{{Short description|Ukrainian politician}} {{Family name hatnote|Viacheslavovych|Chornovil|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Taras Chornovil | native_name = {{nobold|Тарас Чорновіл}} | native_name_lang = uk | image = Taras Chornovil.jpg | caption = Chornovil in 2011 | office = People's Deputy of Ukraine | term_start = 5 July 2000 | term_end = 15 December 2012<ref name=VR7starts151212UW>[https://ukrainianweek.com/Politics/60928 You Scratch My Back, and I’ll Scratch Yours], The Ukrainian Week (26 September 2012)</ref> | predecessor = {{plainlist| * Roman Schmidt <small>(2000)</small> * Mykhailo Kosiv <small>(2002)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Косів Михайло Васильович |trans-title=Kosiv, Mykhailo Vasyliovych |url=http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/radac_gs09/d_ank_arh?kod=54003 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210711220800/http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/radac_gs09/d_ank_arh?kod=54003 |archive-date=11 July 2021 |access-date=17 December 2023 |website=Verkhovna Rada |language=uk}}</ref></small> }} | successor = ''Constituency abolished'' | constituency = {{plainlist| * Lviv Oblast, No. 115 <small>(2000–2002)</small> * Lviv Oblast, No. 116 <small>(2002–2006)</small> * Party of Regions, No. 4 <small>(2006–2007)</small> * Party of Regions, No. 3 <small>(2007–2012)</small> }} | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1964|6|1|df=y}} | birth_place = Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union<br/>(now Ukraine) | party = Independent<ref name=gone/><ref name="Chornovil goes again">[http://www.interfax.com.ua/eng/main/94104/ Chornovil leaves Reforms for Future group], Interfax Ukraine (9 February 2012)</ref> | other_party = {{plainlist| * People's Movement of Ukraine * Reforms and Order Party * Our Ukraine Bloc * Party of Regions }} | relations = {{plainlist| * Viacheslav Chornovil (father) * Olena Antoniv (mother) * Andriy Chornovil (brother) }} | website = {{URL|https://web.archive.org/web/20050123170926/http://chornovil.openua.net/|chornovil.openua.net (archived)}} | allegiance = Soviet Union | branch = Soviet Army | service_years = 1982–1984 }}
'''Taras Viacheslavovych Chornovil''' ({{langx|uk|Тарас В'ячеславович Чорновіл}}; born on 1 June 1964) is a Ukrainian politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 2000 to 2012. The son of Ukrainian Soviet dissident leader Viacheslav Chornovil, Chornovil was first elected to the Verkhovna Rada as a member of the People's Movement of Ukraine before joining the Party of Regions during the Orange Revolution, later becoming an independent in 2008.
==Early life and career== Taras Chornovil was born on 1 June 1964 in Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine), to Viacheslav Chornovil,<ref name=LIGA>{{in lang|ru}} [https://file.liga.net/person/303-taras-chornovil.html Чорновил Тарас Вячеславович], Информационно-аналитический центр "ЛІГА"</ref> a Soviet dissident, politician, and founder of the People's Movement of Ukraine, and his wife, Olena Antoniv.
Chornovil studied at the Faculty of Biology at the Lviv University. From 1981 to 1982, he was a laboratory assistant at Lviv Polytechnic Institute.<ref name=LIGA/> From 1982 to 1984, Chornovil served in the Soviet Army.<ref name=LIGA/> From 1985, he was a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, and one of the founders of the Union of Independent Ukrainian Youth.<ref name=LIGA/> From 1987, he was an editor in the "Ukrayinskyi Vistnyk" and the main editor of the "Moloda Ukrayina" newspapers.<ref name=LIGA/>
===Political career=== From 1990 to 1994, Chornovil was a deputy of the Lviv Oblast Council.<ref name=LIGA/> From 1995 he was the main editor of the ''Chas'' newspaper. In 2000 and 2002, Chornovil was elected as a deputy to the Lviv City Council.
Chornovil became a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 115th electoral district on 5 July 2000,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Чорновіл Тарас Вячеславович |trans-title=Chornovil, Taras Viacheslavovych |url=http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/radac_gs09/d_ank_arh?kod=701103 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211108025514/http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/radac_gs09/d_ank_arh?kod=701103 |archive-date=8 November 2021 |access-date=17 December 2023 |website=Verkhovna Rada |language=uk}}</ref> succeeding Roman Schmidt.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Шмідт Роман Михайлович |trans-title=Schmidt, Roman Mykhailovych |url=http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/radac_gs09/d_ank_arh?kod=59203 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107213432/http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/radac_gs09/d_ank_arh?kod=59203 |archive-date=7 November 2021 |access-date=17 December 2023 |website=Verkhovna Rada |language=uk}}</ref> From May 2002, Chornovil was a member of the Our Ukraine fraction of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament).<ref name=LIGA/> During the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, Chornovil switched from Our Ukraine to the Party of Regions,<ref name=LIGA/> a party that was antagonistic to Our Ukraine.<ref name=LIGA/> In December 2004, Taras was the head of the Viktor Yanukovych election committee during the second voting round in the 2004 presidential election. In the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Chornovil was elected as a deputy to the Ukrainian parliament as a member of the Party of Regions (he was 3rd on their party list).<ref name=LIGA/> On 28 November 2006, he was one of the only two Party of Regions MPs who voted in favour of the law recognizing Holodomor as genocide.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.unian.ua/news/174861-hto-z-regionaliv-progolosuvav-za-zakon-pro-golodomor.html| title = Проектом Бюджету-2009 видатки на автодороги зменшені на 31% {{!}} УНІАН}}</ref>
In October 2008 Chornovil left the Party of Regions.<ref>[https://www.unian.net/eng/news/news-277915.html Party of Regions works for Yushchenko – Chornovil], UNIAN (10 October 2008)</ref> In June 2009 Chornovil was excluded from the structure of the Party of Regions faction by a decision of the political council of the Party of Regions.<ref name=gone>[https://www.unian.net/eng/news/news-322502.html Bogoslovska,Chornovil excluded from PR faction], UNIAN (23 June 2009)</ref>
After the first round of the 2010 presidential election Chornovil called on Ukrainians to vote for Yulia Tymoshenko<ref>[http://zik.com.ua/en/news/2010/01/23/213603 Former Yanukovych staffer calls to vote Tymoshenko], Z I K (23 January 2010)</ref> (with Viktor Yanukovych being the other candidate during that round).<ref>{{in lang|uk}} [http://www.cvk.gov.ua/vp2010/wp320pt00_t001f01=700pt001f01=700pplace=1.html Central Election Commission Candidate Results] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100121012542/http://www.cvk.gov.ua/vp2010/wp320pt00_t001f01=700pt001f01=700pplace=1.html |date=2010-01-21 }}, CEC Ukraine (19 January 2010)</ref><ref>[https://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/57325/ TABLE-Ukraine's presidential election results], Kyiv Post (18 January 2010)</ref><ref>[https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8464816.stm Ukraine's Orange leader Yushchenko loses election], BBC News (18 January 2010)</ref>
Chornovil joined Reforms for the Future in February 2011.<ref name="Reforms for the Future KP1">[https://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/97297/ Individual deputies create Reforms for the Sake of Future group in parliament], Kyiv Post (16 February 2011)</ref><ref>{{in lang|uk}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20110224061916/http://www.newsru.ua/ukraine/19feb2011/vsezarady.html "Реформи заради майбутнього" підтримають Януковича у всьому, але мову не здадуть], NEWSru.ua (19 February 2011)</ref> On 9 February 2012 Chornovil left that faction.<ref name="Chornovil goes again"/>
In the 2012 parliamentary elections Chornovil was a candidate in single-member district number 212 (first-past-the-post wins a parliament seat) located in Kyiv; he became sixth in this district with 6.47% of the votes thus failed to win parliamentary representation.<ref>{{in lang|uk}}[http://www.cvk.gov.ua/vnd2012/wp040pt001f01=900pf7331=212.html Одномандатний виборчий округ №140 ''Single-mandate constituency № 212''], Central Election Commission of Ukraine</ref>
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== External links == {{Commons category}} * [https://twitter.com/taraschornovil Personal Twitter thread]
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