Dmytro Tymchuk

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Dmytro Tymchuk
Дмитро Тимчук
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office
27 November 2014[1] – 19 June 2019
Personal details
Born
Dmytro Borysovych Tymchuk

(1972-06-27)27 June 1972
USSR
Died19 June 2019(2019-06-19) (aged 46)
Kyiv, Ukraine[2]
Nationality Ukraine
Political partyPeople's Front
Alma materLviv Higher Military-Political School
OccupationMilitary expert, journalist, politician
Websitesprotyv.info/en

Dmytro Borysovych Tymchuk (Ukrainian: Дмитро́ Бори́сович Тимчу́к; 27 June 1972 – 19 June 2019)[3] was a member of parliament of Ukraine, a Ukrainian military expert and blogger, an officer of the Ukrainian military reserve (Lieutenant Colonel), and one of the coordinators of the Information Resistance blog.[4] During the ongoing 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine, he became one of the most popular Ukrainian online activists and was extensively cited on the situation in the country.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

In 2014 Tymchuk was elected to the Verkhovna Rada for the People's Front.[12]

Early life and education

Tymchuk was born 27 June 1972 in

Ukrainian SSR, where he spent the rest of his youth.[3] (Both Russia and Ukraine were part of the Soviet Union from 1920 until Ukraine declared its independence from the Soviet Union on 24 August 1991.)[13] In 1995, Tymchuk graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Lviv Higher Military-Political School (Soviet predecessor of the Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi National Ground Forces Academy).[3]

Career

Tymchuk served in the

Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.[3] He served in Iraq, Kosovo, and Lebanon.[5] His highest military rank is lieutenant colonel.[3]

In 2008, Tymchuk became the chief editor of the

war in Donbass, Tymchuk became one of the most popular Ukrainian online activists in Ukraine and was extensively cited on the situation in the country.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][15] In November 2014, the number of those following his Facebook page exceeded 190,000 IP addresses.[3]

Tymchuk became a founding member of the new party People's Front on 10 September 2014, 46 days before the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[16][17] He was elected to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament).[12]

Death

On 19 June 2019, Tymchuk was found dead in his home from a firearm injury to his head. According to media reports and the preliminary working version of the

Kyiv police he was cleaning his gun and accidentally discharged it.[2][18][19]

See also

References

  1. UNIAN
    (26 November 2014)
  2. ^ a b MP Dmytro Tymchuk from People's Front dies in Kyiv, Interfax-Ukraine (19 June 2019)
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h "Тымчук Дмитрий Борисович" [Dmitry Borisovich Tymchuk] (in Russian). LIGA. 21 November 2014. Archived from the original on 11 April 2015. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
  4. ^ a b "About us". sprotyv.info. Information Resistance. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
  5. ^ a b c "Dmitry Tymchuk". Kyiv Post.
  6. ^ a b "Dmitry Tymchuk". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  7. ^ a b "PERSON: DMYTRO TYMCHUK". www.aljazeera.com. Al Jazeera. 25 June 2014. Archived from the original on 17 June 2014. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
  8. ^ a b Терористи на завтра готують провокацію з жертвами в Слов'янську - Тимчук [Terrorists planning deadly provocation in Sloviansk, says Tymchuk] (in Ukrainian). Unian. 1 May 2014.
  9. ^ a b Foster, Hal; Goryachova, Tatyana (12 July 2014). "Ukraine's next battle is Donetsk, but no bombs, please". www.usatoday.com. USA Today. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
  10. ^ a b "Four Ukrainian servicemen killed in new fighting - military source". Reuters. 27 June 2014. Archived from the original on 27 June 2014. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
  11. ^ a b "Ukraine street battles in Luhansk as troops advance". BBC News Online. 19 August 2014. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
  12. ^ a b "Тимчук Дмитро Борисович" [Dmytro Borysovych Tymchuk] (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada website. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
  13. ISBN 1442610212
    (page 563/564 & 722/723)
  14. ^ Baturin, Alexei (5 July 2014). "Кто такой Дмитрий Тымчук, и как работает "Информационное сопротивление" [Who is Dmytro Tymchuk and how does Information resistance function]. focus.ua (in Russian).
  15. ^ Rothrock, Kevin (23 April 2014). "How Dmitry Tymchuk Broke the Russian Blogosphere". Global Voices Online.
  16. Ukrayinska Pravda
    (in Ukrainian). 10 September 2014.
  17. ^ "Ukraine President Poroshenko Calls Snap General Election". Bloomberg News. 25 August 2014.
  18. Ukrayinska Pravda
    . Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  19. ^ "Ukrainian Lawmaker Who Reported On Crimea's Occupation Dies". RFE/RL. 19 June 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2019.

External links

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