Dmytro Yarosh
| Dmytro Yarosh | |
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Dmytro Yarosh in Uzhhorod, 19 September 2014
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| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
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Assumed office 27 November 2014 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
September 30, 1971 Dniprodzerzhynsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Political party | Right Sector (2013–2015) |
| Other political affiliations |
Tryzub (1994–present) People's Movement of Ukraine (1989-94) |
| Alma mater | Drohobych State University of Education |
| Occupation | Politician, activist |
| Website | Facebook page |
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| Allegiance |
 Soviet Union (historical) Ukraine
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| Years of service | 1989–1991 2014–present |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | ||||
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| 8th convocation | ||||
| November 27, 2014 – Present | ||||
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Elected as: Right Sector, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, District No.39 |
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Dmytro Yarosh (Ukrainian: Дмитро Ярош; born 30 September 1971) is a Ukrainian activist and politician. He is the former leader of the far-right Right Sector organization. Late 2015 he withdrew from Right Sector. In February 2016 he started a new organisation called Governmental Initiative of Yarosh (DIYA).
In the May 25, 2014 presidential election he received 127,772 votes (0.7% of the total). He was elected to the Ukrainian parliament during the October 26, 2014 election from a single-seat constituency in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast by winning 29.76% of the votes.
On 25 July 2015 Yarosh was placed by Interpol on its international wanted list at the request of Russian authorities. Since 2 January 2016 this request is not listed anymore on Interpol's website.
Yarosh was born on 30 September 1971 in Dniprodzerzhynsk, a town in predominantly Russian-speaking Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in central-eastern Ukraine. In 1988 Yarosh graduated from High School #24 of Dniprodzerzhynsk. As almost all pre-teens and young teenagers in the Soviet Union, he was a member of Young Pioneers and later the Countrywide Leninist Communist Youth League organizations, youth-based sub-organizations of the Communist Party of the USSR.
In 1989 Yarosh was, allegedly, the first person who first raised the yellow-blue flag of Ukraine in East Ukraine, more precisely in Dnipropetrovsk. Starting in February 1989, Yarosh was a member of People's Movement of Ukraine organization. From October 1989 to November 1991 he was drafted and served two years in the Soviet army as a private.
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