Iryna Verihina

Iryna Verihina
Ірина Верігіна
Governor of Luhansk Oblast (acting)
In office
10 May 2014  15 September 2014
Preceded byMykhailo Bolotskykh
Succeeded byHennadiy Moskal
Personal details
Born
Iryna Kostyantynivna Verihina

(1968-06-04) 4 June 1968
Oleksandrivka, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Political partyBatkivshchyna (since 2005)

Iryna Kostyantynivna Verihina (Ukrainian: Ірина Костянтинівна Верігіна; born in 4 June 1968) is a Ukrainian politician who served as the acting Governor of Luhansk Oblast in 2014. She is also a Member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine.

A member of Batkivshchyna, she had been appointed as the head of the regional state administration on 17 March 2014 was appointed as first deputy head of the Luhansk Oblast State Administration.

She has openly condemned Russian military aggression in the territories of Luhansk and Donetsk Oblasts against Ukraine.

She was also the head of the Luhansk Regional Organization of the Batkivshchyna Political Party since 2010.

She is a member of the Coordination Council of the Public Human Rights Organization All -Ukrainian Movement "Power of Law".