Oleksiy Zhuravko | |
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Олексій Журавко | |
Member of the Verkhovna Rada | |
In office 25 May 2006 – 12 December 2012 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Oleksiy Valeriyovych Zhuravko 21 April 1974 Zhovti Vody, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR |
Died | 25 September 2022 Kherson, Ukraine | (aged 48)
Citizenship | Soviet Union (1974–1991) Ukraine (1991–2022) Russia (2022) |
Political party |
For United Ukraine! (2002) Party of Regions (2006–2022) United Russia (2022) |
Spouse | Anzhela |
Children | 1 |
Alma mater | Kherson State University |
Awards | Order of Merit (2000, 2004) |
Oleksiy Valeriyovych Zhuravko ( Ukrainian: Олексій Валерійович Журавко, Russian: Алексей Валерьевич Журавко; 21 April 1974 – 25 September 2022) was a Ukrainian and Russian politician who was a member of Ukraine's national parliament Verkhovna Rada from 2006 to 2012. [1] He was a member of the pro-Russian Party of Regions from 2006. [1] Zhuravko moved to Russia in 2015. [1] He acquired Russian citizenship and joined the United Russia party in July 2022. [2] He died in September 2022 in a missile attack in Kherson during the Ukrainian southern counteroffensive. [1]
Born on 21 April 1974 in Zhovti Vody, Zhuravko lived in an orphanage from 1974 to 1978. [3] [4] In 1978, he moved to a boarding school in Tsiurupynsk where he lived until 1990. [3] From 1990 until his return to Tsiurupynsk in 1993, Zhuravko had his vocational education in a boarding school in Luhansk. [3]
Beginning in 1997, Zhuravko started several companies aimed at the disabled in Ukraine in Tsiurupynsk. [5] [3] In 2007, Zhuravko completed his education at the Kherson State University, majoring in economic theory. [5] The same year, Zhuravko and his wife, Anzhela (born 1986), had a daughter. [3]
Zhuravko failed to be elected in the 2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election as a candidate of For United Ukraine! in Kherson Oblast's electoral district 183. [4]
In 2004, Zhuravko became chairman or the Union of Public Organizations "Confederation of Public Organizations of Disabled People of Ukraine." [5] Zhuravko was awarded the Ukrainian Order of Merit twice. [3] Third Class in 2000 and Second Class in 2004. [3] In the 2006 and 2007 parliamentary election Zhuravko was elected to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's national parliament) for the Party of Regions. [4] In 2006, he was placed 118th on the party list, and the following year he dropped 22 places. [3]
In the 2012 parliamentary election, Zhuravko again failed to be elected; this time as a Party of Regions candidate in electoral district 186 (also located in Kherson Oblast). [4] [6] On 17 April 2013, Zhuravko was appointed Government Commissioner for the Rights of the Disabled. [5] This position was abolished on 5 March 2014. [5]
Zhuravko moved to Russia in 2015. [1] On 21 February 2015, he attended an anti- Euromaidan rally/commemoration in Moscow. [7] In October 2015, Zhuravko was reportedly "hiding from Ukrainian authorities" and openly supporting separatism. [8] In December 2015, Zhuravko's title of honorary citizen of Tsiurupynsk was removed. [9] In January 2018, a pre-trial investigation was started into his alleged financing of the Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic quasi-states proclaimed within the territory of Ukraine. [10]
Zhuravko acquired Russian citizenship and joined the United Russia party in July 2022. [2] Following the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, he returned to Russian occupied Kherson in late April 2022. [11] On 22 September 2022, Zhuravko published a video in which he cast his vote in Kherson at the 2022 annexation referendums. [4] He stated that the Kherson Oblast's (Russian) occupation was the region's "liberation from Ukrainian nationalists." [4] Zhuravko called on Russia "to complete the special operation and reach the western borders of Ukraine in order to liberate the country from the nationalists." [4] He became wanted by the Security Service of Ukraine and was suspected of actions "aimed at violently changing or overthrowing the constitutional order or seizing state power". [4] Zhuravko was killed on 25 September 2022, during the Ukrainian southern counteroffensive, in a missile strike on Kherson which pro-Kremlin authorities blamed on Ukraine. [12] [4]
Oleksiy Zhuravko | |
---|---|
Олексій Журавко | |
Member of the Verkhovna Rada | |
In office 25 May 2006 – 12 December 2012 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Oleksiy Valeriyovych Zhuravko 21 April 1974 Zhovti Vody, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR |
Died | 25 September 2022 Kherson, Ukraine | (aged 48)
Citizenship | Soviet Union (1974–1991) Ukraine (1991–2022) Russia (2022) |
Political party |
For United Ukraine! (2002) Party of Regions (2006–2022) United Russia (2022) |
Spouse | Anzhela |
Children | 1 |
Alma mater | Kherson State University |
Awards | Order of Merit (2000, 2004) |
Oleksiy Valeriyovych Zhuravko ( Ukrainian: Олексій Валерійович Журавко, Russian: Алексей Валерьевич Журавко; 21 April 1974 – 25 September 2022) was a Ukrainian and Russian politician who was a member of Ukraine's national parliament Verkhovna Rada from 2006 to 2012. [1] He was a member of the pro-Russian Party of Regions from 2006. [1] Zhuravko moved to Russia in 2015. [1] He acquired Russian citizenship and joined the United Russia party in July 2022. [2] He died in September 2022 in a missile attack in Kherson during the Ukrainian southern counteroffensive. [1]
Born on 21 April 1974 in Zhovti Vody, Zhuravko lived in an orphanage from 1974 to 1978. [3] [4] In 1978, he moved to a boarding school in Tsiurupynsk where he lived until 1990. [3] From 1990 until his return to Tsiurupynsk in 1993, Zhuravko had his vocational education in a boarding school in Luhansk. [3]
Beginning in 1997, Zhuravko started several companies aimed at the disabled in Ukraine in Tsiurupynsk. [5] [3] In 2007, Zhuravko completed his education at the Kherson State University, majoring in economic theory. [5] The same year, Zhuravko and his wife, Anzhela (born 1986), had a daughter. [3]
Zhuravko failed to be elected in the 2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election as a candidate of For United Ukraine! in Kherson Oblast's electoral district 183. [4]
In 2004, Zhuravko became chairman or the Union of Public Organizations "Confederation of Public Organizations of Disabled People of Ukraine." [5] Zhuravko was awarded the Ukrainian Order of Merit twice. [3] Third Class in 2000 and Second Class in 2004. [3] In the 2006 and 2007 parliamentary election Zhuravko was elected to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's national parliament) for the Party of Regions. [4] In 2006, he was placed 118th on the party list, and the following year he dropped 22 places. [3]
In the 2012 parliamentary election, Zhuravko again failed to be elected; this time as a Party of Regions candidate in electoral district 186 (also located in Kherson Oblast). [4] [6] On 17 April 2013, Zhuravko was appointed Government Commissioner for the Rights of the Disabled. [5] This position was abolished on 5 March 2014. [5]
Zhuravko moved to Russia in 2015. [1] On 21 February 2015, he attended an anti- Euromaidan rally/commemoration in Moscow. [7] In October 2015, Zhuravko was reportedly "hiding from Ukrainian authorities" and openly supporting separatism. [8] In December 2015, Zhuravko's title of honorary citizen of Tsiurupynsk was removed. [9] In January 2018, a pre-trial investigation was started into his alleged financing of the Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic quasi-states proclaimed within the territory of Ukraine. [10]
Zhuravko acquired Russian citizenship and joined the United Russia party in July 2022. [2] Following the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, he returned to Russian occupied Kherson in late April 2022. [11] On 22 September 2022, Zhuravko published a video in which he cast his vote in Kherson at the 2022 annexation referendums. [4] He stated that the Kherson Oblast's (Russian) occupation was the region's "liberation from Ukrainian nationalists." [4] Zhuravko called on Russia "to complete the special operation and reach the western borders of Ukraine in order to liberate the country from the nationalists." [4] He became wanted by the Security Service of Ukraine and was suspected of actions "aimed at violently changing or overthrowing the constitutional order or seizing state power". [4] Zhuravko was killed on 25 September 2022, during the Ukrainian southern counteroffensive, in a missile strike on Kherson which pro-Kremlin authorities blamed on Ukraine. [12] [4]