Oleksandr Omelchenko
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Omelchenko (Ukrainian: Олександр Олександрович Омельченко Oleksandr Oleksandrovyč Omel'čenko) became the mayor of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, in 1999. He lost his re-election bid in March 2006. Omelchenko is now member of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) elected on behalf of Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc but expelled from that fraction in September 2011. However he voluntary left the faction the next month. Omelchenko son Oleksandr was also a member of the Verkhovna Rada on an Our Ukraine ticket from 2002 till 2007.
Omelchenko is the President of both the Association of the Cities of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Hockey Federation.
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