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Oleh Dunda
Oleh Dunda
Олег Дунда
	Official portrait, 2019
People's Deputy of Ukraine
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 29 August 2019
Preceded by	Ruslan Solvar
Constituency	Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine's 91st electoral district
Personal details
Born	6 June 1980 (age 44); Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Dnipro, Ukraine)
Political party	Servant of the People
Other political; affiliations	Independent; Revival;

Oleh Dunda (born 6 March 1980, Dnipro) is a Ukrainian entrepreneur and member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 9th convocation. He serves as co-chair of the inter-factional parliamentary association For the Decolonization of Russia and is a member of the Committee on the Organization of State Power, Local Self-Government, Regional Development, and Urban Planning of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, where he chairs the subcommittee on construction and design.^[1]

Biography

Born on 6 March 1980, in Dnipro, Ukraine.^[1]

In 1999, he graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk Technical School of Welding and Electronics (programmer-systems engineer). His diploma thesis (practical) was the development of software for the reliability calculation of electronic devices.^[2]

In 2001, he graduated from the State Institute for Advanced Training and Retraining of Management and Specialists of the Metallurgical Complex (Dnipro) with a degree in Finance. His diploma thesis was the development of financial instruments for managing non-performing loans of a commercial bank.^[2]

A candidate for people's deputies from the Servant of the People party in the parliamentary elections in 2019 (electoral district No. 91, Fastiv city, Makariv, Fastiv districts, part of Kyiv-Sviatoshynskyi, part of Skvyrskyi districts).^[2]

At the time of the elections, he was the director of LLC "A. V. S.", and independent. He resides in Kyiv.^[3]

Legislative Activities

Dunda is the author of bills: On Amendments to Certain Laws of Ukraine on the Legal Support of the Presence of Foreign Citizenship (Nationality) in Citizens of Ukraine,^[4] and On the State Information Concern Television and Radio Broadcasting.^[5]

He is the author of legislative initiatives regarding the need to establish responsibility for the propaganda of the Russian world ideology and its promotion in Ukraine.^[6]

He initiated an appeal to the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to include in the agenda a draft resolution on the deprivation of mandates of parliamentary deputies from the Opposition Platform — For Life No. 7694^[7] and draft law No. 7476 on the deprivation of mandates of deputies of local councils from prohibited pro-Russian parties (Opposition Platform — For Life, Party of Shariy, Nashi, and others).^[8]

He is a co-author of the bill to prohibit members of banned pro-Russian parties from running for parliament and councils at all levels.^[9]

He is the author of a draft resolution on the basic principles of negotiations on the surrender of Russia or its successors and the conditions for ending the war.^[10]

Public Activities

He participates in events organized by the Atlantic Council and the Jamestown Foundation. Oleh Dunda specializes in global security, international sanctions, and military-industrial complex. He actively advocates for the need to dismantle the Russian Federation as the last colonial empire and supports Ukrainian refugees in Europe.^[11]

He is the author of publications in Ukrainian and foreign media outlets, including The Hill,^[12] New Eastern Europe, Kyiv Post,^[13] Libertatea,^[14] Atlantic Council,^[15] The Gaze, Ukrainska Pravda,^[16] Glavcom,^[17] 24 Kanal,^[18] and Dzerkalo Tyzhnia.^[19]

Dunda is involved in developing a program for the restoration of Ukraine after the war and supports local communities in their reconstruction efforts and direct cooperation with Western investors.^[20]