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Lviv Oblast Council
The Lviv Oblast Council or Lviv Regional Council () is the regional council (parliament) of the Lviv Oblast (region) located in western Ukraine. Legislative framework The Regional Council is a local self-government body representing the common interests of territorial communities of villages, towns and cities within the powers defined by the Constitution of Ukraine and Ukrainian Law ''On Local Self-Government in Ukraine''. Composition and work procedure The Lviv Regional Council consists of 84 members who are elected by Lviv Region residents on the basis of universal, equal and direct suffrage. Council members are elected for a five year term. In order to gain representation in the Council, a party must gain more than 5 percent of the total vote. The Council meets in regular and extraordinary sessions. The session is plenipotentiary if more than a half of its members (at least 43) participate in the meeting. Recent elections 2020 Distribution of seats after the 2020 Ukraini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speaker (politics)
The speaker of a deliberative assembly, especially a legislative body, is its presiding officer, or the chair. The title was first used in 1377 in England. Usage The title was first recorded in 1377 to describe the role of Thomas de Hungerford in the Parliament of England.Lee Vol 28, pp. 257,258. The speaker's official role is to moderate debate, make rulings on procedure, announce the results of votes, and the like. The speaker decides who may speak and has the powers to discipline members who break the procedures of the chamber or house. The speaker often also represents the body in person, as the voice of the body in ceremonial and some other situations. A speaker usually presides the lower house. Different styles are employed to refer to those who preside upper houses or Senates. By convention, speakers are normally addressed in Parliament as "Mister Speaker" if a man, or "Madam Speaker" if a woman. In other cultures, other styles are used, mainly being equivale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the north; Poland and Slovakia to the west; Hungary, Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast. Kyiv is the nation's capital and List of cities in Ukraine, largest city, followed by Kharkiv, Odesa, and Dnipro. Ukraine's official language is Ukrainian language, Ukrainian. Humans have inhabited Ukraine since 32,000 BC. During the Middle Ages, it was the site of early Slavs, early Slavic expansion and later became a key centre of East Slavs, East Slavic culture under the state of Kievan Rus', which emerged in the 9th century. Kievan Rus' became the largest and most powerful realm in Europe in the 10th and 11th centuries, but gradually disintegrated into rival regional powers before being d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stepan Senchuk
Stepan Romanovych Senchuk (; 23 March 1955 – 29 November 2005) was a Ukrainian politician from Our Ukraine who was Governor of Lviv Oblast from 1999 to 2001. He was also chairman of the Lviv Oblast Council from 1998 to 2001. Senchuk was assassinated in 2005, allegedly for his business activities. Background He was born in the city of Prokopyevsk in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. Senchuk studied at the Lviv Agricultural Institute (now the Lviv National Environmental University) from 1972 to 1977, specialising in engineering and mechanics. From 1977 to 1993, Senchuk was on engineering and supervising posts at different agricultural enterprises. Since 1993, he was general director of Lvivagroremmashpostach, a Lviv Oblast state-owned enterprise. He was the deputy of the Lviv Oblast Council from 1994 to 1998, where he headed the Agrarian Party. From March 1997 to April 1998, Senchuk was the vice president of the Lviv-region state administration for agriculture and foodstuffs. On 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orest Furdychko
Orest Ivanovych Furdychko (; born 10 October 1952) is a Ukrainian forester and politician who served as People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 125th electoral district, located in Lviv Oblast, from 1998 to 2002. Furdychko is also among Ukraine's leading academics on forestry, and previously served as a member of both the and the . Furdychko was charged with extortion and bribery in 2017 after a sting operation by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine. He was found guilty on 30 July 2021 and sentenced to eight years' imprisonment. Early life and career Orest Ivanovych Furdychko was born on 10 October 1952 in the village of , in Ukraine's western Lviv Oblast. He studied at the Lviv Forestry Institute (now the Ukrainian National Forestry University) from 1970 to 1975, graduating with a specialisation in forestry engineering. He completed his thesis for a Candidate of Sciences degree in 1992, followed by his doctoral thesis in 1995. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mykola Horyn
Mykola Mykolaiovych Horyn (; born 29 January 1945) is a Ukrainian politician who served as chairman of the Lviv Oblast Council from 1992 to 1997 and as Governor of Lviv Oblast from 1994 to 1997. He is a member of the People's Movement of Ukraine, and the younger brother of politicians and Soviet dissidents Bohdan and Mykhailo Horyn. Early life and career Mykola Mykolaiovych Horyn was born on 29 January 1945 in the village of to a family of ethnically-Ukrainian peasants. Mykola Lebed was his cousin once removed, and his father died while fighting in the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. He is the younger brother of Bohdan and Mykhailo Horyn. Mykola studied at Lviv Polytechnic from 1963 to 1968, graduating in electrical engineering. He worked at SKTB Termoprylad from 1968 to 1990, aside from a year between 1969 and 1970, when he completed conscript service in the Soviet Army. Political career Horyn served as deputy chairman of the Lviv Oblast Council from May 1990 to April 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viacheslav Chornovil
Viacheslav Maksymovych Chornovil (; 24 December 1937 – 25 March 1999) was a Ukrainian Soviet dissident, independence activist and politician who was the leader of the People's Movement of Ukraine from 1989 until his death in 1999. He spent fifteen years imprisoned by the Soviet government for his human rights activism, and was later a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 1990 to 1999, being among the first and most prominent anti-communists to hold public office in Ukraine. He twice ran for the presidency of Ukraine; the first time, in 1991, he was defeated by Leonid Kravchuk, while in 1999 he died in a car crash under disputed circumstances. Chornovil was born in the village of Yerky, in central Ukraine, then under the Soviet Union. A member of the Komsomol from his time in university, he was affiliated with the counter-cultural Sixtier movement, and was removed from the Komsomol after speaking out against communism. His samvydav, which investigated violations of intellectuals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radical Party Of Oleh Lyashko
The Radical Party of Oleh Liashko (; RPL), formerly known as the Ukrainian Radical-Democratic Party (), is a political party in Ukraine. It was registered in September 2010. It was primarily known for its radical populism, especially in 2014, when it had its largest amount of support. At the 2012 parliamentary election, the party had won 1 seat. The party won 22 seats at the 2014 parliamentary election. At the 2019 parliamentary election it lost all of its seats.CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections (26 July 2019) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UKROP
UKROP ( in Russian), short for the Ukrainian Association of Patriots (), was a political party in Ukraine.Ukrop political party launched by oligarch Kolomoisky obtains registration (18 June 2015) UKROP was established months after the Euromaidan Revolution of February 2014. The core of the party comprised civil society activists, participants of Euromaidan, volunteers and members of [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Position
Civil Position or Civic Position () is a political party in Ukraine registered in March 2005. It is led by former Minister of Defence Anatoliy Hrytsenko. History Mighty Ukraine The party was registered in March 2005 under the name ''Mighty Ukraine'' () and it was known as this until 2010.Політична партія „Могутня Україна“ Database ASD At this time the party did not participate in any . [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity"
European Solidarity (, ; , YeS) is a political party in Ukraine. It has its roots in a parliamentary group called Solidarity dating from 2000 and has existed since in various forms as a political outlet for Petro Poroshenko. The party with its then name Petro Poroshenko Bloc won 132 of the 423 contested seats in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, more than any other party. In August 2015, the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform (UDAR) merged into the party. In May 2019, the UDAR undid this merge. In October 2017, the party had about 30,000 members; former members of Party of Regions are denied membership. In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the party won 23 seats on the nationwide party list and 2 constituency seats. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 Ukrainian Local Elections
On 25 October 2015 local elections took place in Ukraine. The elections were conducted a little over a year since the 2014 snap local elections, which were only held throughout parts of the country. A second round of voting for the election of mayors in cities with more than 90,000 residents where no candidate gained more than 50% of the votes were held on 15 November 2015. Because of the ongoing conflict in East Ukraine and the February 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia, local elections were not conducted throughout all of the administrative subdivisions of Ukraine. The highest number of seats were won by the Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity", Fatherland and Our Land parties, followed by the Opposition Bloc and the Radical Party. The Petro Poroshenko Bloc did well in the western regions, central Ukraine, and the Kherson Oblast of the south. The Opposition Bloc gained most of the votes of the south and east (except Kharkiv Oblast). In the west, Svoboda improved its pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainska Pravda
''Ukrainska Pravda'' is a Ukrainian socio-political online media outlet founded by Heorhii Gongadze in April 2000. After Gongadze’s death in September 2000, the editorial team was led by co-founder Olena Prytula, who remained the editor-in-chief of Ukrainska Pravda until 2014, when she handed over the position to Sevhil Musaieva. In May 2021, the publication’s new owner became Tomas Fiala, CEO of Dragon Capital. The murder of the founder Heorhii Gongadze in the fall of 2000, who had protested against increasing state censorship, drew international attention to the state of press freedom in Ukraine and sparked protests against President Leonid Kuchma in 2000–2001. In July 2016, Ukrainska Pravda journalist Pavlo Sheremet was killed in an explosion. As of 2020, the masterminds behind the murders of Gongadze and Sheremet remain unknown. History Early Years: 2000–2004 In December 1999, journalists Heorhii Gongadze, Olena Prytula, and Serhii Sholokh traveled to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
