Vasyl Kuybida

Vasyl Kuybida (Ukrainian: Василь Степанович Куйбіда, born May 8, 1958 in Inta, Komi ASSR) is a Ukrainian politician, scientist, son of veterans of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (both father and mother) who were exiled to the Russian North. He is known for heading the People's Movement of Ukraine and being elected mayor of the Lviv city. Merited Jurist of Ukraine.

December 2009

Biography

He has been elected to the Verhovna Rada two times (in 2006 and 2007). In 1994-2002 Kuybida was a mayor of the Lviv city, in 2007-10 - Minister of Regional Development and Construction. Initiator and coauthor of the UNESCO program Lviv - Historic Center. Since 2012 Kuybida was elected the leader of People's Movement of Ukraine.

In the 2014 Ukrainian presidential election Kuybida received 0.06% of the vote.[1] He described his top priorities as "further strengthening and development of the democratic roots of Ukrainian national statehood; implementing the ideas of democracy, pluralism, social solidarity, and open society, rebuilding the national economy on the principles of a freely competitive market system, facilitating the development of private entrepreneurship, systemic agrarian reform, ensuring social security for every citizen, social assistance for those in need, pension reform, the cultural revival of Ukrainian society, of the Ukrainian people's national identity, of the Ukrainian language in all spheres of public life, and integration into the EU and NATO as a vital cornerstone of Ukraine's foreign policy."

gollark: Mathological™ sequence idea: number of repeated applications of `ln` required to reach a negative result, for each integer.
gollark: Too bad, hyperreals initiated.
gollark: Compilers continue being nontrivial. H.
gollark: I'm starting by implementing some highly advanced technology: a compiler for simple arithmetic expressions in Haskell.
gollark: No, I WILL recreate in this.
Political offices
Preceded by
Vasyl Shpitser		 Mayor of Lviv
1994–2002		 Succeeded by
Lyubomyr Bunyak
Preceded by
Borys Tarasyuk		 Leader of People's Movement of Ukraine
2012–2017		 Succeeded by
Viktor Kryvenko

References
  1. "Poroshenko wins presidential election with 54.7% of vote - CEC". Radio Ukraine International. 29 May 2014. Archived from the original on 29 May 2014. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
    (in Russian) Results election of Ukrainian president, Телеграф (29 May 2014)
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