Volodymyr Rybak (politician)

Volodymyr Vasylyovych Rybak (Ukrainian: Володимир Васильович Рибак; born 3 October 1946)[7][8] is a Ukrainian politician. He was the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada from 13 December 2012[1] to 22 February 2014. Volodymyr Rybak is also the original leader of the predecessor of the Party of Regions, the Party of Regional Revival of Ukraine. He is a Merited Builder of Ukraine (1995).

For the victim of the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine, see Volodymyr Ivanovych Rybak.
Volodymyr Rybak
Володимир Рибак
Rybak in 2013
Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada[1]
In office
December 13, 2012[1] – February 22, 2014
Preceded byVolodymyr Lytvyn
Succeeded byOleksandr Turchynov
Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine
for Construction, Architecture and Communal Living
In office
August 4, 2006 – March 21, 2007
Prime MinisterViktor Yanukovych
Preceded byPavlo Kachur (as minister of Construction, Architecture, and Communal Living)
Succeeded byVolodymyr Yatsuba (as minister of Regional Development and Construction)
Oleksandr Popov (as minister of Communal Living)
Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine
In office
March 21, 2007 – December 18, 2007
Prime MinisterViktor Yanukovych
Leader of Party of Regional Revival
of Ukraine
In office
October 1997 – 2001
Preceded byposition created
Succeeded byMykola Azarov
People's Deputy of Ukraine
3rd convocation
In office
May 12, 1998[2] – May 14, 2002[2]
ConstituencyParty of Regional Revival of Ukraine, District No.45, Donetsk Oblast[2]
4th convocation
In office
May 14, 2002[3] – May 25, 2006[3]
ConstituencyParty of Regions, District No.45, Donetsk Oblast[3]
5th convocation
In office
May 25, 2006[3] – September 12, 2006[3]
ConstituencyParty of Regions, No.13[4]
6th convocation
In office
November 23, 2007 – December 12, 2012
ConstituencyParty of Regions, No.13[5]
7th convocation
In office
December 12, 2012 – November 27, 2014
ConstituencyParty of Regions, No.10[6]
Personal details
Born
Volodymyr Vasylyovych Rybak
Володимир Васильович Рибак

(1946-10-03) October 3, 1946
Stalino, Ukrainian SSR
NationalityUkrainian
Political partyParty of Regions[1]
Alma materDonetsk State University
OccupationPolitician and doctor of economic science
Websiteiportal.rada.gov.ua

Biography

Born in Stalino (now Donetsk), Rybak graduated from the Department of Economy at Donetsk State University in 1973, eventually receiving a doctorate in economics.[7][8] He served as chairman of the city council, executive committee and mayor of Donetsk from 1993 to 2002.[8] Rybak was co-organizer and first chairman of the Party of Regions between 1997 and 2001.[8][9] In the 2002 parliamentary elections Rybak was elected into the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament), he was reelected in the 2006, 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election and 2012 parliamentary election.[8] In 2012 he was placed tenth on the national party list of Party of Regions.[10]

Rybak was Vice Premier of Ukraine and Construction, Architecture and Housing and Utility minister (August 4, 2006 till March 21, 2007) and Vice Premier of Ukraine (March 21, 2007 till December 18, 2007) in the Second Yanukovych Government.[7]

On 13 December 2012 (following the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election) he was elected Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada.[1][8] He resigned on 22 February 2014[11] citing ill health and amidst the "2014 Ukrainian revolution".[12][11]

Rybak did not participate in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election,[13] nor in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[10]

See also

References
  1. "Ukraine parliament elects speaker after brawls". Reuters. 13 December 2012. Archived from the original on 1 December 2008. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  2. Rybak at the 3rd convocation. Verkhovna Rada website
  3. "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the IV convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  4. "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the V convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  5. "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VI convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  6. "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VII convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  7. "Regions Party member Rybak elected as Verkhovna Rada Chairman". Interfax-Ukraine. Kyiv Post. 13 December 2012. Archived from the original on 1 December 2008. Retrieved 13 December 2012.
  8. Svitlana Tuchynska (13 December 2012). "Party of Regions gets a speaker seat in parliament". Kyiv Post. Archived from the original on 1 December 2008. Retrieved 13 December 2012.
  9. Natalia Romashova (7 February 2007). Ілюзорна ідилія. Den (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 1 December 2008. Retrieved 13 December 2012.
  10. "Електоральна пам'ять". ukr.vote.
  11. Interfax: Ukraine's Yanukovych Says He Will Not Resign, Voice of America (22 February 2014)
  12. Ukraine: Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov named interim president, BBC News (23 February 2014)
    Ukraine protests timeline, BBC News (23 February 2014)
  13. (in Ukrainian) Alphabetical Index of candidates in 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Central Election Commission of Ukraine


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