1. Yevheniy Volodymyrovych Murayev is a Ukrainian politician and media owner.
32 Facts About Yevhen Murayev
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Yevhen Murayev was the leader of the now-banned political party Nashi.
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Yevhen Murayev is a former member of Party of Regions and Opposition Bloc and former chairman of the political council of the For Life party.
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The British government alleged prior to the invasion that Yevhen Murayev was selected by Kremlin to be the next president of Ukraine under a new government.
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In January 2025 Yevhen Murayev revealed that he lived in China.
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Yevhen Murayev was born on 2 December 1976 in Zmiiv, Kharkiv Oblast in then the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union.
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In 1994 Yevhen Murayev entered the Faculty of Economics of Kharkiv State University, from which he graduated in 1999.
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Yevhen Murayev received his second higher education at the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, he graduated there in 2014.
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From 2000 Yevhen Murayev worked in several companies in senior positions.
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Yevhen Murayev held the position of director of LLC "Anklav".
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Yevhen Murayev was reelected in the Kharkiv Oblast Council during the 2010 Ukrainian local elections, this time for Party of Regions.
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In 2010, Yevhen Murayev was appointed head of Zmiiv Raion by President Viktor Yanukovich.
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Yevhen Murayev was Chairman of the Subcommittee on Foreign Economic Relations and Cross-Border Cooperation.
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In July 2019, Yevhen Murayev told Dmitry Gordon that in February 2014 he had taken the fleeing former Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov out of Ukraine from Kharkiv to Belgorod during the final days of Euromaidan.
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In 2018 Yevhen Murayev became chairman of the political council of the For Life party.
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On 10 January 2019, Yevhen Murayev's party elected him as their candidate in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election.
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On 7 March 2019, Yevhen Murayev pulled out of the election in favor of Oleksandr Vilkul.
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Yevhen Murayev announced that Vilkul's party Opposition Bloc and Nashi would soon merge.
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In 2014, Yevhen Murayev became the owner of the Kharkiv Internet channel "Robinson TV", the MIGnews website and the news channel NewsOne.
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Yevhen Murayev is the founder of the pro-Russian TV channel NASH, which was owned by his father Volodymyr Murayev, and on 7 November 2018, NASH announced it would begin airing in the fall under the leadership of the former owner of NewsOne.
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Yevhen Murayev rejected the statement since he is under Russian sanctions.
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Ukrainian Internet publication Obozrevatel claimed early April 2022 that Yevhen Murayev had gone to Russia with the help of Russian special services.
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Internet newspaper Ukrainska Pravda's sources told them that Yevhen Murayev had left Ukraine in May 2022.
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In January 2025 Yevhen Murayev gave an interview revealing that he and his family lived in Beijing, China.
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Yevhen Murayev's assets were blocked and he was stripped of his Ukrainian state awards on 19 January 2025 by a decree of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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Yevhen Murayev considered the February 2014 Maidan revolution a Western-backed coup d'etat.
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Yevhen Murayev claimed that the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation is recognized by the world and that the annexation is favorable to the government of Ukraine.
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Yevhen Murayev speculated, falsely, that US private military companies such as Greystone and Blackwater took part in the battle of Mariupol.
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Yevhen Murayev is a supporter of decentralisation in Ukraine and expansion of the powers of the regions.
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Yevhen Murayev opposes decommunization and has advocated for the preservation of the symbols of the Soviet Union as "historical and cultural memory".
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On 13 June 2018 Yevhen Murayev published a video in which he apologizes to Sentsov.
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Yevhen Murayev said he did not know whether the accusations of terrorism against Sentsov were fair, he stated that he had not express his personal attitude Sentsov.