Viktor Musiyaka
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Viktor Musiyaka (28 June 1946 – 22 July 2019) was a Ukrainian politician, leader of the party "Forward, Ukraine!", and deputy chairman of the Ukrainian parliament.
Musiyaka was born soon after World War II in a family of a farmer in a small village between Mykolaiv and Ochakiv. Soon after graduating high school, he worked on factories, first at the Shipyard named after 61 Communards and then after returning from the army at the Olshansky Cement Factory near the town of Olshanske. In 1973 Musiyaka graduated the Kharkiv Law University and its aspirantura, after which he was teaching at the university. Occasionally Musiyaka headed several departments at the university and in 1992 he was granted the title of professor.
From 1994 to 2006 Musiyaka was active in politics of Ukraine and twice was elected to the Ukrainian parliament where for sometime he served as a deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada. V. Musiyaka was the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Legislative Support of Political Reform, Parliamentary Reform and Organization of Parliamentary Control of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Legal Policy.
External links
[edit]- Viktor Musiyaka at the Logos Ukraine website
- Viktor Musiyaka at the Pavlo Hai-Nyzhnyk personal website
- Profile at the Official Ukraine Today
- Interview of Viktor Musiyaka by the Ukraina Moloda
- 1946 births
- 2019 deaths
- People from Mykolaiv Oblast
- 20th-century Ukrainian lawyers
- 21st-century Ukrainian lawyers
- People's Self-Defense Political Party politicians
- Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University alumni
- Academic staff of Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University
- Academic staff of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
- Second convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
- Fourth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
- Deputy chairmen of the Verkhovna Rada
- Recipients of the Order of Liberty (Ukraine)
- Ukrainian politician stubs