Bogdan Yaremenko

Bogdan Yaremenko is a people's deputy of the 9th convocation, a Ukrainian diplomat and public figure. Vice consul and consul of the Consulate General of Ukraine in New York (1995-1999), adviser, head of the US and Canada division, director of the Fourth Territorial Department (Western Hemisphere countries) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2000-2003), Consul General of Ukraine in Edinburgh (United Kingdom) (2006-2008).

Chairman of the board of the charitable foundation Maidan of Foreign Affairs, founded by Ukrainian diplomats. In 2010, he was appointed Consul General of Ukraine in Istanbul, where he worked until November 2013.

He won the election in a single-member district in one of Kyiv's districts, running for the Servant of the People party. Head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Foreign Policy and Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation.

He was involved in a high-profile scandal after journalists published his correspondence with a prostitute in the Verkhovna Rada during a session. Because of this, Yaremenko left the post of head of the parliamentary committee on foreign policy.