Oleksiy Movchan

In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Movchan ran to be a People's Deputy of Ukraine in Ukraine's 150th electoral district as the candidate of Servant of the People. At the time of the election, he was an independent.^[2] He was successfully elected, defeating independent incumbent Kostyantyn Zhevago with 42.54% of the vote to Zhevago's 23.72%.^[3] Movchan's election was significant for marking Zhevago's first electoral defeat since first becoming a People's Deputy in the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election.^[4]

In the Verkhovna Rada, Movchan joined the Servant of the People faction and became a member of the Verkhovna Rada Economic Development Committee. He is also a member of the inter-factional associations "Ukrainians in the World", ECONOMICS.NOW, and For Accelerated Eurointegration of Ukrainian Businesses.^[2]

In May 2023, Movchan took part in an official delegation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine that visited Washington, D.C. The delegation met with U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth to discuss continued American support for Ukraine amid the Russian invasion.^[5]

In 2024, Movchan met with U.S. policymakers and experts as part of his efforts to promote Ukraine’s interests abroad.^[6]

In 2025, Movchan participated in meetings with the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) concerning the establishment of a U.S.–Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund.^[7][8] That same year, Movchan was selected as a fellow of the Stanford-based Strengthening Ukrainian Democracy and Development (SU-DD) Program, hosted by the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.^[9] Local Ukrainian media noted that Movchan traveled to the United States in August 2025 to begin his studies at Stanford.^[10]

Movchan acquired significant media attention when he hired Valeria Hrytsenko, a 24 year-old dancer, as his assistant.^[11] After information about Hrytsenko's resume were acquired by Ukrainian news organisations, Hrytsenko deleted the information, saying, "[W]hen I started working in the organisational field and as an assistant to a deputy of the Kyiv Oblast Council, I had already forgotten about those sites, and did not pay attention to the fact that my resumes remained there." Movchan defended his choice in assistants, noting that he knew her from their shared background in Kremenchuk, as well as her active interest in working as an assistant.^[12]