Roman Petrovych Bezsmertnyi ( uk, Роман Петрович Безсмертний; born 15 November 1965 in

Makariv Raion Makariv Raion ( uk, Макарівський район) was a raion (district) in Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center was the urban-type settlement Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па ...

Kyiv Oblast Kyiv Oblast ( uk, Ки́ївська о́бласть, translit=Kyïvska oblast), also called Kyivshchyna ( uk, Ки́ївщина), is an oblast (province) in central and northern Ukraine. It surrounds, but does not include, the city of Kyiv, w ...

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

) is a

Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...

, member of

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) for four convocations (terms) from 1994 to 2007, deputy head of

Ukrainian president The president of Ukraine ( uk, Президент України, Prezydent Ukrainy) is the head of state of Ukraine. The president represents the nation in international relations, administers the foreign political activity of the state, condu ...

's secretariat and former Ambassador of Ukraine to

Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by R ...

. Bezsmertnyi is also (in 2005) a former

Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine is a government post of the Cabinet of Ukraine. In the absence of the prime minister of Ukraine, the first vice prime minister performs his or her duties as the acting prime minister. In 1991, the post was g ...

, responsible for administrative and territorial reform.PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO APPOINTS THE NEW PRIME MINISTER AND MEMBERS OF HER CABINET

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(February 4, 2005)

Political career

After graduating

Kyiv University 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 ...

, Bezsmertnyi became a school

history History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbr ...

teacher in

Makariv Makariv (, ) is an urban-type settlement in Bucha Raion, in Kyiv Oblast (province) of Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Makariv settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The population of the settlement is , down from 12,042 in 20 ...

. Soon after Ukraine gained independence he switched to politics and made a successful career within the

Ukrainian Republican Party The Ukrainian Republican Party ( uk, Українська Республіканська партія; ''Ukrajinska Respublikanska Partija'') was the first registered political party in Ukraine created on November 5, 1990

, becoming its member of parliament in 1994. Later he left the party but continued his career as a member of parliament. From 2002 to 2006 he was a member of the parliamentary Committee for State Development and Local Self-Governance. Bezsmertnyi was one of the leaders of the 2004

Orange Revolution The Orange Revolution ( uk, Помаранчева революція, translit=Pomarancheva revoliutsiia) was a series of protests and political events that took place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005, in the immediate afterm ...

. After

Viktor Yuschenko Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko ( uk, Віктор Андрійович Ющенко, ; born 23 February 1954) is a Ukrainian politician who was the third president of Ukraine from 23 January 2005 to 25 February 2010. As an informal leader of th ...

's victory on the 2004 presidential elections, Bezsmertnyi became the main organizer of the

People's Union "Our Ukraine" The Our Ukraine ( uk, Наша Україна) (prior to mid-July 2009 known as People's Union "Our Ukraine" ( uk, Народний Союз «Наша Україна»)) is a centre-right political party of Ukraine formed in 2005.

party. The "Our Ukraine"s formal chair is Yuschenko himself, so Bezsmertnyi, as the Head of party's Political Council, became its factual leader. In 2005 Bezsmertnyi was

, responsible for administrative and territorial reform, in the first Tymoshenko government. On 19 February 2008, Bezsmertny resigned from the "Our Ukraine" party. In a joint statement (with people's deputies, Mykhaylo Polyanchych, Ihor Kryl, Viktor Topolov,

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 ...

and Vasyl Petevka) Bezsmertny declared that: "some of the leaders of the party play their own game, coming from personal interests and it has nothing to do with responsibility, pluralism, and norms of democracy." In mid-April 2009, he rejoined the People's Union "Our Ukraine", stating: “To be acting head of the executive committee and not to be a member of the party is not right in relation to the people I am working with”. From February 24, 2010 till June 3, 2011 Bezsmertnyi was Ambassador of Ukraine to

.Ex-Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine - New Ambassador of Ukraine in Minsk
, Telegraf.by (23 August 2011) In July 2014, he became the party leader of Third Ukrainian Republic. Bezsmertnyi was Ukraine's representative to the political subgroup of the

Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine The Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine (also known as the Trilateral Contact Group for the peaceful settlement of the situation in eastern Ukraine) is a group of representatives from Ukraine, the Russian Federation, and the Organization for Secur ...

of the

Russo-Ukrainian War The Russo-Ukrainian War; uk, російсько-українська війна, rosiisko-ukrainska viina. has been ongoing between Russia (alongside Russian separatist forces in Donbas, Russian separatists in Ukraine) and Ukraine since Feb ...

until May 2016. From March 2016 until January 2018 Bezsmertnyi was one of the party leaders of the

Agrarian Party of Ukraine Agrarian Party of Ukraine ( uk, Аграрна партія України) is a political party in Ukraine that was revived in October 2006 and was legally registered as a party in 2006.2019 Ukrainian presidential election The 2019 Ukrainian presidential election was held on 31 March and 21 April in a two-round system. There were 39 candidates for the election on the ballot. The 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia and the occupation of parts of Donetsk Oblast an ...

on 31 May 2018. In these election Hrytsenko did not proceed to the second round of the election; in the first round he gained 0.14% of the votes. In December 2018 Bezsmertnyi announced the creation of a new party late January 2019. President

Volodymyr Zelensky Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, ; russian: Владимир Александрович Зеленский, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Zelenskyy, (born 25 January 1978; also transliterated as Zelensky or Zelenskiy) is a Ukrainian politicia ...

has authorised Bezsmertnyi to represent Ukraine in the working political subgroup at the Trilateral Contact Group on a Donbas settlement.Zelenskyy Authorizes Bezsmertnyi To Represent Ukraine In TCG Political Subgroup Instead Of Motsyk

Ukrainian News Agency The Ukrainian News Agency ( uk, Інформаційне агентство "Українські Новини"; ''Informatsiyne ahentstvo "Ukrayins'ki Novyny"'') is a Kyiv-based Ukrainian news agency. It produces and provides political, business ...

(9 July 2019)

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