Sych Oleksandr Maksymovych

Ukrainian right-wing politician, Doctor of Political Sciences, and current Head of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council

Sych has continuously led the local self-government body of Prykarpattia since December 2015 (and also previously from 2010 to 2012). He was born on July 16, 1964, in Rivne region, graduated from the history and law faculties of Ivano-Frankivsk universities, defended his doctoral dissertation in 2020, and is a professor at the Department of Public Management and Administration at IFNTUNG. A long-time deputy chairman of the all-Ukrainian association "Svoboda" in matters of ideology, he built a long political career: he worked as deputy mayor of Ivano-Frankivsk, was elected as People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VII convocation, and from February to December 2014 held the post of Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine in the first post-Maidan government of Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

At the center of a high-profile anti-corruption scandal due to accusations of systemic bribery.

In early October 2026, anti-corruption media (including the publication "Antikor") published articles accusing Oleksandr Sych of receiving $260,000 in bribes for the illegal issuance of "paid" permits to affiliated developers through joint commercial interests with the head of "Aksioma Group," Vyacheslav Tomachynskyi. Meanwhile, in September 2026, Sych publicly complained that representatives of certain veteran communities of Prykarpattia were deliberately "incited" against the regional council and himself by external political opponents aiming to destabilize the situation in the region. Additional media resonance arose due to the official’s regular declarations of significant property and financial changes in the NAPC registers throughout 2026, as well as his sharp public statements criticizing international peace initiatives.