Serhii Pashynskyi is a member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine [the Ukrainian Parliament] of the VII and VIII convocations, and ex-acting head of the Presidential Administration.
He was born to a family of teachers in the village of Zirne, Berezne District, Rivne Region, on October 14, 1966. Father Volodymyr Pashynskyi (d. 20.12.2019) was an English teacher; his mother was a German teacher.
Education
In 1991, he graduated from the Gorky Kyiv Pedagogical Institute (historian and social scientist).
Career
Until 1999, he worked in various commercial structures. According to the Central Election Commission, at the time of the 1998 parliamentary elections, he was the president of Ukraina Trading House Bank.
1999-2000 - deputy board chairperson of Oshchadbank.
In 2002, he ran for the Verkhovna Rada from the bloc of political parties Against All [Proty Vsikh] (12th on the list). The candidacy was withdrawn.
From February to August 2005, he was an adviser to the Prime Minister of Ukraine, Yuliya Tymoshenko.
From August 2005 to January 2006 - general director of the Ukrrezerv state enterprise.
From May 2006 to June 2007 – MP of the V convocation from the Bloc of Yuliya Tymoshenko (101st on the electoral list). Head of the subcommittee on industry development and investment strategy of the Verkhovna Rada committee on the fuel and energy complex, nuclear policy, and nuclear safety.
2007-2012 - MP of Ukraine of the VI convocation from the BYT [Bloc of Yuliya Tymoshenko] (73rd on the list). Member of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on issues of nuclear power, nuclear policy, and nuclear safety. Advisor to the Prime Minister of Ukraine Tymoshenko on Fuel and Energy Matters (on a public basis), member of the collegium of the Ministry of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine.
From December 2012 to November 2014, he was an MP of Ukraine of the VII convocation from the Batkivshchyna party (27th on the list). Deputy head of the Batkivshchyna faction. Member of the Verkhovna Rada committee on fuel and energy complex, nuclear policy, and nuclear safety.
During the Euromaidan in the winter of 2013-2014, he participated in the organizational support of protest actions. At the end of January, the movable and immovable property of Pashynskyi and a number of other opposition deputies of the Verkhovna Rada who participated in the Euromaidan were seized in connection with a lawsuit for compensation of damages filed by the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine after the Self-Defense Maidan activists took over the House of Trade Unions and Kyiv.
On March 5, 2014, by decree of then-acting President of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov, he was appointed as the acting head of the Presidential Administration. Also in March, Turchynov appointed Pashynskyi to the supervisory board of the Ukroboronprom state concern.
On June 10, 2014, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko dismissed Pashynskyi from the position of acting head of the Presidential Administration, appointing Borys Lozhkin in his place.
In the early elections in October 2014, Pashynskyi was elected an MP; he entered the Verkhovna Rada on the lists of the People's Front (12th on the list). He headed the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on National Security and Defense. Member of the People's Front party.
In the early parliamentary elections of 2019, he ran for 64 majority constituencies (Zhytomyr Region). According to the voting results, he lost in the district.
Scandals
On February 18, 2014, during the protests, which were accompanied by clashes with the police on Independence Square [Maidan Nezalezhnosti], a video clip appeared on the Internet, in which Serhii Pashynskyi allegedly takes a sniper rifle (a Norinco CQ hunting carbine with an M4 automatic rifle) from the Maidan. According to the politician himself, the weapon was found in the trunk of an activist who planned to run over Berkut fighters, after which someone accused the driver of the murders of Euromaidan activists without evidence.
On December 31, 2016, Pashynskyi shot a man in the leg during a conflict. The victim, Viyacheslav Khimikus, received a gunshot wound in the leg. In 2021, the Vasylkiv District Court of the Kyiv Region acquitted Pashynskyi. It returned to him the pistol with which he shot a passerby. In 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Pashynskyi's acquittal and sent the case to the court of first instance for a new trial.
In February 2024, the NACB, SACPO, and SSU informed Pashynskyi about the suspicion of selling almost 100,000 tons of confiscated oil to Serhii Kurchenko, and the Higher Anti-Corruption Court arrested Pashynskyi for two months and set a bail of UAH 272.5 million.
Family
Married, has two sons.
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