Vasyl Kiselov

Vasyl Kiselov
Василь Кисельов
Member of the Verkhovna Rada
In office 25 May 2006 – 12 December 2012
First Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council of Crimea.
In office May 2002 – 25 May 2006
Presidential representative of Ukraine in Crimea
In office 8 February 1997 – 29 June 1999
Preceded by	Dmytro Stepanyuk
Succeeded by	Anatoliy Korniychuk
4th Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea
In office 10 October 1996 – 6 February 1997
Preceded by	Yevhen Suprunyuk
Succeeded by	Anatoliy Hrytsenko
Member of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea
In office 1991 – 25 May 2006
Personal details
Born	Vasyl Oleskiyovych Kislelov (1948-09-25) 25 September 1948 Zlatoust, Russia, Soviet Union
Political party	Party of Regions

Vasyl Oleskiyovych Kislelov (Ukrainian: Василь Олексійович Кисельов; born on 25 September 1948), is a Russian-born Ukrainian politician who had last served as a member of the Verkhovna Rada from 2006 to 2012.

A member of the Party of Regions, until September 2009, he was the deputy chairman of the Committee on Regulations, Deputy Ethics and Ensuring the Activities of the Verkhovna Rada, member of the Special Control Commission of the Verkhovna Rada on Privatization since December 2007.

Kiselov also served as the Presidential representative of Ukraine in Crimea from 1997 to 1999.

He was also the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea from 1996 to 1997.

He is a candidate of economic sciences as of 2001.

Biography

Vasyl Kiselov was born Vasily Kiselyov in Zlatoust, Russia on 25 September 1948 to a Russian family. to a Russian father Aleksey Dmitryevich (1912–1988) and his mother, Galinana Romanovna (1925–2002).

Education

From 1967 to 1972, he studied at the Uman Agricultural Institute, majoring in fruit and vegetable growing and beekeeping.

Early career

From 1966 to 1967, he was a handyman in the city of Shpola (Cherkasy region).

From 1973 to 1974, he served in the Soviet Army.

From 1972 to 1973, he was a cannery technologist. From 1974 to 1976, he was a senior technologist. From 1976 to 1983, he was the head of subsidiary enterprises.

From 1983 to 1987, he was the deputy chairman of the collective farm "Friendship of Peoples".

From 1987 to October 1996, he was the chairman of the agricultural firm "Friendship of Peoples" of the Krasnogvardeysky district.

On 10 October 1996, Kiselov, became the chairman of the 4th Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

He was the Member of the Crimean Regional Council from 1990 to 1991.

In 1991, Kiselov was elected to Vekhovna Rada of Crimea.

On 8 February 1997, Kiselov was appointed Presidential representative of Ukraine in Crimea.

He was replaced by his successor, Anatoliy Korniychuk.

In June 1999, he was the Deputy Minister of Agro-Industrial Complex of Ukraine.

From April 2000 to September 2001, he was the acting Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Crimea.

From September 2001 to May 2002, he was the Head of the Crimean regional department of the Department of excise administration and control over the production and turnover of excisable goods of the State Tax Administration in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

From May 2002 to May 2006, he was the First Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council of Crimea.

In April 2006, Kiselov was elected a member of parliament, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the Verkhovna Rada, taking office on 25 May. In July 2006, he became the Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Regulations, Deputy Ethics and Ensuring the Activities of the Verkhovna Rada.

In September 2006, hewas the Deputy Head of the Parliamentary Faction of the Party of Regions. In December 2007, he was the Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on issues of regulations, parliamentary ethics and ensuring the activities of the Verkhovna Rada.

In July 2010, he was appointed freelance adviser to Prime Minister Mykola Azarov on economic and land issues.

In September 2012, he advocated the abolition of the right to free healthcare at the constitutional level.

Party issues and controversy

He joined the Party of Regions in 2001. Between 2009 and September 2010, he was the chairman of the Crimean organization of the Party of Regions since 2001 and 2009.

In August 2009, a split occurred in the Crimean branch of the Party of Regions: one of its leaders, Kiselov, accused the Crimean leadership of corruption and left the party in September. Following him, the leaders of the Russian Community of Crimea (RCC) announced their withdrawal from the Party of Regions. The Ukrainian mass media linked this demarche due to Kiselov's conflict with the Crimean Speaker Anatoliy Hrytsenko and the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the ARC from the "For Yanukovych" bloc, Oleksandr Melnyk, a member of the Party of Regions, whom Kiselov accused of being the leader of the organized crime group "Seilem".

On 16 September, Kiselov was expelled from the Party of Regions, and on 9 October the faction of the Party of Regions of the Verkhovna Rada.

Kiselov himself said that he left the party because Yanukovych gave power in Crimea to crime.

On 7 September 2010, he was reinstated in the Party of Regions, and on 4 October he rejoined the faction of the Party of Regions of the Verkhovna Rada.

Family

He is married to his wife Mariya Vasiliyivna (born in 1949), who is retired. The couple have a son Roman (born in 1972), a bank employee, and daughter Lyudmila (born in 1983).