Ihor Oleksandrovych Shvaika (born 25 February 1976 in Troyitskoye,
Kalmykia
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) is a right-wing
Ukrainian
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7th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada
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All-Ukrainian Union "Freedom"
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party.
Biography
Born in the
Russia
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Republic of Kalmykia
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east of Ukraine where he spent the first 2 years of his life, Shvaika grew up in the city of
Lutuhyne
Lutuhyne (, ) is a city in Luhansk Raion of Luhansk Oblast (region) of Ukraine. It served as the administrative center of Lutuhyne Raion prior to its abolition in 2020. Population: , .
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,
Luhansk Oblast
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after 1978. He graduated from school with honors and entered the
National University “Yaroslav the Wise Law Academy of Ukraine”
The Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University ( uk, Національний юридичний університет імені Ярослава Мудрого» (НЮУ), ''Natsional'nyi yurydychnyi universytet imeni Yaroslava Mudroho'') is a ...
in
Kharkiv
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Politics
In 2007 he became member (Shvaika IV) of the right wing
All-Ukrainian Union "Freedom"
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; by February 2008 he led the Kharkiv regional chapter. In October 2010 he ran as a candidate for Mayor of Kharkiv, receiving 0.84% of the vote. During the parliamentary elections of Ukraine on 28 October 2012, he was elected to
Parliament
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for "Freedom", which ranked at number eight. He became Deputy Chairman of the 17-member Committee on Rules, Ethics and Support to Work of the
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
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Interfax-Ukraine
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(27 February 2014)
In the October 2014 parliamentary election Shvaika was 11th on the election list of his party; since the party came 0,29% short to overcome the 5% threshold to win seats on the nationwide list he was not re-elected into parliament.Poroshenko Bloc to have greatest number of seats in parliament ,
Ukrainian Television and Radio
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Interfax-Ukraine
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(8 November 2014)
On 12 November 2014 he and his fellow two Svoboda ministers in the Yatsenyuk Government resigned (they became
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ministers till a new Government was formed).Svoboda party members in Ukrainian government resign – Deputy Premier Sych
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(12 November 2014)
Since September 2015 Shvaika is a suspect in the investigate of clashes outside the Verkhovna Rada on 31 August 2015. During these clashes between Ukrainian nationalists and security forces a member of the
National Guard of Ukraine
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died after being hit with
shrapnel
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, apparently from a
hand grenade
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Interfax-Ukraine
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(13 January 2016)
In a
2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election
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by-election on 15 March 2020 Shvaika (for Freedom) failed to win a parliamentary seat in electoral district 179 located in
Kharkiv Oblast
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because he gained only 2.19% or 853 of the votes.
Private life
He has been married three times, and has one daughter and one son.