Vasyl Onopenko

Vasyl Onopenko
Василь Онопенко
Official portrait, 2006
Chairman of the Supreme Court of Ukraine
In office 2 October 2006 – 29 September 2011
President	Viktor Yushchenko
Preceded by	Vasyl Malyarenko
Succeeded by	Petro Pylypchuk
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office 12 May 1998 – 5 October 2006
Constituency	SDPU(o), No. 3 (1998–2002) Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, No. 4 (2002–2006)
Minister of Justice
In office 27 October 1992 – 7 August 1995
President	Leonid Kravchuk Leonid Kuchma
Prime Minister	Leonid Kuchma Vitaliy Masol
Preceded by	Volodymyr Kampo
Succeeded by	Serhiy Holovatyi
Personal details
Born	(1949-04-10) 10 April 1949 (age 75) Velyki Kryshlentsi, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Political party	Independent (1998, 2002, since 2012)
Other political affiliations	Party of Human Rights (1994–1995) Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) (1995–1998) Ukrainian Social Democratic Party (1998–2012) Batkivshchyna (1999–2002) Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (2002–2006)
Kharkiv Law Institute
Occupation	Jurist, politician

Vasyl Vasylovych Onopenko (Ukrainian: Василь Васильович Онопенко; born 10 April 1949) is a Ukrainian judge and politician who served as chairman of the Supreme Court of Ukraine from 2006 to 2011. Prior to this, he served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 1998 to 2006, as Minister of Justice from 1992 to 1995, and as a judge of the Supreme Court of Ukraine within the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991.

Biography

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Soon after being elected to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) in 1998, Onopenko was excluded from SDPU(u) and created yet another party, the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party. Onopenko joined the independent group in the Verkhovna Rada and then Batkivshchyna. In the 1999 Ukrainian presidential election, he unsuccessfully ran for the presidency.

During the 2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election Onopenko returned to the Verkhovna Rada as the fourth candidate on the party list of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. Soon after being elected, for a short time he was unaffiliated, but then rejoined the parliamentary faction.

For the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election he was again 4th on the party list of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. Later Onopenko resigned as a People's Deputy of Ukraine after being elected to chairman of the Supreme Court of Ukraine. At the end of 2006 his son-in-law replaced him as a leader of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party.

Onopenko quit the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party after Natalia Korolevska changed it to Ukraine – Forward! in 2012.

In the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Onopenko was an unsuccessful independent candidate for People's Deputy of Ukraine in Ukraine's 14th electoral district.^[2]

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