Volodymyr Lytvyn
| Volodymyr Lytvyn | |
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| Володимир Литвин | |
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| Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada | |
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In office December 9, 2008 – December 12, 2012 |
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| President |
Viktor Yushchenko Viktor Yanukovych |
| Preceded by | Oleksandr Lavrynovych (acting) |
| Succeeded by | Volodymyr Rybak |
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In office May 28, 2002 – July 6, 2006 |
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| President |
Leonid Kuchma Viktor Yushchenko |
| Preceded by | Ivan Plyushch |
| Succeeded by | Oleksandr Moroz |
| Head of Presidential Administration | |
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In office November 1999 – May 2002 |
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| President | Leonid Kuchma |
| Preceded by | Mykola Biloblotsky |
| Succeeded by | Viktor Medvedchuk |
| Leader of People's Party | |
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Assumed office June 2004 |
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| Personal details | |
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April 28, 1956 Sloboda-Romanivska, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukrainian SSR |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Political party | Bloc For United Ukraine (2002-2004) People's Party (2004-) |
| Spouse(s) | Tetyana Kostyantynivna (b. 1960) |
| Children | Olena (b. 1982) Ivan (b. 1989) |
| Alma mater | Kiev University |
| Website | www |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | ||||
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| 4th convocation | ||||
| May 14, 2002 – May 25, 2006 | ||||
| Elected as: Independent, No.1 | ||||
| 6th convocation | ||||
| November 23, 2007 – December 6, 2012 | ||||
| Elected as: People's Party, No.1 | ||||
| 7th convocation | ||||
| December 12, 2012 – November 27, 2014 | ||||
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Elected as: People's Party, Zhytomyr Oblast, District No.65 |
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| 8th convocation | ||||
| November 27, 2014 – Present | ||||
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Elected as: People's Party, Zhytomyr Oblast, District No.65 |
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Volodymyr Mykhailovych Lytvyn (Ukrainian: Володимир Михайлович Литвин, Ukrainian pronunciation: [vɔɫɔdɪmɪr mɪxɑjɫɔvɪt͡ʃ ɫɪtvɪn]; born April 28, 1956) is a Ukrainian politician best known for being Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament. Having previously served in that position from 2002 until 2006, he was re-elected in December 2008 after his party agreed to join the former coalition of Yulia Tymoshenko in an expanded capacity and stayed Chairman till December 2012. From 1994 to 1999, Lytvyn was the aide to President Leonid Kuchma and, later, the head of his office.
Lytvyn was born in Sloboda-Romanivska village in the Novohrad-Volynskyi Raion of the Zhytomyr Oblast. Lytvyn graduated from the Kiev University (Faculty of History) in 1978. In 1984 he defended his dissertation "Efforts of the Communist Party of Ukraine in improving the preparation of teachers in social disciplines".
Lytvyn started his career at the Kiev State University (1978−86), then he worked as Head of Directorate in the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Vocational Trainig of the Ukranian SSR (1986−89). Between 1989 and 1991 he worked as a political analyst at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, the Ukrainian branch of CPSU.
Lytvyn is a correspondent member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Honored Worker of Sciences and Technology of Ukraine. However, in 2002 he was publicly and reasonably accused of plagiarizing a Western scholar when writing his article to Zerkalo Nedeli newspaper.
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