Taras Chornovil | |
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Тарас Чорновіл | |
 Chornovil in 2011 | |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| In office 5 July 2000 – 15 December 2012[1] | |
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| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
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| Born | (1964-06-01)1 June 1964 (age 61) |
| Political party | Independent[3][4] |
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| Website | chornovil.openua.net (archived) |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Soviet Union |
| Branch/service | Soviet Army |
| Years of service | 1982–1984 |
Taras Viacheslavovych Chornovil (Ukrainian:Тарас В'ячеславович Чорновіл; born on 1 June 1964) is a Ukrainian politician who served as aPeople's Deputy of Ukraine from 2000 to 2012. The son of Ukrainian Soviet dissident leaderViacheslav Chornovil, Chornovil was first elected to theVerkhovna Rada as a member of thePeople's Movement of Ukraine before joining theParty of Regions during theOrange Revolution, later becoming anindependent in 2008.
Taras Chornovil was born on 1 June 1964 inLviv,Ukrainian SSR,Soviet Union (nowUkraine), toViacheslav Chornovil,[5] aSoviet dissident, politician, and founder of thePeople's Movement of Ukraine, and his wife,Olena Antoniv.
Chornovil studied at the Faculty of Biology at theLviv University. From 1981 to 1982, he was a laboratory assistant atLviv Polytechnic Institute.[5] From 1982 to 1984, Chornovil served in theSoviet Army.[5] From 1985, he was a member of theUkrainian Helsinki Group, and one of the founders of the Union of Independent Ukrainian Youth.[5] From 1987, he was an editor in the "Ukrayinskyi Vistnyk" and the main editor of the "Moloda Ukrayina" newspapers.[5]
From 1990 to 1994, Chornovil was a deputy of theLviv Oblast Council.[5] From 1995 he was the main editor of theChas newspaper. In 2000 and 2002, Chornovil was elected as a deputy to theLviv City Council.
Chornovil became aPeople's Deputy of Ukraine fromUkraine's 115th electoral district on 5 July 2000,[6] succeedingRoman Schmidt.[7] From May 2002, Chornovil was a member of theOur Ukraine fraction of theVerkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament).[5] During theOrange Revolution in Ukraine, Chornovil switched from Our Ukraine to theParty of Regions,[5] a party that was antagonistic to Our Ukraine.[5] In December 2004, Taras was the head of theViktor Yanukovych election committee during the second voting round in the2004 presidential election. In the2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Chornovil was elected as a deputy to the Ukrainian parliament as a member of the Party of Regions (he was 3th[clarification needed] on their party list).[5] On 28 November 2006, he was one of the only twoParty of Regions MPs who voted in favour of the law recognizingHolodomor asgenocide.[8]
In October 2008 Chornovil left the Party of Regions.[9] 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.[3]
After the first round of the2010 presidential election Chornovil called on Ukrainians to vote forYulia Tymoshenko[10] (with Viktor Yanukovych being the other candidate during that round).[11][12][13]
Chornovil joinedReforms for the Future in February 2011.[14][15] On 9 February 2012 Chornovil left that faction.[4]
In the2012 parliamentary elections Chornovil was a candidate insingle-member district number 212 (first-past-the-post wins a parliament seat) located inKyiv; he became sixth in this district with 6.47% of the votes thus failed to win parliamentary representation.[16]
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