{{Short description|Ukrainian lawyer, businessman and politician}} {{Family name hatnote|Leontiyovych|Maliuska|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Denys Maliuska | native_name = {{nobold|Денис Малюська}} | native_name_lang = uk | image = Denys Malyuska.jpg | caption = Maliuska in 2019 | office = Minister of Justice | president = Volodymyr Zelenskyy | prime_minister = Oleksiy Honcharuk<br />Denys Shmyhal | term_start = 29 August 2019 | term_end = 4 September 2024 | predecessor = Pavlo Petrenko | successor = Olha Stefanishyna | office1 = People's Deputy of Ukraine | term_start1 = 29 August 2019 | term_end1 = 29 August 2019 | predecessor1 = | successor1 = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1981|11|19|df=y}} | birth_place = Dunaivtsi, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union<br><small>(now Ukraine)</small> | education = Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv<br />University of London | occupation = Lawyer<br />businessman<br />politician | party = Servant of the People }}
'''Denys Leontiyovych Maliuska''' ({{langx|uk|Денис Леонтійович Малюська}}; born 19 November 1981<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cvk.gov.ua/pls/vnd2019/wp407pt001f01=919pf7201=18509.html|title=Малюська Денис Леонтійович|work=Central Election Commission|accessdate=September 2, 2019|language=uk}}</ref>) is a Ukrainian lawyer, businessman and politician.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unian.info/economics/10649613-new-old-reform-what-economic-changes-are-coming-to-ukraine.html|title=New Old Reform: What economic changes are coming to Ukraine|work=UNIAN|date=August 13, 2019|accessdate=September 2, 2019}}</ref> From 29 August 2019 to 4 September 2024, he was Minister of Justice of Ukraine.<ref name="cabappointSG7224810DeMa">[https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2019/08/29/7224810/ New Cabinet formed in Ukraine The Rada appointed the new Cabinet: Avakov and Markarova remained], Ukrayinska Pravda (29 August 2019)</ref>
== Biography == Maliuska studied law at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (2004). He also graduated from the University of London (2016). Master of Laws.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kmu.gov.ua/ua/profile/denis-malyuska|title=Малюська Денис Леонтійович|work=Government of Ukraine|accessdate=September 2, 2019|language=uk}}</ref>
From 2000 to 2010, Maliuska worked as a lawyer at the law firm Business Law. From 2010 to 2019, he served as a private sector consultant for the World Bank Group.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.hromadske.ua/posts/meet-the-ministers-what-we-know-about-ukraines-new-cabinet|title=Meet the Ministers: What We Know About Ukraine's New Cabinet|work=Hromadske International|date=August 30, 2019|accessdate=September 2, 2019}}</ref>
Deputy Chairman of the Board of BRDO/World Bank Group.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.brdo.com.ua/author/maluska/|title=Denis Malyuska|work=Better Regulation Delivery Office|accessdate=September 2, 2019|archive-date=15 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200215213605/https://en.brdo.com.ua/author/maluska/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
He was on a party list of the Servant of the People political party during the 2019 parliamentary elections,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://apostrophe.ua/en/news/politics/2019-06-09/na-vse-100-poyavilsya-rasshirennyiy-spisok-kandidatov-v-radu-ot-partii-zelenskogo/165234|title=Zelensky presented his 100 candidates for Verkhovna Rada|work=Apostrophe|date=June 9, 2019|accessdate=September 2, 2019}}</ref> yet himself is not a registered member of the party (non-partisan, according to the Central Election Commission).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://itd.rada.gov.ua/mps/info/page/21202|title=Народний депутат України|work=Верховна Рада України|accessdate=September 2, 2019|language=uk}}</ref> Maliuska was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/603784.html|title=Some 254 MPs enter Rada from Servant of the People, 124 MPs from other parties, 46 MPs self-appointed|work=Interfax-Ukraine|date=July 26, 2019|accessdate=September 2, 2019}}</ref> He surrendered his deputy mandate upon his ministerial appointment on 29 August 2019.
On 29 August 2019, Maliuska was appointed as the Minister of Justice of Ukraine in the Honcharuk Government.<ref name="cabappointSG7224810DeMa"/> In the 4 March 2020, appointed Shmyhal Government he kept this post.<ref name="shmyhalANewGovernmentDeMa">[https://en.hromadske.ua/posts/ukrainian-parliament-votes-in-new-pm-denys-shmyhal A New Government for Ukraine: One Female Minister and "Indispensable" Arsen Avakov], Hromadske.TV (4 March 2020)<br>{{in lang|uk}} [https://www.pravda.com.ua/articles/2021/09/9/7306515/ One at a time. New resignations in Zelensky's Cabinet and Office], Ukrayinska Pravda (9 September 2021)</ref> In September 2021, Minister of Justice Malyuska appointed Ivan Lishchyna as his advisor.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-09-14 |title=Малюська призначив Ліщину своїм радником після служби в ЄСПЛ {{!}} РБК-Україна |url=https://www.rbc.ua/ukr/news/malyuska-naznachil-svoim-sovetnikom-eks-predstavitelya-1631614295.html |access-date=2023-10-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210914182120/https://www.rbc.ua/ukr/news/malyuska-naznachil-svoim-sovetnikom-eks-predstavitelya-1631614295.html |archive-date=14 September 2021 }}</ref>
Iryna Mudra and Andriy Haichenko were among of his deputies.
On September 3, 2024, he submitted his resignation to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's national parliament).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rbc.ua/rus/news/tri-ministri-ta-golova-fondu-derzhmayna-napisali-1725373798.html|title=Три міністри та голова Фонду держмайна написали заяви про відставку, - Стефанчук|website=РБК-Украина|language=uk|access-date=2024-09-11}}</ref> In addition to Malyuska, the Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Ruslan Strilets and the Minister of Strategic Industries Oleksandr Kamyshin submitted their resignations.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://delo.ua/economy/troje-ministriv-ta-golova-fdm-podali-u-vidstavku-435962/|title=Троє міністрів та голова Фонду держмайна подали у відставку — Delo.ua|date=2024-09-03|website=delo.ua|language=uk|access-date=2024-09-03}}</ref>
On September 4, 2024, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine supported the dismissal of Malyuska from the post of Minister of Justice of Ukraine.<ref>[https://www.rbc.ua/rus/news/rada-vidpravila-vidstavku-ministra-yustitsiyi-1725435739.html Рада відправила у відставку міністра юстиції Малюську. 04.11.2024, 13:57]</ref>
== See also == * Honcharuk Government * List of members of the parliament of Ukraine, 2019–24
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