Iryna Sysoyenko ( uk, Ірина Володимирівна Сисоєнко; born March 6, 1982) is a

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politician and lawyer. She is a former National Deputy of 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 ...

(Parliament of Ukraine) representing the Samopomich (Self Reliance) party.

Early life and education

Iryna Sysoienko was born on March 6, 1982 in

Mykolaiv Mykolaiv ( uk, Миколаїв, ) is a city and municipality in Southern Ukraine, the administrative center of the Mykolaiv Oblast. Mykolaiv city, which provides Ukraine with access to the Black Sea, is the location of the most downriver brid ...

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. She studied law at the International Solomon University, graduated in 2003. She continued her studies at the National Academy of Internal Affairs from 2003 to 2004, and at the Intellectual Property Institute in 2003-2005.

Career

From 2005 to 2009, Sysoienko worked as a chief specialist of judicial management department of Ministry of Science and Education in Ukraine, where she was charged with the duty of protecting

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in Ukraine. In 2009, she became the General Director of Patent law agenc
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From 2014 she has become Co-founder and General Director at the law firm Babych, Sysoienko and Partners. In 2014, Sysoienko became a lecturer in Civil Law at Kyiv Law University of the Academy of Arts in Ukraine. She is the author of numerous articles and publications on copyright, intellectual property, unfair competition, protection of rights themes and medical law. Sysoienko is co-founder and chairman of the Charity Fund for the Protection of Medical Workers' Rights. She is a member of the Advocate Association of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Bar Association. In 2014, she was elected to the

. Sysoienko again took part in the July

2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Snap elections to the Ukrainian parliament were held on 21 July 2019. Originally scheduled to be held at the end of October, these elections were brought forward after newly inaugurated President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dissolved parliament on 21 Ma ...

, this time for the party

Strength and Honor Strength and Honor ( uk, Сила і Честь, translit=Syla i Chest', SiCh) is a Ukrainian political party led by Ihor Smeshko. History Before the creation of the political party "Strength and Honor" Ihor Smeshko led the NGO "Strength ...

. But in the election the party won 3.82%, not enough to clear the 5% election threshold and thus no parliamentary seats.CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections

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(26 July 2019)

Career in academia

Sysoienko was a research fellow at the Kyiv University of Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and a competitor of Civil Law at the Kyiv University of Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She is the author of numerous articles and publications on copyright, intellectual property, unfair competition, and medical law.

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