Vladyslav Atroshenko ( uk, Владислав Анатолійович Атрошенко; b. 5 December 1968,

Chernihiv Chernihiv ( uk, Черні́гів, , russian: Черни́гов, ; pl, Czernihów, ; la, Czernihovia), is a city and municipality in northern Ukraine, which serves as the administrative center of Chernihiv Oblast and Chernihiv Raion within ...

) is a

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politician and mayor of

. In the

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he was elected for the

Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity" European Solidarity ( uk, Європейська солідарність, Yevropeis'ka solidarnist', 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 va ...

. In the 2020 Ukrainian local elections he was elected for Small biography on Vladyslav Atroshenko

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Atroshenko is a former

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, last serving from November 2014 to January 2016. He was elected in the

2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Snap elections to the Verkhovna Rada took place on 26 October 2014. Petro Poroshenko, the President of Ukraine, had pressed for early parliamentary elections since his victory in the presidential election in May.Petro Poroshenko Bloc European Solidarity ( uk, Європейська солідарність, Yevropeis'ka solidarnist', 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 vari ...

(as a

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) in single-member constituency 206 (located in Chernihiv, he won the constituency with 51.34% of the votes). In the

2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election The Ukrainian parliamentary election of 2012 took place on 28 October 2012. In parliament he joined the

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faction. In the

2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 31 March 2002. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1976 The Our Ukraine bloc emerged as the largest faction in the Verkhovna Rada, winning 111 of the 447 seats ...

he was elected in single-member constituency 207 for

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. In 2006, he unsuccessfully ran for parliament on the electoral lists of the Our Ukraine Bloc. On 4 February 2005 Atroshenko was appointed Governor of Chernihiv Oblast, and on December 12 of the same year he was dismissed. In the

2010 Ukrainian local elections The 2010 Ukrainian local elections took place on 31 October 2010,Chernihiv Oblast Council for the

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party. In February 2022, during the

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, he organized the resistance to the Russian attack on the city. On 2 March, he predicted that

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in the city was possible. Two missiles hit a hospital in the city during the day according to the health administration chief, Serhiy Pivovar. On 10 March, he said that Russian forces had completely encircled Chernihiv, adding that the city was completely isolated and that critical infrastructure for its 300,000 residents was rapidly failing as it came under repeated bombardment. On March 25, 2022, he shot a video from his car showing the destruction of Chernihiv and on March 26, reported that more houses were destroyed than intact.

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