Viktor Medvedchuk
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Pro-Russian politician in Ukraine, deprived lawyer and businessman
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5 total works indexed
- A series of normal stages in the development of the chick embryo
· 1951 · cited 10,392x
- THE ELECTRODYNAMICS OF SUBSTANCES WITH SIMULTANEOUSLY NEGATIVE VALUES OF $\epsilon$ AND μ
· 1968 · cited 9,457x
- Climbing the Density Functional Ladder: Nonempirical Meta–Generalized Gradient Approximation Designed for Molecules and Solids
· 2003 · cited 6,572x
- Comparison of multiple Amber force fields and development of improved protein backbone parameters
· 2006 · cited 6,560x
- THE SEVENTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY
· 2009 · cited 4,691x
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Key facts
- Constituency
- Opposition Platform — For Life , No. 3
- President
- Leonid Kuchma
- Preceded by
- Volodymyr Lytvyn
- Succeeded by
- Oleksandr Zinchenko
- Born
- ( 1954-08-07 ) 7 August 1954 (age 71) , Pochet , Krasnoyarsk Krai , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
- Citizenship
- Ukrainian (1991–2023) , Russian (according to SBU )
- Party
- Opposition Platform — For Life (2016–2022)
- Other political affiliations
- SDPU(o) (1994–2016) Ne Tak (2006) Ukrainian Choice (2012–2022)
- Spouses
- Marina Lebedeva ( divorced ) Natalya Gavrilyuk ( divorced ) Oksana Marchenko [ uk ; ru ] ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2003 )
- Relations
- Serhiy Medvedchuk [ uk ] (brother)
- Parent
- Volodymyr Medvedchuk [ uk ] (father)
- Alma mater
- Kyiv University (1978)
- Occupation
- Politician, lawyer
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Wikidata facts
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Ukraine
- Place of birth
- Pochet
- Spouse
- Oksana Marchenko
- Occupation
- lawyer
- Political party
- Opposition Platform — For Life
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Religion
- Ukrainian Orthodox Church
- Notable work
- Voice of Europe
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Juridical Science
- Field of work
- politician
- Image
- Medvedchuk in Duma.jpg
- Work location
- Kyiv
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- Commons category
- Viktor Medvedchuk
- social media followers
- 138299
- date of birth
- 1954-08-07
- name in native language
- Віктор Володимирович Медведчук
- professorship
- full professor
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Ukraine
- candidacy in election
- 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election
- P10632
- Viktor Medvedchuk
- net worth
- 620000000
- relative
- Vladimir Putin
- partner in business or sport
- Nicolas Bay
- significant person
- Vladimir Putin
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Encyclopedic overview
Viktor Volodymyrovych Medvedchuk (Ukrainian: Віктор Володимирович Медведчук; born 7 August 1954), also known as Viktor Vladimirovich Medvedchuk (Russian: Виктор Владимирович Медведчук), is a former Ukrainian lawyer, business oligarch, and politician who has lived in exile in Russia since September 2022 after being handed over to Russia in a prisoner exchange. Medvedchuk is a pro-Kremlin Ukrainian politician and a personal friend of Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Prior to being deported from Ukraine, Medvedchuk was elected as People's Deputy of Ukraine on 29 August 2019. He served as the chairman of the pro-Russian political organization Ukrainian Choice from 2018 to 2022. He is an opponent of Ukraine joining the European Union.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Viktor Medvedchuk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.