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Olena Sotnyk | |
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Олена Сергіївна Сотник | |
Member of the Parliament of Ukraine | |
In office 27 November 2014 – 24 July 2019 | |
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Born | Olena Serhijivna Sotnyk Kyiv |
Nationality | Ukrainian |
Political party | Self Reliance |
Alma mater | King's College London |
Olena Serhijivna Sotnyk[a] is a Ukrainian public figure, lawyer and politician, former Member of the Parliament of Ukraine (VIII convocation) from Samopomich ("Self-Reliance") Party. She was the secretary of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on European integration; Sotnyk served as a Head of the Sub-committee on Approximation of Ukrainian Legislation to the EU Law. Shed co-chaired the Inter-Parliamentary Relations Unit with Belgium.[1] She was Chairman of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights at the PACE,[2] a member of the Bureau of Women's Parliamentarians in the Inter-Parliamentary Union[3] and a vice-president of political group the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in the PACE. Sotnyk was the first female to represent Ukraine in the Yale World Fellows Program.[4] She was one of the most successful women of Ukraine in 2019 according to the "New Time"[5] and "Legal Newspaper".[6]
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