According to the corresponding decree posted on the President's website, Oleg Rafalsky has been dismissed from his position as Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration.
It is known that Rafalsky submitted his resignation letter of his own free will even before the Law on the Purification of Power came into effect.
Let us recall that Rafalsky has worked in the Presidential Administration since the time of Yanukovych (since 2010).
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Rafalsky Oleg Alekseevich
Biography
Born in the village of Zabrod'e, Chernyakhiv district, Zhytomyr region. In 1983, he graduated from Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv (teacher of history and social science). Doctor of Historical Sciences. Career. 1983-1987 - Assistant of the Department of History of the USSR and the Ukrainian SSR, Secretary of the Komsomol Committee of the Kirovograd Pedagogical Institute. Since 1987 - a graduate student in the Faculty of History of Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv. 1990-1998 - Senior Lecturer, Head of the Department of History of Ukraine, Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages, Associate Professor of the Department of History of Ukraine at the Kirovograd State Pedagogical Institute. 1998-2000 - Employee of the Department of National Minorities of the Institute of Political and Ethno-National Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Family
Wife Valentina (born 1960), sons Oleg (born 1983) and Evgeniy, daughter Victoria (born 2001). Brother - Igor Rafalsky, since April 2010 - head of the Obukhov district state administration (Kiev region).
Political ambitions
Since 2003 - Head of the Main Directorate for Domestic Policy of the Administration of the President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma (Viktor Medvedchuk was the Head of the Administration). 2006-2007 - Deputy Chief of Staff of the Prime Minister of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych (Serhiy Levochkin was the Chief of Staff). 2008-2010 - Employee of the Office of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, First Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the Parliamentary Faction of the Party of Regions. In March 2010, by decree of President V. Yanukovych, he was appointed Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of Ukraine - Head of the Main Directorate for Documentation (Head of the Administration - S. Levochkin). In 1999-2000, O. Rafalskyi headed the Democratic Union party.
He ran unsuccessfully for parliament in Ukraine twice, in 2002 and 2006. In 2002, he ran on the list of the Democratic Party of Ukraine and the Democratic Union bloc. In 2006, he was number 26 on the list of the Opposition Bloc NOT SO!, while being a member of the Republican Party of Ukraine. The SDPU(u) became the bloc's "core element." The top ten included the first President of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk (number 1), then-leader of the united SDPU, Viktor Medvedchuk, his party deputies Nestor Shufrych and Mykhailo Papiyev, and the head of the Republican Party, Yuriy Boyko. The bloc's result was 1,01% of the vote, with a required 3% (11th place in the overall standings).
Reviews about the policy
Oleh Rafalsky, who previously served as first deputy head of the secretariat of the Party of Regions faction in parliament, has become the next deputy head of the presidential chancery and head of the Main Directorate for Documentation Support. Like Levochkin, Rafalsky served in the presidential administration of Leonid Kuchma and then in the office of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, where he served as deputy chief of staff. Rafalsky is the Rector of the Institute of Political Science at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and holds a doctorate in history.
Kompromat
Self compromising on politics
Oleh Rafalsky has been dismissed from the Prime Minister's Office. Yulia Tymoshenko's Cabinet of Ministers has dismissed Oleh Rafalsky, our fellow Kirovohrad native and deputy chief of staff to the Prime Minister. This was stated in Cabinet Order No. 1125 of December 19, as reported by MIGnews.com.ua in the article "Purges Have Begun in Tymoshenko's Cabinet." Oleh Rafalsky served as deputy chief of staff to the Prime Minister since October 2006, and before that, he had a long and interesting career as a politician and official, which (i.e., his journey) we would like to discuss in more detail.
Oleh Rafalsky, former dean of the history department at the Kirovohrad Pedagogical Institute and head of the Center for Political Technologies at the Institute of Political and Ethnonational Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, is one of the most prominent Kirovohrad residents who has achieved significant success. A doctor of historical sciences, professor, and political strategist who led numerous successful election campaigns, Oleh Rafalsky headed the Main Directorate of Domestic Policy in the Administration of President Leonid Kuchma from 2003 to 2005. President Viktor Yushchenko relieved the 45-year-old Rafalsky of his duties as director, but Viktor Yanukovych's Cabinet of Ministers subsequently appointed him deputy head of the Office of the Prime Minister of Ukraine. Incidentally, Yanukovych's government had earlier created the Office of the Prime Minister to replace the Prime Minister's Office.
Looking back a bit further into Oleh Rafalsky's past, it's worth noting that in 1999, even before the presidential elections in Ukraine, the All-Ukrainian Charitable Foundation "Social Protection" was established, essentially laying the groundwork for Leonid Kuchma's presidential campaign. Medvedchuk, Shalimov, and other prominent figures served on the foundation's supervisory board. On May 23, 1999, the Democratic Union Party was founded, its logo instantly replacing that of the Social Protection Foundation. Oleh Rafalsky, who became the party's leader (chairman), was among the top ten candidates in the "Democratic Party of Ukraine – Democratic Union Party" electoral bloc, along with Gorbulin, Bilas, and Pikhovshek. Later, in 2005, Oleh Rafalsky became deputy chairman of the "rapidly progressing" (as Ukraine-Center wrote in an article that year) Republican Party. Former Foreign Minister Konstantin Grishchenko names Oleg Rafalsky as a member of the party's political council, while other party leaders elevate him to the rank of ideologist... What position will Oleg Rafalsky now occupy?
Answering this question will likely take a little time. However, the purpose of our brief and, it must be said, rather spontaneous digression was to draw readers' attention to the multifaceted nature of human destiny, which can offer a person from the ordinary, even provincial, city of Kirovohrad many opportunities for fulfillment.
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