Volodymyr Lytvyn

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Ukrainian politician

PoliticiansBorn 1956 · age 70

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Volodymyr Mykhailovych Lytvyn is a Ukrainian politician best known for being Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament.

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Lytvyn meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in December 2008.

Awards 18

2000Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class

State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology

Honored Scientist of Ukraine

Commander's Grand Cross of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas

Commander with Star of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland

Order of Friendship

Hero of Ukraine, Order of the State

Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise

Commander of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland

Order of the "Commonwealth"

Hero of Ukraine

Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas

Order for Merits to Lithuania

Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland

Order of Merit of Portugal

Order of St. Gregory the Great

Order of the Liberator General San Martín

honorary doctor of Baku State University

Connected to Volodymyr 6

Yukio HatoyamaAlso won Order of Merit of Portugal

Victor PinchukAlso won State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology

Bohdan StupkaAlso won Hero of Ukraine

Seán T. O'KellyAlso won Order of St. Gregory the Great

Nikolai BogolyubovAlso won Honored Scientist of Ukraine

Roberto FarinacciAlso won Commander's Grand Cross of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas

About this person

Volodymyr Mykhailovych Lytvyn is a Ukrainian politician best known for being Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament. Having previously served in that position from 2002 until 2006, he was re-elected in December 2008 after his party agreed to join the former coalition of Yulia Tymoshenko in an expanded capacity and stayed Chairman until December 2012. From 1994 to 1999, Lytvyn was an aide to President Leonid Kuchma and, later, the head of his office.