The Verkhovna Rada,officially the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine,the unicameral parliament of Ukraine.
Holos Ukrayiny is a Ukrainian daily newspaper published in Kyiv. Laws adopted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine are published in Holos Ukrayiny when they come into force the next day.
Mustafa Masi Nayyem is an Afghan-Ukrainian journalist,MP,lecturer at the Kyiv School of Economics,and public figure who was influential in sparking the Euromaidan in Ukraine. Since January 2023 Nayyem had been the head of the State Agency for Restoration and Infrastructure Development. He resigned in June 2024. Prior to this he was Deputy Minister of Infrastructure appointed in August 2021.
Serhiy Holovatyi is a Ukrainian lawyer,politician,former member of parliament,and former Minister of Justice of Ukraine. He is a judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine and has been the Acting Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine since December 29,2020. He served as a Member of the Ukrainian Parliament during the I to VI convocations and as the Minister of Justice of Ukraine in 1995-1997 and 2005-2006. He is a former member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). In the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine,he was a member of various parliamentary factions and groups,including Our Ukraine,BYuT,and the Party of Regions.
Dmytro Oleksandrovych Razumkov is a Ukrainian politician and former chairman of the Verkhovna Rada. Previously he was leader of the Servant of the People party. In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election he led the party to a win of 124 seats on the nationwide party list and 130 constituency seats.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 9th convocation is the current convocation of the legislative branch of the Verkhovna Rada,Ukraine's unicameral parliament. The 9th convocation meets at the Verkhovna Rada building in Kyiv,having begun its term on 29 August 2019 following the last session of the 8th Verkhovna Rada.
Olena Kostiantynivna Kondratiuk is a Ukrainian politician,Deputy Chair of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 9th convocation,Member of the Parliament of the 6th,7th,8th and 9th convocations from the “Batkivshchyna”party. Secretary of the VRU Committee on Freedom of Speech and Information Policy of the 8th Convocation,Deputy Member of the Delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly,Co-Chairman of the Inter-Factional Deputy Caucus "Equal Opportunities". Former director of the “Radnyk”PR agency.
Galyna Mykhailiuk is a Ukrainian lawyer and politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine as the 46th member of the party list of Servant of the People. As Member of Parliament,she holds a position of the Deputy Head of the Committee on Law Enforcement and Co-Head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Groups on Interparliamentary Relations with Japan,Australia and New Zealand.
Olha Vitaliivna Stefanishyna is a Ukrainian lawyer and civil servant. She became the deputy prime minister for European and Euro-Atlantic integration from on 4 June 2020. On 5 September 2024 Stefanishyna also became minister of justice;and has since then thus two ministries under her command.
Mykhailo Lev is the current acting Head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine,lawyer,public and political figure,Head of Sarata Raion State Administration of Odesa Oblast during 2015–2017.
Igor Oleksandrovych Abramovych is a Ukrainian businessman and politician,billionaire,he was People's Deputy of Ukraine from 2019 to 2023.
Stepan Petrovych Ivakhiv is a Ukrainian businessman and politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine representing Ukraine's 21st electoral district as a member of For the Future since 2019,having previously represented the district as an independent since 2012. He is co-owner of the Continuum FIG and the WOG gas station network,and is among the 100 richest people in Ukraine.
Maryana Volodymyrivna Bezuhla,is a Ukrainian politician who is currently a People's Deputy of Ukraine,representing Ukraine's 217th electoral district. She is also a member of the Permanent Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
Derussification in Ukraine is a process of removing Russian influence from the post-Soviet country of Ukraine. This derussification started after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and intensified with the demolition of monuments to Lenin during Euromaidan in 2014 and the further systemic process of decommunization in Ukraine. The Russo-Ukrainian War gave a strong impetus to the process. Along with decommunization,derussification has been described as one of the components of a larger process of decolonization in Ukraine.
Restoration of Ukraine is a parliamentary group in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine,founded on 22 May 2022. The chairwoman of the group is Antonina Slavytska. As of December 2023,the group consists of 16 deputies.
Oleh Ivanovych Kulinich is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine in the 9th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada (parliament),having previously served in the seventh and eighth convocations. He was head of the Dovira group in the Verkhovna Rada. He was arrested in July 2022 and charged with high treason.
Voldoymyr Petrovych Kryzhanivsky is a Ukrainian politician and diplomat who served as the first Ambassador of Ukraine to Russia from 1992 to 1994. Kryzhanivsky also served as a member of the Verkhovna Rada in the 1st convocation.
Denys Maslov is a Ukrainian judge,lawyer,politician and Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Legal Policy.
Ivan Vasylovych Hlukh is a Ukrainian politician,Deputy of Ukraine of the 2nd Convocation of Verkhovna Rada (1994–1998).
Yefim Zisyevich Fiks is a Russian politician and former Ukrainian official,currently serving as the deputy Chairman of the Republic of Crimea since 19 September 2018,having been elected in 2014.
