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Viacheslav Anatoliiovych Medianyk (Ukrainian: В'ячеслав Анатолійович Медяник; born 3 August 1987) is a Ukrainian lawyer, entrepreneur, politician,[1] and member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 9th convocation,[2] a member of the Committee on Law Enforcement Issues[3] and the head of the subcommittee on legislation regarding administrative offenses and security and detective activities.
Viacheslav Medianyk | |
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В'ячеслав Медяник | |
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| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| Assumed office 29 August 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Tetiana Rychkova |
| Constituency | Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, No. 27 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 3 August 1987 Snizhne, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
| Political party | Servant of the People |
| Alma mater | Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs |
Medianyk was born on 3 August 1987, in the city of Snizhne, Donetsk Oblast.[4]
He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs and holds a Ph.D. in political science.[5] He defended his dissertation on the topic "Political Representation in the Functioning of the State Mechanism in Transitional Societies".[6]
Medianyk began his entrepreneurial career in 2002, when he was a teenager and created a company with an investment of US$100,000.[7]
He was engaged in the construction business, but shortly before receiving his parliamentary mandate, he sold his shares.[8][9][10] He served as the coordinator of the legal department in the National Defense Headquarters of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.[11]
Medianyk began his political career as an assistant to the member of the Dnipropetrovsk City Council, Yevheniy Zhadan, during the 6th convocation.[12]
He later worked as an assistant to Andriy Denysenko, a member of the 8th convocation of the Verkhovna Rada, and Mykola Palamarchuk, a member of the 7th convocation of the Verkhovna Rada, on a public basis.
In 2019, Medianyk was elected as a People's Deputy of Ukraine for Ukraine's 27th electoral district in Dnipro (Soborniy district, part of Samarskyi district, part of Tsentralnyi District of Dnipro) representing the Servant of the People party.[13][14] At the time of the election, he was a private entrepreneur and non-partisan. He resides in Dnipro.[15]
He is a deputy member of the Permanent Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe,[16] Chairman of the Subcommittee on Legislation on Administrative Offenses and Security and Detective Activities,[17] He participated in the development of a draft law on private detective activities.[18] Deputy Co-chair of the Inter-Parliamentary Relations Group with the Republic of Korea, and a member of several inter-parliamentary relations groups with the United Arab Emirates, the Republic of Singapore, the Republic of Austria, Japan, and Canada.[19]
He is a member of the following inter-factional associations: Ukrainians in the World, ODESHCHYNA, Slobozhan Ukraine, DNIPRO![20]
He is active in legislative activities (in 2019, he submitted 19 draft laws and 3 amendments).[21] He was one of the initiators of the draft law 2695, which provides for increased responsibility for drunk driving and significant expansion of police powers.[22]
As of 18 December 2019, the voting results for Medianyk were as follows: For – 1,008; Did not vote – 207; Against – 21; Abstained – 297.[23]
In October 2019, the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) launched an investigation into Medianyk's correspondence in which he discussed how to resolve issues with prosecutors.[24][25][26][27][28][29]
During the local elections in 2020, he declared a gift worth more than 1 million hryvnias.[30][31]
Medianyk is married, and has four daughters and one son.[32] The family is considered leaders in terms of the number of properties among Dnipro deputies.[33][34]
His father was Anatoliy Medianyk (according to the media, he passed away in 2017[35]), a former chief of the special unit for combating corruption and organized crime of the Security Service of Ukraine in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.[citation needed]
His business partner is Yuriy Bereza, commander of the Dnipro-1 Regiment and a former People's Deputy of Ukraine.
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