Zelenskyy appoints Kuryshko his Representative in Crimea

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed Olha Kuryshko as the Permanent Representative of the President in the Crimea annexed by russia.

This is stated in Decree No. 59 of January 24, the Ukrainian News agency reports.

"To appoint Olha Mykolaivna Kuryshko as the Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea," the decree states.

By Order No. 2 of January 24, Zelenskyy dismissed Kuryshko from the position of Deputy Permanent Representative of the President in Crimea in accordance with her application.

Kuryshko has been the Deputy Representative of the President in Crimea since July 2023.

The website of the Presidential Representation in Crimea states that she joined the Representation team in December 2021 and headed the department for legal support of the Representation's activities.

Before joining the Representation, Kuryshko participated in the development of the Strategy for the Deoccupation and Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol, and is currently a member of the working group at the Representation, which is developing the state's priority steps after the deoccupation of the peninsula.

Kuryshko also joined the Ukrainian legal team as an expert at public hearings on the merits in the case "Ukraine v. Russia" regarding the violation by the occupying country of two conventions - on combating the financing of terrorism and on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination.

She previously worked as a lawyer in the private, public and non-governmental sectors, including as an advocacy expert and deputy chairman of the board of CrimeaSOS.

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on December 4, Zelenskyy dismissed Tamila Tasheva from the position of Permanent Representative of the President in Crimea in accordance with her application; she had held this position since April 25, 2022.

On November 25, the Central Election Commission recognized Tasheva as an elected Member of the Verkhovna Rada from the Holos party in the early parliamentary elections of July 21, 2019, included in the party's electoral list under No. 26, replacing the deceased Oleh Makarov. On December 6, Tasheva took the oath and assumed the duties of a parliamentarian.