Taras Vyacheslavovych Chornovil is a Ukrainian politician and is a former deputy in the Verkhovna Rada.
Background
Taras Chornovil was born on June 1, 1964 in Lviv, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union (now Ukraine), to Vyacheslav Chornovil, a former Soviet dissident, politician, and founder of the People"s Movement of Ukraine, and his wife, Olena Antoniv.
Education
Chornovil studied at the Faculty of Biology at the Lviv University.
Career
From 1981-1982, he was a laboratory assistant at Lviv Polytechnic Institute. From 1982-1984, Chornovil served in the Soviet Army. From 1987, he was an editor in the "Ukrayinskyi Vistnyk" and the main editor of the "Moloda Ukrayina" newspapers.
From 1990-1994, Taras was a deputy of the Lviv Oblast Rada.
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.
In December 2004, Taras was the head of the Viktor Yanukovych election committee during the second voting round in the 2004 presidential election. In October 2008 Chornovil left the Party of Regions.
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.
After the first round of the 2010 presidential election Chornovil called on Ukrainians to vote for Yulia Tymoshenko (with Viktor Yanukovych being the other candidate during that round). Chornovil joined Reforms for the Future in February 2011. On February 9, 2012, Chornovil left that faction.
Politics
Political career
During the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, Chornovil switched from Our Ukraine to the Party of Regions, a party that was antagonistic to Our Ukraine.
Membership
From 1985, he was a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, and one of the founders of the Union of Independent Ukrainian Youth. From May 2002, Chornovil was a member of the Our Ukraine fraction of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine"s parliament). In the Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2006, Chornovil was elected as a deputy to the Ukrainian parliament as a member of the Party of Regions (he was 3th on their party list).