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Vladimir GrinevUkrainian politician.
Date of Birth: 26.07.1945
Country:  Ukraine |
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Biography of Vladimir Grinev
Vladimir Grinev was a Ukrainian political figure who was born on July 26, 1945, in the village of Bolshaya Troitsa in the Kursk region (now the Belgorod region). He graduated with honors from the Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute in 1968 and went on to defend his candidate dissertation in 1972 and his doctoral dissertation in 1981.
Political Career
During the Perestroika period, Vladimir Grinev became actively involved in politics. In 1989, he was elected co-chairman of the regional organization of the People's Movement of Ukraine. However, he soon left this political force.
On March 30, 1990, Vladimir Grinev ran for the position of deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from the Industrial (No. 369) electoral district. He ranked first among five candidates but did not receive more than 50% of the votes. In the second round, he was elected with 53.49% of the votes. On July 7 of the same year, he was elected vice-speaker of the Verkhovna Rada and held this position until his voluntary resignation in the fall of 1993.
On December 1, 1991, Vladimir Grinev participated in the presidential elections and received 1,329,758 votes (4.17%). In 1993, he became the president of the International Fund "Business Diaspora of Ukraine". In the same year, he founded the party "Interregional Bloc of Reforms" (IBR) and served as its leader until May 1999. In early 1992, Vladimir Grinev established the public organization "New Ukraine", which he chaired.
On March 27, 1994, Vladimir Grinev ran again for the position of deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from the Industrial (No. 369) electoral district. In the first round, he again did not receive more than 50% of the votes, and on April 10, 1994, he entered the second round. However, his opponent withdrew his candidacy, and Grinev became the sole candidate in the elections, receiving 75.64% of the votes. Nevertheless, the fact that there was no opponent became the reason for the Verkhovna Rada not recognizing Grinev's authority. Therefore, he did not become a deputy for the second time. Initially, Vladimir Grinev nominated himself for the position of president (early presidential elections were held on June 26, 1994). However, he later withdrew his candidacy in favor of Leonid Kuchma. After Kuchma came to power, Grinev served as an advisor to the president on regional policy.
In December 1997, the IBR, led by Vladimir Grinev, created the pre-election bloc of parties "Social-Liberal Union (SLOn)", and he headed the electoral list. In the parliamentary elections in 1998, he also ran as a candidate from a single-mandate electoral district (No. 169). However, both SLOn (0.90% of the votes) and Vladimir Grinev (3.52% of the votes) lost the elections and did not enter the Verkhovna Rada again. Already at that time, as a non-partisan, Vladimir Grinev actively supported Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko from 1999 to 2001. After Yushchenko's resignation and the establishment of "Our Ukraine" (NU) in early 2002, Vladimir Grinev continued to actively support the policies of the "Orange" opposition. Despite this, he was not included in the NU electoral list, and in the parliamentary elections in March 2002, Vladimir Grinev ran as an independent candidate from single-mandate electoral district No. 170. He lost the elections, receiving only 8.09% of the votes.
After his political setbacks, Vladimir Grinev retreated from the forefront of Ukrainian politics.
