Sviatoslav Ivanovych "Slava" Vakarchuk is a Ukrainian musician, politician, public activist and soldier.
24 Facts About Sviatoslav Vakarchuk
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Sviatoslav Vakarchuk is the lead vocalist of Okean Elzy, a rock band in Ukraine.
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Sviatoslav Vakarchuk was active in supporting the Orange Revolution and Euromaidan, and is involved in many social and cultural projects.
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Sviatoslav Vakarchuk is one of the most successful musicians in Ukraine and has a PhD degree in theoretical physics.
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Sviatoslav Vakarchuk is the son of Ivan Sviatoslav Vakarchuk, a professor of physics at Lviv University and a former Ukrainian Minister of Education and Science.
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Sviatoslav Vakarchuk was born in the western Ukrainian city of Mukachevo, into a family of scientists.
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Sviatoslav Vakarchuk founded the band Okean Elzy, in 1994 as an undergraduate at Lviv University.
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Sviatoslav Vakarchuk was a member of groups of parliamentary contacts with the Russian Federation and other countries.
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Sviatoslav Vakarchuk did not submit any legislative acts during his deputy's term.
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Sviatoslav Vakarchuk submitted two amendments, one of which was accepted by the Verkhovna Rada.
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In 2008, Sviatoslav Vakarchuk released a solo project "Vnochi".
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In 2015, Sviatoslav Vakarchuk took part in the Yale World Fellows international fellowship program at Yale University.
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Sviatoslav Vakarchuk stated multiple times in 2017 that he had no political ambitions.
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On 16 May 2019, Sviatoslav Vakarchuk announced the creation of a new political party, Holos, with the aim to participate in the July July 2019 parliamentary election.
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Sviatoslav Vakarchuk assured on 19 May 2019 that if elected to parliament, he would not stop playing music, but political activity would be a priority.
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Sviatoslav Vakarchuk claimed that he believed that currently the Ukrainian parliament is the place "where real changes are being made" so he did not participate in the presidential election of the previous month.
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Sviatoslav Vakarchuk was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in July 2019.
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On 11 June 2020 Sviatoslav Vakarchuk registered in parliament a request to terminate his parliamentary mandate.
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Sviatoslav Vakarchuk insisted that he did not plan to end his political career but would be working on extra-parliamentary activities for his party.
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The next day Sviatoslav Vakarchuk left his party's faction so the party could terminate his mandate via a party congress.
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Sviatoslav Vakarchuk's party did indeed do this on 26 June 2020.
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In June 2021, Sviatoslav Vakarchuk announced the end of his relationship with Lialia as a couple,[2].
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Sviatoslav Vakarchuk joined the territorial defence battalion of Lviv Oblast on 7 March 2022.
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Sviatoslav Vakarchuk has released nine studio albums together with his band, Okean Elzy:.