Oleksiy Goncharenko was born in Odesa, and is a Ukrainian politician,
member of the Ukrainian parliament, member of the Ukrainian delegation
to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Vice President
of the PACE Committee on Migration, Refugees and Internally Displaced
Persons, founder of a Ukrainian network of educational and cultural
centres. In 2014, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada on the party list
of Petro Poroshenko Bloc. In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election
Goncharenko was re-elected as an independent candidate. He also runs a
hugely popular YouTube channel and is a very effective communicator
through digital media channels.
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