Oleh Voloshyn
Oleh Voloshyn | |
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Олег Волошин | |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| In office 25 August 2019 – 24 February 2023 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Oleh Anatoliiovych Voloshyn 7 April 1981 |
| Citizenship | Ukraine |
| Party | Opposition Platform — For Life |
| Alma mater | Institute of International Relations at Taras Shevchenko University |
| Known for | Former spokesperson for a department of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine |
Oleh Anatoliiovych Voloshyn (Ukrainian: Олег Анатолійович Волошин, Russian: Олег Анатольевич Волошин, romanized: Oleg Anatolyevich Voloshyn; born 7 April 1981, Mykolaiv) is a Russian and formerly Ukrainian journalist, political pundit on 112 Ukraine, politician, and former government official under Ukrainian prime ministers Mykola Azarov and Viktor Yanukovych.
He was a presidential attaché in the former Embassy of Ukraine in Moscow, Russia. He was the spokesman and director for the Information Department of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine from 2010 to 2013. He was a people's deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, elected in the elections in 2019, until his mandate was, at his own request, revoked in February 2023.
In February 2023 Voloshyn was formally accused of treason for he allegedly "promoted the military-political leadership of the Russian Federation in subversive activities against Ukraine."