Fedir Khrystenko
Fedir Khrystenko | |
|---|---|
Федір Христенко | |
 Official portrait, 2019 | |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| Assumed office 29 August 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Serhiy Klyuyev |
| Constituency | Donetsk Oblast, No. 46 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 11 October 1983 Starohnativka, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
| Political party | Independent (since 2022) |
| Other political affiliations | Opposition Platform — For Life (until 2022) |
| Alma mater | Donetsk National University |
Fedir Volodymyrovych Khrystenko (Ukrainian: Федір Володимирович Христенко; born 11 October 1983) is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 46th electoral district since 29 August 2019. Formerly a member of Opposition Platform — For Life, he is currently an independent since 2022.
Early life and career
[edit]Fedir Volodymyrovych Khrystenko was born on 11 October 1983 in the village of Starohnativka, in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk Oblast. He is a graduate of Donetsk National University. He is the founder of Istholdkapital TOK. Before founding Istholdkapital, Khrystenko was involved in the transportation industry.[1]
During the 2014 Ukrainian presidential election, Khrystenko was head of Petro Poroshenko's campaign in Ukraine's 49th electoral district.[1]
Political career
[edit]In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Khrystenko ran for the position of People's Deputy of Ukraine in Ukraine's 46th electoral district. He was the candidate of Opposition Platform — For Life (OPZZh). Khrystenko was successfully elected, defeating Servant of the People candidate Rodion Voshchanov with 38.01% of the vote to Voshchanov's 25.60%.[2] In the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament), he is a member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Agriculture and Land Policies.[3] He is considered to have been associated with Dmytro Firtash's group within OPZZh.[4]
During 2019, Khrystenko only proposed one bill. The same year, he declared his assets to be ₴114 million in cash.[3]
On 22 February 2022, just prior to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Khrystenko did not vote for a bill in the Verkhovna Rada to condemn the recognition of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic by Russia. It was reported by the anti-corruption non-governmental organisation Chesno that Khrystenko and his wife had fled Ukraine following the beginning of the invasion, and that Khrystenko had not been present for any meeting of the Verkhovna Rada since the invasion.[3]
Moscow party scandal
[edit]In 2020, Khrystenko became the centre of a scandal after it was reported by the Anti-Corruption Action Center that Khrystenko's wife had spent US$1 million on a party in Moscow including Russian musical artists Nikolay Baskov, Philipp Kirkorov, Grigory Leps, and Aleksandr Revva. This was in spite of the fact that Khrystenko had not reported any significant change in his assets. Following the Anti-Corruption Action Center reporting the incident to the National Agency for Prevention of Corruption, it was announced that the agency was investigating the incident.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Христенко Федір Володимирович" [Khrystenko, Fedir Volodymyrovych]. LB.ua (in Ukrainian). 5 June 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
- ^ "Відомості про підрахунок голосів виборців в одномандатному виборчому окрузі №46" [Information about counting of voters' votes in single-mandate electoral district No. 46]. Central Election Commission (Ukraine) (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 5 August 2019. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
- ^ a b c "Христенко Федір Володимирович" [Khrystenko, Fedir Volodymyrovych]. Chesno (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 9 December 2022.
- ^ Cheretun, Dmytro (9 December 2019). "Бойкотуюча опозиція: як голосує та що пропонує фракція ОПЗЖ" [The boycotting opposition: How the OPZZh faction votes and what it proposes]. Chesno (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 9 December 2022.
- ^ "НАЗК перевірить депутата ОПЗЖ, який у Москві влаштував вечірку на $1 млн (документ)" [NAZK investigating OPZZh deputy who organised $1 million party in Moscow (document)]. LB.ua (in Ukrainian). 23 June 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2022.