Oleksandr Shevchenko

Oleksandr Oksentiyovych Shevchenko (Ukrainian: Олександр Оксеньтійович Шевченко; 26 June 1937 – 15 January 2016) was a Ukrainian scientist, jurist, politician, and doctor of legal sciences.

This article is about Ukrainian scientist, jurist and politician. For the Ukrainian footballer, see Oleksandr Shevchenko (footballer).
Not to be confused with Olexandr Shevchenko.
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Shevchenko was born on June 26, 1937 in sovkhoz Partizany, Simferopol Raion, Russian SFSR. He graduated from the historic-philosophy faculty of Kiev University in 1965. Shevchenko obtained his doctorate in 1995. After graduation, he worked at Dnipropetrovsk National University and as an English language interpreter during construction of a metallurgy plant in Egypt. Since 1971 Shevchenko has worked at Kiev University.

In the October 2014 parliamentary election Shevchenko was 31st on the election list of his party; since the party came 0.29% short to overcome the 5% threshold to win seats on the nationwide list he was not elected into parliament.[1][2]

References
  1. Poroshenko Bloc to have greatest number of seats in parliament Archived 2014-11-10 at the Wayback Machine, Ukrainian Television and Radio (8 November 2014)
    People's Front 0.33% ahead of Poroshenko Bloc with all ballots counted in Ukraine elections - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (8 November 2014)
    Poroshenko Bloc to get 132 seats in parliament - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (8 November 2014)
  2. (in Ukrainian) Party list All-Ukrainian Union "Freedom", Ukrayinska Pravda (3 October 2014)
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