Dmytro
Razumkov

Born on October 8, 1983 in Berdychiv, Zhytomyr region. Until he turned 14, Dmytro Razumkov lived in Berdychiv, raised by his grandmother Zinaida Kudria. According to the local media, his parents were busy building their careers.

Education: Institute of International Relations at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, National State Tax Service University.

Since August 29, 2019, he is Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of the IX convocation. Since September 6, 2019, he is a member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

• Since July 2007, he worked in the Department for Supporting the Activities of the Head of the Ministry of Regional Development. After that, he worked in the Ukrainian Parliament for two years.
• In 2009-2011, he held leading positions in commercial structures.
• 2013-2014 — Advisor to the Head of the Kirovohrad Regional State Administration.
• 2015-2019 — Director of consulting company Ukrainian Politconsulting Group.
• In August 2019, he was elected Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada. His candidacy was supported by 382 deputies.

• In 2006-2010, he was a member of the Party of Regions.
• In the parliament of the 5th convocation (2016-2017), he was an assistant to Valeria Matyukha, an MP from the Party of Regions.
• Since May 2019, he was leader of the Servant of the People party.
• In July 2019, he became a people's deputy, No.1 in the list of the Servant of the People party, and after that, he became the Verkhovna Rada speaker.

• According to the 2018 declaration, together with his mother Natalia Kudria, they own an apartment (165 sq.m.) in Kyiv.
• Razumkov has an apartment (78.5 sq.m.), an office (75 sq.m.) in Kyiv, a mansion (492 sq.m.) and 1000 sq.m. in Sofievska Borshagovka near Kyiv. Also, he has an apartment (232 sq.m.) and a 500 sq.m. land plot in Zdorovka village, Vasilkivskyi district, Kyiv region.
• His wife Yulia has two apartments (44 sq.m. and 53 sq.m.) in Kyiv, an apartment (73 sq.m.), a house (490 sq.m.) and 2200 sq.m. land plot in Mykolaiv.
• The family has declared five cars. These are Toyota Land Cruiser, Mazda 6, Toyota Camry, AUDI Q7 and Volkswagen Caddy.
• The income of Razumkov family in 2018 was UAH 1.77 million. They have UAH 146,000, $832 and €1341 in bank accounts. They also have $145,000 and UAH 450,000 in cash. Razumkov lent another UAH 26.5 million to a third party.

• Wife: Yulia Chaika. Born on April 23, 1984. She is the daughter of Volodymyr Chaika, a former mayor of Mykolaiv, who died in 2013.
• Son: Olexandr Razumkov.
• Son: Olexiy Razumkov.
• Mother: Natalia Kudria, born on July 21, 1959. People's Artist of Ukraine.
• Father: Olexandr Razumkov (1959-1999), politician. In 1994-1995, he was the first assistant to President Leonid Kuchma. In 1997-1999, he served as Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council. His second (common-law) spouse, Yulia Mostova, is the editor-in-chief at Dzerkalo Tyzhnia.
• Brother: Gleb Razumkov, son of Yulia Mostova.

• In 2019 on the air of one of the TV channels, MP Tetiana Chernovol called Razumkov "an assistant to mafia deputies."

'I need you to understand, at the very time when Razumkov was an assistant to Deputy Matyukha, another assistant to Deputy Matyukha was someone Netrebko, a crime lord in Dneprodzerzhinsk, who organized a force part of the assassination attempt on me during the Maidan,' Chernovol said.

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Pawnshops Pro100credit in Kншv have repeatedly appeared in criminal investigations:

• In 2014, a swindler got a criminal record for taking a tablet to Pro100credit in Kyiv. There, he received UAH 500 loan for the gadget.
• In 2015, a robber snatched the phone from a woman's hands on Pobedy Avenue in Kyiv. He brought that mobile phone to a pawnshop the same day.
• In the same year, the cashier of one of the Interinvest XXI Century pawnshops received a suspended sentence for property embezzlement and document forgery. She granted fictitious loans (UAH 128,000) to non-existent people.
• In 2017, one of Razumkov's pawnshops (on Hetman Street in Kyiv) was robbed: a criminal was threatening the employees with a knife and took away gold jewelry and money for UAH 170,000.

After the robbery, police officers retrospectively denied to recognize people as victims. We are talking about those who brought their jewelry to the pawnshop. One of the victims, for example, was a woman from Kyiv, who brought previously a gold watch worth UAH 40,000 to the robbed pawnshop.

In the pawnshop, the woman was given UAH 8,500 for the watch. She wrote a statement to the police, indicated the amount of damage: UAH 31,500. And after nine months she found out that Solomenska police officers had denied her victim status. The woman managed to challenge the decision of the police in court.

• In December 2019, Dmytro Razumkov was included in the list of the 100 most influential Ukrainians by Focus magazine, taking the 7th place

About his father:

'My father has never hid the fact that he is up more for Russia, and not for the West. I can say with confidence that I am the son of a pro-Russian father.'

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About the reason why he supported Viktor Yanukovych::

'At that time, I think, the key role [for my decision] was not whom I liked more. It was, you know, an internal protest. Because in Kyiv you either supported Yushchenko, or, speaking in Russian, you were an outcast.'

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