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Tyahnybok wants to re-establish [[Nuclear weapons and Ukraine|Ukraine as a nuclear power]].<ref name=wants/> He believes this would stop the "Russian virtual war on Ukraine" (mentioned above).<ref name=Lonhyn/> |
Tyahnybok wants to re-establish [[Nuclear weapons and Ukraine|Ukraine as a nuclear power]].<ref name=wants/> He believes this would stop the "Russian virtual war on Ukraine" (mentioned above).<ref name=Lonhyn/> |
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Tyahnybok has been compared to far-right Austrian politician [[Jörg Haider]].<ref>http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/parliamentary-election-in-ukraine-tymoshenko-helps-unite-opposition-a-862676.html</ref> |
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Oleh Tyahnybok | |
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| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| Assumed office 15 December 2012[1] | |
| In office 1998–2002 | |
| Leader of the All-Ukrainian Union "Svoboda" | |
| In office February 14, 2004 – December 4, 2007 | |
| Preceded by | Yaroslav Andruschkiv |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Oleh Yaroslavovych Tyahnybok November 7, 1968 Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Political party | All-Ukrainian Union "Freedom" |
| Spouse | Olha Tyahnybok (née Demchyschyn) |
| Children | Jaryna-Maria (1992) Daryna-Bohdana (1995) Hordiy (1997) |
| Website | http://www.tyahnybok.info/ |
Oleh Yaroslavovych Tyahnybok (Ukrainian: Олег Ярославович Тягнибок) is a Ukrainian politician and a member of the Verkhovna Rada. He also is the leader of the All-Ukrainian Union "Svoboda"[2] (albeit a more pragmatic force within that party),[3] and a councilman in the Lviv Regional Council. Tyahnybok was voted Person of the Year for 2012 by readers of the country's leading news magazine, Korrespondent.[4]
Biography
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Tyahnybok was born in the cultural center of the Ukrainian region of Halychyna, the city of Lviv, in the family of doctors, he also is a former doctor.[5][6] His great grandfather was a brother of Lonhyn Tsehelsky, a politician in the West Ukrainian People's Republic.[5] Tyahnybok claims he remembers from when he was younger the searches that were conducted by the agents of the KGB in the apartment of his family.
After the school Tyahnybok enrolled into the Lviv Med Institute and received part-time medical jobs as a corpsman and nurse, but after the second year was drafted to the army. After the return to the Institute he initiated the creation of the Med institute Student Brotherhood - the first step in his life of 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 Regional Council and in 1998 to the Verkhovna Rada.
Political career
In October 1991 Tyahnybok became a member of the Social-National Party of Ukraine.[7] From 1994 till 1998, Tyahnybok served as a member of the Lviv Regional Council.[8] In 1998, Tyahnybok was first elected to the Ukrainian Parliament as a member of Social-National Party of Ukraine,[7] in the parliament he became a member of the People's Movement of Ukraine fraction.[7] In 2002, Tyahnybok was reelected to the Ukrainian parliament as a member of Victor Yushchenko’s Our Ukraine bloc.[7]
On July 20, 2004, Tyahnybok was expelled from the Our Ukraine parliamentary faction[7][9] after he made a speech in the Carpathian Mountains at the gravesite of a commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.[9] In the speech, which was aired on television in the summer of 2004, he made comments like:[10]
"[You are the ones] that the Moscow-Jewish mafia ruling Ukraine fears most"
and
"They were not afraid and we should not be afraid. They took their automatic guns on their necks and went into the woods, and fought against the Moskali, Germans, Jews and other enemies who wanted to take away our Ukrainian state."[9]
In his defence Tyahnybok said he had not offended Russians by calling them an occupying force as this was based on historical fact. He also denied that he was anti-Semitic, saying he was rather pro-Ukrainian.[11][12] The head of the State Committee of National Migration (Derzhkomnatsmihratsia) Hennadiy Moskal published an open letter with insulting content towards the head of the AU Freedom. The Prosecutor's office filed criminal charges of inciting ethnic hatred, but later closed the case for lack of offense. Since that time Mr. Tyahnybok has won nine court cases in that regard. By the decisions of courts it was recognized that the criminal case was raised unlawfully, and the actions of TV-channel "Inter" that showed the footage of the Tyanybok's speech as well as the Head of the Derzhkomnatsmihratsia H. Moskal were recognized as ones that insult the honor and dignity Oleh Tyahnybok and caused him a moral damage. The actions around that issue led to creation of the "Program in defense of Ukrainians". Tyahnybok stated in 2012 "this speech is relevant even today" and "All I said then, I can also repeat now".[4]
Since February 2004 Tyahnybok has headed the All-Ukrainian Union "Freedom".[8]
In April 2005, Tyahnybok co-signed an open letter to President Yushchenko calling for a parliamentary investigation into the "criminal activities of organized Jewry in Ukraine."[4][13]
Tyahnybok stood as a candidate for the post of Mayor of Kiev during the Kiev local election in 2008. Incumbent mayor Leonid Chernovetskyi was reelected with 38% of the vote, while Tyahnybok received 1.37% of the vote. Currently Tyahnybok is the deputy of the Lviv Regional Council.
Tyahnybok was a candidate for President of Ukraine in the 2010 presidential election for the All-Ukrainian Union "Freedom". He received 352,282 votes, or 1.43% of the total.[14] Most of his votes he received in the historic Halychyna oblasts - Lviv oblast, Ternopil oblast and Ivano-Frankivsk oblast accounted to 5% of the vote.[15] In the second round, Tyahnybok did not endorse a candidate. He did presente a list of some 20 demands second round candidate Yulia Tymoshenko had to fulfil first before gaining his endorsement - which included publicizing alleged secret deals Tymoshenko had with Vladimir Putin and ridding herself of what he called Ukraine-haters in her close circles.[16]
During the 2010 Ukrainian local elections his party won between twenty and thirty percent of the votes in Eastern Galicia where it became one of the main forces in local government.[5][17]
During the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election Tyahnybok was (re-)elected (he was top candidate on his party list) into the Ukrainian parliament; when his party won 38 seats.[18][19][20]
In December 2012 Tyahnybok was voted Person of the Year by readers of Ukraine's leading news magazine, Korrespondent.[4]
Political positions
Unlike both imperialism and globalism, modern nationalism seeks a healthy balance between domestic development and productive international relations. Nationalists will always find a common language with patriots in other countries because true nationalism means both love of your own nation and respect for others. Only he who respects himself has the power to respect others.
Tyahnybok in a January 2010 interview with Business Ukraine
Tyahnybok regards Russia as Ukraine's biggest threat.[10] He has accused the Medvedev presidency of "waging virtual war on Ukraine along many fronts – in the information sphere and the diplomatic sector, within the energy trade and throughout the world of international PR spin.".[5] He is pro-NATO and critical of the European Union, but supports a Europe of free nations. According to polls both stances put him at odds with the majority of Ukrainians.[10] Tyahnybok also wants to deprive Crimea of its autonomous status and Sevastopol of its special status.[21][22]
Tyahnybok wants to introduce a “nationality” section into Ukrainian passport, a visa regime with Russia, and for Ukrainians to pass a Ukrainian language test to work in the civil service.[23]
Tyahnybok wants to re-establish Ukraine as a nuclear power.[23] He believes this would stop the "Russian virtual war on Ukraine" (mentioned above).[5]
Cultural and political image
During a visit of Tyahnybok to Sevastopol on January 6, 2010 some 1,500 activists of parties and public movements picketed the Business and Culture Center where Tyahnybok had a meeting with voters.[24]
Tyahnybok was voted Person of the Year for 2012 by readers of the country's leading news magazine, Korrespondent.[4]
See also
References
- ^ You Scratch My Back, and I’ll Scratch Yours, The Ukrainian Week (26 September 2012)
- ^ Tiahnybok reelected Svoboda party head, Kyiv Post (8 December 2012)
- ^ [1], a former candidate for President of Ukraine Kyiv Post. November 22, 2012. ''Svoboda tames radicals to get into parliament'' Article written by Katya Gorchinskaya
- ^ a b c d e Svoboda: The rise of Ukraine's ultra-nationalists, BBC News (26 December 2012)
- ^ a b c d e Ukrainian nationalist leader thriving in hard times, Business Ukraine (January 20, 2011)
- ^ Gorchinskaya, Katya. "Svoboda tames radicals to get into parliament". Kyiv Post. Retrieved 22 November 2012.
- ^ a b c d e Template:Uk icon Олег Тягнибок, Ukrinform
- ^ a b Political Pulse: Presidential field takes shape, Kyiv Post (November 11, 2009)
- ^ a b c Yushchenko Finally Gets Tough On Nationalists, The Jamestown Foundation (August 3, 2004)
- ^ a b c Tyahnybok: Nationalist, fearful of Russia, favors NATO, Kyiv Post (29 October 2008)
- ^ Interview published in the Ukrainian newspaper Silski Visti on 13 August 2004, source: Ukrainian MP denies inciting racial hatred., accessmylibrary.com (17 August 2004)
- ^ Ukrainian party picks xenophobic candidate, Jewish Telegraphic Agency (May 25, 2009)
- ^ http://www.ncsj.org/AuxPages/042005Ukr_letter.shtml Ukraine Notables Sign Anti-Semitic Letter, Anti-Semitism in Ukraine, NCSJ, 04.20.2005
- ^ Template:Uk icon ЦВК оприлюднила офіційні результати 1-го туру виборів, Gazeta.ua (January 25, 2010)
- ^ Template:Uk icon Election results and map by region, Ukrainska Pravda (4 February 2010)
- ^ Tymoshenko’s Looming Defeat: How Did She Make It Inevitable?, Serhiy Kudelia (January 29, 2010)
- ^ Local government elections in Ukraine: last stage in the Party of Regions’ takeover of power, Centre for Eastern Studies (October 4, 2010)
- ^ Q&A:Ukrainian parliamentary election, BBC News (23 October 2012)
- ^ Ukraine election:President Yanukovych party claims win, BBC News (29 October 2012)
- ^ Parties spend over Hr 600 million on elections, according to report, Kyiv Post (16 November 2012)
- ^ Tyahnybok: Crimean autonomy should be cancelled, Inter~Media (August 12, 2008)
- ^ Nationalist presidential candidate in Ukraine calls for downgrading Crimea status, Kyiv Post (January 7, 2010)
- ^ a b Tiahnybok’s virulent brand of nationalism shows no strength, Kyiv Post (January 14, 2010)
- ^ 1,500 activists of over 10 parties protest arrival of nationalist leader in Sevastopol, Kyiv Post (January 6, 2010)
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