Draft:Vasyl Kiselov

Vasyl Oleskiyovych Kiselov (Ukrainian: Василь Олексійович Кисельов; born on 25 September 1948), is a Russian-born Ukrainian politician who had last served as a member of the Verkhovna Rada from 2006 to 2012.

A member of the Party of Regions, until September 2009, he was the deputy chairman of the Committee on Regulations, Deputy Ethics and Ensuring the Activities of the Verkhovna Rada, member of the Special Control Commission of the Verkhovna Rada on Privatization since December 2007.

Kiselov also served as the Presidential representative of Ukraine in Crimea from 1997 to 1999.

He was also the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea from 1996 to 1997.

He is a candidate of economic sciences as of 2001.

Biography
Vasyl Kiselov was born Vasily Kiselyov in Zlatoust, Russia on 25 September 1948 to a Russian family, to his father, Aleksey Dmitryevich (1912–1988) and his mother, Galinana Romanovna (1925–2002).

Education
From 1967 to 1972, he studied at the Uman Agricultural Institute, majoring in fruit and vegetable growing and beekeeping.

Early career
From 1965 to 1967, he was a laborer at the Shpolyansky brick factory in Cherkasy region.

From 1973 to 1974, he served in the Soviet Army.

From 1972 to 1973, he was a technologist at the canning shop of the Friendship of Peoples collective farm in the Krasnogvardeisky district in Crimea.

From 1974 to 1976, he was a promoted to senior technologist. From 1976 to 1983, he was the head of subsidiary enterprises.

From 1983 to 1987, he was the deputy chairman of the collective farm "Friendship of Peoples".

Between 1987 to October 1996, he was the chairman of the agricultural firm "Friendship of Peoples" of the Krasnogvardeysky district.

In 1990, Kiselov was elected to Verkhovna Rada of Crimea.

On 10 October 1996, Kiselov became the chairman of the 4th Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

On 8 February 1997, Kiselov was appointed Presidential representative of Ukraine in Crimea.

He was replaced by his successor, Anatoliy Korniychuk.

In June 1999, he was the Deputy Minister of Agro-Industrial Complex of Ukraine.

From April 2000 to September 2001, he was the acting Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Crimea.

From September 2001 to May 2002, he was the Head of the Crimean regional department of the Department of excise administration and control over the production and turnover of excisable goods of the State Tax Administration in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

From May 2002 to May 2006, he was the First Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council of Crimea.

In April 2006, Kiselov was elected a member of parliament, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the Verkhovna Rada, taking office on 25 May. In July 2006, he became the Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Regulations, Deputy Ethics and Ensuring the Activities of the Verkhovna Rada.

In September 2006, he was the Deputy Head of the Parliamentary Faction of the Party of Regions. In December 2007, he was the Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on issues of regulations, parliamentary ethics and ensuring the activities of the Verkhovna Rada.

In July 2010, he was appointed freelance adviser to Prime Minister Mykola Azarov on economic and land issues.

In September 2012, he advocated the abolition of the right to free healthcare at the constitutional level.

Party issues and controversy
He joined the Party of Regions in 2001.

In August 2009, a split occurred in the Crimean branch of the Party of Regions: one of its leaders, Kiselov, accused the Crimean leadership of corruption.

Kiselyov stated that the militia of the autonomy has operational data that a representative of the Crimean criminality ordered his physical removal. Kiselyov also stated himself on the live broadcast of the State Television and Radio Company "Crimea" on a Thursday evening, speaking with his report, "The day before yesterday (August 18 - IF), I was invited to the headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where I was presented with operational data that the criminal authority "ordered" me and was looking for an executor of my physical removal. I think you can guess who it is. The politician became very famous, on the first place in the ranking in Crimea."

Following him, the leaders of the Russian Community of Crimea (RCC) announced their withdrawal from the Party of Regions. The Ukrainian mass media linked this demarche due to Kiselov's conflict with the Crimean Speaker Anatoliy Hrystenko and the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the ARC from the "For Yanukovych" bloc, Oleksandr Melynk, a member of the Party of Regions, whom Kiselov accused of being the leader of the organized crime group "Seilem".

On 16 September, Kiselov was expelled from the Party of Regions, and on 9 October the faction of the Party of Regions of the Verkhovna Rada.

On 29 September, Kiselov submitted an application to leave the Party of Reagions, citing Yanukovych is "killing the future" of party, and was bringing more crime in Crimea.

On 7 September 2010, he was reinstated in the Party of Regions, and on 4 October he rejoined the faction of the Party of Regions of the Verkhovna Rada.

Family
He is married to his wife Mariya Vasiliyivna (born in 1949), who is retired. The couple have a son Roman (born in 1972),, a bank employee, and daughter Lyudmila (born in 1983).