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✍️ Valeriy Kopiyka won the rectoral election at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in the first round
According to official voting data, Valeriy Kopiyka received 1973 votes, which is 51,6% of the total number of registered voters — this secured his victory without the need for a second round.
Other candidates received significantly less support: Hanna Tolstanova got 712 votes, Smyrnova — 159, and Korchenko — 77. Another 130 people did not support any candidate, and 49 ballots were declared invalid. Overall turnout was 81,2% (3105 of 3823 voters cast ballots).
In academic circles, Kopiyka is called a protégé of security forces dating back to Soviet times, with references to his long-standing contacts with military intelligence. During the USSR era he worked as a military translator (he is fluent in French) in hotspots in Africa and the Middle East — in particular he spent extended periods in Central Africa and the Republic of the Congo. His academic career also developed along this vector: his candidate dissertation was devoted to the topic “France’s policy in the Middle East in the 80-ies.”
Alongside his career rise to the university's top post, many questions arise about assets registered to his close circle:
Daughter — Maria Kopiyka: owns an apartment in a prestigious residential complex in the capital’s Podil neighborhood (housing prices there range from 60 000 to 170 000 dollars). She is also registered as owner of nearly 2 hectares of land in the Cherkasy region and a premium Audi A5 (year 2021).
Relative — Oksana Kopiyka: shares the same registered home address in Boyarka directly with Valeriy Kopiyka. In addition, she is listed as owner of a significant residential-and-land portfolio: at least 4 residential houses and 28 land plots in the village of Lypianka in the Cherkasy region (some are designated for agricultural use, and the locations of most are redacted in the registries). The vehicle fleet includes an Audi A5 with an estimated value of about 15 000 dollars.
Cross schemes with Olha Sukhomlynova: three real estate properties registered to Oksana Kopiyka are simultaneously listed in the registries as owned by NNIMV lecturer Olha Sukhomlynova. The latter heads a company in which Kopiyka is the ultimate beneficiary. Sukhomlynova herself owns housing in a new development in Vyshneve near Kyiv and is listed as the owner of the same houses in that same Lypianka.
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