Boryslav Bereza

Boryslav Yukhymovych Bereza (; born 13 June 1974) is a former member of the Ukrainian parliament and a former spokesperson for Right Sector. In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election he lost reelection as an independent candidate in a single-seat constituency.

Biography Bereza was born on 13 June 1974 in Kyiv.

In 1991, after the fall of the Soviet Union, he moved to Israel, where he lived until 1993.

From February to December 2014, Bereza served as a spokesperson for the political party Right Sector, Runner up in the district gained 22.51% of the votes.

In April 2015, the Ukrainian media reported on the scandal between Bereza and the deputy from the Radical Party Ihor Mosiychuk.

In the 2015 local elections Bereza was the candidate for Mayor of Kyiv for Party of Decisive Citizens . He made it through to the second round of Mayoral elections between him and incumbent Mayor Vitali Klitschko after Klitschko scored 40.5% of the vote and Bereza 8.8% in the first round. Klitschko won this second round with 66.5%; Bereza gained 33.51% of the votes.

In September 2016, Bereza had a row with "Television news service" journalists.

On 9 May 2017, he made a scandal with a police officer during the "Immortal Regiment" in Kyiv (Beryoza was among those who tried to prevent it from being carried out).

On 24 January 2019 on the sidelines of the PACE, during a briefing by the Deputy Speaker of the Rada, Iryna Herashchenko, he pushed the journalist of the Russia-1 TV channel Olga Skabeyeva, since she, in his opinion, interfered with Herashchenko's speech. The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, reacted to Bereza's act, demanding an apology from him to Skabeyeva, threatening to slap him in the face.

In the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Bereza tried to win back his seat in the 213th electoral district. But he failed to achieve this goal. The district was won by of the Servant of the People party with 36.27% of the votes. Incumbent Mayor Klitschko was re-elected in the first round of this election with 50.52% of the votes, Bereza finished in 10th place with 7.448 votes. Ekoparty won no Kyiv City Council seats and was, with the 17th place in the election, not even close to doing so.

On 10 April 2022, he ended up on the territory of the Truskavets Convent, where he refused to serve a summons to the military enlistment office. Bereza himself claimed that he already had signed on to the Territorial Defense Brigade of Kyiv, and that the incident was an example of negative campaigning.