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Tsarev Oleg Anatolyevich - Chairman of the Parliament of the self-proclaimed confederal Union of People's Republics - DPR and LPR since June 26, 2014. People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th convocations, former deputy head of the Party of Regions faction in the Verkhovna Rada of the 7th convocation and former member of this party (expelled in 2014). He was a candidate for the post of President of Ukraine in the early elections on May 25, 2014, but withdrew his candidacy.

Mother - Nina Vasilievna Tsareva, associate professor, candidate of chemical sciences. Father - Anatoly Ivanovich Tsarev - rocket engine designer.

Wife - Larisa Anatolyevna Tsareva (1968), assistant director of Dnepropetrovsk Paper Mill OJSC.

Oleg and Larisa Tsarev have four children: Maxim (born May 11, 1995), Olga (born October 2, 1999), Ekaterina (born October 11, 2003), Igor (born April 1, 2008). Maxim and Olga study in the UK.

The hero of our story was born in 1970 in Dnepropetrovsk. Part of Oleg’s childhood was spent in the village of Katerynovka, Vasilkovsky district, Dnepropetrovsk region, with his grandparents.

In 1984 Tsarev family moved to Ternopil, where Nina Vasilievna was sent to head the department of inorganic chemistry at the Ternopil Pedagogical Institute.

In Ternopil, Oleg studied at school No. 10, from which he graduated in 1987.

In 1987, having won the Olympiad, he was able to enter the prestigious Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI) to major in automation and electronics of physical installations, from which he graduated in 1992. After graduating from MEPhI he returned to Dnepropetrovsk.

From 1992 to 1993 he worked at the small enterprise Avtex as a production preparation engineer. Working as a simple engineer did not suit the ambitious young man for long, and in 1993 he went into business. He created and headed Kursk LLC in his native Dnepropetrovsk.

For a long time he made money by supplying computer equipment. As Oleg himself stated, this helped him accumulate initial capital for a “high start.”

In the same year, he created the financial and insurance structure "Dovir", which he headed until 1995. His passion for the supply of computer equipment prompted Oleg to create the "Dnepropetrovsk Computer Center" - 1995-1997, which in 1997-1998 grew into Silicon Valley LLC.

In 1998-2000 - Chairman of the Board and main owner of a paper mill in Dnepropetrovsk. In 2000, he became interested in the Dnepropetrovsk bakery, in which he invested for some time and then bought it out. Political career

In the 2002 parliamentary elections, he was elected as a people's deputy as a self-nominated candidate, receiving 30.26% of the votes and beating 11 rivals. At the time of the elections, he held the post of deputy director of the Dnieper Computer Center and was a member of the Party of Regions.

In the parliament of the IV convocation - Member of the United Ukraine faction (May-June 2002), authorized representative of the Regions of Ukraine faction (June 2002 - September 2005).

From February 2005 to 2010 - Chairman of the Dnepropetrovsk regional organization of the Party of Regions.

In subsequent convocations of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine: member of the Party of Regions faction (since November 2007). Member of the Committee on Tax and Customs Policy (since December 2007); People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 6th convocation since November 2007 from the Party of Regions.

He was among the 148 deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine who signed an appeal to the Sejm of the Republic of Poland with a petition to recognize the Volyn massacre as the genocide of the Poles of 1942-1944.

Since 2011 - Chairman of the Anti-Fascist Forum of Ukraine. From May 2012 to February 2014 - Advisor to the Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov.

Together with other deputies, in 2013 he took the initiative to restore the monument to Pyotr Stolypin in Kyiv. He assessed negatively the actions of the Euromaidan protesters, believing that these events were provoked by Western intelligence services and the United States.

On December 9, 2013, he sent a deputy request to the Security Service and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine with a demand to ban “the organizers and political strategists of Euromaidan” from entering the country.

Among the people listed in the document: Andreas Umland, Stanislav Belkovsky, Taras Kuzyo, Gleb Pavlovsky and Mikheil Saakashvili.

“Behind them all are foreign specialists whose profile is organizing mass actions, seizing government buildings, aggressive information campaigns. Their experience and knowledge, which was used on the Maidan, is a real threat to the national security of Ukraine,” he asserts.

During the political crisis in February 2014, Oleg Tsarev insisted on the violent dispersal of Euromaidan protesters. When the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych began negotiations with opposition leaders, he stated that “not a single government in the world will negotiate with terrorists, bandits and extremists,” proposing “to clear the streets, dismantle the barricades and liberate the occupied buildings.”

He publicly defended the interests of the Berkut special police unit, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Russian-speaking population of the South-East of Ukraine and Crimea. I did not vote in the Verkhovna Rada for any law or personnel decision proposed by the new parliamentary majority, consisting of Batkivshchyna, UDAR, Svoboda and the regionalists who joined them.

He considers the current government illegitimate, and cooperation with it as criminal.

On March 28, 2014, Oleg Anatolyevich Tsarev submitted documents to the Central Election Commission of Ukraine to register as a candidate for the presidency of Ukraine. The candidacy of Oleg Tsarev was supported by the Russian Bloc political party.

He did not take part in the congress of the Party of Regions on March 29, 2014. The Party of Regions did not support Oleg Tsarev, giving preference to Mikhail Dobkin. On March 31, 2014, the Central Election Commission registered Tsarev as a candidate for the presidency of Ukraine.

On April 7, the Party of Regions, by an overwhelming majority of votes, expelled from its membership Oleg Tsarev, Sergei Tigipko and Yuriy Boyko, who were candidates for the post of President of Ukraine.

On April 15, 2014, Oleg Anatolyevich participated in the “Freedom of Speech” program on the ICTV channel. After the broadcast, Tsarev was attacked by public activists, after which he was taken to the Prosecutor General’s Office. There he announced his refusal to withdraw his candidacy, thanking the members of the Right Sector for his salvation.

On April 29, 2014, according to media reports, Tsarev nevertheless announced the withdrawal of his candidacy, calling for a boycott of “the elections that are taking place against the backdrop of a civil war.” Oleg Tsarev does not believe that he “had to fight to the end.” In his opinion, “the end has already come. A war has been launched against one’s own people. Punishers have been storming Slavyansk with armored personnel carriers and aircraft since 4 in the morning. It’s as if they are copying the Nazis of 1941: one style...”

On April 28, Tsarev, together with members of his own social movement "South-East", during a motor rally, arrived in the city of Slavyansk, controlled by supporters of the Donetsk People's Republic, where he distributed humanitarian aid. He also posted bail for several supporters of the federalization of Ukraine, accused of setting fire to Privatbank ATMs and detained in as a result of a special operation in the Kharkov regional state administration on April 8.

On May 6, 2014, Oleg Tsarev announced the need to hold referendums on May 11 on the issue of independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk republics, as well as plans to create the Novorossiya federation in the southeast of Ukraine.

According to his assessment, a new state could be founded on the territory of Odessa, Nikolaev, Kherson, Zaporozhye, Donetsk, Lugansk, Kharkov and Dnepropetrovsk regions.

In October 2014, the Union of Refugees of Ukraine was established in the Russian Federation, the purpose of which was to compensate for material damage suffered by citizens from the actions of the Ukrainian army during the armed conflict in the east of the country. This organization filed 7 complaints to the ECHR.

At the end of November 2014, as part of the construction of the state of Novorossiya, he did not rule out the possibility of inviting former Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov, who was included in the sanctions lists and, according to a number of media outlets and State Duma deputies, to take refuge in the territory of the Russian Federation, as an “expert on economic issues.”

On January 28, Oleg Tsarev gave an interview to Ksenia Sobchak. During the conversation, he called on both sides of the conflict in Donbass to cease fire and sit down at the negotiating table.

“The first thing that needs to be done is to stop the war. Stop killing each other. The history of the conflict is such that it could have been extinguished at the dawn with simple steps. If the Kiev authorities had agreed to discuss the issue of federalization and the status of the Russian language, then there would have been no war.” .

According to his political views, Tsarev is a supporter of integration and close cooperation with Russia. In 2013, he proposed making Russian the state language in Ukraine. Tsarev declares support for European values, but is a consistent opponent of Ukraine’s entry into the European Union on the terms proposed by the EU. Supporter of the Customs Union with the Russian Federation.

He advocates the federalization of Ukraine, the transfer of more power to the regions, constitutional reform and limiting the powers of the Verkhovna Rada, the Cabinet of Ministers and the President of Ukraine. In June 2013, Tsarev said that Constitution Day of Ukraine is not a holiday, but a day of shame for the Ukrainian people.

Property and income

Oleg Tsarev is not a poor man. According to him, by 2014 he owned 27 enterprises.

In the declaration submitted in 2014 when registering as a candidate for the President of Ukraine, Oleg Tsarev indicated that his total income for 2013 amounted to 234,149 UAH. and received solely in the form of wages.

From property - Tsarev owns two land plots with a total area of ​​28.5 acres, a residential building with an area of ​​154 square meters. m, an apartment with an area of ​​64.5 m² and two cars: Lexus LS600 and Toyota Camry (both 2007).

The total aggregate income of Tsarev’s family members in 2013 amounted to UAH 1,834,792. (salary - 17,149 UAH, dividends, interest - 100,000 UAH, income from the alienation of movable and immovable property - 348,243 UAH, income from entrepreneurial and independent professional activities - 1,369,400 UAH). Oleg Tsarev’s family members own or lease 4 plots of land, a residential building, six apartments, a garden plot, 4 small objects of other real estate, a 2005 Porsche Cayenne car and a Stema trailer.

Scandals, criminal cases

By mid-April 2014, 3 criminal cases were opened against Oleg Tsarev for calls to change the territorial integrity of Ukraine through its federalization, taking actions to change the borders of the territory of Ukraine, as well as calls for a violent change and overthrow of the constitutional order.

In May 2014, the Swiss Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research published a blacklist, which included, along with Tsarev, the head of the Russian Presidential Administration Vyacheslav Volodin, the commander of the Russian Airborne Forces Vladimir Shamanov, the chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building Vladimir Pligin, as well as a number of figures from the Republic of Crimea, DPR and LPR.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine submitted a proposal to the Verkhovna Rada to bring people's deputy Oleg Tsarev to criminal liability and detain him to select a preventive measure. On June 3, the Verkhovna Rada, with the votes of 235 parliamentarians, with the required minimum of 226, deprived Tsarev of parliamentary immunity and agreed to his arrest.

At that moment, Tsarev was in Crimea, and, according to him, he intended to continue the fight against the Ukrainian authorities.

On the same day, the deputy head of the state administration of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Boris Filatov, reported on Facebook that the headquarters of the national defense of the Dnipropetrovsk region had announced a reward of 500,000 US dollars for the delivery of Tsarev to law enforcement agencies of Ukraine.

June 12 and. O. Prosecutor General of Ukraine Oleg Makhnitsky reported that his department has put Oleg Tsarev on the wanted list, which will be dealt with by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

On July 4, 2014, the head of the SBU Valentin Nalivaychenko reported that Oleg Tsarev took part in meetings regarding the commission of terrorist attacks on the territory of Ukraine, and also, together with an adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin, planned military aggression on the territory of Crimea.

The SBU plans to interrogate Tsarev about criminal connections with Sergei Aksyonov, who became the Prime Minister of Crimea during the February events on the peninsula.

On October 22, 2014, the Minister of Education of Ukraine Sergei Kvit announced the participation of Oleg Tsarev in corruption schemes used in the department. The ministry decided to produce textbooks exclusively on domestic paper, which the deputy’s enterprises sold at a higher price and in insufficient quantities.

At the same time, part of the paper supplied for textbooks by Tsarev’s enterprise was purchased abroad and passed off as their own.

Biography, life story of Oleg Anatolyevich Tsarev

Tsarev Oleg Anatolyevich is a Ukrainian politician.

Childhood, family

Oleg Tsarev was born on June 2, 1970 in the city of Dnepropetrovsk (Ukraine). Father - Anatoly Ivanovich, worked in Dnepropetrovsk as a rocket engine designer. Mother - Nina Vasilievna, associate professor, candidate of chemical sciences.

Even when Oleg was a child, the entire Tsarev family moved to the city of Ternopil (Ukraine). In 1987, Oleg graduated from secondary school No. 10 in Ternopil.

Education

Immediately after graduating from school, Oleg Anatolyevich entered the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute. In 1992, he completed his studies at this university, receiving a specialty in automation and electronics of physical installations.

Career

After college, Oleg Tsarev decided to return to his hometown of Dnepropetrovsk. In the period from 1992 to 1993, the young man worked as a pre-production engineer at the small enterprise Avtex. In 1993, he abruptly changed his job and became director of the Ukrainian financial insurance company “Doverie”. Tsarev worked in this high position until 1995.

From 1995 to 2002, Oleg Anatolyevich held several positions: he was deputy director of Dnepropetrovsk Computer Center LLC, then director of the same enterprise, director of Silicon Valley LLC and deputy director for economics of Dnepropetrovsk Paper Mill OJSC.

Political activity

In 2002, Oleg Anatolyevich Tsarev became a people's deputy of Ukraine.

In 2005, Tsarev became chairman of the Dnepropetrovsk regional organization of the Party of Regions. In 2010, he left this post.

In 2011 he became chairman of the Anti-Fascist Forum of Ukraine.

In May 2012, Tsarev was appointed advisor to Nikolai Yanovich Azarov, the Prime Minister of Ukraine. In February 2014, he was removed from the post of adviser.

On April 7, 2014, Oleg Anatolyevich was expelled from the list of members of the Party of Regions.

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From the very beginning of his political career, Oleg Tsarev showed himself as a supporter of close cooperation with the Russian Federation. In 2013, he even proposed making Russian the state language on the territory of Ukraine.

Tsarev has always supported European values, but at one time he actively opposed the country’s entry into the European Union on the terms that the EU offered Ukraine. At the same time, Tsarev supported the Customs Union with the Russian Federation.

Oleg Anatolyevich was always confident that Ukraine should become a federal state, that the country’s constitution needed reforms, and the powers of the Verkhovna Rada, the Cabinet of Ministers and the president of the country himself should be limited within reasonable limits.

He spoke sharply about the activities of the protesters at Euromaidan, considering all these violent events to be just carefully thought-out actions of the special services of the United States of America and the West.

When the crisis situation in Ukraine escalated in February 2014, Oleg Anatolyevich proposed dispersing the Euromaidan using brute force, assuring that the protesters were terrorists, extremists and bandits with whom there was no point in talking.

Presidential Candidate

On March 28, 2014, Oleg Anatolyevich submitted an application to the Central Election Commission of Ukraine with a request to register him as a candidate for the presidency of Ukraine. On April 15 of the same year, Tsarev was completely attacked. Activists grabbed the politician, took him to the Prosecutor General's Office and demanded that he give up the idea of ​​leading the country. However, Tsarev refused. True, on April 29, he publicly announced to the public that he had withdrawn from the race for the presidency, considering that elections against the backdrop of a civil war, by definition, could not be fair.

Problems with law

In April 2014, as many as three criminal cases were initiated against Oleg Anatolyevich. The politician was accused of calling for violence, for changes in the territorial integrity of Ukraine, and for the overthrow of the established constitutional order. On June 3, the Verkhovna Rada deprived Tsarev of parliamentary immunity and allowed the Prosecutor General's Office to arrest him. However, Oleg Anatolyevich did not give up so easily. He began to hide from the authorities. The General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine put Tsarev on the wanted list, and the administration of the Dnepropetrovsk region promised a large reward to anyone who would deliver Tsarev safe and sound to the country's law enforcement agencies.

Private life

At one time, Oleg Anatolyevich got married. The wife's name is Larisa Anatolyevna. The marriage produced children: son Maxim (born May 11, 1995), daughter Olga (born October 2, 1999), daughter Ekaterina (born October 11, 2003) and son Igor (born April 1, 2008).

Awards

On August 23, 2001, Oleg Anatolyevich was awarded the Order of Merit, III degree, for his personal contribution to the formation of Ukraine as an independent state.

On December 26, 2003, Oleg Tsarev was awarded a Certificate of Honor from the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for his great contribution to the formation of effective government.

On February 9, 2013, Tsarev received the Pushkin Medal for his enormous contribution to the popularization and preservation of Russian culture and the Russian language outside the borders of Russia.

Oleg Anatolyevich Tsarev(born June 2, 1970, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) - Ukrainian politician, people's deputy of Ukraine, former deputy head of the Party of Regions faction in the Verkhovna Rada and former member of this party (expelled in 2014).

He was a candidate for the post of President of Ukraine in the early elections on May 25, 2014, but withdrew his candidacy on May 1, 2014.

On June 26, 2014, he was elected speaker of parliament (head of state) of the self-proclaimed confederal Union of People's Republics, which includes the unrecognized DPR and LPR.

Born in 1970 in Dnepropetrovsk. Mother - Nina Vasilievna Tsareva, associate professor, candidate of chemical sciences. Father - Anatoly Ivanovich Tsarev, before moving to Ternopil, he worked in Dnepropetrovsk as a designer of rocket engines. He studied at school No. 10 in the city of Ternopil, graduating in 1987.

In 1987, he entered the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI) to major in automation and electronics of physical installations. In 1992, after graduating from MEPhI, he returned to Dnepropetrovsk.

From 1992 to 1993 he worked at the small enterprise Avtex as a production preparation engineer. In 1993-1995 he was director of the Ukrainian financial insurance company “Doverie”.

From 1995 to 2002, he held the positions of Deputy Director and Director of Dnepropetrovsk Computer Center LLC, Director of Silicon Valley LLC, Deputy Director for Economics of Dnepropetrovsk Paper Mill OJSC.

Since 2002 - People's Deputy of Ukraine. He was elected to different convocations both from a majoritarian constituency and from the Party of Regions list.

Political activity

From February 2005 to 2010 - Chairman of the Dnepropetrovsk regional organization of the Party of Regions. Since 2011 - Chairman of the Anti-Fascist Forum of Ukraine. From May 2012 to February 2014 - Advisor to the Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov.

Political Views

Supporter of close cooperation with Russia. In 2013, he proposed making Russian the state language in Ukraine. Declares support for European values, but is a consistent opponent of Ukraine’s entry into the European Union on the terms proposed by the EU and a supporter of the Customs Union with the Russian Federation

He advocates the federalization of Ukraine, the transfer of more power to the regions, constitutional reform and limiting the powers of the Verkhovna Rada, the Cabinet of Ministers and the President of Ukraine. In June 2013, Tsarev said that Constitution Day of Ukraine is not a holiday, but a day of shame for the Ukrainian people

One of the 148 deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine who signed an appeal to the Sejm of the Republic of Poland with a petition to recognize the Volyn massacre as the genocide of the Poles of 1942-1944.

Together with other deputies, in 2013 he took the initiative to restore the monument to Pyotr Stolypin in Kyiv.

Work in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

In previous convocations of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine: member of the Party of Regions faction (since November 2007). Member of the Committee on Tax and Customs Policy (since December 2007); People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 6th convocation since November 2007 from the Party of Regions. No. 114 on the list. During the elections: People's Deputy of Ukraine, member of the Party of Regions, member of the Committee on Human Rights, National Minorities and Interethnic Relations (since July 2006), member of the Party of Regions faction (since June 2006).

People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 4th convocation April 2002-April 2006, electoral district No. 40, Dnepropetrovsk region, self-nomination. 30.26% voted in favor and there were 11 opponents. During the elections: deputy director of the Dneprovsky Computer Center, member of the Party of Regions. Chairman of the Subcommittee on Property, Privatization and Bankruptcy of the Committee on Economic Policy, Economic Management, Property and Investment (since June 2002). Member of the United Ukraine faction (May-June 2002), authorized representative of the Regions of Ukraine faction (June 2002 - September 2005).

In 2002, Oleg Tsarev personally developed 22 bills. For the period from May 2002 to June 2004, in accordance with the results of monitoring the activities of people's deputies, which was carried out by the Foundation “Vіdkrite suspilstvo”, Oleg Tsarev was recognized as the most active legislator from the Dnipropetrovsk region. He alone or in a group with other deputies prepared 65 bills.

Currently - People's Deputy of Ukraine (since December 2012) (40th electoral district, Dnepropetrovsk). Deputy head of the Party of Regions faction in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the VII convocation. Chairman of the subcommittee on land relations of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on Agrarian Policy and Land Relations. Member of the group for interparliamentary relations with the United States of America. Member of the group for interparliamentary relations with the Kingdom of Norway.

Political crisis in Ukraine (2013-2014)

He assessed the actions of the protesters at Euromaidan negatively. Believes that these events were provoked by Western intelligence services and the United States.

On December 9, 2013, he sent a deputy request to the Security Service and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine with a demand to ban “the organizers and political strategists of Euromaidan” from entering the country. Among the people listed in the document: Andreas Umland, Stanislav Belkovsky, Taras Kuzyo, Gleb Pavlovsky and Mikheil Saakashvili.

During the aggravation of the political crisis in February 2014, Oleg Tsarev insisted on the forceful dispersal of the Euromaidan protesters. During the start of negotiations between Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and opposition leaders, he said that “not a single government in the world will negotiate with terrorists, bandits and extremists,” clearly outlining his position - “it is necessary to clear the streets, dismantle barricades and liberate occupied buildings "

He publicly defended the interests of the Berkut special police unit, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Russian-speaking population of the South-East of Ukraine and Crimea.

I did not vote in the Verkhovna Rada for any law or personnel decision proposed by the new parliamentary majority, consisting of Batkivshchyna, UDAR, Svoboda and the regionalists who joined them. He considers the current government illegitimate, and cooperation with it as criminal.

Presidential elections 2014

On March 28, 2014, Oleg Anatolyevich Tsarev submitted documents to the Central Election Commission of Ukraine to register as a candidate for the presidency of Ukraine. The political party “Russian Bloc” intended to support Oleg Tsarev’s candidacy. He did not take part in the congress of the Party of Regions on March 29, 2014. The Party of Regions did not support Oleg Tsarev as a single candidate, giving preference to Mikhail Dobkin. On March 31, 2014, the Central Election Commission registered Tsarev as a candidate for the presidency of Ukraine.

On April 7, the Party of Regions, based on submitted applications, expelled from its membership Oleg Tsarev, Sergei Tigipko and Yuriy Boyko, who were candidates for the post of President of Ukraine. The overwhelming majority of members of the political council voted for this decision, with the exception of 4 people.

On April 15, 2014, Oleg Anatolyevich participated in the “Freedom of Speech” program on the ICTV channel, on the air of which Ukrainian presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko announced that public activists were waiting for her counterparts near the building, who “intended to find out Tsarev’s opinion regarding the situation in the eastern regions Ukraine". Presenter Andrei Kulikov said that representatives of Automaidan and Afghans from the 8th hundred of Maidan had gathered at the TV channel.

After the broadcast, Tsarev was attacked by public activists, after which he was taken to the Prosecutor General’s Office. There he announced his refusal to withdraw his candidacy, thanking the members of the Right Sector for his salvation.

On April 29, 2014, according to media reports, he announced the withdrawal of his candidacy, calling for a boycott of “elections that are taking place against the backdrop of a civil war.” Oleg Tsarev does not believe that he “had to ‘fight to the end’.” In his opinion, “the end has already come. A war has been launched against one's own people. The punitive forces have been storming Slavyansk with armored personnel carriers and aircraft since 4 am. It’s like they’re copying the Nazis of 1941: one style...”

Novorossiya

On May 6, 2014, Oleg Tsarev announced the need to hold referendums on May 11 on the issue of independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk republics, as well as plans to create the Novorossiya federation in the southeast of Ukraine. According to his assessment, a new state could be founded on the territory of Odessa, Nikolaev, Kherson, Zaporozhye, Donetsk, Lugansk, Kharkov and Dnepropetrovsk regions.

On April 28, Tsarev, together with members of his own social movement “South-East”, during a motor rally, arrived in the city of Slavyansk, controlled by supporters of the Donetsk People’s Republic, where he distributed humanitarian aid.

Tsarev posted bail for several supporters of the federalization of Ukraine, accused of setting fire to Privatbank ATMs and detained as a result of a special operation in the Kharkov regional state administration on April 8.

Criminal prosecution and sanctions

By mid-April 2014, 3 criminal cases were opened against Oleg Tsarev for calls to change the territorial integrity of Ukraine through its federalization, taking actions to change the borders of the territory of Ukraine, as well as calls for a violent change and overthrow of the constitutional order. After the primary investigative actions, materials about calls for separatism will be combined into one criminal proceeding.

In May 2014, the Swiss Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research published a blacklist, which included, along with Tsarev, the head of the Russian Presidential Administration Vyacheslav Volodin, the commander of the Russian Airborne Forces Vladimir Shamanov, the chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building Vladimir Pligin, as well as a number of figures from the Republic of Crimea, Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine submitted a proposal to the Verkhovna Rada to bring people's deputy Oleg Tsarev to criminal liability and detain him to select a preventive measure. On June 3, the Verkhovna Rada, with the votes of 235 parliamentarians, with the required minimum of 226, deprived Tsarev of parliamentary immunity, and agreed to his arrest. At this moment, Tsarev was on the territory of the Russian Federation in Crimea. According to Tsarev, he intends to continue the fight against the Ukrainian authorities.

On the same day, the deputy head of the state administration of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Boris Filatov, reported on Facebook that the headquarters of the national defense of the Dnipropetrovsk region had announced a reward of 500,000 US dollars for the delivery of Tsarev to law enforcement agencies of Ukraine

June 12 and. O. Prosecutor General of Ukraine Oleg Makhnitsky announced that his department had put Oleg Tsarev on the wanted list, which the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine would look into.

On July 4, 2014, the head of the SBU Valentin Nalyvaichenko reported that Oleg Tsarev took part in meetings regarding the commission of terrorist attacks on the territory of Ukraine, and also, together with an adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin, planned military aggression on the territory of Crimea. The SBU plans to interrogate Tsarev about criminal connections with Sergei Aksenov, who became the Prime Minister of Crimea during the February events on the peninsula.

Property and income

In the declaration submitted in 2014 when registering as a candidate for the President of Ukraine, Oleg Tsarev indicated that his total income for 2013 amounted to UAH 234,149 and was received exclusively in the form of wages. As for property, Tsarev himself owns two land plots with a total area of ​​28.5 acres, a residential building with an area of ​​154 square meters. m, apartment with an area of ​​64.5 m? and two cars: Lexus LS600 and Toyota Camry (both 2007).

The total amount of the total income of Tsarev’s family members in 2013 amounted to 1,834,792 UAH (salary - 17,149 UAH, dividends, interest - 100,000 UAH, income from the alienation of movable and immovable property - 348,243 UAH, income from entrepreneurial and independent professional activities 1 369,400 UAH). Oleg Tsarev’s family members own or lease 4 plots of land, a residential building, six apartments, a garden plot, 4 small objects of other real estate, a 2005 Porsche Cayenne car and a Stema trailer.

On June 3, 2014, the leadership of the Dnipropetrovsk region decided to settle refugees from the Donetsk and Lugansk regions in the politician’s house.

Awards

• Order of Merit, III degree (August 23, 2011) - for significant personal contribution to the establishment of the independence of Ukraine, the establishment of its sovereignty and international authority, merits in state-forming, socio-economic, scientific, technical, cultural and educational activities, conscientious and impeccable service to the Ukrainian people.
• Certificate of honor from the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (December 26, 2003) - for significant personal contribution to the formation of a system of effective and politically responsible government and the implementation of socio-economic reforms.
• Pushkin Medal (Russia, February 9, 2013) - for his great contribution to the preservation and popularization of the Russian language and culture abroad.

Family

Wife - Larisa Anatolyevna Tsareva (1968), assistant director of Dnepropetrovsk Paper Mill OJSC.

Oleg and Larisa Tsarev have four children: son Maxim (born May 11, 1995), daughter Olga (born October 2, 1999), daughter Ekaterina (born October 11, 2003), son Igor (born April 1, 2008 G.).

Maxim and Olga live and study in the UK.

Political ambitions

In 2002, Oleg Tsarev, as a self-nominated candidate, won the elections in the 40th electoral district in the Dnepropetrovsk region, where former Prime Minister Pavel Lazarenko had won earlier, in 1998. The young businessman was already involved in the predominantly rural district as a member of the Party of Regions, which was part of the pro-government bloc For Food!.

However, Tsarev’s victory was not easy, since he had quite influential rivals - Dnepropetrovsk vice-mayor and pro-government SDPU (o) nominee Gennady Gvozdev, who took second place and former Lazarenko member and at that time people’s deputy Sergei Chukmasov, who received third place. The subsequent rise of Tsarev’s career along the party line is explained by the fact that at that time the Dnepropetrovsk region, by definition, could not be included in the fiefdoms of the regionals, since it had traditionally acted as a competitor to the Donetsk region in the struggle for influence in Ukraine. In addition, in 2002, the Dnepropetrovsk region was part of the orbit of interests and influence of such heavyweights as Leonid Kuchma, Victor Pinchuk, the Privat group, Sergei Tigipko, Yulia Tymoshenko and many others who had their own political projects.

Paradoxically, Tsarev benefited from the defeat of Yanukovych in the 2004 elections and lost from the victory of Viktor Fedorovich in 2010. However, first things first. In 2004, Tsarev was not even accepted as a confidant of Yanukovych, however, when, after the loud defeat of the then prime minister, everyone in Dnepropetrovsk - chief of staff Tigipko, Kuchma and his son-in-law Pinchuk and others - disowned him, Tsarev remained the only official support in the Dnepropetrovsk region. While the regionals were regrouping throughout Ukraine, Tsarev was on a white horse - in February 2005 he became the main regionalist of the region, and in the 2006 PR parliamentary lists he received 35th place. The year 2006 was not without scandals for Tsarev - the regional list of the Party of Regions was almost deregistered for bribing voters. However, then everything worked out. By the way, it was then that alarm bells started ringing for Tsarev.

The fact is that Akhmetovite Alexander Vilkul was appointed chief of staff of the PR in the Dnepropetrovsk region, who also received a passing place on the parliamentary lists of the PR. After the 2006 elections, Tsarev, who ran at the same time for the regional council, begins the fight for the seat of the head of the Dnepropetrovsk regional council and loses it with a scandal. The figure of Tsarev caused rejection among representatives of the Orange factions, as well as their then fellow travelers, the Vitrenkovites and Lazarenkovites. After a series of scandalous meetings of the regional council, Tsarev abandoned his ambitions, and at the end of the summer of 2006, Yuri Vilkul, the father of the current governor Alexander Vilkul, was elected to the post of head of the regional council, which marked the beginning of the decline of Tsarev’s political career. However, Tsarev at that time managed to stake out the regional center for himself.

In 2006, in the Dnepropetrovsk City Council, due to the combined efforts of Tsarev and Zagid Krasnov, who actually bought all the places in the city Lazarenko Bloc, but was not closely connected with the family of Pavel Ivanovich, a powerful tandem emerged. The Krasnov-Tsarev alliance resolved almost all important issues, primarily land issues. However, already in 2007, clouds began to gather over Tsarev, as evidenced by his demotion in the parliamentary list of the Party of Regions in the early elections to the Verkhovna Rada to 114th place. During the 2010 presidential elections, there were persistent rumors that Tsarev, although he is Yanukovych’s confidant, was also playing along with Sergei Tigipko. This was due, first of all, to the fact that Tigipko’s main support in the Dnepropetrovsk region at that time was Zagid Krasnov, who called himself the brother of Sergei Leonidovich. One way or another, after the victory of Viktor Yanukovych in the presidential elections, who actually handed over the Dnepropetrovsk region to Rinat Akhmetov, appointing his creature - Alexander Vilkul - as governor, Tsarev’s star finally set.

Firstly, he lost his position as the chief regional governor of the region, who became the Akhmetov governor, and, secondly, his influence on the city council was completely neutralized by Vilkul’s team. Now Tsarev has no choice but to reclaim the majority district in order to continue his political life. However, even here fellow party members are not inclined to take his interests into account. The Dnepropetrovsk district with 66 thousand voters and the Nikopol district with an electorate of 32 thousand were cut off from Tsarev’s native district, which brought him victory in 2002. Now Tsarev will have to invest heavily in order to attract 67 thousand new voters - from the Zavodsky district of Dneprodzerzhinsk and Manganets. In addition, Tsarev will have to physically move around more - the territory of the district has grown greatly. In political rhetoric, Tsarev adheres to radical Russophile positions.

By the way, Tsarev is known as a dedicated parliamentary fighter and took part in the last parliamentary brawl that broke out over the regionals’ language bill. In January 2011, Tsarev was elected co-chairman of the Anti-Fascist Forum of Ukraine. It is interesting that on Oleg Tsarev’s personal website there is an audio player and you can listen to the songs of Vladimir Vysotsky Mass Graves, Anna German Nadezhda, the group Alice - My Thoughts are Twilight, DDT - Autumn Dead Rains. And one of Tsarev’s last PR moves was the dissemination of information about that he is the only representative of the Dnipropetrovsk region who was honored to become an adviser to Prime Minister Mykola Azarov. However, the latter only emphasizes Tsarev’s loss of political weight, since Azarov himself already decides little, and his advisers even more so. It should be added that Tsarev’s brothers are also involved in politics at the local level - Mikhail is a deputy from the Party of Regions in the regional council, and Ivan is in the city council.

Unfortunately, more and more often our interest in political figures is limited only to information about their scandalous behavior or luxurious life. The problem is that the deputies themselves are more busy with fights in parliament or PR on television, but they have no time left for their constituents. This is where incredible legends about such politicians are born. People no longer remember why they voted for them! The former prosperous “heralds” of the people feel especially frivolous; they do not hesitate to demonstrate their wealth and lead a glamorous lifestyle. So the regional Oleg Tsarev has long been known as a real television star, and also an excellent fighter when it comes to defending the rights of the party in the Verkhovna Rada!

Place of Birth

Oleg Tsarev was born in the east of Ukraine, in the city of Dnepropetrovsk, on June 2, 1970. The future politician saw the light in the family of a spaceship design engineer (his father’s specialty), and his mother was a teacher at a pedagogical institute. He lived the first years of his life with his grandparents in the small village of Katerynivka. But he graduated from school in the city of Ternopil.

Oleg Tsarev’s biography already from childhood suggested a bright and meaningful life: “I was named after the physicist from the novel “I’m Walking into a Storm,” the author, so I simply had to justify the hopes of my parents,” says the deputy himself. Already at school, he became seriously interested in the exact sciences and began to show excellent results in the study of physics and chemistry. He was actively involved in classical wrestling, participated in local competitions, and, as we see, this hobby “helped” him a lot in his political career.

Study in Moscow

In the graduating class of the Dnepropetrovsk high school, Oleg Tsarev, a deputy of the Supreme Court, participated in the prestigious Olympiad in Physics at Moscow University. According to the politician, he managed to score the highest score, and he was invited as the winner to study in the capital of Russia. This is how Oleg became a student at a prestigious university and in 1992 he graduated quite successfully from the Moscow Engineering and Physics University. Received

According to the deputy, it was his university group that worked on the creation of a project to destroy enemy ballistic missiles by order of the country's top leadership. Although this information has not been confirmed. Despite his upcoming “dizzying” career in Moscow, Tsarev returned to his native Dnepropetrovsk immediately after graduation.

Working career

Oleg Anatolyevich Tsarev, after graduating from university, went to work at the large association “Southern Machine-Building Plant” (“Yuzhmash”). From 1992 to 1993 he worked as an engineer at the Avex MP. However, this position did not suit the ambitious young politician, and he soon went into business. In 1993, he headed Kursk LLC in his native Dnepropetrovsk. For a long time he made his living by supplying computer equipment. As Oleg himself stated, this helped him accumulate initial capital for a “high start.”

Business - lifestyle

Oleg Tsarev, whose biography began as an ordinary engineer, changed dramatically when he became a businessman. He began investing money in various enterprises and creating his own companies:

• In 1993, he created the financial and insurance structure Dovir, which he headed until 1995.
• But the business of supplying computer equipment prompted Oleg to create and head the Dnepropetrovsk Computer Center - 1995-1997.
• In 1997-1998, he created and headed Silicon Valley LLC.
• 1998-2000 - Chairman of the Board and main owner of a paper mill in Dnepropetrovsk.
• In 2000, the politician became interested in the Dnepropetrovsk bakery, in which he invested for some time, and then bought it and headed it.

Personal life

Oleg Tsarev met his future wife through work. Larisa worked in a bank where her future husband applied. She helped him fill out the necessary financial documents. But when a businessman needed an accountant, he again remembered the bank specialist. And so their romance began. As Oleg says, such a meeting completely changed his life. He planned to save money and travel around the world, but when he fell in love, he realized that his place was with Larisa.

Soon the young people got married and began living together in the city of Dnepropetrovsk. We lived in a small apartment of only 18 square meters. m, where their first son Maxim was born. At the moment the family is raising 4 children. They live in a picturesque place on the banks of the Dnieper, in the village of Starye Kodaki. Oleg Tsarev’s house is more reminiscent of a luxurious mansion, although, according to the family, they inherited the apartment from the scandalous politician’s father. The luxurious property is carefully guarded by numerous guards, and the family is very unhappy about welcoming strangers onto their land.

Children of the people's deputy

The biography of Oleg Tsarev evokes different emotions in people, because his actions provide food for thought. But family, according to Oleg, is the main value for him. He proudly calls himself a father of many children:

• Son Maxim was born on May 11, 1995.
• Daughter Olga - October 2, 1999
• Daughter Ekaterina - 10/11/2003
• Son Igor - April 1, 2008

Despite the fact that the deputy publicly declares that it is necessary to study and build a life only in Ukraine, his children are successfully gnawing on the granite of science in the UK. Although, according to official data, they are studying at Kyiv universities. The eldest, Maxim, graduated from a British school and entered a prestigious institution. Daughter Olga is studying in Scotland.

Oleg himself constantly states that it is necessary to stop the outflow of talented youth from Ukraine, and his children simply gain knowledge in order to return to their homeland and implement their professional skills. This is Oleg Tsarev, an ardent opponent of Ukraine’s integration into the European Union! His biography and his whole life are, first of all, closely connected with caring for his children - this is what the politician himself says. Despite his busy schedule, he knows how to change diapers, was present at all his wife’s births, and taught children to swim.

Personal time

In addition to endless interviews and press conferences on central and especially local television in Dnepropetrovsk, Oleg Tsarev, whose photo you can see in the article, loves hiking. He says that for his family there is no better vacation than exploring the beauty of Ukraine. They repeatedly vacationed in Crimea with tents, made hikes in the Altai Mountains and Lake Issyk-Kul.

But family members do not neglect the “hated” Europe, where they vacation several times a year. In addition, the deputy loves to swim and usually chooses the most prestigious resorts in the world for this activity.

Path in the political field

Oleg Tsarev, whose biography is inextricably linked with the Party of Regions, began his political career back in 2002:

• In 2002, he won the elections in the 40th polling station in Dnepropetrovsk. In the same year, he became a member of the Party of Regions and joined the pro-class bloc “For EdU”.
• 2002 - Chairman of the Committee on Bankruptcy, Privatization, Property. He headed the association for economic policy, economic management and agricultural policy.
• 2005 - authorized representative of the “Regions of Ukraine” faction.
• People's Deputy of Ukraine of the IV, V, VI, VII convocations.
• 2006 - Member of the Committee on Human Rights, National Minorities and
• 2007 - member of the Party of Regions faction, member of the committee on customs and tax policy.

Let us note that the biography of Oleg Tsarev was marked by his recognition as the most active legislator from the Dnepropetrovsk region. In the period from 2002 to 2004, according to monitoring data, the deputy, together with other people's representatives, developed more than 65 bills.

In addition, Tsarev received high awards for his activities:

• Medal of A. Pushkin - 2013
• Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine - 2003
• Order of the III degree for merit - 2011

Afterword

In the political field, Oleg Tsarev, for whom the Party of Regions has been a constant refuge throughout his career, never tires of surprising the electorate with strange statements. The politician adheres to a clear pro-Russian vector and proposes making “Surzhik” the second language in the country. In addition, his statements of an obvious separatist nature led to a negative attitude towards his person.

The politician is often attacked and insulted by people, and recently he was seriously beaten and hospitalized. In the spring of 2014, the prosecutor's office opened a case against him under the article “Call for separatism.” In addition, the politician became known for his harsh accusations of the difficult situation of the state of the “Benderaites”, communists and in general everyone who does not adhere to the ideals of the Party of Regions.