1. Mustafa Masi Nayyem is an Afghan-Ukrainian journalist, MP, lecturer at the Kyiv School of Economics, and public figure who was influential in sparking the Euromaidan in Ukraine.
28 Facts About Mustafa Nayyem
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Since January 2023 Nayyem had been the head of the State Agency for Restoration and Infrastructure Development.
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Formerly, before his bureaucratic career Mustafa Nayyem was a reporter for the newspaper Kommersant Ukraine, the TVi channel, and the online newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda.
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Mustafa Nayyem did not take part in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.
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Mustafa Nayyem was born in Kabul in 1981 and lived in an elite district near the Tajbeg Palace.
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In 1984, ten days after his younger brother Masi Mustafa Nayyem was born, their mother died.
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Mustafa Nayyem has stated that he is a Pashtun, a "Muslim by birth", and his native tongue is Dari.
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Mustafa Nayyem became fluent in Russian and Ukrainian after he moved with his father to Moscow in August 1989 living near the Nakhimovsky Prospekt metro station and later to Kyiv in 1990 attending 61st school near the Lukyanivsky market.
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Mustafa Nayyem graduated from the Technical Lyceum in Kyiv in 1998, and the Aerospace Systems Department of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in 2004.
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Mustafa Nayyem's brother Masi Nayem is a lawyer and, in April 2016, deployed as a Ukrainian paratrooper to the Donbas - Avdiivka industrial zone which was the hottest point of the Russo-Ukrainian War.
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On 5 June 2022 his brother Mustafa Nayyem reported that he had been seriously injured.
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Mustafa Nayyem worked as a reporter for the Kommersant-Ukrainy newspaper from 2005 to 2007, and then for Shuster LIVE, a political talk show on Ukrainian television, from 2007 to 2011.
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In 2009, Mustafa Nayyem received national attention following Ukrayina TV channel's live discussion with then-presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych.
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Mustafa Nayyem stated, "Xenophobia should not become the face of Ukrainian nationality" and requested the dismissal of one of the officers responsible.
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Mustafa Nayyem's post on Facebook on November 21,2013, was a summons to rally for the Euromaidan protests which led to the overthrow of the Yanukovych government, in the so-called Revolution of Dignity.
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Mustafa Nayyem was included in the electoral list of Petro Poroshenko Bloc and elected to the Verkhovna Rada on the parliamentary elections of October 26,2014.
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Mustafa Nayyem was one of dozens of Euromaidan activists who pivoted from street politics into politics, where they sought to spearhead reform and turn Ukraine into a prosperous European state.
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Mustafa Nayyem was a member of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on issues of European integration.
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On 28 February 2019 Mustafa Nayyem voluntarily left the BPP faction.
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On 21 June 2019 Mustafa Nayyem announced that he would not take part in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.
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In November 2019 Mustafa Nayyem was appointed Deputy Director General of Ukroboronprom.
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Mustafa Nayyem was dismissed from this position on 29 April 2021 due to the position being abolished.
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From 4 August 2021 to 28 January 2023 Mustafa Nayyem was Deputy Minister of Infrastructure.
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Mustafa Nayyem resigned on 10 June 2024 after Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal denied his request to attend an upcoming summit on Ukraine's recovery from the Russian invasion of Ukraine in Berlin.
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Mustafa Nayyem cited "systemic obstacles" from within the government that affected his duties for his resignation.
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The official reason given why he could not attend the summit was that Mustafa Nayyem would had to attend a government meeting with the participation of the Restoration Agency that took place on the day of the conference.
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Mustafa Nayyem was officially dismissed by the Cabinet of Ministers on 18 June 2024.
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In 2010, Mustafa Nayyem was awarded the Oleksandr Kryvenko prize "For Progress In Journalism" and in 2014 the Gerd Bucerius Prize for Free Press in Eastern Europe.