Viacheslav Kutovyi

Viacheslav Kutovi was born 24 April 1971, in Boiarka, in Ukraine's central Kyiv Oblast.^[1] His father, Hryhorii Mykhailovych, was a builder and his mother Nadiia Mykolaievna was an accountant.^[1]

Kutovyi served in the Ukrainian Ground Forces from 1992 to 1995.^[1]

Following his military service, Kutovyi studied at the Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas and later at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, where he received a Ph.D. in 2005.^[1]

From 2010 to 2012, he served as a deputy of the Vyshneve City Council in the Kyiv-Sviatoshyn Raion, Kyiv Oblast.^{[citation needed]}

From 12 December 2012 to 27 November 2014, he was a People's Deputy of Ukraine from the Batkivshchyna party, representing Ukraine's 95th electoral district. He received 26.90% of the vote.^[2] He was Chairman of the Subcommittee on Gas Industry Issues within the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on Fuel and Energy Complex, Nuclear Policy, and Nuclear Safety.^[1]

In June 2013, Kutovyi left Batkivshchyna, a move described by the Razumkov Centre as Kutovyi being "poached" by the Yanukovych government to weaken the parliamentary opposition.^[3]

Additionally, in 2013 Kutovyi, along with 148 other people's deputies of Ukraine, signed an appeal by deputies from the Party of Regions and Communist Party of Ukraine to the Polish Sejm, asking to "recognize the Volhynia tragedy as genocide against the Polish population and condemn the criminal acts of Ukrainian nationalists."^{[citation needed]} This action was criticized by the first president of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, as national treason.