Larysa Mykolayivna Bilozir ( uk, Лариса Миколаївна Білозір;

née A birth name is the name of a person given upon birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name, or the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a birth certificate or birth re ...

Kucher; born 24 September 1981) is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as a

People's Deputy of Ukraine People's, branded as ''People's Viennaline'' until May 2018, and legally ''Altenrhein Luftfahrt Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung, GmbH'', is an Austrian airline headquartered in Vienna. It operates scheduled and charter passenger flights ma ...

representing Ukraine's 15th electoral district as an

independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independ ...

member of

Dovira Dovira ( uk, Довіра), translated as Trust or Сredence, is a parliamentary group in the Verkhovna Rada and political party in Ukraine, consisting of 20 previously non-partisan representatives. It was formed in the 9th Ukrainian Verkhovna R ...

since 2019.

Biography

Larysa Mykolayivna Kucher was born on 24 September 1981, in the family of agronomist

Mykola Kucher Mykola Ivanovych Kucher ( uk, Микола Іванович Кучер; born 24 August 1959) is a Ukrainian politician and entrepreneur currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine since 26 November 2014. Education In 1981 he graduat ...

and a librarian in the village of Trostianets, Vinnytsia Oblast, where she spent her childhood and went to school. After graduating from school, she entered the Institute of International Relations of the

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Kyiv University or Shevchenko University or officially the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv ( uk, Київський національний університет імені Тараса Шевченка), colloquially known as KNU ...

, where she received a degree in economics and, over time, the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences. After that she continued her studies at the International Institute of Management in Brussels and received a master's degree in business administration. Since 2004, Bilozir has worked in the structures of the agro-industrial complex, private business, and the social sphere.

Political career

In 2015 she was elected a deputy of the Vinnytsia Regional Council from 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 ...

party, and was the head of the Charitable Foundation for Aid to Children with Cancer. Heads the public organization "Life and Development of Communities". In 2019, Bilozir was elected a

in Ukraine's 15th electoral district (Murovanokurilovetsky, Tomashpilsky, Tulchynsky, Chernivtsi, Shargorod districts) as a self-nominated candidate. At the time of the election: Executive Director of the NGO "Life and Development of Communities", non-partisan. Lives in Kyiv.

Family

Bilozir's father is Mykola Kucher, a Ukrainian politician and former Soviet party functionary currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine. Her husband is Andriy Bilozir, the son of composer Ihor Bilozor and singer

Oksana Bilozir Oksana Volodymyrivna Bilozir ( uk, Оксана Володимирівна Білозір), née Rozumkevych ( uk, Розумкевич), is a People's Artist of Ukraine (1994), former People's Deputy of Ukraine and in 2005 Minister of Culture ...

. She has two daughters.

References

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