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Yarosh

Dmytro Yarosh
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Dmytro Yarosh in Uzhhorod, 19 September 2014
People's Deputy of Ukraine
Assumed office
27 November 2014
People's Deputy of Ukraine
8th convocation
Assumed office
November 27, 2014
Constituency Right Sector, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast,
District No.39
Personal details
Born (1971-09-30) September 30, 1971 (age 45)
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
Military service
Allegiance Soviet Union Soviet Union (historical)
Ukraine Ukraine
Years of service 1989–1991
2014–present

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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