Kherson State Agrarian University (PhD in Economics)
Yuriy Vitaliyovych Odarchenko (Ukrainian: Юрій Віталійович Одарченко) (born 5 April 1960[1]) is a Ukrainian politician, member of the Batkivshchyna All-Ukrainian Union party. 2006–2014 he was a member of Ukrainian parliament. On 2 March 2014 Odarchenko was appointed the governor of Kherson Oblast.[2]
In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Odarchenko failed to get elected back into the Ukrainian parliament for Batkivshchyna after losing in constituency 182 finishing fourth with 7.32% of the votes.[8]
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^On 9 May 2014, the 69th anniversary of Victory Day, Governor Odarchenko held a speech in front of World War II veterans where he questioned the intentions of the communists.[citation needed] Governor Odarchenko also implied that a similar situation exists today in Ukraine’s southeast.[4] The crowd was not amused, and his microphone was snatched and thrown away. According to local news website Khersonskie Vesti, supporters of Ukraine’s Communist Party led the effort to interrupt the speech.[5] Although, Governor Odarchenko was comparing Russia and Fascist Germany, implying that both foreign powers swept through Ukraine, the communists attempts to represent his speech as "pro-Hitler".