Oleksandr Feldman
Olexandr Borysovych Feldman (Ukrainian: Олександр Борисович Фельдман) (born January 6, 1960, Kharkiv) is a Ukrainian politician and public figure of Jewish origin, People's Deputy of Ukraine (since 2002), businessman, multi-millionaire. He is considered to be one of the most influential people in Kharkiv.[1] In 2013 he entered the rating of the hundred richest Ukrainians of the Ukrainian magazine Forbes, finishing 35th ($ 287m).[2] Since June 2015, the co-chairman of the political party Our Land.
Biography
He is married and has two sons
He is a member of the Ukrainian Parliament and president of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee.[5] Feldman is also a co-founder of the Institute of Human Rights and the Prevention of Extremism and Xenophobia.[6]
Feldman first entered the
Batkivshchyna was a part of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc during the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election and 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election Feldman was re-elected into parliament on a party ticket of this bloc of political parties.[7][11] He also was of its Kharkiv regional party organization.[7] In March 2011 Feldman left the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc faction in parliament and joined the Party of Regions.[7] He did so citing too much influence of nationalism in the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc.[7]
In the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election Feldman won a parliamentary seat in a single-member district located in Kharkiv for Party of Regions.[7]
In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Feldman as an independent candidate won the same single-member district as in 2012 with 64.94% of the votes.[7][12]
Feldman joined the party Our Land in August 2015.[13]
In 2017, he was elected to the board of the international organization "Religions for Peace", a pacifist organization with headquarters in New York, which has consultative status with UNESCO, UNICEF and the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.[14]
In the July
On 15 March 2022, following the
References
- ^ a b "Фельдман Александр. ДОСЬЕ :: Персональный сайт Сергея Руденко". www.rudenko.kiev.ua. Retrieved 2017-11-10.
- ^ "Форбс" оценил сотню самых богатых украинцев в 55 млрд. долларов (in Russian). Retrieved 2017-11-10.
- ^ Биография. Александр Фельдман (in Russian). Retrieved 2017-11-10.
- ^ "Довідка: Фельдман Олександр Борисович". dovidka.com.ua. Retrieved 2017-11-10.
- ^ Daniel K. Eisenbud (March 10, 2014). "Ukrainian Jewish Committee: Russian claims of anti-Semitism in Crimea are lies, propaganda". Jerusalem Post.
- The Algemeiner Journal. December 8, 2013.
- ^ a b c d e f g h (in Russian)/(website has automatic Google Translate option) Short bio, LIGA
- RBC Ukraine
- The Jamestown Foundation(30 November 2005)
- ^ (in Ukrainian) Партія «Єдина Україна» Party "United Ukraine" Archived 2010-10-23 at the Wayback Machine, poli.in.ua
- ^ (in Ukrainian) Всеукраїнське об'єднання „Батьківщина“, Database DATA
- RBK Ukraine
- ^ (in Ukrainian) Mayors of major cities joined the party "Our Land" and go to the polls, Espreso TV (4 August 2015)
- ^ "Харьковский нардеп стал членом правления организации "Религия за мир"". www.segodnya.ua (in Russian). Retrieved 2018-07-18.
- ^ a b "Електоральна пам'ять". ukr.vote.
- ^ "ЦВК визнала обраними вже 84 народних депутати". 30 July 2019.
- ^ "Центральна виборча комісія - Вибори народних депутатів України 2019". cvk.gov.ua.
- ^ "ТОП-10 страхів: чого бояться українські депутати?". Вибори вибори.
- ^ (in Ukrainian) Local elections. Kharkiv: between Kernes and Kernes, The Ukrainian Week (29 August 2019)
- UNIAN(4 November 2020)
- ^ Свобода, Радіо (15 March 2022). "Народний депутат Фельдман пояснив, чому вийшов із ОПЗЖ". Радіо Свобода.
External links
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