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Andriy Parubiy

Andriy Parubiy
Андрій Парубій
Парубій Андрій Володимирович cropped.jpg
Andriy Parubiy in April 2016
12th Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada
Assumed office
14 April 2016
Deputy Iryna Herashchenko
Preceded by Volodymyr Groysman
Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada
In office
4 December 2014 – 14 April 2016
President Volodymyr Groysman
Preceded by Ihor Kalietnik
Succeeded by Iryna Herashchenko
10th Secretary of National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine
In office
February 27, 2014 – August 7, 2014
President Oleksandr Turchynov
Preceded by Andriy Klyuyev
Succeeded by Oleksandr Turchynov
Personal details
Born (1971-01-31) January 31, 1971 (age 46)
Chervonohrad, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality Ukrainian
Political party People's Front (2014–)
Other political
affiliations
Fatherland (2012–2014)
Front of Changes (2012)
Our Ukraine (2004–2012)
Social-National Party of Ukraine (1994–2004)
Residence Kiev, Ukraine
Alma mater Lviv University
Occupation Politician
Religion Ukrainian Orthodox
Website www.parubiy.org
People's Deputy of Ukraine
6th convocation
November 23, 2007 – December 12, 2012
Elected as: Our Ukraine, No.80
7th convocation
December 12, 2012 – March 17, 2014
Elected as: Independent, No.21
8th convocation
November 27, 2014 – Present
Elected as: People's Front, No.4

Andriy Volodymyrovych Parubiy (Ukrainian: Андрій Володимирович Парубій) is a Ukrainian politician who has been the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, since 14 April 2016. He previously served as Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, appointed after leading the anti-government protests in the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, until his resignation on August 7, 2014.

In the years leading up to the Ukrainian independence in 1991 Parubiy was an independence activist and was arrested for organizing an unsanctioned rally in 1989. In 1991 he founded the Social-National Party of Ukraine together with Oleh Tyahnybok; the party combined radical nationalism and some neo-Nazi features (by its name and the "Wolfsangel"-like sign). In 1998–2004 Parubiy led the paramilitary organization of SNPU, the Patriot of Ukraine. Parubiy left these organizations in 2004.

Parubiy co-led the Orange Revolution in 2004. In the 2007 parliamentary elections he was voted into the Ukrainian parliament on an Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc ticket. He then became a member of the deputy group that would later become For Ukraine!. Parubiy stayed with Our Ukraine and became a member of its political council.


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