Yevhen Murayev
Yevheniy Murayev | |
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Євгеній Мураєв | |
People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
In office 12 December 2012 – 24 July 2019 | |
Head of Zmiiv Raion | |
In office 2010–2012 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Yevheniy Volodymyrovych Murayev 2 December 1976 Zmiiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
Citizenship | Ukraine |
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Children | 4 |
Occupation | NewsOne and NASH |
Yevheniy Volodymyrovych Murayev (Ukrainian: Євгеній Володимирович Мураєв; born 2 December 1976) is a Ukrainian politician and media owner. He was the leader of the now-banned political party Nashi.
Murayev has been a deputy of the
Murayev is a former member of
Following the
Biography
Early life and professional career
Murayev was born on 2 December 1976 in
In 1994 Murayev entered the Faculty of Economics of
From 2000 Murayev worked in several companies in senior positions.[5] He held the position of director of LLC "Anklav" (wholesale trade in petroleum products).[5] From 2001 to 2007 he was director of MKM-Khirkov LLC and from 2009 to 2010 (he was director) of Eastern Financial Group LLC.[5]
Political and media career
In the 2006 Ukrainian local elections Murayev was elected for the party Viche in the Kharkiv Oblast Council.[2] In the same election he failed to get elected to the Kharkiv City Council for the same party.[2]
In the 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election Murayev failed to win a seat as part of the electoral alliance KUCHMA.[2] At that elections this bloc failed to enter parliament winning only 0,10% of the national vote.[7]
Murayev was reelected in the Kharkiv Oblast Council during the 2010 Ukrainian local elections, this time for Party of Regions.[2]
In 2010, Murayev was appointed head of
In the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election he was elected in electoral district 181 located in Zmiiv.[2] He, as a candidate of Party of Regions, won the district with 56.15% of the votes.[8] He was Chairman of the Subcommittee on Foreign Economic Relations and Cross-Border Cooperation.[2] Following his election he resigned as head of Zmiiv Raion.[5]
In July 2019, Murayev told Dmitry Gordon that in February 2014 he had taken the fleeing former Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov out of Ukraine from Kharkiv to Belgorod during the final days of Euromaidan.[9]
In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Murayev was reelected as an independent candidate in (the same) district 181.[2] In 2014 he won reelection with 48.95%.[8] From 2015 to 2016 he was a member of the Opposition Bloc faction.[2] In parliament he was a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Tax and Customs Policy.[2]
In 2018 Murayev became chairman of the political council of the
On 10 January 2019, Murayev's party elected him as their candidate in the
In 2014, Murayev became the owner of the Kharkiv Internet channel "Robinson TV", the MIGnews website and the news channel
In January 2022, the British government accused Russia of seeking to supplant Ukraine's government via military force, and replace it with a pro-Russian administration possibly led by Murayev.
In February 2022, it was announced that the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine had introduced sanctions against the TV channel NASH, on which Murayev appears regularly. The channel is going to be closed.[26]
On 24 February 2022, Russian President
On 14 June 2022 the Eighth Administrative Court of Appeal banned Murayev's party Nashi.[32] The property of the party and all its branches were transferred to the state.[32]
Views
Murayev considered the
With the beginning of the
Murayev believes that "NATO does not wait for Ukraine."[5] He believes that the issue of Ukrainian NATO membership should be decided at a referendum.[5]
Murayev is a supporter of
Murayev opposes decommunization and has advocated for the preservation (in Ukraine) of the symbols of the Soviet Union as "historical and cultural memory".[5]
In an interview with the
Personal life
Murayev is divorced (since 2017).[39] He has three sons and one daughter.[40]
Notes
- ^ In January 2022, the United States intelligence community named Viktor Medvedchuk as a possible Kremlin supported choice to lead a pro Russia puppet Ukrainian government and, in February 2022, the United States intelligence community named Oleg Tsaryov as another possible Kremlin supported choice to lead a pro Russia puppet Ukrainian government.[25]
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- ^ Гордон, Дмитро (Gordon, Dmitro) (10 July 2019). "Мураев: Азаров попросил: "Можешь меня отвезти в Белгород?" Я отвез. С ним была дорожная сумка, небольшая. Должен был забрать через два дня, но он уже не вернулся" [Muraev: Azarov asked: “Can you take me to Belgorod?” I took him. He had a small travel bag with him. I was supposed to pick it up in two days, but it hasn't returned.]. «ГОРДОН» (Gordonau.com) (in Russian). Retrieved 22 February 2022.
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- ^ a b "UK warns of Russian 'plot' to replace Ukraine government". Deutsche Welle. 23 January 2022.
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- ^ Murayev answered to Svobodite Ilyenko, whose Crimea? (Мураев ответил "свободовцу" Ильенко – чей Крым? "Украинский формат" на NEWSONE 28.03.18). NewsOne. 28 March 2018
- ^ Evgeniy Murayev: The war should not re-categorize, but rather end (Евгений Мураев: Войну надо не переквалифицировать, а заканчивать). NewsOne. 23 June 2017
- ^ The Oppoblokite Murayev during live broadcast announced, falsely, that at Donbas were fighting American soldiers. The Ukrainian Week. 20 June 2016
- ^ a b c Murayev apologizes to Sentsov, but not for his words about 'terrorist', Interfax-Ukraine (13 June 2018)
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