Oleksandr Mykolayovych Rzhavsky ( uk, Олександр Миколайович Ржавський; 30 January 1959 – 27 March 2022В Бучі п’яні окупанти застрелили екс-нардепа та кандидата в президенти Олександра Ржавського
) was a pro-Russian Ukrainian politician who served as a member of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) from 1998 until 2002. Rzhavsky was also candidate in the

2004 Ukrainian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 31 October, 21 November and 26 December 2004. The election was the fourth presidential election to take place in Ukraine following independence from the Soviet Union. The last stages of the election ...

, nominated by the "United Family" Party, of which he was the head. Presidential candidate in 1999, when he won 0.37% of the votes, and finished in 9th place. He was vice-chair of the board of Montazhspetsbank in 1996–97, and president of Koral Bank in 1997–98. In his program, he promised to establish order in Ukraine, using the methods of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He was killed during the

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An ...

by Russian forces at his home in Bucha, Kyiv Oblast, as part of the Bucha massacre.

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