Leonid Kozhara

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Leonid Kozhara
Леонід Кожара
Ukrainian Ambassador to Sweden
In office
14 November 2002 – 6 July 2004
PresidentLeonid Kuchma
Preceded byOleksandr Slipchenko
Succeeded byOleksandr Danyleiko
Personal details
Born (1963-01-14) 14 January 1963 (age 61)
Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Political partyParty of Regions (until 2014)

No party (2014-2015)

“
Kyiv University
OccupationJurist

Leonid Oleksandrovych Kozhara (

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. In 2013 he was the OSCE's (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
) Chairperson-in-Office, during the Ukrainian presidency of the OSCE.

After the

Serhiy Starytsky on 21 February 2020,[1] and on 23rd September 2022, the party “Socialists” was banned by Ukraine.[2]

Early life and education

Kozhara was born in Poltava on 14 January 1963.

Kyiv University
).

Career

From 1990 to 1992 Kozhara worked as a senior adviser at the parliamentary secretariat. Until 1994 he worked at the

Maidan revolution",[9] the Verkhovna Rada dismissed Foreign Minister Kozhara and Education Minister Dmytro Tabachnyk.[10]

Kozhara did not participate in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[11]

Then he became Chairman of the (registered in January 2015) party

collaborator with Russia.[13] The decision was open to an appeal at the Supreme Court of Ukraine.[13] On 23 September 2022 the final appeal against the party's ban was dismissed by the Supreme Court of Ukraine, meaning that the party was fully banned in Ukraine.[14]

Role in Euromaidan

During Ukraine's Euromaidan-protests and its political implications of December 2013, Kozhara warned foreign policymakers to not intervene with Ukraine's internal affairs. Kozhara stated according to Kyiv Post: "Ukraine is a sovereign state, and it should make decisions on its own. We do not allow interference in our internal affairs. Nobody is allowed to openly meddle in internal national processes that are taking place in the country today".[15]

At the Munich Security Conference on 1 February, Kozhara gave his opinion of Dmytro Bulatov, leader of "Automaidan," a group of drivers who have provided support for Euromaidan protesters. According to reports, Bulatov said he was abducted and tortured, and that he had been held for eight days. BBC News reported that Bulatov appeared on TV with a gash on his face and part of his ear cut off and left the country to receive medical treatment. "'The only thing he has is a scratch on one of his cheeks,' Kozhara told broadcaster al-Jazeera, 'It looks like the alleged story that he was kidnapped and tortured is not absolutely true.'"[16]

Suspect in the 2020 murder of Serhiy Starytsky

On 25 March 2020 Kozhara was arrested by security forces on charges of murdering advertising mogul Serhiy Starytsky on 21 February 2020.[1][17][18] According to media reports both were "in a state of heavy intoxication" at a party at Kozhara's house at the time of the alleged shooting.[19] Kozhara and his wife claim that Starytsky had committed suicide, according to the Ukrainian prosecutorial office this was not true.[1]

Starytsky is a former head of the Inter TV channel and was the general director of the Atlantic Group holding.[17] He was allegedly shot dead in the house of Kozhara and his wife, Maryna Kozerod, in village Chaiky (Kyiv-Sviatoshyn Raion), the suburb of Kyiv, on 21 February 2020.[17]

References

  1. ^ a b c Former deputy FM Kozhara detained on murder suspicion - Deputy Interior Minister Gerashchenko, Interfax-Ukraine
  2. ^ ""СОЦІАЛІСТИ" — Програма, Балотування, Статистика, Політична Агітація | ПолітХаб". www.chesno.org (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 25 October 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Biography of Minister". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 27 March 2014. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
  4. ^ Rada terminates parliamentary mandates of Kozhara, Lavrynovych, Tabachnyk, Kyiv Post, 25 December 2012
  5. ^ President Yanukovych appoints 12 supernumerary advisors to president, Kyiv Post, 12 March 2010
  6. ^ Regions Party to cooperate with ruling party in Kazakhstan, Kyiv Post, 24 November 2011.
  7. ^ Party of Regions releases party list, Kyiv Post (30 July 2012)
  8. UNIAN
    , 24 December 2012.
  9. ^ Ukraine: Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov named interim president, BBC News (23 February 2014)
    Ukraine protests timeline, BBC News (23 February 2014)
  10. ^ Ukraine: Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov named interim president, BBC News (23 February 2014)
  11. ^ (in Ukrainian) Alphabetical Index of candidates in 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Central Election Commission (Ukraine).
  12. ^ "Леонід Кожара: Безвіз дістанеться Україні в такій спотвореній формі, що легше буде отримати візу". 8 September 2016.
  13. ^ a b c d "Court bans pro-Russian Socialist Party". babel.ua. 13 June 2022. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
  14. ^ (in Ukrainian) "SOCIALISTS" political party biography, Chesno
  15. ^ "Ukrainian foreign minister warns foreign politicians against interference in internal affairs". Kyiv Post. 24 December 2013. Retrieved 24 December 2013.
  16. ^ "Ukrainian foreign minister warns foreign politicians against interference in internal affairs". BBC News Europe. 2 February 2014. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  17. ^
    UNIAN
    (25 March 2020)
  18. ^ (Deutsche Welle)
  19. ^ "Стали відомі деталі загибелі людини в будинку ексміністра закордонних справ України". 22 February 2020.

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