1. Andriy Portnov was an honored Lawyer of Ukraine in 2004.
29 Facts About Andriy Portnov
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From 2005 to 2010, Portnov headed the legal department of Yulia Tymoshenko's election headquarters.
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Andriy Portnov was a member of the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014.
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On 15 January 2020, the Pechersk Court of Kyiv ruled that, for the purposes of elections Andriy Portnov was a resident of Ukraine for the last five years.
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Andriy Portnov was born on 27 October 1973 in Luhansk.
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From 1993 to 1994, Andriy Portnov worked as a legal adviser for Yurlit Ltd in Luhansk, while studying at the correspondence department of the law faculty of East Ukrainian State University.
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In January 1997, Andriy Portnov began working in Kyiv at the State Commission on Securities and Stock Market.
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The firm itself and Andriy Portnov were repeatedly accused of raiding property between 2002 and 2010.
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In 2004, by the decree of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Portnov was awarded the title of Honored Lawyer of Ukraine.
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In July 2005, Andriy Portnov returned to advocacy, which he was engaged in until April 2006.
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From August to September 2008, on behalf of Tymoshenko, Andriy Portnov worked on joint bills with the Party of Regions that weakened the power of President Viktor Yushchenko.
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Andriy Portnov is called the initiator of the development of the so-called "dictatorial laws" of 16 January 2014, which significantly limited the constitutional rights of Ukrainian citizens and were directed against Euromaidan.
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On 28 February 2014, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine sent a request to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Security Service of Ukraine to immediately detain those involved in the mass killings of activists in the center of Kyiv from February 18 to 22 February 2014, which they suspected Andriy Portnov who was involved in those incidents within 10 days.
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On 6 March 2014, the European Union and Canada announced that Andriy Portnov is on the list of high-ranking Ukrainian officials against whom financial sanctions are being imposed.
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The EU sanctions against Andriy Portnov were lifted on 5 March 2015.
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On 27 November 2019, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Ruslan Riaboshapka announced in the Verkhovna Rada that the GPU is still negotiating with the official authorities of Canada on sanctions against Andriy Portnov, but did not provide details.
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On July 4,2019, Andriy Portnov wrote on Facebook that he had drafted a bill banning people holding public office from holding positions between Maidan's victory and Zelensky's inauguration.
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In November 2019, together with blogger Anatoliy Shariy and Lukash, Andriy Portnov began to publish materials on the events of Euromaidan.
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On 5 January 2020, the Pechersk Court of Kyiv ruled that Andriy Portnov had lived in Ukraine for the last 5 years, despite the fact that on 22 February 2014, he had left Ukraine and returned only on 19 May 2019.
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On 17 June 2020, Andriy Portnov, commenting on the most relevant topics in the Ukrainian Format program on the NewsOne TV channel, formulated the necessary urgent measures to consistently fight the radical gangs.
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On 8 January 2021, Andriy Portnov criticized those who, using double standards, deny the clear similarity between the 2021 United States Capitol attack and the Ukrainian Euromaidan, which the Democratic Party actively supported in 2014.
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On 31 October 2019, Andriy Portnov released the personal data of a member of the film crew of the "Schemes: Corruption in Detail" program of the Ukrainian edition of Radio Liberty, as well as data indicating the surveillance of this person.
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Andriy Portnov's son had previously fled Ukraine on March 23 2022.
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In 2005, Andriy Portnov represented in court the interests of Oleksandr Zinchenko, Secretary of State of Ukraine.
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Andriy Portnov was accused that in June 2010, using his official position, he illegally headed the Department of Constitutional Law of Kyiv National University.
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On 29 March 2018, it became known that Andriy Portnov filed a lawsuit against the SBU in the Shevchenkivsky District Court of Kyiv.
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In November 2019, the national police registered a criminal case against Andriy Portnov, accusing him of pressuring the editorial board of the "Schemes: Corruption in Details" program.
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On 15 January 2015, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine declared Andriy Portnov wanted in a criminal case, on the basis of Art.
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Until the fall of 2016, Andriy Portnov's sister worked in the Pechersk Court.