Oleh Tyahnybok

Oleh Tyahnybok
Олег Тягнибок
Tyahnybok in 2014
Leader of Svoboda
Assumed office
14 February 2004
Preceded byYaroslav Andruschkiv
Deputy of the Lviv Oblast Council
2nd session
In office
1994–1998
ConstituencyIndependent
People's Deputy of Ukraine
3rd convocation
In office
12 May 1998 – 14 May 2002
ConstituencySocial-National Party, Lviv Oblast,
District No.119[1]
4th convocation
In office
14 May 2002 – 25 May 2006
ConstituencySocial-National Party (till Feb. 14, 2004), Svoboda, Lviv Oblast District No.120[2]
7th convocation
In office
12 December 2012 – 27 November 2014
ConstituencySvoboda, No.1[3]
Personal details
Born (1968-11-07) 7 November 1968 (age 56)
Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Political partyAll-Ukrainian Union Svoboda
SpouseOlha Demchyschyn
ChildrenJaryna-Maria (1992)
Daryna-Bohdana (1995)
Hordiy (1997)
OccupationUrologist, politician
Websitehttp://www.tyahnybok.info/

Oleh Yaroslavovych Tyahnybok (Ukrainian: Олег Ярославович Тягнибок, born 7 November 1968) is a Ukrainian politician and far-right activist who is a former member of the Verkhovna Rada and the leader of the Ukrainian nationalist Svoboda political party.[4][5] Previously, he was elected councilman of the Lviv Oblast Council for the second session.[6]

  1. ^ "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the III convocation". Official portal of Rada (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  2. ^ "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the IV convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  3. ^ "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VII convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  4. ^ Tiahnybok reelected Svoboda party head, Kyiv Post (8 December 2012)
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference kpderad was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Svoboda: The rise of Ukraine's ultra-nationalists, BBC News (26 December 2012)