Oleksiy Oleksiyovich Goncharenko is a Ukrainian politician, member of the Ukrainian parliament, member of the Ukrainian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, President of the PACE Committee on Migration, Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons.
35 Facts About Oleksiy Goncharenko
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Oleksiy Goncharenko's parents divorced when he was three years old.
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From 1999 until 2001 Oleksiy Goncharenko worked in the Odesa emergency medical station.
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From 2002 Oleksiy Goncharenko was a student at Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation in Moscow, Russia.
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Oleksiy Goncharenko graduated from the academy in 2005, receiving a degree in economics.
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On 19 February 2014 after the first deaths of the Euromaidan-protests Oleksiy Goncharenko wrote the statement on his withdrawal from the Party of Regions.
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Oleksiy Goncharenko is a member of the European Solidarity faction in the Verkhovna Rada.
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On 1 March 2015 Oleksiy Goncharenko was arrested by Russian police during Nemtsov Memorial March.
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Oleksiy Goncharenko was released from prison the next day but he promised to sue Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
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Oleksiy Goncharenko was included in the list of sanctions of the Russian Federation.
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Since 2015, Oleksiy Goncharenko has been a member of the Permanent Delegation of the Verkhovna Rada to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
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On 9 October 2018, Oleksiy Goncharenko spoke at a meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in large rubber gloves.
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Oleksiy Goncharenko said that without gloves it would be "unsafe to shake hands and touch door handles", hinting at the accusations of Russia in the poisoning of Skripals.
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Oleksiy Goncharenko repeatedly raised the issue of human rights violations in Belarus and the illegal actions of the Lukashenko regime.
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Belarus is not a member of the Council of Europe, therefore it does not have its own delegation there but Oleksiy Goncharenko actively promotes the topic of sanctions against the dictatorial regime of Lukashenko in Belarus and works towards the state's democratisation.
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Oleksiy Goncharenko opposes the participation of Belarusian and Russian athletes in the Olympics in Paris.
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In January 2024, Oleksiy Goncharenko was appointed chairman of the PACE Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons.
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Oleksiy Goncharenko is actively working to protect the rights of Ukrainian refugees in Europe.
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Oleksiy Goncharenko began to actively cooperate with dozens of international media in order to bring the truth to the world about the real situation in Ukraine, as well as to draw direct attention to the necessary support measures that Western countries can provide.
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Oleksiy Goncharenko held online meetings with US congressmen and advocated tougher sanctions against Russia.
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Oleksiy Goncharenko lectured on Ukraine at Ivy League: Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Dartmouth College.
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Oleksiy Goncharenko has repeatedly raised the issue of human rights violations in Belarus in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
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Oleksiy Goncharenko is in contact with the office of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, meets with her on several occasions, and they discuss the state of human rights in Belarus, as well as possible support from Ukraine, including ways to help and support Belarusians in Ukraine.
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Oleksii Oleksiy Goncharenko is a founder of the Ukrainian network of educational and cultural centres, Oleksiy Goncharenko Centre.
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Oleksiy Goncharenko Centres are visited by about 25 thousand people every month.
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The Oleksiy Goncharenko Centres are funded by patrons and sponsors who are ready to invest in education and a better future for Ukrainians.
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On 23 February 2017, it was reported that Oleksiy Goncharenko had been kidnapped by unidentified attackers in Odesa.
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Oleksiy Goncharenko claimed that his abduction was staged by the Ukrainian Security Service so that "separatist, terrorist groups operating in Odesa who planned causing me serious bodily harm" could be arrested.
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On 1 November 2018, Oleksiy Goncharenko was included in the Russian sanctions list in connection with Ukraine's unfriendly actions towards citizens and legal entities of the Russian Federation.
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On 8 February 2017, Oleksiy Goncharenko painted with red paint the word "Nein" on the fragment of the Berlin Wall, installed in front of the Embassy of Germany in Kyiv.
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In 2010, in an interview with journalist Roman Skrypin, Oleksiy Goncharenko explained the origin of the 700 thousand dollars indicated in the 2010 declaration.
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Oleksiy Goncharenko said that he borrowed the money from his father-in-law who worked at Gazprom.
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Oleksiy Goncharenko declared two apartments in Kyiv and Odesa.
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Oleksiy Goncharenko is married to Olha, with whom he shared classes at Medical University.
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Oleksiy Goncharenko has described this as unfortunate, stating that he would be happy to resume contact with his father, but does not know how to contact him.