Ihor Mosiychuk

Ihor Volodymyrovych Mosiychuk (Ukrainian: Ігор Володимирович Мосійчук, born 5 May 1972, Lubny, Poltava Oblast) is a Ukrainian journalist and far-right politician, a leading figure in the organized social-nationalist movement, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Vechirnaya Vasilkov, and a participant in the Vasylkiv terrorists case. He is a former[2] deputy of Verkhovna Rada from Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko.

Ihor Mosiychuk
Ігор Мосійчук
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office
27 November 2014[1] – 24 July 2019
Personal details
Born (1972-05-05) 5 May 1972
Lubny, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
NationalityUkrainian
Political partySvoboda (2004-2010)
Social-National Assembly (2010-2014)
Radical Party (2014-2019)
SpouseVladlena Leonidivna Karpenko
Children2

In early 2014, Mosiychuk served as the deputy commander of the Azov Battalion. After he made Jew-baiting comments about Ihor Kolomoisky, he was removed.[3]

On 25 October 2017, a parked scooter exploded in Kyiv near the building of Espreso TV, which was, according to an investigation by the Ukrainian police, an assassination attempt on him.[4] The blast killed his bodyguard and another man. Mosiychuk and a political scientist Vitaliy Bala along with another woman were injured.[5][4]

Mosiychuk's Radical Party lost all its parliamentary seats in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, because it gained about 1%, too little to clear the 5% election threshold, and also did not win an electoral district seat.[6]

References
  1. CEC registers 357 newly elected deputies of 422 Archived December 4, 2014, 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)
  2. "Member of anti-Kremlin Caucasus Resistance movement shot dead in Kyiv". Unian. 2019-10-14.
  3. Cathy Young (2022-05-25). "Heroes of Mariupol or Neo-Nazi Menace?". The Bulwark. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
  4. (in Ukrainian) Terrorist attack near the Espreso TV channel: the investigation is over, security officers named the motive, Ukrayinska Pravda (15 February 2022)
  5. DigitalJournal
  6. CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections, Ukrinform (26 July 2019)
    (in Russian) Results of the extraordinary elections of the People's Deputies of Ukraine 2019, Ukrayinska Pravda (21 July 2019)
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