Denis Pushilin
| Denis Pushilin | |
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| Chairman of the Donetsk People's Republic (unrecognized internationally) | |
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In office May 15, 2014 – July 18, 2014 |
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| Succeeded by | Andrei Purgin |
| Vice Chairman of the People's Council of the Donetsk People's Republic | |
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In office November 14, 2014 – 4 September, 2015 |
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| Chairman of the People's Council of the Donetsk People's Republic | |
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Assumed office 4 September 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Andrei Purgin |
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9 May 1981 Makiivka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Political party | Donetsk Republic |
| Spouse(s) | Elena Pushilina |
| Children | 2 |
| Religion | Orthodox Church |
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Denis Vladimirovich Pushilin (Russian: Дени́с Влади́мирович Пуши́лин, pronounced [dʲɪˈnʲis vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ pʊˈʂɨlʲɪn]; Ukrainian: Денис Володимирович Пушилін; born on May 9, 1981) is a politician who was the self-declared Chairman of the People's Soviet (Speaker of parliament) of the Donetsk People's Republic, and therefore, under the draft Constitution adopted on May 15, the self-declared republic's head of state.
Ukrainian media claimed that Pushilin's highest stage of formal education is secondary education. According to his (November 2013) autobiography at the Central Election Commission of Ukraine, in May 2014 Russia's ITAR-TASS (news agency) reported Pushilin had graduated from the Donbass Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture.
Prior to his political activism, Pushilin worked for a recent successor of the 1990s Russian Ponzi scheme company MMM, which cost its customers millions of dollars before it was disbanded in 1994. Pushilin never denied involvement in such schemes and affirmed that "pyramid schemes were legal in Russia at the time".
As a member of the "We Have One Goal" party Pushilin failed to win a seat in the 15 December 2013 repeat elections of the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election in simple-majority constituencies number 94 (located in Obukhiv) because got only 0.08% of the votes. Pushilin's (only 1 page long) election program did not contain any statement on a wanted change of Ukraine's current borders. According to his election information, in December 2013 Pushilin was "temporarily not working".
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