Oleh Kulinich

In the ranking of the 100 most influential Ukrainians of 2020 according to the version of the magazine "Focus", he was in 25th place.

According to the analysis of the work of the Parliament in 2020 by the civil network "Opora", Kulinich demonstrated the highest indicators of participation in the votes of the council.

In the 2019 parliamentary election, he was elected a People's Deputy for the 147th electoral district for the third time with the result of 37.79% of the votes.

In different years he was a member of groups on inter-parliamentary relations with the following countries: with the Czech Republic (2019), with Hungary (2020), with the United Arab Emirates, with the China (2020), with Romania (2020), with the Tunisia (2021).

On 26 December 2018 the Russian Federation included Oleg in the sanctions list.

As of 8 February 2017, submitted the largest number of amendments that were approved by the Agrarian Committee.

In May 2016 he was appointed chairman of the subcommittee on land relations of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on agrarian policy and land relations.

He was one of the 59 deputies who signed the petition, on the basis of which the Constitutional Court of Ukraine canceled the article of the Criminal Code of Ukraine on illegal enrichment, which obliged civil servants to give explanations about the sources of their income and the income of their family members. Criminal liability for illegal enrichment was introduced in Ukraine in 2015. This was one of the requirements of the EU for the implementation of the Visa Liberalization Action Plan, as well as one of Ukraine's obligations to the IMF, established by a memorandum.

With the assistance of Kulinich, a free concert of the band "TiK" took place in the village of Dykanka, Poltava region, during the election campaign to the Verkhovna Rada. During the election campaign, Kulinich opened 15 playgrounds on the territory of the 147th electoral district (Poltava region), built at his own expense.

In the 2014 parliamentary election he was elected as a People's Deputy of Ukraine for single-mandate electoral district No. 147 as a self-nominator. He won 21.19% of the vote.

He was mentioned in the list of deputies who did not enter information about their own business in the declarations for 2014.

In the 2012 parliamentary election he was elected as a People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 7th convocation in electoral district No. 147 (the city of Myrhorod, Dykanka, Zinkiv, Myrhorod , Reshetylivka, Shyshaky raions of the Poltava Oblast) as a non-party candidate with a result of 43.32%. In this connection, he prematurely terminated his duties as a deputy of the regional council. In December 2012, he joined the Party of Regions faction and became a member of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Agrarian Policy and Land Relations.

In 2010, he became a deputy of the Poltava Oblast Council for the third time. In the regional council of the 6th convocation, he joined the permanent commission on fuel and energy complex and subsoil use, and was elected its secretary.

In March 2006, he was re-elected to the regional council for a second term, where he worked in the permanent committee on budget, entrepreneurship and property management.

In March 2002, he was first elected a deputy of the Poltava Oblast Council. In the Poltava Oblast Council of the IV convocation, he joined the permanent commission on investment, construction, housing and communal services and ecology.

From December 2001 to today, he is the founder of the agricultural private limited company "Oktan" of the Zinkiv Raion of the Poltava Oblast. The enterprise is engaged in the cultivation and sale of plant products, as well as animal husbandry. Since 2012, the enterprise has been transferred to management.

In October 1995 he returned to Ukraine and started his own business – trading in fuel and lubricants in Zinkiv, Poltava Oblast. Built two gas stations. In 2012, he left this business by selling it.

From October 1992 to September 1995 he was deputy director of trade at the commercial enterprise "Torgovy Tsentr" in the Kursk Oblast of the Russian Federation.

1991 – graduated from the Commodity Faculty of the Poltava Cooperative Institute (now Poltava University of Economics and Trade) with a specialty "Commodity specialist of food and non-food products".

After obtaining a higher education, since October 1991 he worked as the deputy head of the Zheleznogorsk district consumer union of the Kursk Oblast of the Russian Federation.

From January to August 1987 he worked as a freight forwarder for the delivery of bakery products at the Zinkiv bakery.

After finishing school in 1984 he worked as a driver in the collective farm named after Engels of Zinkiv Raion, Poltava Oblast. He served in the army from November 1984 to 1986.

Oleh Ivanovych Kulinich (Ukrainian: Олег Іванович Кулініч; born 25 November 1966) is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine in the 9th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada (parliament), having previously served in the 7th and 8th convocations. He is head of the Dovira parliamentary faction in the Verkhovna Rada.