Ihor Mosiychuk
Ihor Mosiychuk | |
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Ігор Мосійчук | |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| In office 27 November 2014 – 24 July 2019 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 5 May 1972 Lubny, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Political party | Svoboda (2004–2010) Social-National Assembly (2010–2014) Radical Party (2014–2019) |
| Spouse | Vladlena Leonidivna Karpenko |
| Children | 2 |
Ihor Volodymyrovych Mosiychuk (Ukrainian: Ігор Володимирович Мосійчук, born 5 May 1972, Lubny, Poltava Oblast) is a Ukrainian journalist and far-right politician, a leading figure in the organized social-nationalist movement, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Vechirnaya Vasilkov, and a participant in the Vasylkiv terrorists case. He is a former deputy of Verkhovna Rada from Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko.
In early 2014, Mosiychuk served as the deputy commander of the Azov Battalion. After he made Jew-baiting comments about Ihor Kolomoisky, he was removed.
On 25 October 2017, a parked scooter exploded in Kyiv near the building of Espreso TV, which was, according to an investigation by the Ukrainian police, an assassination attempt on him. The blast killed his bodyguard and another man. Mosiychuk and a political scientist Vitaliy Bala along with another woman were injured.
Mosiychuk's Radical Party lost all its parliamentary seats in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, because it gained about 1%, too little to clear the 5% election threshold, and also did not win an electoral district seat.