Oleksiy Remeniuk
Oleksiy Ivanovych Remeniuk was a Ukrainian politician. A member of Hromada and later Batkivshchyna, he served in the Verkhovna Rada from 1998 to 2006.
Political career
In the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election Remeniuk was elected to the Ukrainian parliament as number 17 on the party list of Hromada. In 1999 Remeniuk moved to the party Batkivshchyna, he became the party leader of its Autonomous Republic of Crimea branch.In the 2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election Remeniuk was reelected to parliament on the election list of Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, being number 21 on that list. He left the parliamentary faction of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc in November 2022.
In June 2003 Remeniuk was one of the founders of the political party Slavic People's Patriotic Union. In the 2004 Ukrainian presidential elections this party supported Viktor Yanukovych. On 8 November 2005, the party changed to the name of Party of Putin Policy.
In the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election Remeniuk headed the party list of Party of Putin Policy, but the party won 0.12% of the vote and no seats.
In December 2008 Party of Putin Policy changed its name to One Rus. In the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election its candidate Remeniuk in Ukraine's 10th electoral district won 5.15% of the votes and thus he again was not elected to parliament. In an interview in 2012 Remeniuk claimed that "the main perspective of Ukraine is integration with the Russian Federation and Belarus".
In April 2014, following the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea, Remeniuk moved to Crimea where he continued to be political active.