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The Head of Kyiv City (Ukrainian: Київський міський голова, romanized: Kyivskyi miskyi holova), unofficially and more commonly the Mayor of Kyiv (Ukrainian: Мер Києва, romanized: Mer Kyieva), is a city official elected by popular vote who serves as a head of the Kyiv city state administration (the capital of Ukraine) and a chairperson the Kyiv City Council.
Vasyl Nesterenko, 1992-1994 (head of city council) Leonid Kosakivsky, 1994-1998 (head of city council, in 1997-1998 - mayor) Oleksandr Omelchenko, 1998-2006 (head of city council in 1998-1999, mayor since 1999) Leonid Chernovetskyi, 2006-2012; Halyna Hereha, 2012-2014 (acting) Vitali Klitschko, 2014-
In the local elections of 2020 he was elected a member of the Kyiv City Council of the 9th convocation. On 9 February 2021, Vitali Klitschko , the mayor of Kyiv , appointed Usov deputy head of the Kyiv City State Administration.
UDAR won 30 Kyiv City Council seats out of 120 in the 2020 Kyiv local election with 19.98% of votes, finishing second behind European Solidarity (20.52% of votes; 31 seats). [155] As of 23 June 2024, Klitschko is the longest-serving Mayor of Kyiv since Ukraine gained its independence in 1991 , having served for over 10 years, and the only ...
Kyiv is a "city with special status" (Ukrainian: місто зі спеціальним статусом) within Ukraine compared to the other administrative subdivisions of the country — the most significant difference is that the city is subordinated directly to the national-level branches of the Government of Ukraine, skipping the regional level authorities of Kyiv Oblast. [3]
A former US diplomat and mom of four describes how much she and her children learned from ordinary Ukrainians before her family had to evacuate in January 2022.
The first post-Soviet democratic elections of the Kyiv City Council took place on 4 March 1990. [ 9 ] The first ceremonial raising of the yellow-and-blue Ukrainian flag in modern times took place on 24 July 1990 at the flagstaff of the City Council, two years before the flag was officially adopted as the National flag of the Ukrainian state (1992).
Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of Kyiv and a former heavyweight boxing champion, will be honored with the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage at the 2022 ESPYs on ABC Wednesday, July 20. The award is given ...