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Volodymyr Mykhailovych Lytvyn (Ukrainian: Володимир Михайлович Литвин) (born April 9, 1956) is a Ukrainian politician and the current Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament. Having previously served in that position from 2002 until 2006, he was re-elected in December 2008 after his party agreed to join the former coalition of Yulia Tymoshenko in an expanded capacity.[6] From 1994 to 1999, Lytvyn was the aide to President Leonid Kuchma and, later, the head of his office.
[edit] Early biography and private lifeLytvyn was born in Sloboda-Romanivska village in the Novohrad-Volynskyi District of the Zhytomyr Province. His father, Mykhaylo Klymovych (born 1930) and mother Olga Andriyivna (born 1929) were peasants. Lytvyn graduated from the Kiev University (Faculty of History) in 1978. He is married to Tetyana Kostyantynivna (born 1960), an economist. Their daughter Olena (born 1982) is a student, so does their son Ivan(born 1989) Mr Lytvyn started his career as a political analyst within the Central Committee of the Ukrainian SSR's Communist Party (a division of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union). Lytvyn is a correspondent member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Honored Worker of Sciences and Technology of Ukraine. However, in 2002 he was publicly and reasonably accused of violating copyrights of a Western scholar when writing his article to Zerkalo Nedeli newspaper. Lytvyn's hobbies include reading, soccer and Dalmatian dogs. [edit] Political career
In 1994, Lytvyn became the aide to the newly-elected President Leonid Kuchma. In 1999, he was appointed as the head of the Presidential Administration. During the Cassette Scandal audiotapes where released on which Kuchma, Lytvyn and other top-level administration officials are allegedly heard discussing the need to silence Georgiy Gongadze for his online news reports about high-level corruption.[7] Gongadze’s decapitated body was found in the suburbs of Kiev in November 2000.[7] [edit] Parliamentary career In 2002, Lytvyn was elected to Verkhovna Rada as the head of the party bloc For United Ukraine ("Za edynu Ukrainu"). He became the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (speaker) of the legislature as a compromising figure among the parliamentary factions. Lytvyn refused to take part in the presidential election of 2004 despite his significant political influence. Lytvyn's brother, Mykola Lytvyn is the chief of Ukraine's Border Guard. Lytvyn is known for his ironic political expressions. One of his best-known sentences is "I do not protest at forming an artificial majority in our parliament. But I want this majority to include every member of parliament." At the parliamentary elections on March 26, 2006 his Lytvyn's People's Bloc won 2.44% of the popular vote and no seats since it did not meet the 3 percent threshold. Lytvyn's allies (together with other parties) declared the voting results forged, filing a court suit and starting a public campaign. However, Lytvyn himself avoids press and shows deep disappointment since the results announced. Elected vice-chairman NAN. In the early parliamentary election held on September 30, 2007, the Lytvyn Bloc (renamed from Lytvyn's People's Bloc) consisted of the People's Party and the Labour Party. The bloc placed fifth[8] with 20 out of 450 seats. On December 6, 2009 Mykola Melnychenko accused Lytvyn of ordering the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze in 2000. Melnychenko offered no proof to back up the claim. A spokesperson for Lytvyn dismissed the claims as part of the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election campaign.[9] [edit] See also[edit] References
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