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and Ukraine, participation in the pro-

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, survival of

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Biography

Zinchenko was born in Slavuta ( Khmelnytskyi Oblast, then

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

) on 16 April 1957. He graduated with a degree in physics from

Chernivtsi University Chernivtsi National University (full name Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, uk, Чернівецький національний університет імені Юрія Федьковича) is a public university in the City o ...

, where from 1983-1985 he headed the Komsomol youth organization. From 1993-1995 Zinchenko headed Ometa-Merkantail and the joint stock company Balchug in Kyiv . In 1996 he was appointed director of the Ukraine-Express information agency and worked as president of

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in 1996 he also joined the

(SDPU(o)). Zinchenko became the SDPU(o)’s chief deputy chairman (vice-Speaker) of the

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(parliament) in 1998 and headed the party’s parliament faction. In 2000, he chaired the parliament’s Freedom of Speech and Information Committee, which international media watchdogs criticized for doing little to bolster the freedom of speech in Ukraine. One of the tapes (dated May 2000) recorded by Kuchma's former bodyguard, Major Mykola Melnychenko in

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Kuchma office (revealed during the

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) Zinchenko seemed to talk with Kuchma about efforts to co-opt critical journalists and harass media outlets. Zinchenko was re-elected to the Verkhovna Rada in 2002 on a SDPU(o) ticket.SDPU(u)'s Zinchenko joins Our Ukraine
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during the

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. In December 2005 he created the political party ''Oleksander Zinchenko’s Patriotic Forces Party of Ukraine''. Zinchenko was a member of the

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for

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from the

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till his resignation in June 2009 he was the faction leader. On 13 February 2009, he was appointed Director General of the National Space Agency of Ukraine, he was relieved of this post in March 2010. Oleksandr Zinchenko died on 9 June 2010 at the age of 53,Oleksandr Zinchenko, politician who turned away from Kuchma to support Orange Revolution, dies
''Kyiv Post'' (9 June 2010) and was buried at Kyiv's

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on 11 June.Zinchenko to be buried at Baikove cemetery on June 11
''Kyiv Post'' (10 June 2010) Ukrainian politicians Yulia Tymoshenko,

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and Borys Tarasyuk were present at his funeral.Юлія Тимошенко попрощалась з Олександром Зінченком, 11/06/2010
Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko official website (11 June 2010)

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