Yurii Karmazin

Yurii Karmazin (Ukrainian: Юрій Анатолійович Кармазін), (born on September 21, 1957) is a Ukrainian politician and judge.

Yurii Karmazin
Юрій Анатолійович Кармазін
Personal details
Born (1957-09-21) September 21, 1957
Zvenygorodka, Cherkasy region, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Political partyMotherland Defenders Party

Biography

Born on September 21, 1957 in Zvenyhorodka Cherkasy region of Ukrainian SSR. Graduated from Odessa State University. In 1982 was appointed prosecutor assistant of Odessa region. From 1985 till 1992 Yu. Karmazin worked as a prosecutor of the Prymorskyi district of Odessa. In 1993 he was elected a judge of the Odessa Regional Court.

At the parliamentary elections in 1994 and 1998, he was elected as a People's Deputy (from Districts No. 299 and No. 134).

On May 22, 1999, he was elected as a head of the Motherland Defenders Party. He holds this position till the present day. On October 31 of that same year, he participated in the first round of presidential elections. There he was ranked 10th out of 13, gaining 90,793 votes (0.35%).

In the winter of 2000–2001, Yu. Karmazin took an active part in the action "Ukraine without Kuchma". In 2002, he was a lawyer of the Russian businessman Konstantin Grigorishin.[1]

At the parliamentary elections on March 31, 2002, Yu. Karmazin was listed as number 17 of the "Our Ukraine" Bloc list and was elected to the Ukrainian parliament for the third time.

In 2005, Yuri Karmazin said in an interview to the Boulevard newspaper that he was against Prime Minister Yanukovych, and that he won't live in one country with him. In the same interview, he told how a certain superior force came down on him, giving him instructions for his future activities[2][3]

At the parliamentary elections in March 2006, Yu. Karmazin headed the nominal electoral bloc, but did not pass to the parliament. He also lost the Kiev mayor elections, taking the fourth place with 5.45% of the vote.

On September 30, 2007, Yu. Karmazin participated in the parliamentary elections under the number 58 of the election list of Our Ukraine – People's Self-Defense" parties bloc and was elected a Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada for the fourth time.

Karmazin did not participate in election to the Ukrainian parliament in 2012, as he was refused to be registered.[4]

In November 2015 he joined the leadership of the "Far-right forces[5]" movement, the organizer of an anti-government protest in February 2016, whose headquarters were located in "Kazatsky" hotel.[6] The campaigners demanded the resignation of the government, the President Petro Poroshenko and the release of political prisoners,[7] they themselves were accused of destructive and provocative actions, beneficial to Russian media and the RF authorities.[8][9][10] By the end of the month, the protests stopped.[11]

In January 2018, Yurii Karmazin held a press conference providing documents allegedly confirming the relationship between the ICU company and the American financier, deputy chairman of the inaugural committee of Donald Trump, Elliott Broidy. The company ICU denied this information and put the law on Karmazin for libel.[12]

In May 2018, Karmazin proclaimed himself[13] the hetman of all Ukrainian Cossacks.

Karmazin officially became a presidential candidate in February 2019.[14]

Awards
  • Honored Lawyer of Ukraine (1996).
  • Judicial Counsellor III Class[15]
  • Honorary Worker of the Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine.

References
  1. Падва: Григоришина арестовали не из-за политики "Украинская Правда", October 20, 2002(in Russian)
  2. Юрий Кармазин: "Уже при новой власти мне передали, что я заказан... "БУЛЬВАР ГОРДОНА", №12 (12) 2005, ИЮЛЬ(in Russian)
  3. Юрий Кармазин: «Представьте, четыре утра, тишина дикая, и в этой тишине я чувствую хруст собственного позвоночника… » газета "Факты" от 24 июня 2005 года(in Russian)
  4. ЦИК отказался регистрировать Кармазина кандидатом в депутаты, Лига-Новости(in Russian)
  5. Кто устраивает Майдан-3. Вожди Революционных правых сил "Депо", 21.02.2016(in Russian)
  6. [http://gordonua.com/news/society/karmazin-my-ne-zahvatyvali-kazackiy-i-u-nas-net-oruzhiya-120925.html Протесты в Киеве. Карамaзин огласил требования протестующих / Гордон(in Russian)
  7. Представители «РПС» заявили о поддержке организации Кармазиным и Мельничуком "LB.ua", February 21, 2016(in Russian)
  8. Денис Казанский. «Третий майдан» и кто за ним стоит "Четвертая власть", February 22, 2016(in Russian)
  9. Михаил Соколов. Идет война России с Украиной? "Радио Свобода", March 1, 2016(in Russian)
  10. Анастасия Рафал. Так говорил Кармазин. Откровения революционера 3.0. "Страна.ua", February 22, 2016(in Russian)
  11. Михаил Глуховский. Яким є «публічне обличчя» третього недо-Майдану? "Главком", February 22, 2016(in Russian)
  12. Адвокат ICU: Юрию Кармазину грозит срок за клевету "rbc.ua", June 7, 2018(in Russian)
  13. Former deputy Yuri Karmazin proclaimed himself the hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks
  14. ЦИК зарегистрировала Порошенко, а также Кармазина, Литвиненко и Ващенко кандидатами в президенты. Интерфакс-Украина (in Russian). Retrieved February 7, 2019.
  15. Президент Украины наградил 69 юристов
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