Olga Kovitidi

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Olga Kovitidi
Ольга Ковитиди
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Member of the Federation Council - Executive branch of the Republic of Crimea
Assumed office
15 April 2014
Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Crimea
In office
18 March 2014 – 26 March 2014
Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea
In office
27 February 2014 – 17 March 2014
Member of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea
In office
26 March 2006 – 17 March 2014
Personal details
Born
Olha Fedorivna Kovditidi

(1962-05-07) 7 May 1962 (age 59)
Simferopol, Soviet Union
Political partyUnited Russia
Party of Regions (2010 to 2014)

Olga Fyodorovna Kovitidi (Ukrainian: Ольга Федорівна Ковітіді; Russian: Ольга Фёдоровна Ковитиди; born in 7 May 1962), is a Russian and former Ukrainian politician who is currently a member of the Federation Council with the executive branch of the Republic of Crimea.[1]

She was a former member of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in Ukraine from 26 March 2006 to 17 March 2014.[2] She was the deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Crimea from 18 March to 26 March 2014. Koviditi was also the Assistant Minister of Justice of Ukraine from 2013 to 2014.

She is a Candidate of Law, Associate Professor. She was the Chairman of the Union of Lawyers of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. She is also the Deputy Chairman of the Union of Lawyers of Ukraine. She was a member of the World Association of Lawyers, World Congress of Lawyers of Ukrainian origin, and a member of the Council of the World Greek Interparliamentary Union.

Kovitidi is known on Russian television for her Ukrainophobic statements.[3]

Biography[]

In 2010, she joined the Party of Regions.[4]

On 26 March 2014, the State Council of the Republic of Crimea appointed Kovitidi a member of the Federation Council from the executive power of the republic - the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Crimea.[5][6] She was confirmed on 15 April 2014. She is also a member of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security.

In February 2015, at the winter session held on February 18–20 in Vienna, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly refused to recognize the credentials of Kovitidi, a member of the Russian delegation, who was included in its composition as “the first member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from the executive power of the Republic of Crimea”. The decision was made on 18 February at a meeting of the Credentials Committee,[7][8][9] because "a parliamentarian nominated to work in the PA must represent the country that makes the presentation - and not the authority that was established on foreign soil by methods that most OSCE countries recognize as illegal."[10][8]

Kovitidi is on the sanctions list adopted by the European Union in the conflict with Russia over Ukraine. The Prosecutor's Office of the ARC is suspected of high treason, in connection with which it is put on the wanted list.[11]

Controversies[]

Involvement of the Russo-Ukrainian War[]

During the Russian intervention in Crimea, she became a collaborator with the occupying power.[3]

Ukrainian phobia[]

On the air of the Russian program "Time will tell" on Channel One, Kovitida, referring to the words of the leader of the DNR terrorists Alexander Zakharchenko, voiced a fake that Ukrainian security forces in Donbas "rape children by pouring foam concrete into their vaginas."[3]

I remembered what Alexander Zakharchenko said now. When we discussed everything that is happening now in Donbass, he said: "You know, we have never seen such atrocities. They are inhumans." And he gave an example of the fact that there are many such cases, which are just scary to talk about today. An eight-year-old girl was raped and foam concrete was poured into her vagina. There were cases when four girls, literally from 18 to 25 years old, had "Separator's godfather", "Separatist's wife", "Separatist's daughter" cut out on their foreheads. With their breasts cut, they were put back to back, tied with wire and sent to their relatives."

—Olga Kovitidi[3]

References[]

  1. ^ "Ковитиди Ольга Федоровна" (in Russian). Совет Федерации Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации. Retrieved 2014-04-15.
  2. ^ "Верховная рада Украины". ИА REGNUM (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-07-26.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Пенобетон во влагалище ребенку: на КремльТВ рассказали о зверствах ВСУ на Донбассе". OBOZREVATEL NEWS (in Russian). 2018-03-17. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
  4. ^ "Парламентские выборы 2012 — Комментарии". Archived from the original on 2017-12-18. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
  5. ^ "Вице-премьер Республики Крым Ольга Ковитиди стала членом Совфеда". www.kommersant.ru (in Russian). 2014-03-26. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
  6. ^ "Ольга Ковитиди стала сенатором". meridian.in.ua (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-07-26.
  7. ^ "Statement on the rejection of Russia's designation of Olga Kovitidi as a Member of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly". Archived from the original on 2018-01-02. Retrieved 2015-12-12.
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b Report and Recommendation of the Credentials Committee regarding the Russian Federation’s Designation of Ms. Olga Kovitidi as a Member of the OSCE PA
  9. ^ "ПА ОБСЕ отказалась признавать полномочия члена российской делегации Ковитиди – МИД Украины". Интерфакс-Украина (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-07-26.
  10. ^ "ПА ОБСЕ отклонила кандидатуру российского сенатора от Крыма". РИА Новости (in Russian). 2015-02-18. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
  11. ^ "Прокуратура АРК предоставила список экс-депутатов ВР Крыма, объявленны�� в розыск" (in Russian). Центр журналистских расследований. 6 August 2015. Retrieved 2017-11-21.

External links[]

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