Volodymyr Ariev

Volodymyr Ariev
Volodymyr Ariev at a conference in 2012

Member of Parliament of Ukraine
Incumbent
Assumed office 2007

Personal details
Born	(1975-03-31) 31 March 1975 (age 49) Kyiv, Ukraine
Political party	European Solidarity
Occupation	journalist and film director
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Volodymyr Ariev (born 31 March 1975) is a Ukrainian journalist, film director, author of the project "Restricted Area". He also is the Member of Parliament of Ukraine since the 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election, chairman of Ukrainian delegation in Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in 2015–2019, PACE Vice-President (2015, 2018), President of PACE Committee for Culture, Education, Science and Media (2016–2017). He has a diplomatic rank of Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador.

Biography

Volodymyr Ariev was born in Kyiv Ukraine on 31 March 1975.^[1]^[2]

Education

1992, Nature and Science Lyceum in Kyiv^[1]
1998, Institute for Journalism affiliated with Kyiv National University^[3]
1994, student of BBC World Service school, Kyiv

Career

February 1993 – October 1994, assistant reporter, stringer of Ukrainian and Russian BBC services, (Kyiv)
October 1994 – January 1996, special correspondent, host of "Vikna-novyny" news program, "Internews"
January 1996 – May 1996, special correspondent, information agency "Vikna"
May – November 1996, host of the news block in "Good Morning Ukraine!", UT-1 channel
November 1996 – September 2003, special correspondent, Information and Analytical service, TV channel Inter
2002, journalist of TSN, 1+1 Studio
March 2003 – March 2004, independent journalist and author of the program "Non-province"(STB), freelance writer at weekly "Zerkalo Nedeli" ("Mirror Weekly"); special correspondent at JSC Television Information Agency "Profi TV"^[1]
March 2004 – December 2005, – Director and author of the program "Closed Zone", "Channel 5"
2007 – 5 Kanal stopped collaboration with Volodymyr Ariev producer center due to he ran for Parliamentary Elections.

MP 6th Verkhovna Rada since November 2007, was elected by the lists of "Our Ukraine – People's Self-Defense Bloc"^[2]
Second term in MP office 7th Verkhovna Rada since November 2012, was elected in constituency 218, Kyiv for Batkivshchyna.^[4]
Third term in MP office 8th Verkhovna Rada since November 2014, was re-elected in constituency 218, Kyiv for Petro Poroshenko Bloc.^[4]
Since 2015 Chairman of Ukrainian delegation to PACE
PACE Vice-President (2015, 2018)
In 2016–2017 President of PACE Committee for Culture, Education, Science and Media, PACE General Rapporteur for media freedom and safety of journalists
Since September 2017 Ariev hosts a political talk show on the TV channel "Direct".^[5]
Ariev was elected to parliament 4th time for European Solidarity in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election as number 17 of its election list.^[6]
Ariev's daughter Yaryna Arieva was elected (at the age of 20) to the Kyiv City Council for European Solidarity in the 2020 Ukrainian local elections.^[7]

Filmography

Donetsk mafia. Reloaded. "Zmina" Studio, 2007.
Kyiv tragedy, 1960th. 2008
The Secrets of the Black Sea. 2009
Ukraine: from democracy to chaos. Co-production, Grain de Sables (France), 2012

Awards

Awardee of V.Marchenko Prize for the best media coverage of the human rights theme (2004)
Awardee of О. Krivenko Prize "For progress in journalism" (2005)
Winner of the national prize "TV-triumph" (2005, 2006)

Family

Ariev is married to Natalka Fitsych (b. 1977), editor-in-chief of the production company "Restricted Area". They have a daughter Yaryna (b. 2000).^[3]