Kira Rudyk

Kira Oleksandrivna Rudyk[1] (Ukrainian: Кіра Олександрівна Рудик; born 14 October 1985)[2] is a Ukrainian politician and current leader of the political party Voice and since 2019 a member of the Verkhovna Rada.[3][4][5]

Kira Rudyk
MP
Кіра Рудик
Rudyk in July 2020
People's Deputy of Ukraine
Assumed office
29 August 2019
Leader of Voice
Assumed office
12 March 2020
Faction leaderSerhii Rakhmanin
Preceded bySvyatoslav Vakarchuk
Personal details
Born (1985-10-14) 14 October 1985
Uzhhorod, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Ukraine)
Political partyVoice (2019–present)
EducationNational University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

Biography

Born on 14 October 1985 in Uzhhorod,[6] Rudyk graduated in 2008 from the Faculty of Informatics of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy with a degree in Information Control Systems and Technologies.[7] She worked in several IT companies in Ukraine and the United States, and went from being a tester to a top manager.[7]

In 2005 she started her IT career as a software tester at Software MacKiev and in 2010 she moved on to leading functions at MiMedia (2010—2013, Rudyk worked in the US for 8 months) and TechTeamLabs (2013—2016).[7]

In 2016, she became the chief operating manager of Ring Ukraine.[7] Rudyk served as COO of Ring Ukraine,[8] a division of Ring purchased by Amazon in 2018.[4]

Rudyk participated in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election and was elected as a deputy, contesting the election placed third on the election list of Voice.[7] After Svyatoslav Vakarchuk stepped down as the leader of Voice on 12 March 2020, Rudyk was elected to replace him.[6][5]

At the 29 July 2021 Voice party congress seven of the party MPs were expelled from the party.[9] Five of them had already written statements to leave the party.[9] These five were dissatisfied with, according to them, the "cementing of Kira Rudyk's control over the party."[9]

References
  1. "Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine". itd.rada.gov.ua. Retrieved 2022-03-04.
  2. "PEP: Dossier Rudyk Kira Oleksandrivna, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (Ukrainian Parliament), Member of Parliament of Ukraine". PEP.org.ua. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
  3. "Voice party elects Rudyk as new head, replacing Vakarchuk — Concorde Capital". concorde.ua. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
  4. "New wave of young Ukrainians shakes up parliamentary polls". France 24. 2019-07-19. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
  5. "Ukrainian Singer Vakarchuk Steps Down As Head of Holos Political Party". RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
  6. (in Ukrainian) Sviatoslav Vakarchuk is no longer the chairman of the Voice party, Pershyi Ukraine (12 March 2020)
  7. (in Russian) Short biography of Kira Rudyk, LIGA
  8. "iForum.ua". 2019.iforum.ua. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
  9. (in Ukrainian) "Voice" expelled 7 people's deputies from the party, Ukrayinska Pravda (29 July 2021)
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