15 Facts About Olena Sotnyk

Olena Serhijivna Sotnyk is a Ukrainian public figure, lawyer and politician, former Member of the Parliament of Ukraine from Samopomich Party.

Olena Sotnyk was the secretary of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on European integration; Sotnyk served as a Head of the Sub-committee on Approximation of Ukrainian Legislation to the EU Law.

Olena Sotnyk was Chairman of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights at the PACE, a member of the Bureau of Women's Parliamentarians in the Inter-Parliamentary Union and a vice-president of political group the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in the PACE.

Olena Sotnyk was one of the most successful women of Ukraine in 2019 according to the "New Time" and "Legal Newspaper".

Olena Sotnyk again took part in the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, this time for the party Strength and Honor.

Olena Sotnyk is a permanent delegate to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and holds strong positions in this international body.

Olena Sotnyk is the Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, which had previously headed.

Olena Sotnyk is a member of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy, the Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights, Sub-committee on Human Rights, Sub-committee on External Relations and Sub-committee on implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights.

Mrs Olena Sotnyk represents the Ukrainian side in a number of groups on commonwealth, in particular she is:.

Since 2016 Olena Sotnyk is a participant of the Model District project within the USAID Program RADA.

Olena Sotnyk was included to the list of 100 the most successful women of Ukraine in 2019 according to the edition of "New Time".

Also Olena Sotnyk was included to the list of successful women-lawyers in 2019 according to the edition of "Legal Newspaper".

Olena Sotnyk is co-author of a number of bills, which have received positive conclusions from the Council of Europe Commission on Democracy through Law, in particular the Law of Ukraine "On the Judiciary and Status of Judges".

Olena Sotnyk is a co-author for an alternative draft Law of Ukraine "On the Supreme Anticorruption Court of Ukraine".

Olena Sotnyk is one of the initiators of the creation of the Interim Commission of Inquiry of the Verkhovna Rada on investigation of information on the attacks against Kateryna Handzyuk and other civic activists and the Interim Commission of Inquiry of the Verkhovna Rada on investigation of information on the interference in pre-trial investigation of crimes committed against participants in peaceful protest actions between November 2013 and February 2014.