Background
Kvit was born into a Jewish intelligentsia family in Uzhhorod.
journalist literary critic politician university professor
Kvit was born into a Jewish intelligentsia family in Uzhhorod.
He is president of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. After finishing his secondary education with the advanced "Red Diploma," he entered Kiev State University for the philology faculty. He was appointed Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine by the First Yatsenyuk Government on 27 February 2014. and continues to hold the post under the Second Yatsenyuk Government.
The Verkhovna Rada terminated his powers as people"s deputies when he was re-appointed to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on 2 December 2014.
Tryzub became the basis for the formation of the right-wing coalition Right Sector, organization which played a significant role in the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, and Tryzub"s leader, Dmytro Yarosh, became the leader of Right Sector. His specialties are mass communications and philosophical hermeneutics.
In the October 2014 parliamentary election Kvit was elected Ukraine"s parliament Verkhovna Rada as a non-partisan on the Petro Poroshenko Bloc electoral list (placed 11th on this list).
Member of the Ukrainian far-right Ukrainian paramilitary organization the Stepan Bandera All-Ukrainian Organization «Tryzub».