Yuriy Pavlenko

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Yuriy Oleksiiovych Pavlenko (Ukrainian: Юрій Олексійович Павленко) is a Ukrainian politician and administrator, currently serving as the children's ombudsman of Ukraine.

Born in Kyiv in 1975, Pavlenko studied history at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv before undertaking a Master of Public Administration degree at the Ukrainian Academy of Public Administration. He took a Ph.D. in 2010.[1]

In 1999 Pavlenko became chairman of the Youth Party of Ukraine.[2][3] He was elected a People’s Deputy in the 2002 parliamentary election for the Our Ukraine Bloc. In 2005 he became a member of the People's Union "Our Ukraine" party.[2] Pavlenko was reelected in 2006 and 2007 as an Our Ukraine Bloc candidate.[4][5][1]

Pavlenko served as Minister for Family, Youth and Sport in the First Tymoshenko Government, the Yekhanurov Government, briefly in the Alliance of National Unity government[6] and again in the Second Tymoshenko Government. From 2005 to 2007 Pavlenko was Ukraine's State Representative in the UNICEF Executive Board.[1] From 26 December 2006 till 17 October 2007 Pavlenko was the (appointed) Governor of Zhytomyr Oblast.[2][7] From 25 May to 24 October 2007 Pavlenko was a member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.[2]

In August 2011 Pavlenko was appointed by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to the position of 'Authorized representative of the President of Ukraine for Children's Rights', or children's ombudsman.[1][8] Pavlenko said that this was done with the consent of the previous President, and leader of his party, Viktor Yushchenko.[8]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Profile on the website of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 (Ukrainian) Павленко Юрій Олексійович Персоналии, Центр политической информации "Дата"
  3. ↑ Павленко Юрій Олексійович.Біографія, Novynar
  4. ↑ Bezsmertnyi: All ministers from Our Ukraine party have resigned, UNIAN, 19 October 2006
  5. ↑ Pavlenko to occupy Baloha's place in OU-PSD electoral list, UNIAN, 1 August 2007
  6. ↑ VR dismissed Pavlenko, UNIAN (29 November 2006)
  7. ↑ Keywords:Yuriy Pavlenko, UNIAN
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 (Russian) Павленко заявляет о поддержке Ющенко его назначения детским омбудсменом, Korrespondent (12 August 2011)
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