Bohdan Boyko

Bohdan Boyko
Bohdan Boyko
Богдан Бойко
	Official portrait, 1998
Governor of Ternopil Oblast
	In office7 September 1996 – 20 April 1998
Preceded by	Borys Kosenko
Succeeded by	Vasyl Vovk
Chairman of the Ternopil Oblast Council
	In officeApril 1992 – June 1994
Preceded by	Vasyl Oliynyk
Succeeded by	Borys Kosenko
People's Deputy of Ukraine
	In office15 May 1990 – 14 May 2002
Preceded by	Position established(1990); Mykhailo Matsialko(1994);
Succeeded by	Mykhailo Ratushnyi(1994); Constituency abolished(1998);
Constituency	Ternopil Oblast, No. 360 (1990–1994); Ternopil Oblast, No. 361 (1994–1998); People's Movement of Ukraine, No. 7 (1998–2002);
Personal details
Born	(1954-09-29) 29 September 1954 Pidiarkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Party	People's Movement of Ukraine
Alma mater	University of Lviv

Bohdan Fedorovych Boyko (Ukrainian: Богдан Федорович Бойко; born 29 September 1954) is a Ukrainian politician who formerly served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 1990 to 2002 as a member of the People's Movement of Ukraine. He was also a candidate in 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, nominated by the Movement of Ukrainian Patriots. In 2000, he formed a third faction within the People's Movement of Ukraine^[1] aimed at reconciling the differences between two other opposing factions.^[2]

Early life

He was born on 29 September 1954 in the village of Pidiarkiv, in the western Ukrainian Lviv Oblast in what was then the Soviet Union.

In 1976, he graduated from the Faculty of Economics at Ivan Franko Lviv State University, thus qualifying him for the profession of economists. Afterwards, from 1979 to 1982, he was a graduate student within the Department of Political Economy at his alma mater. In 1982, he received his Candidate of Sciences (equivalent to PhD) which was entitled "Efficiency of commodity turnover of means of production in the period of developed socialism".

Career

Immediately after receiving his Candidate of Sciences, he worked as an assistant professor for political economy at the Lviv National Environmental University. In 1986, he transferred to the Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University to work as a senior lecturer there. He entered politics in 1990, becoming the 1st Deputy Chairman of the Ternopil Oblast Council as a member of the People's Movement of Ukraine, a position he held during the collapse of the Soviet Union, until 15 January 1992 when he became Chairman of the Executive Committee and Regional Council of Ternopil Oblast (a position he still holds currently)

In addition to this, from 1992 to 1994, he was Chairman of the Ternopil Regional Council of People's Deputies. He finally from 1996 to 1998 was Governor of Ternopil Oblast. In addition, during this time, from 1995 to 1999, he was Deputy Chairman of the People's Movement of Ukraine and from 1995 to 1997 also was the Acting Chairman and later Chairman of the Secretariat of the People's Movement of Ukraine.

References

^"New Rukh: Better than Two Old Ones?". Archived from the original on 8 December 2015.
^Day, Alan John; East, Roger; Thomas, Richard (2002). A political and economic dictionary of Eastern Europe. Psychology Press. pp. 454–455. ISBN 978-1-85743-063-9.

[1] "New Rukh: Better than Two Old Ones?". Archived from the original on 8 December 2015.

[DayEast2002-2] Day, Alan John; East, Roger; Thomas, Richard (2002). A political and economic dictionary of Eastern Europe. Psychology Press. pp. 454–455. ISBN 978-1-85743-063-9.

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