Vasyl Volha in 2008

Vasil Oleksandrovych Volga (Ukrainian: Василь Олександрович Волга) (born March 5, 1968, in Sievierodonetsk, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian politician and former leader of the Ukrainian political party Union of Leftists.[1][2][3]

Biography

Volha unsuccessfully took part in the 2019 parliamentary elections in constituency No 68 located in Zhytomyr Oblast.[4]

Volha was a candidate in the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election,[4] nominated by the non-governmental organization "Public Control", of which he has been chair since 2000. In the election he won 0.04% of the vote.[4] Born in 1968 he was one of the youngest presidential candidates. From 1997 to 2000 he was chair of the International Union of Ukrainian Entrepreneurs. The major thesis of his program is great attention to public control of governmental organizations achieved by the creation of labor unions and advisory panels in these organizations.

Volha was elected for Socialist Party of Ukraine in the 2006 parliamentary elections.[4]

Volha was a member of the Socialist Party of Ukraine until his exclusion from that party in 2007.[5] He then created his new party Union of Leftists.[6]

Volha was appointed the head of the state commission for the regulation of financial services markets on Match 22, 2010 by President Yanukovych.[7]

Volha was detained on July 19, 2011, and charged with bribe taking and 2 months later for embezzlement.[8][9][10] He was dismissed by President Yanukovych from the post of the head of the state commission for financial service markets regulation on July 25, 2011.[7][11] Volha was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment on 24 September 2012.[12] He was released in January 2015, as the remaining part of his sentence was replaced by "correctional labor [uk]".[4]

In 2018, Volha apartment was searched by Security Service of Ukraine officers as part of an investigation into a coup d'état and treason under Articles 109 and 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.[4]

In 2019 the party leader of Union of Leftists became Maksym Holdarb [ru].[2][3] (Since September 2022 Union of Leftists is banned in Ukraine.[13])

On Russian TV channels Volha has declared that in Ukraine "the concept of a titular nation must be destroyed" and repeated Russian disinformation.[4]

References

  1. ^ Four parties unite to participate in presidential election, Interfax-Ukraine (September 14, 2009)
  2. ^ a b "Former pro-Russian politician and TV host Holdarb served with notice of suspicion of collaboration". Ukrainska Pravda. 19 October 2023. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  3. ^ a b (in Ukrainian) The court banned the political party "Union of Left Forces" - the "Chesno" movement, Lb.ua [uk] (17 June 2022)
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Small biography on Vasyl Volha, Civil movement "Chesno" (in Ukrainian)
  5. ^ (in Ukrainian) Ліві об'єдналися в нову партію "Союз лівих сил" Archived 2008-07-10 at the Wayback Machine, NEWSru.ua (December 8, 2007)
  6. ^ (in Russian) Short bio, Liga.net
  7. ^ a b Yanukovych dismisses Volha as head of financial service markets regulator, Kyiv Post (July 25, 2011)
  8. ^ Ex-head of financial service markets regulator Volha gets new lawyer, Kyiv Post (August 26, 2011)
  9. ^ Another criminal case opened against former head of financial service markets watchdog Volha, Kyiv Post (September 13, 2011)
  10. ^ Volha says he was offered freedom in exchange for pleading guilty, Kyiv Post (September 21, 2011)
  11. ^ Volha should not have been dismissed before proven guilty, says his party, Interfax-Ukraine (July 25, 2011)
  12. ^ (in Ukrainian) ВОЛГУ ЗАСУДИЛИ ДО 5 РОКІВ, Ukrayinska Pravda (24 September 2012)
  13. ^ (in Ukrainian) The Supreme Court banned the "Union of Left Forces", which was headed by the former deputy Volha, Chesno (29 September 2022)
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