Viacheslav Medianyk

Medianyk began his political career as an assistant to the member of the Dnipropetrovsk City Council, Yevheniy Zhadan, during the 6th convocation.^[12]

He later worked as an assistant to Andriy Denysenko, a member of the 8th convocation of the Verkhovna Rada, and Mykola Palamarchuk, a member of the 7th convocation of the Verkhovna Rada, on a public basis.

In 2019, Medianyk was elected as a People's Deputy of Ukraine for Ukraine's 27th electoral district in Dnipro (Soborniy district, part of Samarskyi district, part of Tsentralnyi District of Dnipro) representing the Servant of the People party.^[13][14] At the time of the election, he was a private entrepreneur and non-partisan. He resides in Dnipro.^[15]

He is a deputy member of the Permanent Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe,^[16] Chairman of the Subcommittee on Legislation on Administrative Offenses and Security and Detective Activities,^[17] He participated in the development of a draft law on private detective activities.^[18] Deputy Co-chair of the Inter-Parliamentary Relations Group with the Republic of Korea, and a member of several inter-parliamentary relations groups with the United Arab Emirates, the Republic of Singapore, the Republic of Austria, Japan, and Canada.^[19]

He is a member of the following inter-factional associations: Ukrainians in the World, ODESHCHYNA, Slobozhan Ukraine, DNIPRO!^[20]

He is active in legislative activities (in 2019, he submitted 19 draft laws and 3 amendments).^[21] He was one of the initiators of the draft law 2695, which provides for increased responsibility for drunk driving and significant expansion of police powers.^[22]

As of 18 December 2019, the voting results for Medianyk were as follows: For – 1,008; Did not vote – 207; Against – 21; Abstained – 297.^[23]

In October 2019, the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) launched an investigation into Medianyk's correspondence in which he discussed how to resolve issues with prosecutors.^{[24][25][26][27][28][29]}

During the local elections in 2020, he declared a gift worth more than 1 million hryvnias.^[30][31]

Medianyk is married, and has four daughters and one son.^[32] The family is considered leaders in terms of the number of properties among Dnipro deputies.^[33][34]

His father was Anatoliy Medianyk (who died in 2017),^[35] a former chief of the special unit for combating corruption and organized crime of the Security Service of Ukraine in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.^{[citation needed]}

His business partner is Yuriy Bereza, commander of the Dnipro-1 Regiment and a former People's Deputy of Ukraine.