Oleh Yaroslavovych Tyahnybok is a Ukrainian politician who is a former member of the Verkhovna Rada and the leader of the nationalist farright Svoboda political party. Previously he was elected councilman of the Lviv Oblast Council for the second session.
Tyahnybok was born in the city of Lviv to a family of doctors and is a doctor himself. His father, Yaroslav Tyahnybok, a Merited Doctor of Ukraine, was a distinguished sports doctor, chief physician of the Soviet national boxing team, and a former boxer himself who achieved the title of the Master of Sports of the USSR. Olehs greatgrandfather was a brother of Lonhyn Tsehelsky, a politician in the West Ukrainian Peoples Republic. Tyahnybok states he remembers from when he was younger searches conducted by the agents of the KGB in his familys apartment.
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