Ihor Lutsenko (politician)

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Ihor Lutsenko
Ігор Луценко
Lutsenko in 2012
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office
27 November 2014[1] – 24 July 2019
Personal details
Born (1978-11-10) 10 November 1978 (age 45)
Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
NationalityUkrainian
Political partyAll-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland"

Ihor Viktorovych Lutsenko (Ukrainian: І́гор Ві́кторович Луце́нко, born 10 November 1978)[2] is a Ukrainian journalist and politician.

Lutsenko took part in the Euromaidan protests in Kiev. In January 2014, he was abducted and beaten along with Yuriy Verbytsky who died.[3][4]

In 2014, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada on the party list of Batkivshchyna.[2] But in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election he lost reelection for this party in constituency 154 (Rivne Oblast).[5] In October 2019 Lutsenko became an adviser of the Mayor of Kiev Vitali Klitschko.[6]

References

  1. ^ CEC registers 357 newly elected deputies of 422 Archived 2014-12-04 at the Wayback Machine, National Radio Company of Ukraine (25 November 2014)
    Parliament to form leadership and coalition on November 27, UNIAN (26 November 2014)
  2. ^ a b "Луценко Ігор Вікторович" [Ihor Viktorovych Lutsenko] (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada website.
  3. ^ Bigg, Claire; Shtogrin, Iryna (23 January 2014). "Abducted And Left To Die: Euromaidan Supporter Found Dead In Forest". RFERL.
  4. ^ Olearchyk, Roman (31 January 2014). "Tales of brutality emerge from Ukraine protests". Financial Times.
  5. ^ https://ua.interfax.com.ua/news/election2019/602405.html
  6. ^ https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2019/10/15/7229080/