Taras Chornovil

Taras Chornovil Тарас Чорновіл
Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada
In office 2000 – December 15, 2012[1]
Personal details
Born	June 1, 1964 Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Ukrainian
Political party	Independent[2][3]
Relations	Viacheslav Chornovil (father), Andriy Chornovil (brother)
Occupation	Ukrainian politician
Website	chornovil.openua.net

Taras Vyacheslavovych Chornovil (Ukrainian: Тарас В'ячеславович Чорновіл; born on June 1, 1964 in Lviv) is a Ukrainian politician and is a former deputy in the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament).^[2][3]

Biography

Taras Chornovil was born on June 1, 1964 in Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine), to Vyacheslav Chornovil,^[4] a former Soviet dissident, politician, and founder of the People's Movement of Ukraine, and his wife, Olena Antoniv.

Chornovil studied at the Faculty of Biology at the Lviv University. From 1981-1982, he was a laboratory assistant at Lviv Polytechnic Institute.^[4] From 1982-1984, Chornovil served in the Soviet Army.^[4] From 1985, he was a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, and one of the founders of the Union of Independent Ukrainian Youth.^[4] From 1987, he was an editor in the "Ukrayinskyi Vistnyk" and the main editor of the "Moloda Ukrayina" newspapers.^[4]

Political career

From 1990-1994, Taras was a deputy of the Lviv Oblast Rada.^[4] From 1995 he was the main editor of the Chas newspaper. In 2000 and 2002, Chornovil was elected as a deputy to the Lviv City Council. From May 2002, Chornovil was a member of the Our Ukraine fraction of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament).^[4] During the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, Chornovil switched from Our Ukraine to the Party of Regions,^[4] a party that was antagonistic to Our Ukraine.^[4] In December 2004, Taras was the head of the Viktor Yanukovych election committee during the second voting round in the 2004 presidential election. In the Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2006, Chornovil was elected as a deputy to the Ukrainian parliament as a member of the Party of Regions (he was 3th on their party list).^[4] In October 2008 Chornovil left the Party of Regions.^[5] In June 2009 Chornovil was excluded from the structure of the Party of Regions faction by a decision of the political council of the Party of Regions.^[2]

After the first round of the 2010 presidential election Chornovil called on Ukrainians to vote for Yulia Tymoshenko^[6] (with Viktor Yanukovych being the other candidate during that round).^[7][8][9]

Chornovil joined Reforms for the Future in February 2011.^[10][11] On February 9, 2012, Chornovil left that faction.^[3]

In the 2012 parliamentary elections Chornovil was a candidate in single-member district number 212 (first-past-the-post wins a parliament seat) located in Kiev; he became sixth in this district with 6.47% of the votes thus failed to win parliamentary representation.^[12]

References

1. You Scratch My Back, and I’ll Scratch Yours, The Ukrainian Week (26 September 2012)
2. Bogoslovska,Chornovil excluded from PR faction, UNIAN (June 23, 2009)
3. Chornovil leaves Reforms for Future group, Interfax Ukraine (9 February 2012)
4. (Russian) Чорновил Тарас Вячеславович, Информационно-аналитический центр "ЛІГА"
5. Party of Regions works for Yushchenko – Chornovil, UNIAN (October 10, 2008)
6. Former Yanukovych staffer calls to vote Tymoshenko, Z I K (January 23, 2010)
7. (Ukrainian) Central Election Commission Candidate Results, CEC Ukraine (January 19, 2010)
8. TABLE-Ukraine's presidential election results, Kyiv Post (January 18, 2010)
9. Ukraine's Orange leader Yushchenko loses election, BBC News (January 18, 2010)
10. Individual deputies create Reforms for the Sake of Future group in parliament, Kyiv Post (February 16, 2011)
11. (Ukrainian) "Реформи заради майбутнього" підтримають Януковича у всьому, але мову не здадуть, NEWSru.ua (February 19, 2011)
12. (Ukrainian)Одномандатний виборчий округ №140 Single-mandate constituency № 212, Central Election Commission of Ukraine

External links

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