Iryna Herashchenko


Iryna Volodymyrivna Herashchenko is a People's Deputy of Ukraine of IX convocation from the European Solidarity party, a politician and journalist of Ukraine. She is a Merited Journalist of Ukraine. Former First Deputy Chairwoman of the Verkhovna Rada, also serving as President's Humanitarian Envoy at the Minsk peace talks regarding the War in Donbass.

Personal life and education

Born on 15 May 1971 in Cherkasy, Herashchenko graduated from the Kiev University Department of Journalism in 1993. She is married and has two daughters and a son.

Career

Herashchenko worked as a journalist for Inter and then as a presidential press secretary in 2005–06 for Viktor Yushchenko. In 2006–07, she was a president of the Information Agency UNIAN. In November 2007, she entered parliament for the first time as a member of the Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc. For the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary elections, she joined the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform of Vitali Klitschko.
In June 2014, during the war in Donbass, Herashchenko was appointed President Petro Poroshenko's envoy for his Peace plan for Eastern Ukraine. In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, she was re-elected into parliament after being in the top 10 of the electoral list of Petro Poroshenko Bloc. There she became Chairman of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on issues of European integration. On 14 April 2016 Herashchenko was elected First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada.
Acting as deputy Speaker, she was among 322 Ukrainian citizens placed under sanctions by Russia in November 2018.
In the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Herashchenko was placed third on the party list of European Solidarity. She was elected to parliament.

Earnings

According to the electronic declaration, in 2019, Herashchenko received 1210,875 hryvnias as salary and reimbursement of expenses as deputy of the Verkhovna Rada. On bank accounts, Iryna Herashchenko had 98,333 hryvnias. She also declared US$ 32,500, € 6100, and 135,000 hryvnias in cash. Additionally, Iryna Herashchenko had a collection of paintings, as well as valuable jewellery. Her husband has declared 4 028,356 hryvnias of income and 2 apartments. Iryna Herashchenko also declared a 2013 Ford Explorer car and a 2015 LEXUS RX200T car.