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Iryna Friz
Ірина Фріз
1th Minister for Veterans Affairs
In office
22 November 2018[1] – 29 August 2019
Prime MinisterVolodymyr Groysman
Preceded byPost created
Succeeded byOksana Koliada
Personal details
Born (1974-09-25) September 25, 1974 (age 49)
Yevpatoria, Crimea, Ukrainian SSR
EducationNational Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture[2] (2003[3])

Iryna Friz (Ukrainian: Ірина Василівна Фріз; born 25 September 1974 in Yevpatoria, Crimea[2]) is a Ukrainian politician who was Minister of the then newly created Ministry for Veterans Affairs in the Groysman government from November 2018 until August 2019.[1][4] She was elected into the Ukrainian Parliament in 2014 as a member of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc and in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election for European Solidarity.[2]

Biography

Friz was from May 2003 to March 2005 an assistant to then member of the Ukrainian parliament Petro Poroshenko.[3] From March 2005 to August 2006 she was assistant secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine and head of the press-service of the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.[3] From August 2006 until May 2008 Friz was again "Assistant-Consultant" in the Ukrainian parliament.[2] Friz worked for the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine from May 2008 to January 2013.[3]

In the election campaign of Petro Poroshenko during the 2014 presidential election Friz headed the information department of Poroshenko's election headquarters.[3] Poroshenko won this election and became President of Ukraine in June 2014.[5] Friz followed Poroshenko to the Presidential Administration of Ukraine where she was head of the Main Directorate of Public Communications and Information and head of the Main Department of Information Policy until December 2014.[3]

During the October 2014 parliamentary elections Friz was elected into the Ukrainian parliament on the party list (30th place) of Petro Poroshenko Bloc.[3]

On 22 November 2018 parliament appointed Friz minister of the newly created Ministry for Veterans Affairs in the Groysman government.[1] She stayed on has minister until on 29 August 2019 the Honcharuk government was installed.[4]

In the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Friz was elected to parliament for the party European Solidarity.[6]

Friz is married and has two sons.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Ukraine parliament appoints Markarova, Friz ministers, UNIAN (22 November 2018)
  2. ^ a b c d e (in Ukrainian) MINISTER FOR VETERANS IRYNA FRIZ: WHAT IS KNOWN ABOUT HER, Pryamiy kanal (22 November 2018)
  3. ^ a b c d e f g (in Ukrainian) Small biography, 112 Ukraine
  4. ^ a b New Cabinet formed in Ukraine The Rada appointed the new Cabinet: Avakov and Markarova remained (РАДА ПРИЗНАЧИЛА НОВИЙ КАБМІН: АВАКОВ І МАРКАРОВА ЛИШИЛИСЬ), Ukrayinska Pravda (29 August 2019)
  5. ^ Lukas Alpert (29 May 2014). "Petro Poroshenko to Be Inaugurated as Ukraine President June 7". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 29 May 2014. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  6. ^ CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections, Ukrinform (26 July 2019)
    (in Russian) Results of the extraordinary elections of the People's Deputies of Ukraine 2019, Ukrayinska Pravda (21 July 2019)
Political offices
Preceded by
Post created
 Minister for Veterans Affairs
2018–2019 		Succeeded by
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