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Oleh Liashko
Oleh Valeriiovych Liashko (Ukrainian: Олег Валерійович Ляшко; born 3 December 1972) is a Ukrainian politician, journalist and soldier who was a long time member of the Verkhovna Rada and leader of the Radical Party.
Liashko was elected as a deputy to the Verkhovna Rada in 2006, in the 2007 parliamentary election for the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (YTB), in the 2012 parliamentary election and 2014 parliamentary election for his Radical Party. Prior to this, he was a journalist.
In the 2014 Ukrainian presidential election, he received 8.32% of the vote. In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Liashko lost his parliamentary seat.
Liashko joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Liashko was born in Chernihiv on 3 December 1972, but grew up in the village of Lozovivka in Starobilsk Raion, where his mother lived. When Liashko was two years old, his parents separated, and his mother was forced to send him to an orphanage. Liashko studied in three boarding schools: Yablunivska, Komarovska, and Borznianska. He worked as a shepherd at the Progress collective farm. After completing his secondary education he went to college to study as a tractor operator. In a September 2015 interview, Liashko stated that shepherding was his summer job back in 1987-88: he used to travel to Luhansk Oblast by train and earn up to 300 roubles per summer (around US$500 at the time). After that Liashko would buy clothing and shoes in Starobilsk. When he graduated from boarding school, Liashko had around 2,000 roubles in savings, the value of which was completely wiped out by post-Soviet inflation.
In 1998 he graduated from the Faculty of Law H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University.
From 1990 till 1992 Liashko was a correspondent and head of the newspaper Young Guard (based in Kyiv). In 1992 he became an editor of Commerce Herald of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations of Ukraine.
On 21 June 1993 Liashko was arrested and indicted for grand funds embezzlement. On 9 December 1994, the Criminal College of the Kyiv City Court found Liashko guilty according to articles 86–1, 191, and 194 part 3 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The court found Liashko guilty of embezzlement of 1,300,000 roubles personally, and 1,100,000 roubles collectively with accomplices. Liashko was sentenced to six years in prison and sequestration of the property. The Supreme Court reduced the time to four years' imprisonment. Liashko was released in May 1995 under an amnesty agreement due to the "50th anniversary of the Victory over Nazi Germany". In 1998, the criminal case was erased. Liashko himself claims the case was payback for his critical journalism. He claims that his case was falsified by deputy minister of Internal Affairs Veniamin Bartashevych.
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Oleh Liashko
Oleh Valeriiovych Liashko (Ukrainian: Олег Валерійович Ляшко; born 3 December 1972) is a Ukrainian politician, journalist and soldier who was a long time member of the Verkhovna Rada and leader of the Radical Party.
Liashko was elected as a deputy to the Verkhovna Rada in 2006, in the 2007 parliamentary election for the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (YTB), in the 2012 parliamentary election and 2014 parliamentary election for his Radical Party. Prior to this, he was a journalist.
In the 2014 Ukrainian presidential election, he received 8.32% of the vote. In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Liashko lost his parliamentary seat.
Liashko joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Liashko was born in Chernihiv on 3 December 1972, but grew up in the village of Lozovivka in Starobilsk Raion, where his mother lived. When Liashko was two years old, his parents separated, and his mother was forced to send him to an orphanage. Liashko studied in three boarding schools: Yablunivska, Komarovska, and Borznianska. He worked as a shepherd at the Progress collective farm. After completing his secondary education he went to college to study as a tractor operator. In a September 2015 interview, Liashko stated that shepherding was his summer job back in 1987-88: he used to travel to Luhansk Oblast by train and earn up to 300 roubles per summer (around US$500 at the time). After that Liashko would buy clothing and shoes in Starobilsk. When he graduated from boarding school, Liashko had around 2,000 roubles in savings, the value of which was completely wiped out by post-Soviet inflation.
In 1998 he graduated from the Faculty of Law H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University.
From 1990 till 1992 Liashko was a correspondent and head of the newspaper Young Guard (based in Kyiv). In 1992 he became an editor of Commerce Herald of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations of Ukraine.
On 21 June 1993 Liashko was arrested and indicted for grand funds embezzlement. On 9 December 1994, the Criminal College of the Kyiv City Court found Liashko guilty according to articles 86–1, 191, and 194 part 3 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The court found Liashko guilty of embezzlement of 1,300,000 roubles personally, and 1,100,000 roubles collectively with accomplices. Liashko was sentenced to six years in prison and sequestration of the property. The Supreme Court reduced the time to four years' imprisonment. Liashko was released in May 1995 under an amnesty agreement due to the "50th anniversary of the Victory over Nazi Germany". In 1998, the criminal case was erased. Liashko himself claims the case was payback for his critical journalism. He claims that his case was falsified by deputy minister of Internal Affairs Veniamin Bartashevych.