Oleksandr Anatoliiovych Dubinsky ( uk, Олекса́ндр Анато́лійович Дубі́нський; born 18 April 1981) is a

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journalist, politician, blogger, presenter of "Money" TV show on 1 + 1 channel. He has been a

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since the

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elected for the party

Servant of the People Servant of the People (SN; uk, Слуга народу, Sluha narodu, ) is a liberal, centrist, pro-European political party in Ukraine. It was formed in late 2017 and was officially registered on 31 March 2018 on the basis of the previousl ...

. He is the deputy chairman of the

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Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy. Many political observers consider him to be expressing the interests of an informal group of influence of Ukrainian businessman Ihor Kolomoisky. On 1 February 2021 Dubinsky was expelled from the Servant of the People parliamentary faction after the

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imposed sanctions for alleged interfering in the

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.MP Dubinsky expelled from Servant of the People faction

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(2 February 2021)Ruling faction in Ukraine's Parliament expels MP Dubinsky

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(1 February 2021)Dubinsky was expelled from the "Servant of the People" faction

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(1 February 2021) On 15 March 2021 he was expelled from the party due to "violating the statute and disobeying the party's governing bodies."

Biography

Born on 18 April 1981 in

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. According to Oleksandr Dubinsky himself, he studied at the 187th school in Kyiv, later on he graduated from three educational institutions: technical school,

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, majoring in accounting and auditing, and the

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as an electrical engineer.

Journalistic and blogging activities

He worked at the Economic News newspaper ("Ekonomichni vidomosti" in Ukrainian) from 2004 to 2009, where he became known as an economic journalist. From May 2009 to May 2010 he worked as Editor-in-Chief of Weekly.ua Since 2009 he has been blogging on the

website. At some point, Ukrayinska Pravda's editorial staff began to warn that the journalist was biased. "Attention! The editorial board suspects that this author is performing some of his tasks. Keep this in mind when reading, " — stated in the description. Dubinsky's last blog post on Ukrayinska Pravda was published in mid-2015. He became a creative producer for the Journalistic Investigations Department on 1 + 1 TV channel in 2010. In 2014, he was the host of the "Money" show. Since 2012, under the direction of Oleksandr Dubinsky, the program Ukrainsky Sensatsii (literally Ukrainian Scoops) has been launched on 1 + 1. According to the

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, he is the creative producer of Ukrainsky Sensatsii and Secret Materials shows on 1 + 1. In April 2017, he launched the personal blog site Dubinsky.Pro. Since May 2017, he has been actively blogging on

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Politics

As reported by Media Detector, when Oleksandr Dubinsky started working as the head of the Journalistic Investigations department in 2010, he became a clear and consistent advocate of the 1+1 channel's owner Ihor Kolomoisky. For instance, some productions of Ukrainsky Sensatsii have signs of political put-up job. Particularly, the production of 23 March 2019 called "50 Shades of Poroshenko" where then

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Petro Poroshenko Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko ( uk, Петро́ Олексі́йович Пороше́нко, ; born 26 September 1965) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician who served as the fifth president of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. Poroshenko ser ...

was accused of creating a criminal group on the territory of

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and involvement in the murder of his brother Mykhailo. Solomiia Vitvitska, a journalist at

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, called such investigations "strange" and assured that the TSN studio is not related to them. Oleksandr Dubinsky released a lot of critical materials about Poroshenko and only one about

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's public move is shown in a positive light. In the

ran in constituency 94 located in

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(

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and

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cities, Vasylkiv and Obukhiv districts) representing the

. He hadn't been a member of any other political party before.

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(Response) movement opposed Dubinsky within the Red Lines campaign. He won the election with 40.95% of the votes cast in his constituency and became a People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the 9th convocation. Member of the "Servant of the People" party. Dubinsky headed the Servant of the People electoral list for deputies of the Kyiv Oblast Council in the 2020 Ukrainian local elections of 25 October 2020.Elections: Dubinsky headed the list of SN to the Kyiv regional council and leads with himself colleagues from "1 + 1

(4 October 2020) Although the party won 22 seats he did not take up his mandate. On 1 February 2021 Dubinsky was expelled from the Servant of the People (Verkhovna Rada) parliamentary faction after the

imposed sanctions on him the previous month for alleged interfering in the

. On 11 January 2021 the

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put Dubinsky on its sanction list because he was claimed to be part of a "Russia-linked foreign influence network" associated with fellow People's Deputy

Andrii Derkach Andrii Leonidovych Derkach ( uk, Андрій Леонідович Деркач; born 19 August 1967) is a Ukrainian politician and businessman. He has been a member of the Ukrainian Parliament from 1998 to January 2023, serving seven terms, wi ...

. In May 2020, Derkach had released audio recordings that claim to disclose the influence of former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on former (Ukrainian) President Petro Poroshenko. On 19 January 2021 the

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's Office opened a criminal case against Dubinsky regarding the legalization of criminally obtained property and non-payment of taxes according to a statement filed by Ukraine's Anti-Corruption Action Center.Prosecutor General's Office opens proceedings against MP Dubinsky

(19 January 2021) On 14 March 2021 Dubinsky was removed as chairman of the Servant of the People Kyiv regional organization.Dubinsky was removed from the post of the chairman of the Kiev regional center "Servants of the people"

(14 March 22021) The next day he was expelled from the party due to "violating the statute and disobeying the party's governing bodies."Dubinsky expelled from the People's Servant party

(15 March 22021)

Honors

In 2007, 2008 and 2009 he was renowned as the best financial and economic journalist of Ukraine according to the results of the Business circles prize "PRESSZVANIE" contest. Oligarch

Vadim Novinsky Vadym Novynskyi (; born 3 June 1963
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is one of the sponsors of the contest. In 2008 he was the best bank journalist according to the

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Scandals

On 29 January 2019, representatives of 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 ...

gathered at the forum "From Kruty to

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. We are following our own way" which took place in

. Then Ukrainian president

announced his decision to run for a second term. After that, Dubinsky posted on Facebook about it: "Poroshenko's forum today was our chance. Chance to use gas. Just everyone was there". He deleted the post later, however, it has caused scandal. Thus, on 1 February, during the live broadcast of the talk show People Are Against It on ZIK TV channel, five guests were asked to leave Oleksandr Dubinsky's studio because of this post so they left the broadcast. As stated in media reports, on 2 and 3 May 2019, Oleksandr Dubinsky's dubinsky.pro website posted the information on the introduction of a fee for placing electronic records on the MoH website about passing medical examinations, as well as budgetary funds for the training of health care workers, which were allegedly directed for a project implemented by the NGO "Patriot Protection". The MoH called these reports untrue, noting that Oleksandr Dubinsky used a fake document in his materials. Acting Health Minister

Ulana Suprun Ulana Nadia Suprun ( uk, Уляна Надія Супрун, Ulyana Nadiya Suprun; née Jurkiw (Юрків, ''Yurkiv''); born 30 January 1963) is a Ukrainian-American physician, activist, and philanthropist who served as the acting Minister of He ...

filed a lawsuit against Oleksandr Dubinsky for the protection of honour, dignity and business reputation. On 8 November 2019, the Solomianskiy District Court of Kyiv dismissed Ulana Suprun's claim. Media and primary sources point to a number of other cases where Oleksandr Dubinsky or his 1 + 1 projects disseminate fake or manipulative information. In June 2019, a video in which Oleksandr Dubinsky says the motto "

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!" is

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went viral, he also mentioned the legalization of this motto in the modern

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is "absurd and lunatic". In August 2019, shortly after being elected, Dubinsky justified the actions of Israeli Prime Minister

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's wife

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) saying in the past five years the former authorities had glorified Nazi collaborators. On 17 June 2019, Oleksandr Dubinsky shared a photo of him on Facebook in the company of

Andriy Portnov Andriy Volodymyrovych Portnov ( uk, Андрій Володимирович Портнов; born on 27 October 1973) is a Ukrainian lawyer and politician. He was an honored Lawyer of Ukraine in 2004. From 2005 to 2010, Portnov headed the legal d ...

and Igor Guzhva. They're quite infamous in Ukraine. In August 2019, Oleksandr Dubinsky supported the newly elected deputy Maxym Buzhansky, his colleague from the "Servant of the People", who called the journalist of "New Time" a "dopey cow". On 11 November 2019, an investigation of "Nashi Hroshi" ("Our Money" in Ukrainian) about the property of the Dubinsky family was brought out on Bihus.Info. Investigators believe that the people's deputy refused to show his fortune immediately after the election because of the large number of cars and real estate he owns with his mother and wife. Dubinsky himself does not reject this information, but only indicates that all the property was purchased before he took the office. After top managers of the

(NBU) filed a lawsuit against Dubinsky to protect their business reputation, on 29 November 2019, he cussed out the management of NBU on social media and publicly accused past and present NBU leadership Valeria Hontareva,

Yakiv Smolii Yakiv Vasilyovich Smolii ( uk, Яків Васильович Смолій, born 1 February 1961) is a Ukrainian economist and banker and former Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine. He was acting Governor of the National Bank from 11 May 2017 ( ...

and Kateryna Rozhkova of having committed crimes and wrongdoings. Oleksandr Dubinsky called the foreign journalist a "stray animal" for photographing a meeting between Prime Minister

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and the head of President's Office

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odious, empty and idle. Dubinsky also called the journalist and Radio Svoboda "dumb and deceitful.". Oleksandr Dubinsky intimidated the director of the state-owned PrivatBank Petr Krumkhanzl (formerly owned by Kolomoyskyi) with Kolomoyskyi's words about the director allegedly being a member of the

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, which he said at Dubilet's birthday, attended by Dubinsky. And even after Petr Krumkhanzl was hospitalized with a suspected heart attack, Oleksandr Dubinsky continued to intimidate him: he posted on his Telegram channel that the disgruntled people were going to continue protesting at the hospital where Krumkhanzl was hospitalized. Dubinsky did not immediately respond to requests for commenting on the situation. He later added on his Telegram channel that he was not celebrating a heart attack, but simply saying that "Kolomoyskyi's toasts tend to come true." Messages on Dubinsky's Telegram feed indicate that Kolomoyskyi and his supporters are in favor of returning PrivatBank by any means necessary. In his Telegram, trying to avoid responsibility, Dubinsky often refers to unknown sources when making statements and sharing information. At the end of 2019, Oleksandr Dubinsky, who is said "leads the Kolomoyskyi's influence group in the Ukrainian parliament" and who, on assignment of the oligarch, "joined the public campaign ... aimed at shifting responsibility for interfering in the 2016 US elections from Russia to Ukraine" met with

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, who was looking for compromising material on Joe Biden. Oleksandr Dubinsky, as an announcer on Kolomoyskyi's 1 + 1 channel, shot a disgusting video after Kolomoyskyi's attempt of raider attack on the Ukrainian SkyUp low-cost airline carrier with the help of the Baryshivskyi District Court of

. There he said that low-cost airlines are "cattle cars" and expressed support for the decision against SkyUp. On 7 April 2020, Dubinsky shared a screenshot (supposedly fake) on his Facebook page in which, on behalf of the

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mayor

Borys Filatov Borys Albertovych Filatov ( uk, Борис Альбертович Філатов; born 7 March 1972, in Dnipropetrovsk) is a Ukraine, Ukrainian politician, journalist, lawyer, businessman, and the current Mayor of Dnipro. In 2014 Ukrainian parlia ...

, it was promised to shoot pets that residents walk in parks during quarantine. Later on, Dubinsky placed another statement saying that Filatov removed his initial post about pets from his page and affronted the mayor. In comments section under the Dubinsky's post with insults, Filatov threatened Dubinsky using foul language with mutilations to be inflicted once they meet and literally said that Benia's (presumably Kolomoyskyi's) security staff won't save him. Moreover, Filatov published a post himself where he called (likely) Dubinsky a "Bearded Nana's (a local nickname for Kolomoyskyi) sidekick" Bihus.Info reported on 2 October 2020 that a December 2013 Dubinsky news report about alleged

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"that served"

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demonstrators had been staged by Dubinsky at the request of and paid by then Minister of Revenue and Duties Oleksandr Klymenko.Dubinsky took money from Klymenko and promoted fakes about the Maidan - mass media

(2 October 2020) Dubinsky confirmed that he still used the

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that allegedly was used to coordinate the false reporting with Klymenko but denied the accusations.

Property

In November 2019, the media reported that Dubinsky owned 24 apartments and 17 cars. He refused to declare his property, explaining that he earned it before he became a deputy and that he made decent money as a journalist. He called the Bihus.Info investigation "a hit piece". In addition to apartments and cars, he also owns 70 acres of land and two houses. This property is valued at $2.5 million. According to Dubinsky himself, his salary on channel 1 + 1 was only ₴72,000. A part of the property is registered in his name, another part – in the name of his ex-wife Lesia Tsybko and his mother. Moreover, until 2016 the only official source of his mother's income was a pension. Much of the mother's property in the capital appeared in election year (2019).

Memes

"Mum likes the speed" — so explained Dubinsky that 7 cars, including Mercedes and

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, are registered in the name of his mother.

Family

Divorced from Lesia Tsybko.

References

External links

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