Valeriy Davydenko ( uk, Валерій Миколайович Давиденко, 16 March 1973, Nosivka, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 23 May 2020)
[Business with Kolobov, Nasirov's defense and Ulyanchenko's party. What is known about the found people's deputy Davydenko shot]
Ukrainska Pravda
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(24 May 2020) was a Ukrainian businessman and politician.
He was found shot dead in the bathroom of his office on 23 May 2020.
[Ukrainian MP Valeriy Davydenko found dead in own office's restroom](_blank)
UNIAN
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(23 May 2020)
Early life and education
Born in
Nosivka Chernihiv Oblast in 1973, Davydenko graduated from the
National University of Food Technologies
The National University of Food Technologies is a Ukrainian university located in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Campus
The campus includes eight buildings. Building "A" hosts the University administration section, Assembly Hall, Academic Council Hall, Dean o ...
with a degree in mechanical engineering of food production equipment.
Career
From the late 1990s to the early 2000s, he worked as an insurance specialist.
From 2004 to 2013, Davydenko was General Director of an agricultural company which was founded in 2003 by Davydenko's mother and the future
Minister of Finance of Ukraine,
Yuriy Kolobov.
In 2020, fellow former member of parliament
Andriy Verevskyi
Andriy Verevskyi ( uk, Андрій Веревський) (born July 25, 1974) is a Ukrainian entrepreneur, founder and chairman of the board of Kernel, a Ukrainian diversified agri company. Verevskiy is a former deputy of Ukrainian parliament memb ...
also had a stake in this company.
Davydenko, Kolobov and member of parliament Borys Prykhodko were former owners of the bankrupt and liquidated Terra Bank.
In May 2013, Davydenko was appointed Deputy
Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food in the
second Azarov government (Yuriy Kolobov was Minister of Finance in this government).
He was fired in March 2014 after the
2014 Ukrainian revolution that was the end of the presidency of
Viktor Yanukovych
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.
Davydenko was first elected to the
Ukrainian parliament
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in the
2014 parliamentary election for the party
Zastup
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.
[List of parties in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election]
ITAR-TASS
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(24 October 2014)[Poroshenko Bloc candidates leading in 64 single-seat constituencies - CEC](_blank)
Interfax-Ukraine (27 October 2014) He won the party's only seat when as an unaffiliated candidate in the 208th
single-member constituency
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located in
Bakhmach
Bakhmach ( uk, Бахмач, lit=plantations, ) is a city located in Nizhyn Raion of Chernihiv Oblast (province), in northern Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Bakhmach urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. It has a population of
...
.
He won with 38.86% of the vote.
[Data on vote counting at precincts within single-mandate districts Extraordinary parliamentary election on 26.10.2014](_blank)
, Central Election Commission of Ukraine During the parliamentary campaign, public observers stated they had allegedly recorded voter bribery for Davydenko.
Zastup claimed this had been a provocation.
Davydenko later joined the parliamentary faction of
Petro Poroshenko Bloc
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. Davydenko was re-elected, after again a win in the 208th constituency (with 37.43% of the vote) but this time as an independent candidate, in the
2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election
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. A few months before his death, Davydenko was co-chairman of the political party
Our Land.
After the 2019 parliamentary election, Davydenko joined the
Trust (parliamentary group) faction.
Death
Davydenko and his wife had two daughters.
Davydenko was found shot dead in the bathroom of his office in
Kyiv
Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the seventh-most populous city in Europe.
Kyi ...
on 23 May 2020.
On 25 October 2020 from
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 ...
won the early election, called to replace Davydenko, in constituency 208 with 34.10%.
[Election results of the 25 October 2020 early election in Constituency 208]
Central Election Commission of Ukraine Davydenko's wife Lyudmyla took 3rd place in the election with 26.68% of the votes.
[Verkhovna Rada elections in 208 constituencies: The CEC registered the wife of the deceased deputy]
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 Ukrai ...
(4 October 2020)
See also
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List of members of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine who died in office
References
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1973 births
2020 deaths
Eighth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
Ninth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
Independent politicians in Ukraine
People from Chernihiv Oblast
Deaths by firearm in Ukraine