Yaroslav Mendus
Yaroslav Petrovych Mendus | |
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| Political Advisor to the Vice-President of the European Parliament | |
| Assumed office 15 November 2014 | |
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| Born | Variazh, Ukraine |
Yaroslav Petrovych Mendus (born 1 January 1960; in Variazh, Lviv Oblast), is a Ukrainian politician. He currently works as Political Advisor to the Vice-President of the European Parliament.
Education
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Yaroslav Mendus graduated from Lviv University in 1981, receiving a Diploma with Honours in History. He finished at the Kyiv Institute of Political Science and Social Administration in 1988 and defended his PhD thesis in History in 1999.
Career
[edit]Yaroslav Mendus worked in the Administration of the first President of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk. He then worked as Advisor to Oleksandr Moroz (Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada); he was an MP in the 5th Assembly of the Verkhovna Rada; and later worked as Political Advisor to Member of the European Parliament, Marek Siwiec; then as Political Advisor to the Vice-Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the European Parliament, Ioan Mircea Pascu.
Yaroslav Mendus now works as Political Advisor to the Vice-President of the European Parliament.
Yaroslav Mendus was General Producer of the movie The Orange Sky – a love story, set against the backdrop of the 2004–5 Orange Revolution. In 2004 he founded web-based media "Censor.net". He is author of a collection of essays, A to Z of Ukrainian Politics; and has published many articles on contemporary Ukrainian political life.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
References
[edit]- ^ "History repeats twice: first as tragedy, then as farce ", 2 of September 2013.
- ^ "Who – whom – where", 12 of December 2013.
- ^ "Kremlin dreamer or Resident’s mistake", 10 of March 2014.
- ^ "The Passion of the Constitution", 2 of February 2015.
- ^ "Ukraine’s Reforms: Running in circles", 12 of August 2015.
- ^ "Ukraine's Corruption Trap", 1 of October 2015.