Since the 2022 escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War Oleh Liashko has joined the Ukrainian armed forces.
26 Facts About Oleh Liashko
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Oleh Liashko was born in Chernihiv on 3 December 1972, but grew up in the village of Lozovivka in Starobilsk Raion, where his mother lived.
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When Oleh Liashko was two years old, his parents separated, and his mother was forced to send him to an orphanage.
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Oleh Liashko studied in three boarding schools: Yablunivska, Komarovska, and Borznianska.
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Oleh Liashko worked as a shepherd at the Progress collective farm.
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When he graduated from boarding school, Oleh Liashko had around 2,000 roubles in savings, the value of which was completely wiped out by post-Soviet inflation.
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From 1990 till 1992 Oleh Liashko was a correspondent and head of the newspaper Young Guard.
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On 21 June 1993 Oleh Liashko was arrested and indicted for grand funds embezzlement.
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Oleh Liashko was sentenced to six years in prison and sequestration of the property.
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Oleh Liashko was released in May 1995 under an amnesty agreement due to the "50th anniversary of the Victory over Nazi Germany".
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In 1995 and 1996, Oleh Liashko was an editor at the newspapers Politika and Pravda Ukraine.
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From 2000 till 2006, Oleh Liashko was chief editor of Freedom.
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Oleh Liashko was elected as a deputy to the Verkhovna Rada in the 2006 parliamentary election for the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc.
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Oleh Liashko was Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Budget.
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On 8 August 2011, Oleh Liashko was elected the new party leader of the Ukrainian Radical Democratic Party during its third party congress.
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In mid-November 2012, Oleh Liashko went on hunger strike in support of jailed fellow opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, and against the recognition of the results of the 2012 parliamentary election.
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Oleh Liashko was the candidate of the Radical Party in the 2014 Ukrainian presidential election.
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Oleh Liashko was elected to the Kyiv City Council since his party won three seats and he headed its party list in the 2014 Kyiv local election.
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Oleh Liashko unsuccessfully ran for a parliamentary seat in the sole additional election to the Verkohvna Rada held on October 25,2020 at the same time as the country's 2020 local elections.
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In early October 2022 Oleh Liashko posted a video seemingly showing him taking the oath of induction into the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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In 2013, Oleh Liashko described Rinat Akhmetov as the guarantor of Ukraine's independence.
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On May 9,2018, the journalist of Ukrayinska Pravda Oleksii Bratushchak published the blog "Oleh Liashko becomes Akhmetov's talisman", in which Oleh Liashko was directly accused of cooperating with Akhmetov.
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Oleh Liashko makes frequent appearances during broadcasts of the TV channel Ukraine, which belongs to Akhmetov.
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On 2 June 2018, Oleh Liashko married Rosita Sayaranen, formalizing a 20-year partnership.
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Oleh Liashko had been rumored to be gay for a long time before the video appeared.
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Oleh Liashko was handed a mobile phone, spoke to the supposed friend and then promised to beat his face in while being filmed on camera.