Oleksiy Goncharenko

Oleksiy Goncharenko – a Ukrainian politician, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 8th convocation, deputy head of the "Petro Poroshenko Bloc" faction.

 

From 2005 to 2014 he was a member of the "Party of Regions". He was elected to the Odesa City and Oblast Councils, and in 2014 he was elected chairman of the oblast council.

 

On March 1, 2015, Goncharenko was detained in Moscow during a mourning march in memory of the murdered Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov, but he was released on bail the same evening.

 

On February 8, 2017, Oleksiy Goncharenko painted a fragment of the historic Berlin Wall near the German embassy in Kyiv in protest against the German ambassador's statement about the possibility of holding local elections in the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

 

On March 1, Goncharenko was abducted by unknown persons in Odesa

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