Ruslan Stefanchuk

Ruslan Oleksiyovych Stefanchuk (Ukrainian: Руслан Олексійович Стефанчук; born 29 October 1975[2]) is a Ukrainian politician and lawyer. He is the Representative of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskiy at the Verkhovna Rada since 2019.[3] Stefanchuk is the ideologist of the Servant of the People party.[4] For this party he was elected into parliament (placed 2nd on the party list) in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[5]

Ruslan Stefanchuk
Руслан Стефанчук
First Deputy Chair of the Verkhovna Rada
Assumed office
29 August 2019
Preceded byIryna Herashchenko
Representative of the President of Ukraine at the Verkhovna Rada
Assumed office
21 May 2019[1]
Preceded byIryna Lutsenko
Personal details
Born
Ruslan Oleksiyovych Stefanchuk

(1975-10-29) 29 October 1975
Ternopil, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Political partyServant of the People
EducationKhmelnytskyi Institute of Regional Administration and Law
Khmelnytskyi National University
Occupationlawyer

Biography

He received a law degree from the Khmelnytskyi Institute of Regional Administration and Law. He also studied at the Khmelnytskyi National University. Doctor of Law, Professor.

First Deputy Chief Editor of the Law Magazine "Law of Ukraine".[6]

He was Assistant of Member of Verkhovna Rada Anatoliy Matviyenko (2007–2012).[7]

Stefanchuk is a corresponding member of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine. Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine (2017).[8]

Stefanchuk is one of the authors of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's election program.[9]

In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Stefanchuk was elected into parliament (placed 2nd on the party list) Servant of the People party.[5] His brother Mykola Stefanchuk was (in the same election) elected for the same party in the single-mandate constituency 187 (located in Khmelnytskyi Oblast).[5]

See also
  • List of members of the parliament of Ukraine, 2019–24

References
  1. "Ruslan Stefanchuk becomes president's representative in VR". Ukrinform. 22 May 2019. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  2. "Стефанчук Руслан Олексійович". Central Election Commission (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  3. "First hundred candidates on Servant of the People's election list: who are they?". Interfax-Ukraine. 12 June 2019. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  4. "Zelenskiy's First Moves as President in Case of Victory". Hromadske International. 10 April 2019. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  5. "Велика рідня-2019. Хто кому кум, брат, син і донька у новій Верховній Раді - новини Еспресо TV | Україна". espreso.tv.
  6. "Chief of Editorial Council". Pravo Ukraine. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  7. https://posipaky.info/minion/316103 Стефанчук Руслан Олексійович
  8. "УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАЇНИ №398/2017 Про відзначення державними нагородами України з нагоди 26-ї річниці підтвердження всеукраїнським референдумом Акта проголошення незалежності України 1 грудня 1991 року". president.gov.ua (in Ukrainian). 1 December 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  9. "Zelenskyi presents his team two days before election". censor.net.ua. 19 April 2019. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
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