16 Facts About Oleksandr Moroz

Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Moroz was born on 29 February 1944 and is a Ukrainian politician.

Oleksandr Moroz was the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada twice, from 1994 to 1998 and again from 2006 to 2007.

Oleksandr Moroz then worked in many careers, including as a teacher and engineer for twelve years.

Oleksandr Moroz joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, moving from the First Secretary of local Regional Committee of the Communist Party to the position of the Head of the Kyiv Oblast Committee and the Oblast Trade Union Committee.

Oleksandr Moroz was a recipient of the Medal "For Labour Valour".

Oleksandr Moroz was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1972 to 1991.

Oleksandr Moroz became a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada in 1990.

In 1999, many experts predicted that Oleksandr Moroz had a chance to defeat incumbent Leonid Kuchma in the election run-off and according to many observers the government rigged the election results in favour of Petro Symonenko in order to make sure that unpopular Symonenko, rather than Oleksandr Moroz, would compete against Kuchma in the run-off vote.

At a 2001 sitting of the Verkhovna Rada, Oleksandr Moroz made public Mykola Melnychenko's tapes that alleged the involvement of the leaders of Ukraine, including Kuchma, in the murder of famous independent journalist Georgiy Gongadze that provoked the political crisis in Ukraine known as the Cassette Scandal.

Oleksandr Moroz supported the subsequent Orange Revolution, the mass protests that eventually led to the annulment of the vote results and to a revote won by Yushchenko.

Oleksandr Moroz tried to return to the Verkhovna Rada in the 2012 parliamentary election, running as an independent candidate for single-member district number 93 located in Kyiv Oblast.

Oleksandr Moroz left the Socialist Party, at this point split between two factions, and took over the United Social Democratic Party "Svoi" in 2016.

Oleksandr Moroz himself is a left-wing social democrat, although he has used both Marxist and social democratic rhetoric.

Oleksandr Moroz has spoken in support of the preservation of land for Ukrainian farmers and has made many promises about resolving social problems using socialist rhetoric.

Oleksandr Moroz stated that the main opponents of this cabal are Russia and China, and asserted that former President Yushchenko is a puppet of the United States Department of State, which, according to Moroz, is itself controlled by this cabal.

Since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Oleksandr Moroz has come out in favour of Ukrainian membership of NATO, referring to it as an "objective necessity".