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Ukrainian mp arrested in moscow oleksiy honcharenko took part in rally honouring boris nemtsov
Oleksiy Honcharenko (Ukrainian: Гончаренко Олексій Олексійович, September 16, 1980, Odessa, Ukrainian SSR) - Ukrainian politician, the chairman of the Odessa Regional Council, the leader of the public organization "Quality of Life". In 2014, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada on the party list of Petro Poroshenko Bloc.
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Biography
Hocharenko is a son of former mayor of Odessa Oleksiy Kostusyev. His parents divorced when he was three years old.
From 1999 until 2001 Hocharenko worked in the Odessa emergency medical station. In 2002 Honcharenko graduated with honors from Medical University, but did not pursue a medical career but a career in politics.
In 2002, at age 21, he ran unsuccessfully for the Odessa City Council of the District in the village Tairove. After that he worked as an assistant for a deputy of the city council.
From 2002 Honcharenko was a student at Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation in Moscow, Russia (Graduate School of Financial Management). He graduated from the Academy in 2005, receiving a degree in economics.
In 2005 he was elected chairman of the Odessa city organization of the party Soyuz.
In 2006 and 2010 he was elected to the Odessa City Council for Party of Regions.
During the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election he as a candidate in majority district 133 (in Odessa) lost to Ihor Markov with 20.6% of the votes (Markov gained 26.6%).
On 19 February 2014 after the first deaths of the Euromaidan-protests Hocharenko left Party of Regions.
In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election he was elected into the Ukrainian parliament for Petro Poroshenko Bloc placed number 40 on the party list.
On 1 March 2015 Hocharenko was arrested by Russian police during Nemtsov Memorial March. According to Honcharenko when in detention he was beaten and deprived of medical and legal help. Honcharenko was released from prison the next day but he promised to sue Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
On 23 February 2017, it was reported that Honcharenko had been kidnapped by unidentified attackers in Odessa. A few hours in a televised interview Honcharenko said he "was in a safe place" and Ukrainian prosecutors reported that the people involved in the kidnapping had been detained. Honcharenko claimed that his abduction was staged by the Ukrainian Security Service so that "separatist, terrorist groups operating in Odessa who planned causing me serious bodily harm" could be arrested.
Honcharenko is married with Olha who he shared classes with at Medical University. The couple has a son (also) called Oleksiy.