Ihor Lutsenko (politician)
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Ihor Lutsenko | |
|---|---|
Ігор Луценко | |
 Lutsenko in 2012 | |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| In office 27 November 2014[1] – 24 July 2019 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 November 1978 |
| Party | All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" |
| Alma mater | National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy |
| Awards | Order for Courage 3d class |
Ihor Viktorovych Lutsenko (Ukrainian: І́гор Ві́кторович Луце́нко; born 10 November 1978)[2] is a Ukrainian journalist and politician.
Lutsenko was born on 10 November 1978 in Kyiv, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union.[2] In 2002, he received a master's degree from the Kyiv School of Economics.[3]
Prior to entering politics, Lutsenko worked a variety of jobs. He was a consultant to the International Centre for Policy Studies.[3] He was then a journalist, working as an editor for the magazine "Companion", the section "Big Money" of the newspaper "The Power of Money", the business section of Korrespondent, editor-in-chief of "Ekonomichna Pravda", and finally for Ukrainska Pravda.[3]
Political career
He first became politically active after becoming one of the founders of "Save Old Kyiv", a public movement to preserve the historical areas of Kyiv.[3] He then ran as an independent candidate in the Verkhovna Rada during the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election for the 223rd constituency, but withdrew his candidacy in favour of Yuriy Levchenko.[3]
Lutsenko took part in the Euromaidan protests in Kyiv. During the start of the Euromaidan protests, he became a deputy commandant of the protest camp in Kyiv, and was a member of the Maidan People's Union.[3] In January 2014, he was abducted and beaten along with Yuriy Verbytsky who died.[4][5] In April 2021, the Boryspil City District Court of the Kyiv Oblast announced they had sentenced the suspect in the cases, Oleksandr Volkov, to nine years in prison.[6]
In 2014, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada on the party list of Batkivshchyna.[2] In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, he lost reelection for this party in constituency 154 (Rivne Oblast).[7] In October 2019 Lutsenko became an adviser to the Mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko.[8]