Oleksandr Sych Александр Сыч |
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Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine | |
In office 27 February 2014 – 12 November 2014 |
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Prime Minister | Arseniy Yatsenyuk |
Preceded by | Kostyantyn Gryshchenko |
Succeeded by | Vyacheslav Kyrylenko |
Personal details | |
Born |
Rivne oblast, Ukrainian SSR |
16 July 1964
Political party | All-Ukrainian Union Svoboda |
Alma mater | Vasyl Stefanyk Subcarpathian National University |
Occupation | lawyer |
Religion | Ukrainian Greek Catholic |
Oleksandr Maksymovych Sych (born July 16, 1964 Dert, Rivne oblast) is a Ukrainian politician. He is a member of the Svoboda party. On 27 February 2014 he became one of two "Vice Prime Ministers" to the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine following the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution. On 12 November 2014 Sych and his fellow two Svoboda ministers in the Yatsenyuk Government resigned and became acting ministers till a new Government was formed.
In 1986 Sych graduated from the Vasyl Stefanyk Subcarpathian National University as a history teacher and in 1999 as a lawyer. Sych is a candidate of historic sciences (2009) and a docent of the Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas. In 1993 to 1999, he was a member of the far-right Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists.
He was elected to the 7th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada during the 2012 parliamentary election as a member of the VO Svoboda party.
Sych is a member of the National Scout Organization of Ukraine "Plast".
Following Euromaidan and the removal of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, Sych was appointed to the position of Vice Prime Minister in the new Ukrainian government. He and other Svoboda cabinet ministers resigned on the 12th of November 2014 due to the results of the early parliamentary elections.