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in the

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by winning 29.76% of the votes.
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(26 November 2014)
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(27 November 2014) He lost the seat in the

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. On 25 July 2015, at the request of the Russian authorities,

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placed Yarosh on its international wanted list. Since 2 January 2016 this request no longer appears on Interpol's website.

Biography

Early life

Yarosh was born on 30 September 1971 in Dniprodzerzhynsk (now Kamianske), a town in predominantly Russian-speaking

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in central-eastern Ukraine.Short biography of Dmytro Yarosh
Korrespondent.net Yarosh grew up in a Russian-speaking family. His mother worked in a car factory and his father an engineer at a machine plant. Yarosh has described his early years as "a happy Soviet childhood." His father refused to join the

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, although Yarosh claims he was asked to join many times. In 1988 Yarosh graduated from High School #24 of Dniprodzerzhynsk.The love story of Dmitry Yarosh: Wife hides and shows children
Bigmir.net (15 May 2014) As almost all pre-teens and young teenagers in the Soviet Union, he was a member of Young Pioneers and later the Countrywide Leninist Communist Youth League organisations, youth-based sub-organisations of the Communist Party.Yarosh: I was an Octobrion, a pioneer, and a Komsomol

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(14 January 2019) In the mid-1980s, Yarosh became interested in politics and according to him the Soviet Union "It became clear that the system was false". In 1989, Yarosh, who was 18 at the time, and a group of friends (who were all about twelve years old) were, allegedly, the first people to raise the yellow-blue

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in

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, more precisely in Dneprodzerzhinsk. The flag was sewed by his grandmother and her sister with cloth bought by Yarosh. Starting in February 1989, Yarosh was a member of

People's Movement of Ukraine The People's Movement of Ukraine ( uk, Народний Рух України, Narodnyi Rukh Ukrayiny) is a Ukrainian political party and first opposition party in Soviet Ukraine. Often it is simply referred to as the Movement ( uk, Рух, Ru ...

organisation. From October 1989 to November 1991 he was drafted and served two years in the Soviet army as a private. During the

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, Yarosh joined Ukrainian nationalist groups. In 1994, he joined the Tryzub organisation, which he has led since 2005.

Political activities

Since October 1988, Yarosh has been active in Ukrainian politics: in February 1989, he became a member of the People’s Movement of Ukraine, coinciding with his service in the

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. In 1994, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Yarosh was one of the founders of the Ukrainian nationalist organisation Tryzub. He later became head of Tryzub in 2005. In October 2010, he tried to create a unified Ukrainian nationalist movement. In 2001, Yarosh graduated from the State University of Education in

Drohobych Drohobych ( uk, Дрого́бич, ; pl, Drohobycz; yi, דראָהאָביטש;) is a city of regional significance in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Drohobych Raion and hosts the administration of Drohobych urban h ...

, Ukraine (today the ). On 1 April 2013, Yarosh became an assistant-consultant to the

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(Ukraine's parliament) deputy from the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform

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, they are long-time friends.

2014 revolution

During the

Euromaidan Euromaidan (; uk, Євромайдан, translit=Yevromaidan, lit=Euro Square, ), or the Maidan Uprising, was a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, which began on 21 November 2013 with large protests in Maidan Nezalezhno ...

protests in early 2014, Tryzub became the core of the newly-founded

Right Sector Right Sector ( uk, Пра́вий се́ктор, ''Pravyi sektor'') is a right-wing to far-right, Ukrainian nationalist organization. It originated in November 2013 as a right-wing, paramilitary confederation of several radical nationalist orga ...

, a coalition of right-wing nationalists. During these protests Yarosh advocated for a "national revolution" and dismissed the

Viktor Yanukovych Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych ( uk, Віктор Федорович Янукович, ; ; born 9 July 1950) is a former politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 until he was removed from office in the Revolution of D ...

administration as an "internal occupational regime". In early February, weeks before the ousting of President Yanukovych, Yarosh stated in an interview that there would be no civil war in Ukraine because 80% of the population did not support Yanukovych. Right before the 21 February ouster of Yanukovych, in the

2014 Ukrainian revolution The Revolution of Dignity ( uk, Революція гідності, translit=Revoliutsiia hidnosti) also known as the Maidan Revolution or the Ukrainian Revolution,

, Yarosh claims he and the Right Sector leadership was consulted by Yanukovych on the deal Yanukovych had signed with the opposition to end Euromaidan. Yarosh refused to endorse this agreement and refused to disarm Right Sector. In the aftermath of the collapse of Yanukovych's regime, Yarosh demanded to be appointed Vice Prime Minister for the law enforcement matters, but his demand was rejected; he was offered a post of the Deputy Secretary of the

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instead, but Yarosh rejected this position as being beneath him. There were discussions of appointing Yarosh deputy head of the

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, but these discussions quickly petered out for unknown reasons. On 20 April 2014, Dmytro Yarosh claims he was ordered by acting President Oleksandr Turchinov to lead 20 Right Sector members to sabotage an insurgent-controlled television tower in Sloviansk, leading to the first combat fatalities in the Siege of Sloviansk. Yarosh denied his role in these events until two years later.ДМИТРО ЯРОШ: "ПЕРШИЙ НАСТУПАЛЬНИЙ БІЙ ВІЙНИ ВІДБУВСЯ 20 КВІТНЯ 2014-ГО - ДОБРОВОЛЬЦІ АТАКУВАЛИ БЛОКПОСТ ПІД СЛОВ'ЯНСЬКОМ"
Censor.net.ua. 2016-04-22. Yarosh was a candidate in the 25 May 2014 Ukrainian presidential election. A poll conducted by the "Socis" research center (from 25 February – 4 March 2014) predicted that Yarosh's candidacy received the support of 1.6% of the people who were surveyed. On election day he actually received 0.7% of the votes. In January 2019 Yarosh stated he only took part in the election "not to destroy the revolutionary structures after the revolution". He also stated that he was fully aware it was "virtually impossible" he could win the election and that because he was engaged in military action since the first days of April 2014 he did not campaign. Yarosh took part in the

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number 39 (

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wins a parliament seat) located in

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. He won a parliamentary seat by winning this

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with 29.76% of the votes. Yarosh did not join a faction in the

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(Ukraine's parliament). He did join the inter-factional group

UKROP UKROP ( uk, УКРОП, lit=dill in Russian), short for the Ukrainian Association of Patriots ( uk, Українське об'єднання патріотів, Ukrainske ob'ednannya patriotiv), was a political party in Ukraine.Second Battle of Donetsk Airport, Yarosh was wounded on 21 January 2015 by an exploding Grad rocket in the nearby village of Pisky. He was evacuated out of the conflict zone. In early April 2015, Ukraine's defence ministry announced that MP Dmytro Yarosh was to become an aide to military chief

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and that his Right Sector fighting group would be integrated into the

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. Yarosh resigned as Right Sector leader on 11 November 2015. After he was wounded on 21 January 2015 he had delegated tasks to others in the organisation and he stated on 11 November 2015 he "did not want to be a wedding general". Especially since he claimed "my positions were not always the same as the aspirations of some of the leadership". Late December 2015 Yarosh announced he was forming a new political party that would have its founding congress in February 2016.

Governmental Initiative of Yarosh

In February 2016 Yarosh started a new organisation called ''Governmental Initiative of Yarosh'' (DIYA). The departure of Yarosh resulted in at least 20% of Right Sector members leaving with him. According to Yarosh DIYA will be a public movement like

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was in its early days. Yarosh did not participate in the

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. In the election he endorsed the candidacy of

Ruslan Koshulynskyi Ruslan Volodymyrovych Koshulynskyi ( uk, Руслан Володимирович Кошулинський; born 9 September 1969) is a Ukrainian politician, nationalist, soldier, and former People's Deputy of Ukraine who served as the 9th Deputy S ...

. In the

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DIYA joined a united party list with the political parties of Svoboda,

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and

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. Yarosh himself was placed 3rd on the party list. But in the election they won not enough votes to clear the 5% election threshold and thus no parliamentary seats.CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections

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(26 July 2019) The party did also not win a single-mandate constituency parliamentary seat. On November 2, 2021, Yarosh said on social media he had been appointed Adviser to the

Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine ( uk, Головнокомандувач Збройних сил України, Holovnokomanduvach Zbroynykh syl Ukrayiny) is the professional head of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The positio ...

Valerii Zaluzhnyi. In response to a (December 2021) request by ''

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'' the

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refused to disclose details of its alleged cooperation with Yarosh citing the confidentiality of the information requested. Prior to this request the (army) post of public advisers had been dissolved and Yarosh had thus been dismissed from his post.The General Staff does not recognize the role of Yarosh. He inspected his volunteer army

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(13 December 2021)

Personal life

Yarosh met his wife Olha, who Yarosh claims was his first love, in

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. The couple married in 1993 and has 3 children: daughters Anastasya and Jarina and son Dmytro./(website has automatic

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option)''
Short bio
LIGA On 11 March 2014 grandson Nazar was born. Yarosh was baptized in the

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, (he claims) because "Then there was no other." In 1994 Yarosh converted to the

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.Dmytro Yarosh: Putin can die at any moment

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(15 January 2019)

Political positions and views

*Yarosh calls himself a follower of

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. *Yarosh proposed to ban the

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of Ukraine, as well as the

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. *He considers Russia as a main adversary of Ukraine, although he also has little patience for

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influence on Ukraine either. *The ''

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'' reported: "For years, Yarosh has been fighting for the "

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" of Ukraine ... He believes that "anti-Christian" powers are afoot in the

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and that

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forces people into lifestyles such as

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. ... He doesn't see Europe or

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as a potential partner and has stated that the US is also part of an " anti-Ukrainian front." *Yarosh wrote "I wonder how it came to pass that most of the billionaires in Ukraine are Jews?" *"For all the years of Ukraine's independence, Russia has pursued a systematic, targeted policy of subjugation toward Ukraine ... So of course we will prepare for a conflict with them, ...If they stick their faces here like they did in Georgia in 2008, they'll get it in the teeth." * "Sooner or later, we are doomed to fight a war with heMoscow empire." * "We're not using oligarchs' money in politics, but when a war is on, we do not object to their funding the army." * "Zelenskyy said in his inaugural speech that he was ready to lose ratings, popularity, position.... No, he would lose his life. He will hang on some tree on Khreshchatyk—if he betrays Ukraine and those people who died in the Revolution and the War."

Public image

Yarosh is a controversial figure. In Russia's state-run media he has been described as a "radical nationalist". Mainstream Western media has generally called him a radical or extreme nationalist. Some mainstream and left-wing sources have denounced him as a "fascist".

Reactions in Russia

On 12 March 2014, an editor of privately owned '' Lenta.ru'' website, Galina Timchenko, was fired by the company's owner

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for publishing a link to an interview with Yarosh he gave two days earlier, after Russian media regulatory agency

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formally warned the Lenta.ru website for publishing this link. In this interview Yarosh said: "Sooner or later, we are doomed to fight a war with heMoscow empire".

Criminal charges

On 1 March 2014 Right Sector's page on Russian online social networking service

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showed an entry with Dmytro Yarosh's alleged appeal to

Doku Umarov Doku Khamatovich Umarov ( ce, Ӏумар Хьамади кӀант Докка, translit='Umar Ẋamadi khant Dokka, ; russian: Доку Хаматович Умаров, Doku Khamatovich Umarov; 13 April 1964 – 7 September 2013), also known as ...

, a Chechen militant guerrilla leader associated with

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, for support of Ukraine. On 2 March 2014, Right Sector's spokesman Art Skoropadskyi denied the message was posted and approved by Yarosh. According to the spokesman, this alleged appeal to Umarov appeared on Right Sector's

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webpage after one of its administrator's accounts was hacked. VKontakte blocks the page at a request of an Attorney General of Russia. On 11 March 2014 Russian

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deputy Valery Rashkin urged Russian special services to "follow

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examples" and

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ate leaders of Right sector Dmytro Yarosh and Oleksandr Muzychko. On 12 March 2014 an infamous of Moscow has issued an arrest warrant of Yarosh in absentia alleging public calls for

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. In March 2014

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has launched a criminal case against Yarosh, and some members (including party leader Oleh Tyahnybok) of Svoboda and UNA-UNSO, for "organising an armed gang" that had allegedly fought against Russian

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in the

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and for "public calls for extremism and public calls for terrorism". Yarosh has been placed on an international wanted list by

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at the request of the Russian Federation on 25 July 2015. The charge last alleges he "incriminated imself by makingpublic appeals to terrorism and extremism." These two actions are a crime according to Russian criminal code (205th and 280th articles, respectively). Yarosh has been placed on an international wanted list by the Russian Federation. This initially made him the only person wanted internationally after the beginning of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia in 2014.Wanted by Ukraine

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website accessed 11 November 2015) Since 2 January 2016 Yarosh's name can not be found on the international wanted list that is visible on Interpol's website.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Yarosh, Dmytro 1971 births Living people People from Kamianske Members of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church People's Movement of Ukraine politicians Ukrainian nationalists Eighth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada People of the Euromaidan People of the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation Candidates in the 2014 Ukrainian presidential election Pro-Ukrainian people of the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine Ukrainian military personnel of the war in Donbas Recipients of the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, 3rd class