Iryna Mykolayivna Suslova ( uk, Іри́на Микола́ївна Су́слова; born 5 August 1988 in

Zhytomyr Zhytomyr ( uk, Жито́мир, translit=Zhytomyr ; russian: Жито́мир, Zhitomir ; pl, Żytomierz ; yi, זשיטאָמיר, Zhitomir; german: Schytomyr ) is a city in the north of the western half of Ukraine. It is the Capital city, a ...

) is a

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politician. She was elected to the

Verkhovna Rada 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

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.Self Reliance "Self-Reliance" is an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. It contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes: the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false con ...

. Suslova was excluded from the group in February 2015 after voting for

Viktor Shokin Viktor Mykolayovych Shokin ( uk, Віктор Миколайович Шокін) is a former Prosecutor General of Ukraine. Having previously worked as an investigator for the Prosecutor General Office, he served as Prosecutor General for a year ...

for General Prosecutor of Ukraine. On 30 March 2016 she joined the

Petro Poroshenko Bloc European Solidarity ( uk, Європейська солідарність, Yevropeis'ka solidarnist', YeS) is a political party in Ukraine. It has its roots in a parliamentary group called Solidarity dating from 2000 and has existed since in vario ...

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. In 2016, Iryna was nominated on the Top 30 under 30 award by

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Suslova, Iryna Mykolayivna 1988 births Living people Politicians from Zhytomyr Eighth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada Self Reliance (political party) politicians Petro Poroshenko Bloc politicians 21st-century Ukrainian politicians 21st-century Ukrainian women politicians Women members of the Verkhovna Rada