Andriy Shkil
| Andriy Shkil Андрі́й Васи́льович Шкіль |
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| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
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In office 14 May 2002 – 15 December 2012 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
November 26, 1963 Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Political party | All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" |
| Other political affiliations |
Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian National Self Defence |
| Spouse(s) | Zoriana Zinovievna (born 1968; fashion designer) |
| Residence | Lviv, Ukraine |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Website | www.shkil.org |
Andriy Shkil (Ukrainian: Андрі́й Васи́льович Шкіль; Andriy Vasilovich Shkil) is a Ukrainian politician.
Since 2013 Shkil lives in exile in France because he fears he will be arrested in Ukraine due to a 2001 criminal case.
Shkil graduated in 1988 from the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University.
In 1989 Shkil became a member of the editorial board of the newspaper Ukrayina Moloda and he was elected deputy chief of the Independent Ukrainian Youth Union. From then he fulfilled various journalistic functions as writer and TV-presenter. In 1997 Skhil graduated from the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv's Department of Journalism.
Shkil took part in the founding meeting of the Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian National Self Defence (UNA-UNSO) in June 1990.
After having had several executive functions in UNA-UNSO in Lviv Shkil became the party leader of UNA-UNSO June 2002. Shkil was active in Ukraine without Kuchma. On March 21, 2001 Shkil was arrested on charges of "organizing mass unrest in Kiev during street demonstrations" and spent 13 months in jail. While in custody, Shkil was elected the People's Deputy of Ukraine during the 2002 parliamentary elections, and as a result was released. Shkil won a single-mandate constituency in the Lviv Oblast (province) and thus a seat in the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament), the UNA-UNSO itself won 0,04% of the votes. In parliament Shkil became a member of the Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko-faction. In 2003 Shkil left UNA-UNSO, in March 2005 he became a member of All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland". During the 2006 parliamentary elections and 2007 parliamentary elections Shkil was re-elected into the Verkhovna Rada high on the party list of Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko.
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