David Zhvania

Davyd Vazhayevych Zhvania (; ; 20 July 1967 – 9 May 2022) was a Ukrainian politician who served as the Emergency Minister of Ukraine and as a People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian's national parliament) from 2002 to 2010 for the pro-European Our Ukraine Bloc and from 2012 to 2014 for the pro-Russian Party of Regions.

Biography Zhvania was born on 20 July 1967 in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, then part of the USSR.

In the 2006 parliamentary election Zhvania was reelected for this same coalition that was by then named Our Ukraine Bloc. Yushchenko did not provide evidence for his claim.

Zhvania took part in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election as an independent candidate in single-member districts number 140 (first-past-the-post wins a parliament seat) located in the town Illichivsk. He was (re-)elected in parliament after winning the district with 37.02% of the vote. In parliament Zhvania in December 2012 he joined the Party of Regions faction.

In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Zhvania, this time as a candidate for Petro Poroshenko Bloc, failed to get reelected in constituency number 140. He finished third with 9.49% of the votes.

Zhvania died on 9 May 2022 in shelling near the village of Novopokrovka, Polohy Raion, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.