology and Immunology Department of the Academy of medical sciences of Ukraine in Kharkiv from early 1999 until early 2002. From 2002 until 2005 he was CEO of two commercial enterprises. Late 2004 he participated in the
Orange Revolution
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. From April 2005 until September 2010 Baluta served as head of the main Directorate of labour and social protection of the population of
Kharkiv Oblast
Kharkiv Oblast ( uk, Харківська́ о́бласть, translit=Kharkivska oblast), also referred to as Kharkivshchyna ( uk, Ха́рківщина), is an oblast (province) of eastern Ukraine. The oblast borders Russia to the north, Luhan ...
(province).
In 2010 he was elected as a Deputy of the Kharkiv Oblast Council (for
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 Pe ...
Segodnya
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(19 September 2012) He finished second in this race with 29.34% (winner Valeriy Pysarenko of
Party of Regions
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pro-Russian
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protests. On the day of his appointment on his Government office the
Ukrainian flag
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The blue and yellow bicolour first appeared during the 1848 Spring of Nations in Lemberg, then part of the ...
was replaced with a
Russian flag
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. Baluta's first public appearance was two days later when he spoke to a crowd of pro-EU demonstrators expressing his support for the new Yatsenyuk Government. From then until 13 April regional (Baluta's Government office the) state administration building was occupied multiple times by pro-Russians (until it became fully under Ukrainian control); accompanied by violent clashes between pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian demonstrators. Kharkiv returned to relative calm by 30 April.
On 3 February 2015
President of Ukraine
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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 ...
Espreso TV
Espreso TV ( uk, Еспресо TV) is an Internet television station in Ukraine that started to operate in November 2013. Espreso TV enabled the Euromaidan protests to be broadcast worldwide.
Ownership
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Mayor
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Hennadiy Kernes
Hennadiy Adolfovych Kernesrussian: Генна́дий Адо́льфович Ке́рнес, translit=Gennady Adolfovich Kernes (27 June 1959 – 17 December 2020) was a Ukrainian politician who was the Mayor of Kharkiv from 2010 until his deat ...
Aktsent
Aktsent ( uk, Акцент, formally Viche ( uk, Віче; English translation: ''Union'' or ''Council'')), is a political party in Ukraine registered in May 1993.