1. Nestor Ivanovych Shufrych is a Ukrainian politician who has served in the Verkhovna Rada between 1998 and 2025.
22 Facts About Nestor Shufrych
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Nestor Shufrych was born on 29 December 1966 in Uzhorod, Ukrainian SSR, USSR.
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Nestor Shufrych graduated from the Uzhhorod National University in 1992 with a diploma in history.
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In 1989 Nestor Shufrych became an adviser of cooperative union "Retro" and commercial director of the Soviet-Austrian company "Tekop".
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Since 1991 Nestor Shufrych worked as a director for the Ukrainian-American company "West-Contrade", becoming its president in 1995.
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In 1996 and through 2007, Nestor Shufrych was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine which was headed by former President Leonid Kravchuk.
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In 2005, Nestor Shufrych became the First Deputy Leader of the party.
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In 1998, Nestor Shufrych was elected from the 70th electoral district in Zakarpattia Oblast from SDPU, the 22nd on the party list.
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At the time of elections Nestor Shufrych was a director of "West-Contrade".
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Nestor Shufrych was elected to the Zakarpattia Oblast Council.
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In 2007, Nestor Shufrych ran by a party list from the Party of Regions, being listed the 5th for the 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election.
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Nestor Shufrych was No 27 on the Party of Regions electoral list.
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Nestor Shufrych was present at negotiations on 21 June 2014 to discuss President Petro Poroshenko's peace plan, although it was unclear who he represented there.
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Nestor Shufrych himself claimed the government had appealed to him to contribute to the mediation of Viktor Medvedchuk.
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On 30 September 2014, Nestor Shufrych was beaten and injured by a mob in Odesa.
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On 18 February 2022, during a panel show, Nestor Shufrych was physically assaulted and put into a headlock by journalist Yuriy Butusov after he refused to condemn Vladimir Putin's actions in the Donbas and Crimea.
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From March to June 2022 during the initial months of the invasion, Nestor Shufrych's affiliated political party would be suspended, dissolved, and banned by Ukrainian government bodies, stemming from allegations of the OPZZh having ties to Russia.
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On 15 September 2023, Nestor Shufrych was arrested by the Security Service of Ukraine under charges for treason, facing 15 years in prison.
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The SBU alleged that Nestor Shufrych was working with Russian intelligence to spread pro-Kremlin narratives in Ukraine, such as disinformation that Ukraine is an artificial entity or that Russians and Ukrainians are a single nation.
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Nestor Shufrych's assets were blocked and he was stripped of his Ukrainian state awards on 19 January 2025 by a decree of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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Nestor Shufrych is a former member of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine.
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Nestor Shufrych left the National Olympic Committee in January 2023.