Ihor Kalietnik (born 16 July 1972) is a Ukrainian politician, former first deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada.
Biography
Born in 1972 in village of Klembivka,
Yampil Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast
Yampil Raion ( uk, Ямпільський район) was one of raions of Vinnytsia Oblast, located in southwestern Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion was the town of Yampil. The raion was abolished and its territory was merged into ...
, Kalietnik graduated the Vinnytsia Agrarian University in 1993 as agronomist. From 1995 to 2005 he worked for the Ukrainian customs across the country. In 2001 Kalietnik graduated the law school of Kyiv University and in 2004 the Odesa Law Academy to receive title of the Candidate of Judicial Sciences.
For short period he worked as a judge of the Dniprovsky district court of Kiev in 2005-2006. In spring of 2006 Kalietnik unsuccessfully ran for the Ukrainian parliament at the
2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election
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as an independent member of the
People's Opposition Bloc of Natalia Vitrenko
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It consisted of:
*Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine (''Progresivna Sotsyalistychna Partiya Ukrayiny'')
*Party ...
. In November 2007 he ran again at the
2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election
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as an independent member on a party list of the
Communist Party of Ukraine
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finally becoming the People's Deputy of Ukraine. On 22 March 2010 Kalietnik was appointed the Head of Customs Service of Ukraine, yet his membership in parliament did not finish until 4 February 2011.
On 22 November 2012 he resigned as the head of Customs Service and again was reelected on party list to the Ukrainian parliament at the
2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election
The Ukrainian parliamentary election of 2012 took place on 28 October 2012.Communist Party of Ukraine
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. In 2012-2014 Kalietnik served as the first deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada. After the events of
Euromaidan
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he resigned as the first deputy chairman and in June 2014 left the ranks of Communist Party of Ukraine.
In autumn 2014 Kalietnik ran again for the Ukrainian parliament at 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.Donetsk (Budyonivsky and Petrivsky districts),
Donetsk Oblast
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, however the election failed to take place in the electoral district due to the
War in Donbass
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Communist Party of Ukraine
The Communist Party of Ukraine, Abbreviation: KPU, from Ukrainian and Russian "" is a banned political party in Ukraine. It was founded in 1993 as the successor to the Soviet-era Communist Party of Ukraine which was banned in 1991 (accord ...