Ihor Yeremeyev

Ihor Yeremeyev
Ігор Єремеєв
Yeremeyev in February 2014
People's Deputy of Ukraine
4th convocation
In office
May 14, 2002 – February 4, 2005
Constituency Agrarian Party of Ukraine, Electoral district No.23
7th convocation
In office
December 12, 2012 – November 27, 2014
Constituency Independent, Electoral district No.23
8th convocation
In office
November 27, 2014 – August 12, 2015
Constituency Independent, Electoral district No.23
Personal details
Born Ihor Myronovych Yeremeyev
(1968-04-03)3 April 1968
Ostrozhets, Mlyniv Raion, Rivne Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Died 12 August 2015(2015-08-12) (aged 47)
Zurich, Switzerland
Nationality Ukrainian
Political party Agrarian Party of Ukraine (2002–2005)
Independent (2012–2015)
Other political
affiliations		 People's Will
Alma mater National University of Water Management, Rivne

Ihor Myronovych Yeremeyev (Ukrainian: Ігор Миронович Єремеєв, 3 April 1968 – 12 August 2015) was a Ukrainian politician. He is a co-owner of a Ukrainian fuel station network WOG.

Biography

He was born in 1968 at Ostrozhets in the Mlyniv Raion of Rivne Oblast, in what was the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union.[1] In 2002, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada after winning a single-member districts seat as a member of the Agrarian Party of Ukraine in Manevychi.[2] In December 2010, he ranked 41st on the Kyiv Post's list of the richest people in Ukraine.[3] In the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election and 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, he was elected back into parliament as a non-partisan candidate again after winning the single-member districts seat of Manevychi.[2] He is the founder and head of the parliamentary group People's Will since its foundation on 27 Februzry 2014 (until 27 November 2014 this group was called Sovereign European Ukraine).[4][5][6][7][1]

On 26 July 2015, he received a head injury during a horse-riding accident in Lutsk, Ukraine.[8] He died on 12 August 2015 while in a coma in a hospital in Zurich, Switzerland afterwards.[9][10]

References

  1. 1 2 Єремеєв Ігор Миронович [Ihor Myronovych Yeremeyev] (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada.
  2. 1 2 (in Russian)/(website has automatic Google Translate option) Short bio, LIGA
  3. ↑ "#41 Richest: Ihor Yeremeyev, 42". Kyiv Post. 17 December 2010.
  4. ↑ (in Ukrainian) In the Council, a new group of 37 MPs, Ukrayinska Pravda (27 Febrero 2014)
  5. ↑ (in Ukrainian) Yeremeyev: independent group formed "Sovereign European Ukraine", TVi (channel) (27 February 2014)
  6. ↑ (in Ukrainian) In Parliament created a faction, Ukrayinska Pravda (27 November 2014)
  7. ↑ "CEC registers 357 newly elected deputies of 422". National Radio Company of Ukraine. 25 November 2014. Archived from the original on 4 December 2014.
    "Parliament to form leadership and coalition on November 27". UNIAN. 26 November 2014.
  8. ↑ MP Yeremeyev who fell from horse taken to European hospital - press service, Interfax-Ukraine(29 July 2015)
  9. ↑ Смерть Еремеева подтвердила его жена: решают, где похоронят нардепа
  10. ↑ Прес-служба підтвердила смерть Єремеєва
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