Andriy Shkil
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Andriy Shkil is a Ukrainian
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

 politician.

Professional career

Shkil graduated in 1988 from the Faculty
Faculty (university)
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 of Pharmacy
Pharmacy
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 of the Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University
Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University
Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University , — formerly known as the Lvov State Medical Institute, earlier the Faculty of Medicine of the John Casimir University and, before that, Faculty of Medicine of the Francis I University — is one of the oldest and biggest medical...

.

In 1989 Shkil became member of the editorial board of the newspaper Ukrayina Moloda
Ukrayina Moloda
Ukrayina Moloda is a daily Ukrainian-language newspaper based in Kiev with a circulation of 99,000. It represents the political opposition and caters to a younger audience. It supports pro-Western policies, president-elect Viktor Yushchenko, and is highly critical of president Leonid Kuchma. It...

 and he was elected deputy chief of the Independent Ukrainian Youth Union. From then he fulfilled various journalistic functions as writer and TV-presenter. In 1997 Skhil graduated from the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv's Department of Journalism.

Political career

Shkil took part in the founding meeting of the Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian National Self Defence (UNA-UNSO) in June 1990. In January Shkil participated in the Transnistrian war. He was awarded the medal "For Defense of Transnistria
Transnistria
Transnistria is a breakaway territory located mostly on a strip of land between the Dniester River and the eastern Moldovan border to Ukraine...

".

After having had several executive functions in UNA-UNSO in Lviv
Lviv
Lviv is a city in western Ukraine. The city is regarded as one of the main cultural centres of today's Ukraine and historically has also been a major Polish and Jewish cultural center, as Poles and Jews were the two main ethnicities of the city until the outbreak of World War II and the following...

 Shkil became the party leader of UNA-UNSO June 2002. Shkil was active in Ukraine without Kuchma
Ukraine without Kuchma
Ukraine without Kuchma! or UbK was a mass protest campaign preceding the Orange Revolution that took place in Ukraine in 2000–2001. Unlike the Orange Revolution the UbK was effectively extinguished by the government enforcement units followed by numerous arrests of the opposition and the...

. On March 21, 2001 Shkil was arrested on charges of "organizing mass unrest in Kiev
Kiev
Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....

 during street demonstrations" and spent 13 months in jail. While in custody, Shkil was elected deputy of Ukraine during the 2002 parliamentary elections
Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2002
Ukrainian parliamentary election of 2002 took place on March 31. Half of the deputies to Verkhovna Rada were elected on proportional basis, while the other half were elected by popular vote in single-mandate constituencies...

, and as a result was released. Shkil won a single-mandate constituency in the Lviv Oblast
Lviv Oblast
Lviv Oblast is an oblast in western Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Lviv.-History:The oblast was created as part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic on December 4, 1939...

 (province) and thus a seat in the Verkhovna Rada
Verkhovna Rada
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine is Ukraine's parliament. The Verkhovna Rada is a unicameral parliament composed of 450 deputies, which is presided over by a chairman...

 (Ukraine's parliamnet), the UNA-UNSO itself won 0,04% of the votes. In parliament Shkil became a member of the Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko-faction. In 2003 Shkil left UNA-UNSO, in March 2005 he became a member of All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland". During the 2006 parliamentary elections
Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2006
The Ukrainian parliamentary election took place on March 26, 2006. Election campaigning officially began on July 7, 2005. Between November 26 and December 31, 2005 party lists of candidates were formed....

 and 2007 parliamentary elections
Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2007
Early parliamentary elections in Ukraine took place on 30 September 2007. The date of the election was determined following agreement between the President Viktor Yushchenko, the Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Moroz on 27 May 2007, in an attempt...

 Shkil was re-elected into the Verkhovna Rada high on the party list of Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko.

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