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The head of Kyiv region dismissed the brother of Andriy Yermak’s advisor
Vitaliy Vlasyuk, whose twin brother works as an adviser to the Head of the Office of the President and as secretary of the Yermak–McFaul sanctions commission, is no longer deputy head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration. The official reason for his dismissal is Vlasyuk’s own resignation.
KV learned this from the order of the head of the Kyiv Regional State Administration, Ruslan Kravchenko, “On the dismissal of V.V. Vlasyuk” dated 22 May 2023 of this year.
“To dismiss Vlasyuk Vitaliy Viktorovych from the position of deputy head of the Kyiv Regional State Administration on 23 May 2023 of this year in accordance with Article 10 of the Law of Ukraine ‘On Local State Administrations,’” the document states.
The document notes that the basis for his dismissal was a letter from the Office of the President of Ukraine dated 2 May and Vlasyuk’s own resignation statement dated 11 April of this year.
Vlasyuk was responsible at KODA for the healthcare and sports portfolio.
“It was an understandable decision. Kravchenko is building his own team, so why would he keep someone else’s staff? The first to leave, amid rumors about the arrival of the new regional head, was Torkunov, who came with Governor Chernyshov; Vlasyuk, who came with Governor Kuleba’s team, has left. There will be more dismissals of people who have been in their positions for a long time. Right now there are two rumors in the administration that are being actively discussed in the corridors. The first is that Vlasyuk went on vacation abroad; the second is that some woman will take his place, whose resume has been sitting in the Office of the President for quite some time,” a KOVA employee familiar with the situation told KV.
The current leadership composition of the KOVA administration looks like this:
What is known about Vlasyuk
As KV previously reported, Vlasyuk joined KODA during the tenure of the governor, and now deputy head of the OP, Oleksii Kuleba, specifically at the end of May 2022 of last year. According to rumors, Oleksii Kuleba knew Vlasyuk, and Vlasyuk’s twin brother Vladyslav, who as of May last year worked in the Office of the President of Ukraine, helped secure protection for Vitaliy.
“Back when Oleksii worked at the Kyiv City State Administration and oversaw the city’s improvement, he took part in public events organized by the Vlasyuk brothers. They have long had an equal working relationship,” a KV source said in May 2022 of last year.
According to KV, the first public mention of the Vlasyuk brothers and Oleksii Kuleba dates back to August 2020 of that year. Then the Vlasyuks’ firm “yePravo” organized an expert discussion with representatives of the Kyiv City State Administration, lawyers, and activists about the capital’s legal issues. The event was called “Urban law: legal problems of city life and citizens.” Vladyslav Vlasyuk moderated the discussion, and Vitaliy Vlasyuk and Oleksii Kuleba participated.
Vitaliy Vlasyuk was also a curator of the charitable foundation “Kyiv region: protect and rebuild,” which currently provides assistance to Ukrainian servicemembers and was founded by Oleksii Kuleba. Since 2022 he has been a co-founder of DFTG – the “Sokoly Kyivshchyny” battalion, also together with Kuleba.
Photo from the official KOVA website: Vitaliy Vlasyuk and Oleksii Kuleba
34-year-old Vitaliy Vlasyuk is originally from Vinnytsia. He holds a Candidate of Legal Sciences degree and speaks four foreign languages. From 2013 to 2015 he worked in the Coordination Department for European Court of Human Rights decisions in the Secretariat of the Government Commissioner for ECHR cases at the Ministry of Justice. In 2015 he was an assistant-consultant to People’s Deputy Ihor Didenko (Self Reliance).
In 2017 Vlasyuk obtained the status of attorney and became managing partner of the law firm “yePravo,” where his wife also works. In addition, he has a law firm association “Twin Lawyers.” He currently manages the latter in partnership with his twin brother Vladyslav Vlasyuk.
Also, in 2017–2022 Vlasyuk served as deputy head of the Committee on International Relations of the Ukrainian National Bar Association and as head of the Committee on International Law of the UNBA. Since 2017 Vitaliy has been the head of the Association for Tracing and Recovering Assets and for two years served as deputy head of the Public Council at the Agency for Recovery and Management of Assets.
He has had work experience at the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, and taught international law at the Institute of International Relations and the National Academy of Prosecution of Ukraine.
In 2019 he chaired the Committee on International Law and was deputy head of the Committee on International Affairs of the Ukrainian National Bar Association; he is a member of the International Fiscal Association.
He has served as an adviser to many people. For example, in 2020 he was an adviser to the acting Minister of Energy and the Environment Olga Buslavets and to Cabinet Minister Oleg Nemchinov. From 2021 to 2022 he was adviser to the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine – Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov.
In November 2021 Vlasyuk also ran for the position of head of the National Agency for the Detection, Search, and Management of Assets Derived from Corruption and Other Crimes (ARMA). He also sought the position of head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office.
In January 2023, while still serving as deputy head of KOVA, he was nominated for the competition to find the head of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine. At that time, experts from the Anti-Corruption Center expressed doubts about his integrity.
Vlasyuk’s brother
Vlasyuk’s brother, Vladyslav, has specialized in criminal cases since 2012 and is also a Candidate of Legal Sciences, secretary of the Ukrainian working group on sanctions against Russia, better known in the media as the Yermak–McFaul international group. This group is headed by the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, and by the director of the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), former U.S. National Security Advisor Ambassador Michael McFaul.
Photo: Vladyslav and Vitaliy Vlasyuk
On Vlasyuk’s brother’s Facebook page it is also noted that he currently works in the Office of the President. In addition, the presidential administration’s website contains many news items mentioning that Vladyslav Vlasyuk is an adviser to the Head of the Office of the President.
In particular, a news item dated 11 June 2023 of this year states that in his capacity as Andriy Yermak’s adviser he met with a UAE delegation. And in a news item dated 2 June 2023 it is reported that together with Vice Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko he held a meeting with representatives of the Global South.
Photo from the official OP website: Yuliia Svyrydenko and Vladyslav Vlasyuk
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