Dmytro Svyatash
| Dmytro Svyatash Дмитро Святаш | |
|---|---|
| President | Viktor Yanukovych |
| Prime Minister | Mykola Azarov |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
15 July 1971 Kharkiv, Ukraine |
| Political party | Party of Regions |
| Website | [svyatash.org] |
Dmytro Svyatash (Ukrainian: Дмитро Володимирович Святаш; 15 of June, 1971, Kharkiv, Ukraine) - Ukrainian social and political activist, member of Party of Regions, member of the tax and customs policy committee.
Life
Svyatash was born in Kharkiv in 1971 in a family of doctor Vladimir Nikolaevich Svyatash. The family lives in Kharkiv from the postwar years. In 1988 Dmitriy graduated the high school № 1 named after Lenin. In 1994 he graduated the Kharkiv Medical Institute, specializing in pediatrics. In 2001 he completed his studies as a lawyer at the National Yaroslav Mudry Law Academy. A year earlier, Svyatash graduated economic at the Institute for Advanced Studies and Retraining heavy machinery. Then in 2007 he graduated the Kharkiv Regional Institute on Public Administration degree. Since May 2002 till the present day, Svyatash is a deputy of the fourth, fifth and sixth convocation. Since 2005 - member of the Party of Regions.
Political career
In March 2002, gaining 24% of the votes, Svyatash was elected as a deputy of Ukraine from 171 majority districts (Moskovsky district of Kharkiv). He became a member of the Committee on Finance and Banking. In 2004 he was a trustee of presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych. In 2006 became Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Finance and Banking. After the 2007 elections in the ranks of Party of Regions becomes the head of the subcommittee on taxation of non-market financial institutions and entities of the stock market of the Committee on Taxation and Customs Policy.
On February 18, 2014, Svyatash was under suspicion of wanting to leave the country, when protesters of the Euromaidan movement refused him entry to his house, and brought him to nearby Bertuk. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YtelP6DPBE)
In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Svyatash was re-elected into the Ukrainian parliament as a non-partisan after winning a single-member districts seat in Kharkiv with 34.01% of the votes.[1]