Svyatoslav Mykhaylovych Piskun ( uk, Святослав Михайлович Піскун, born 1 March 1959) was 3 times

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. He served in this role in 2002–2003, 2005 and 2007 until

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Viktor Yushchenko 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 dismissed Piskun on 24 May 2007. He worked as a prosecutor in several important cases, including murder of

Georgiy Gongadze Georgiy Ruslanovych Gongadze ka, გიორგი რუსლანის ძე ღონღაძე, Giorgi Ruslanis dze Ghonghadze (21 May 1969 – 17 September 2000) was a Georgian-Ukrainian journalist and film director who was kidn ...

and investigation of

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Political career

In March 2006 he was

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as a people's deputy of the

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 ...

from

Party of Regions The Party of Regions ( uk, Партія регіонів, Partiia rehioniv, ; russian: Партия регионов, Partiya regionov) was a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine formed in late 1997 that then grew to be the biggest party of Uk ...

list as No.96 - but he was not a party member. Piskun was elected in parliament for Party of Regions again in 2007. He became a full member of Party of Regions in October 2008. Piskun did not return to parliament after the

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number 63 (

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wins a parliament seat) located in

Zhytomyr Oblast Zhytomyr Oblast ( uk, Жито́мирська о́бласть, translit=Zhytomyrska oblast), also referred to as Zhytomyrshchyna ( uk, Жито́мирщина}) is an oblast (province) of northern Ukraine. The administrative center of the obla ...

. In the

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(placing 16th on the parties election list). But in the election the party failed to clear the 5%

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(it got 3.11% of the votes) and thus Piskun was not elected into parliament.

Piskun was only allowed to take part in the election after a court decision validated his entrance in the election, at first the

Central Election Commission of Ukraine The Central Election Commission of Ukraine ( uk, Центральна виборча комісія України, commonly abbreviated in Ukrainian as ЦВК (''Tse-Ve-Ka''); sometimes referred to as the Central Electoral Commission of Ukrai ...

had refused to register him because in the last 5 years leading up to the election he had not lived in Ukraine.

Dismissals as Prosecutor General of Ukraine

According to Piskun, his dismissal by President Yushchenko in October 2005 came because he stopped criminal proceedings against

Yulia Tymoshenko Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko ( uk, Юлія Володимирівна Тимошенко, ; Hrihyan ();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 ...

. He was criticized for closing the criminal case related to the

while serving under

's government in 2005. and dropping criminal cases regarding back-then Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Piskun is the only Prosecutor General of Ukraine in Ukraine whose dismissals by two

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have been overturned as unlawful by courts. The latest being a 24 April 2009 Kyiv Court of Appeals passing of a ruling saying President Yushchenko's decree dated 24 May 2007, dismissing Sviatoslav Piskun from the post of the prosecutor general was unlawful, but Piskun did not submit any application for his reinstating on the post of Prosecutor General.

Career since 2014

On 30 March 2014 during an interview with Inter TV channel he called for the criminal prosecution of Ukrainian officials who are responsible for allowing the

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. On 30 July 2020

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Iryna Venediktova Iryna Valentynivna Venediktova ( uk, Ірина Валентинівна Венедіктова; born 21 September 1978) is a Ukrainian politician, academic, and lawyer, previously a prosecutor general of Ukraine from March 2020 to July 2022. S ...

appointed Piskun as her personal adviser on a voluntary basis.Venediktov took Piskun as an adviser

Ukrayinska Pravda ''Ukrainska Pravda'' ( uk, Українська правда, lit=Ukrainian Truth) is a Ukrainian online newspaper founded by Georgiy Gongadze on 16 April 2000 (the day of the Ukrainian constitutional referendum). Published mainly in Ukraini ...

(30 July 2020) On 25 August 2020 Venediktova (without communicating the reason) realised him as her personal adviser.Venediktova released Piskun

(25 August 2020)

References

External links

CLAN of Yanukovich: PISKUN

Interview with Svyatoslav Piskun
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