Volodymyr Lytvyn

Volodymyr Lytvyn ( born April 28, 1956 in Sloboda Romaniwska, Zhytomyr Oblast ) is a Ukrainian politician. He was from 2002 to 2006 and again from December 2008 to December 2012 President of the Ukrainian Parliament.

Volodymyr Lytvyn ended in 1978 graduated from the History Department of the National University of Kyiv. Thereafter he remained until 1986 as a lecturer at the university. From 1986 to 1989 he worked in the Ministry of Education of the Ukrainian SSR and was then in the apparatus of the Central Committee of the Ukrainian Communist active. In 1991 he returned to the University, where he taught until 1994, thereafter to begin his political career in the newly independent Ukraine.

Lytvyn was initially from August 1994 Assistant to the newly elected President Leonid Kuchma and rose in November 1995 as Deputy Chief of the Presidential Office. From 1999, he headed the Presidential Office.

According to media reports Lytvyn to have been involved as the then presidential chief of the kidnapping and murder of journalist Gongadze Heorhiy in 2000, where there was never a court conviction.

In the 2002 parliamentary elections, Lytvyn was elected the Ukrainian Parliament in the Verkhovna Rada. He was a candidate on the list of electoral alliance Sa Jedinu Ukrajinu ( " For a United Ukraine" ), which was also the Party of Regions was involved. Lytvyn was subsequently elected parliamentary president and held this office until the parliamentary elections in 2006, so even during the so-called "Orange Revolution". In 2004 he became chairman of the Narodna Partija. In the 2006 elections to his coalition Narodnyj Blok Lytwyna ( "people Lytvyn block " ) failed because of the three- percent threshold.

In the 2007 parliamentary elections, the Alliance managed, the " block Lytvyn " now carries the name by just under 4 % of the votes to enter parliament. After the breakup of the government coalition and the deselection of parliament speaker Arseniy Yatsenyuk Lytvyn was elected for the second time as Chairman of Parliament on 9 December 2008. At the same time the entrance of his group was announced in a government coalition with the Blok Juliji Tymoshenko and the NU -NS.

Volodymyr Lytvyn candidate in the 2010 presidential election but reached only 2.35% of the vote. In the parliamentary elections in 2012, he could win a direct mandate in the Zhytomyr Oblast and settled again in the Verkhovna Rada. On December 13, 2012 Volodymyr Rybak was elected as the new parliamentary speaker, thus Lytvyn lost this office.

Lytvyn was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Turkish Gazi Üniversitesi.