Iryna Herashchenko
| Iryna Herashchenko | |
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| Ірина Геращенко | |
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| First Deputy Chairwoman of the Verkhovna Rada | |
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Assumed office 14 April 2016 |
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Chairman of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on European integration of the 8th convocation |
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Assumed office December 4, 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Hryhoriy Nemyria |
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May 15, 1971 Cherkasy, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Political party | Unaffiliated |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | ||||
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| 6th convocation | ||||
| November 23, 2007 – December 12, 2012 | ||||
| Elected as: Our Ukraine Bloc, No.19 | ||||
| 7th convocation | ||||
| December 12, 2012 – November 27, 2014 | ||||
| Elected as: UDAR, No.6 | ||||
| 8th convocation | ||||
| November 27, 2014 – Present | ||||
| Elected as: Petro Poroshenko Bloc, No.9 | ||||
Iryna Volodymyrivna Herashchenko (Ukrainian: Ірина Володимирівна Геращенко) is a politician and journalist of Ukraine. She is a Merited Journalist of Ukraine (2000). She is the current First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament), also serving as President's Humanitarian Envoy at the Minsk peace talks regarding the War in Donbas. While being elected to parliament on several occasions from various political entities, she is not known to be a full member of any political party.
Born on 15 May 1971 in Cherkasy, Herashchenko graduated from the Kiev University Department of Journalism in 1993. She is married and has two daughters and a son.
Herashchenko worked as a journalist for Inter and then as a presidential press secretary in 2005–06 for Viktor Yushchenko. In 2006–07, she was a president of the Information Agency UNIAN. In November 2007, she entered parliament for the first time as a member of the Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc. For the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary elections, she joined the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform of Vitali Klitschko.
In June 2014, during the war in Donbass, Herashchenko was appointed President Petro Poroshenko's envoy for his Peace plan for Eastern Ukraine. In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, she was re-elected into parliament after being in the top 10 of the electoral list of Petro Poroshenko Bloc. There she became Chairman of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on issues of European integration. On 14 April 2014 Herashchenko was elected First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament).
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