Hryhoriy Omelchenko

Hryhoriy Omelchenko
Григо́рій Оме́льченко
People's Deputy of Ukraine
2nd convocation[1]
In office 11 May 1994 – 12 May 1998
Constituency	Kremenchuk-Kryukiv electoral district no. 322, Poltava Oblast
3rd convocation[2]
In office 12 May 1998 – 14 May 2002
Constituency	electoral district no. 146, Poltava Oblast
4th convocation[3]
In office 14 May 2002 – 25 May 2006
Constituency	Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, no. 3
5th convocation[4]
In office 7 June 2006 – 15 June 2007
Constituency	Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, no. 7
6th convocation[5]
In office 23 November 2007 – 12 December 2012
Constituency	Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, no. 7
Personal details
Born	Hryhoriy Omelyanovych Omelchenko (1951-05-04) 4 May 1951 (age 73) Novoselytsia village, Poltava Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Novoselytsia village, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine)[6]
Political party	Ukrainian Republican Party "Sobor" (1999-2005?[a]) Batkivshchyna (2007?[b]-2009[8]) Our Ukraine (from 2012)[9]
Alma mater	Faculty of Law of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (1976)[6]

Hryhoriy Omelyanovych Omelchenko (Ukrainian: Григорій Омелянович Омельченко; born 4 May 1951^[10]) is a Ukrainian politician. He was a People's Deputy of Ukraine in the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) from 1994 to 2012, and in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 2006 to 2010.^[11] In 2010 Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko awarded him the Hero of Ukraine title.^[12] He served as an officer in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).^[13]

He was involved in investigating corruption and accused Leonid Kuchma's administration of arms dealing.^[14] He also accused Kuchma of arranging an assassination plot against him.^[15]

See also

• Batkivshchyna (2007)
• Leonid Derkach

References

1. "Народні депутати України [People's Deputies of Ukraine]". Офіційний портал Верховної Ради України [Official portal of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine] (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 18 April 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2024.
2. "Народні депутати України [People's Deputies of Ukraine]". Офіційний портал Верховної Ради України [Official portal of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine] (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 19 April 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2024.
3. "Народний депутат України IV скликання [People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 4th convocation]". Офіційний портал Верховної Ради України [Official portal of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine] (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 29 November 2024.
4. "Народний депутат України V скликання [People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 5th convocation]". Офіційний портал Верховної Ради України [Official portal of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine] (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 29 November 2024.
5. "Народний депутат України VI скликання [People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 6th convocation]". Офіційний портал Верховної Ради України [Official portal of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine] (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 29 November 2024.
6. "Омельченко Григорій Омелянович [Omelchenko Hryhoriy Omelyanovych]". Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 29 November 2024.
7. "Довідка: Омельченко Григорій Омелянович [Reference: Omelchenko Hryhoriy Omelyanovych]". Довідники про сучасну Україну [Guides about modern Ukraine] (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 29 November 2024.
8. "Омельченка виключили з фракції БЮТ [Omelchenko was expelled from the BYuT faction]". BBC Ukrainian (in Ukrainian). 22 October 2009. Retrieved 29 November 2024.
9. Peshko, Kateryna (19 September 2012). "Григорій Омельченко: У списку Партії регіонів українців менше 10% [Hryhoriy Omelchenko: In the list of the Party of Regions, Ukrainians make up less than 10%]". Glavcom. Archived from the original on 12 August 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2024.
10. "PACE website". Council of Europe. Retrieved 29 November 2024.
11. "Mr Hryhoriy OMELCHENKO (Ukraine)". Council of Europe. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
12. "Yuschenko awards Hero of Ukraine title to member of parliament Hryhoriy Omelchenko - Feb. 18, 2010". Kyiv Post. February 18, 2010.
13. Kupchinsky, Roman. "Analysis: Kuchma's Ukraine Cruises Back Into The Spotlight". Radiofreeeurope/Radioliberty.
14. "Ukraine: Lawmaker Claims Evidence Of Arms Deals With North Korea, Iran". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. April 9, 2008 – via www.rferl.org.
15. "Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty". www.infoukes.com.

Notes

1. He was non-partisan when elected to the 3rd Rada in 1998,^[2] was deputy head of Sobor from December 1999 to November 2005,^[7] but was non-partisan again when elected to the 5th Rada in 2006.^[4]
2. He was non-partisan when elected to the 5th Rada in 2006,^[4] but a member of Batkivshchyna when elected to the 6th Rada in 2007.^[5]