Kira Rudyk
Kira Rudyk | |
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Кіра Рудик | |
 Rudyk in June 2022 | |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| Assumed office 29 August 2019 | |
| Leader of the Holos party | |
| Assumed office 12 March 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Svyatoslav Vakarchuk |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 October 1985 Uzhhorod, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
| Political party | Holos |
| Education | National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy |
Kira Oleksandrivna Rudyk[1] (Ukrainian: Кіра Олександрівна Рудик; born 14 October 1985)[2] is a Ukrainian politician. She has been a member of the Verkhovna Rada since 2019, and is the leader of the political party Holos.[3][4][5]
Biography[edit]
Born on 14 October 1985 in Uzhhorod,[6] Rudyk emigrated with her family to America when she was ten and attended high school there.[7] She returned to Ukraine to go to university, and graduated from the Faculty of Informatics of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy with a degree in Information Control Systems and Technologies in 2008.[8] She worked in several IT companies in Ukraine and the United States, and went from being a tester to a top manager.[8]
In 2005 she became a software tester at Software MacKiev, later working at MiMedia (2010—2013) and TechTeamLabs (2013—2016).[8]
In 2016, she became the chief operating manager of Ring Ukraine,[8] a division of Ring purchased by Amazon in 2018.[4] She later served as Chief operating officer of the company.[9]
Rudyk participated in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, contesting the election placed third on the election list of Voice,[8] and was elected as a deputy. After Svyatoslav Vakarchuk stepped down as the leader of Voice on 12 March 2020, Rudyk was elected to replace him.[6][5]
At the 29 July 2021 Voice party congress, seven of the party MPs were expelled from the party.[10] Five of them had already written statements to leave the party.[10] These five were dissatisfied with Rudyk's leadership of the party.[10]
On the night of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Rudyk was in parliament as martial law was declared.[7] She joined the armed resistance, saying in March 2022 that she was living with thirty soldiers and training daily in the use of a rifle.[7] In May 2022 she travelled to Scotland to meet first minister Nicola Sturgeon.[11]
References[edit]
- ^ "Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine". itd.rada.gov.ua. Retrieved 2022-03-04.
- ^ "PEP: Dossier Rudyk Kira Oleksandrivna, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (Ukrainian Parliament), Member of Parliament of Ukraine". PEP.org.ua. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
- ^ "Voice party elects Rudyk as new head, replacing Vakarchuk — Concorde Capital". concorde.ua. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
- ^ a b "New wave of young Ukrainians shakes up parliamentary polls". France 24. 2019-07-19. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
- ^ a b "Ukrainian Singer Vakarchuk Steps Down As Head of Holos Political Party". RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
- ^ a b (in Ukrainian) Sviatoslav Vakarchuk is no longer the chairman of the Voice party, Pershyi Ukraine (12 March 2020)
- ^ a b c Post, Diane Francis, National (2022-03-14). "In Kyiv, political leader Kira Rudyk has her rifle ready: 'I'm on Putin's kill list'". National Post. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ a b c d e (in Russian) Short biography of Kira Rudyk, LIGA
- ^ "iForum.ua". 2019.iforum.ua. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
- ^ a b c (in Ukrainian) "Voice" expelled 7 people's deputies from the party, Ukrayinska Pravda (29 July 2021)
- ^ "Ukrainian MP Kira Rudik 'extremely grateful' to Scots for solidarity". STV News. 2022-06-01. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
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