Oleh Tyahnybok
| Oleh Tyahnybok | |
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| Олег Ярославович Тягнибок | |
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| Leader of the All-Ukrainian Union "Svoboda" | |
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Assumed office 14 February 2004 |
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| Preceded by | Yaroslav Andruschkiv |
| Personal details | |
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7 November 1968 Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Political party | All-Ukrainian Union Svoboda |
| Spouse(s) | Olha Tyahnybok (née Demchyschyn) |
| Children | Jaryna-Maria (1992) Daryna-Bohdana (1995) Hordiy (1997) |
| Occupation | Urologist, politician |
| Religion | Ukrainian Greek Catholic |
| Website | http://www.tyahnybok.info/ |
| Deputy of the Lviv Oblast Council | ||||
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| 2nd session | ||||
| 1994 – 1998 | ||||
| Elected as: Independent, | ||||
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | ||||
| 3rd convocation | ||||
| May 12, 1998 – May 14, 2002 | ||||
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Elected as: Social-National Party, Lviv Oblast, District No.119 |
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| 4th convocation | ||||
| May 14, 2002 – May 25, 2006 | ||||
| Elected as: Social-National Party (till Feb. 14, 2004), Svoboda, Lviv Oblast District No.120 | ||||
| 7th convocation | ||||
| December 12, 2012 – November 27, 2014 | ||||
| Elected as: Svoboda, No.1 | ||||
Oleh Yaroslavovych Tyahnybok (Ukrainian: Оле́г Яросла́вович Тягнибо́к, born 7 November 1968) is a Ukrainian politician who is a former member of the Verkhovna Rada and the leader of the nationalist far-right Svoboda political party. Previously he was elected councilman of the Lviv Oblast Council for the second session.
Tyahnybok was born in the city of Lviv to a family of doctors and is a doctor himself. His father, Yaroslav Tyahnybok, a Merited Doctor of Ukraine, was a distinguished sports doctor, chief physician of the Soviet national boxing team, and a former boxer himself who achieved the title of the Master of Sports of the USSR. Oleh's great-grandfather was a brother of Lonhyn Tsehelsky, a politician in the West Ukrainian People's Republic. Tyahnybok states he remembers from when he was younger searches conducted by the agents of the KGB in his family's apartment.
After secondary school, Tyahnybok enrolled into the Lviv Medical Institute and received part-time medical jobs as a corpsman and nurse, but after the second year was drafted to the army. After returning to the institute, he initiated the creation of the Med Institute Student Brotherhood - the first step in his life as a civil activist. Tyahnybok graduated from the institute in 1993 as a qualified surgeon (as he sometimes mentions, majoring in urology). In 1994 25-year-old Tyahnybok was elected to the Lviv Oblast Council, and in 1998 he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada.
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