Ihor Mykhailovych Miroshnychenko (Ukrainian: Ігор Михайлович Мірошниченко; born 20 February 1976) is a Ukrainian sports journalist and far-right politician who was a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 2012 to 2014.[1] He was awarded the title of Merited Journalist of Ukraine in 2006.
Ihor Miroshnychenko | |
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| Ігор Мірошниченко | |
 Miroshnychenko in 2012 | |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| In office 12 December 2012 – 27 November 2014 | |
| Constituency | Svoboda, No. 4 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 20 February 1976 Lebedyn, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
| Political party | Svoboda |
| Known for | sports journalist, politician |
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Biography
editMiroshnychenko was born in Lebedyn on 20 February 1976.
He worked for several Ukrainian television channels and was a spokesman for the Ukraine national football team from 2004 to 2008.
Miroshnychenko became famous for his anti-semitic response to Mila Kunis[2] who said that she felt to be discriminated while living in Chernivtsi and the city is almost a village.[3] He said "Kunis is not Ukrainian, she is a zhyd. She is proud of it, so Star of David be with her".[2][4]
On 15 February 2013 a group of Okhtyrka locals led by Miroshnychenko brought down the Lenin monument in the city.[5]
On 18 March 2014 Miroshnychenko entered by force into the office of the National Television Company of Ukraine together with other members of Svoboda. There he assaulted the head of the company Oleksandr Panteleymonov and forced him to write a letter of resignation. Video of this event was published by the Svoboda press secretary Oleksandr Aronets in his videoblog.[6][7]
In the 2014 parliamentary election Miroshnychenko was 10th on the election list of his party; since the party came 0.29% short to overcome the 5% threshold to win seats on the nationwide list he was not re-elected into the Verkhovna Rada.[8][9]
References
edit- ^ CEC registers 357 newly elected deputies of 422 Archived 2014-12-04 at the Wayback Machine, National Radio Company of Ukraine (25 November 2014)
Parliament to form leadership and coalition on November 27, UNIAN (26 November 2014) - ^ a b Scandal with Miroshnichenko and Kunis: on Facebook do not cease passion Archived 2013-01-21 at the Wayback Machine. polittech. 29 November 2012
- ^ Mila Kunis offended Chernivtsi with stories about the persecution of the Jews. TSN. 24 May 2012
- ^ "Far-right group at heart of Ukraine protests meet US senator". Channel 4.
- ^ In Sumy region Svoboda brought down statue of Lenin, the police instituted criminal proceedings. Mirror Weekly. 16 February 2013
- ^ Oleksandr Panteleymonov beaten up by Svoboda party members, Aronets Live Archived 2014-03-19 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Oleksandr Panteleymonov talks to Svoboda activists after assault
- ^ Poroshenko Bloc to have greatest number of seats in parliament Archived 2014-11-10 at the Wayback Machine, Ukrainian Television and Radio (8 November 2014)
People's Front 0.33% ahead of Poroshenko Bloc with all ballots counted in Ukraine elections - CEC Archived 2014-11-12 at the Wayback Machine, Interfax-Ukraine (8 November 2014)
Poroshenko Bloc to get 132 seats in parliament - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (8 November 2014) - ^ (in Ukrainian) Party list All-Ukrainian Union "Freedom", Ukrayinska Pravda (3 October 2014)