Solomiia Bobrovska
Соломія Бобровська
Member of the Verkhovna Rada
Assumed office
29 August 2019
Governor of Odesa Oblast
Acting
In office
9 November 2016 – 12 January 2017
Preceded byMikheil Saakashvili
Succeeded byMaksym Stepanov
Personal details
Born (1989-12-20) 20 December 1989
Rivne, Rivne Oblast, Ukraine, Soviet Union
CitizenshipUkraine
Political partyHolos

Solomiia Bobrovska (born 20 December 1989) is a Ukrainian politician, civic activist and member of Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) since 2019.[1][2] From 2016 to 2017, she served as the Acting Governor of Odesa Oblast.[3]

Since 2022, Solomiia has been a member of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security, Defence and Intelligence.

Education

From 2007 to 2012, Bobrovska studied at the Philosophy Faculty of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, obtaining a master's degree.[4] She completed her Ph.D. on "Freedom as a source of social and legal legitimation of civil society".[5]

From 2005 to 2007, she studied at the Regional Information and Computer Center of the Rivne Regional Administration.

She is a graduate of the Institute of Civic Leadership,[4] and of the joint project between the Laboratory of the Legislative Initiatives and the Council of Europe.[6]

In 2010, as part of the Canadian-Ukrainian parliamentary program, she completed an internship at the Parliament of Canada in the office of Liberal Party MP Andrew Kania.

In 2017, she interned at the Women's Council of Public Administration of Massachusetts (Boston, United States).

Civic activity

In 2002, Bobrovska became a member of the national scout organisation Plast[7] She joined the NGO "Foundation of Regional Initiatives"[4] in 2009.

Bobrovska was an activist in the civic movement "Honestly. Filter the Rada!"(Ukrainian: "Чесно. Фільтруй Раду!"). She was a co-founder of the Euromaidan SOS and Help the SBGSU.[5]

In 2012-2014 and in 2015, she was the curator of projects of the public organization "Civil Liberties Center".

In 2018-2019, she headed the NGO "Ukrainian Osnova", one of the directions of which is the project of the Studio of Women's Political Interaction for women of southern and eastern Ukraine.

Solomiia Bobrovska took active part in the support campaign of Serhii Sternenko.[8]

Professional experience

In 2010, as a part of the Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program, she interned at the Parliament of Canada in the office of Andrew Kania.[9]

In 2012–2014, and from January to June 2015, Bobrovska was a project manager at the Centre of Civil Liberties.

In April–December 2014, she served as an advisor to Oleksandr Sych, the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine.[5] From October 2015 through April 2016, she served as an advisor to the Governor of Odesa Region, Mikheil Saakashvili.[5]

From April 2016 until January 2017, Bobrovska served as a Deputy Governor of Odesa Oblast.[3] On 9 November 2016, Saakashvili resigned, and she was appointed Acting Governor.[10] 26 years old at the time of her appointment, Bobrovska became the youngest Governor in Ukraine's history. She left the post on 12 January 2017.

From September–November 2017, Bobrovska completed a fellowship at the Massachusetts Caucus of Women Legislators (Boston, USA).[5] In 2018–2019, she served as head of the NGO "Ukrainian Core", focusing on the Women's Political Interaction Studies Project for women of Southern and Eastern Ukraine.[5]

Political activity

Bobrovska was one of the core members of the group around Svyatoslav Vakarchuk who initiated the Holos Party (Ukrainian: Голос).[11] She was a candidate at the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, №9[1][2] in the party lists. In the election, Holos won 5.82% of the vote, had 17 MPs elected nationwide, and three MPs elected for Lviv Oblast.[12]

She has serves as Secretary of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Inter-parliamentary Cooperation,[2] Deputy Head of Ukrainian Delegation to the NATO PA,[13] and as Co-Head of the Latvia-Ukraine Parliamentary Friendship Group.[14]

On 29 July 2021, Holos expelled Bobrovska from the party; the party stated that it could not envisage "building a common political force" with her or with the six other MPs who were also ousted .[15] Earlier that day, Bobrovska herself had written a resignation statement, expressing dissatisfaction with Kira Rudyk's leadership of the party.[15]

References

  1. 1 2 "Офіційний портал Верховної Ради України". itd.rada.gov.ua. Retrieved 2020-04-25.
  2. 1 2 3 "The people's deputies. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine".
  3. 1 2 Censor.NET. "Saakashvili's duties to be temporarily performed by his deputy Bobrovska". Censor.NET. Retrieved 2020-04-25.
  4. 1 2 3 Goloszmin. "Соломія Бобровська — Команда Змін партії "Голос"". www.goloszmin.org (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Бобровська Соломія Анатоліївна — вся правда Біографія, Балотування, Фракції, Декларація". www.chesno.org. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  6. ↑ "13 випускників програм УШПС пройшли до Верховної Ради ІХ скликання". www.usps.org.ua (in Ukrainian). 29 August 2019. Retrieved 2020-04-25.
  7. ↑ admin. "General information about the organization". Plast. Retrieved 2020-04-25.
  8. ↑ "Хто підтримує Сергія Стерненка? Обличчя протесту". glavcom.ua. 2021-05-23. Archived from the original on 2021-05-23. Retrieved 2023-12-04.
  9. ↑ "CUPP Alumni 2010". Retrieved 2020-04-25.
  10. ↑ "Бобровська тимчасово зайняла "крісло Саакашвілі"". www.ukrinform.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2020-04-25.
  11. ↑ "Vakarchuk creates Holos Party for running in parliamentary elections". Interfax-Ukraine. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
  12. ↑ CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections, Ukrinform (26 July 2019)
    (in Russian) Results of the extraordinary elections of the People's Deputies of Ukraine 2019, Ukrayinska Pravda (21 July 2019)
  13. ↑ "Members | NATO PA". www.nato-pa.int. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
  14. ↑ "Офіційний портал Верховної Ради України". w1.c1.rada.gov.ua. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  15. 1 2 (in Ukrainian) "Voice" expelled 7 people's deputies from the party, Ukrayinska Pravda (29 July 2021)
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