Oleksandr Zadorozhnii

Oleksandr Viktorovych Zadorozhnii (Ukrainian: Олександр Вікторович Задорожній; 26 June 1960 – 12 May 2017) was a Ukrainian politician who served as People's Deputy from 1998 to 2006.[1][2] In 1999, he acted as the authorized representative of presidential candidate Leonid Kuchma in his territorial constituency.[3]

Early life

Zadorozhnii was born on 26 June 1960 in the village of Krasnyi Kut, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union.[4] His father, Viktor, was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts & Architecture, and his mother Klavdiia was retired at the time of his birth.[4] After graduuating in 1982 from the University of Kyiv with a specialty in international law, he received his Candidate of Legal Sciences in 1988.[4] Simultaneously, while as a postgraduate student, he was deputy dean of the faculty there.[4] He worked at the University of Kyiv up until 2008, eventually becoming a professor and vice-rector.[4]

In 1990, he became the founder and director of the law firm "Prosken", which he ran until 1998.[4]

Political career

During the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada for electoral district no. 217 as a member of the People's Democratic Party, before eventually leaving in 2001 and joining the Unity of Oleksandr Omelchenko party.[4] As an MP, he was Chair of the Committee on Legal Policy.[4] He was re-elected during the 2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election, but the time for district no. 213 as part of the Yednist bloc.[4] During this time, he served as a Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Verkhovna Rada, and was also a member of the Higher Council of Justice.[4] He was dismissed by Yushchenko for a "violation of oath", after he had criticized Yushchenko's dissolution of the Verkhovna Rada and repeated veto of the Cabinet Law.[2] In 2008 he became a staff adviser to Yulia Tymoshenko which was described as a shock due to his long-standing ties to Kuchma.[4]

He died in May 2017.[5]

Awards

References

  1. ^ Помер екс-нардеп, юрист Олександр Задорожній. Ukrayinska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 12 May 2017. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Задорожний Александр". ЛІГА.Досье. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
  3. ^ "Довідка: Задорожній Олександр Вікторович". dovidka.com.ua. Retrieved 2023-04-30.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Задорожній Олександр Вікторович". dovidka.com.ua. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
  5. ^ "Широка коаліція. Післямова". Українська правда (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2023-04-30.
  6. ^ (in Ukrainian) Decree of The President of Ukraine № 254/2020
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