Vitaliy Kononov

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Mykolayovych and the family name is Kononov.

Vitaliy Kononov
Віталій Кононов
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office 12 May 1998 – 14 May 2002
Constituency	Party of Greens of Ukraine, No. 1
Personal details
Born	(1950-04-02) 2 April 1950 (age 74) Kobuleti, Adjarian ASSR, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union (now Adjara, Georgia)
Political party	Party of Greens of Ukraine
Profession	Engineer (Kyiv Polytechnic Institute)

Vitaliy Mykolayovych Kononov (Ukrainian: Віталій Миколайович Кононов; born 2 April 1950) is a Georgian-Ukrainian politician and environmental activist who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from the Party of Greens of Ukraine from 1998 to 2002, heading the party's electoral list.

Political career

Kononov was a candidate in the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, nominated by the Party of Greens of Ukraine, which he then chaired. He was a People's Deputy of Ukraine, and been concerned with issues such as youth politics, physical training and sport. Since 1999, he has been a member of the Board of Ukrainian-wide union of democratic forces "Consent". He was also a presidential candidate in the 1999 Ukrainian presidential election, receiving 0.29% of the votes[1] and finished 11th of 13 candidates.

In his election program, Kononov supports transition to parliamentary-presidential government, and he actively speaks in support of environmental protection.

References

1. Day, Alan John; East, Roger; Thomas, Richard (2002). A political and economic dictionary of Eastern Europe. Psychology Press. pp. 245–. ISBN 978-1-85743-063-9. Retrieved 11 May 2011.

Political offices
Preceded by Yuriy Shcherbak	Leader of Party of Greens of Ukraine 1992–2006	Succeeded by Volodymyr Kosterin