Ruslan Stefanchuk
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Ruslan Oleksiyovych Stefanchuk (Ukrainian: Руслан Олексійович Стефанчук; born 29 October 1975[1]) is a Ukrainian politician, lawyer and Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (since October 2021).[2][3]
Ruslan Stefanchuk | |
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Руслан Стефанчук | |
Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada | |
Assumed office 8 October 2021 | |
Preceded by | Dmytro Razumkov |
First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada | |
In office 29 August 2019 – 8 October 2021 | |
Chairman | Dmytro Razumkov |
Preceded by | Iryna Herashchenko |
Succeeded by | Oleksandr Kornienko |
Representative of the President to the Verkhovna Rada | |
In office 21 May 2019 – 7 October 2021 | |
Preceded by | Iryna Lutsenko |
Succeeded by | Fedir Venislavskyi |
Personal details | |
Born | Ruslan Oleksiyovych Stefanchuk (1975-10-29) 29 October 1975 (age 48) Ternopil, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
Political party | Servant of the People |
Education | Khmelnytskyi Institute of Regional Administration and Law [uk] Khmelnytskyi National University |
Stefanchuk was touted as the ideologue of Volodymyr Zelenskiy’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]
On the morning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Stefanchuk was rushed to the Mariinskyi Palace, amid reports of assassination attempts on Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as his role meant he would have to take command of the country had the president been killed.[6]