Ruslan Stefanchuk

Ruslan Stefanchuk
Руслан Стефанчук
Stefanchuk in 2022
Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada
Assumed office
8 October 2021
Preceded byDmytro Razumkov
First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada
In office
29 August 2019 – 8 October 2021
ChairmanDmytro Razumkov
Preceded byIryna Herashchenko
Succeeded byOleksandr Kornienko
Representative of the President to the Verkhovna Rada
In office
21 May 2019 – 7 October 2021
Preceded byIryna Lutsenko
Succeeded byFedir Venislavskyi
Personal details
Born
Ruslan Oleksiyovych Stefanchuk

(1975-10-29) 29 October 1975 (age 49)
Ternopil, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Political partyServant of the People
EducationKhmelnytskyi Institute of Regional Administration and Law [uk]
Khmelnytskyi National University

Ruslan Oleksiyovych Stefanchuk (Ukrainian: Руслан Олексійович Стефанчук; born 29 October 1975)[1] is a Ukrainian politician and lawyer serving as the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada since October 2021.[2][3]

Stefanchuk was touted as the ideologue of Volodymyr Zelenskyy's election campaign in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election.[4] He was elected to the Ukrainian parliament as a member of the Servant of the People party (placed 2nd on the party list) in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[5]

  1. ^ "Стефанчук Руслан Олексійович". Central Election Commission (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference parliamentspeaker31499557 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Новим спікером став Стефанчук: шлях від КВН до голови Верховної Ради". bbc.com. BBC News Ukrainian. 8 October 2021.
  4. ^ "Zelenskiy's First Moves as President in Case of Victory". Hromadske International. 10 April 2019. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  5. ^ "Велика рідня-2019. Хто кому кум, брат, син і донька у новій Верховній Раді - новини Еспресо TV | Україна". espreso.tv.