Oksana Kalietnik

Oksana Mykolayivna Kalietnik (; born 10 December 1972) is a Ukrainian businesswoman and politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine in the seventh convocation.

Early life and education Kalietnik was born on 10 December 1972 in Khmilnyk to forestry worker Mykola Kalietnik (b. 1943) and Russian literature teacher Halyna Loseva (b. 1947). The family moved to Kyiv, where Kalietnik herself graduated from high school No. 183 (1989) and joined the Komsomol.

Her father Mykola Kalietnik headed the department of the Ukrainian Ministry of Forestry in the 1990s. Years later, Oksana noted that she was proud of her father, "because he is just from the series of 'hardened communists,' in a good sense". Her father's brother and uncle, is a Ukrainian politician, people's deputy of several convocations G. N. Kaletnik, whose son, also a Ukrainian politician and people's deputy Igor Kaletnik, is her cousin.

Kalietnik received two degrees at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, where in 1990-1995 she studied at the Faculty of General Psychology and Sociology as a psychologist, and at the same time in 1992–1996 she studied at the Faculty of Law as a lawyer. Subsequently, speculation appeared in the media that her law degree was fake, but Kalietnik denied this.

Business career As a student in 1991, Kalietnik began working as an advertising manager (headed the advertising department) at the phytodesign company "Roksolana" (a legal foreign trade association). She recalled: "I ended up in Roksolana by accident. Walking along Andriivskyi Descent, I saw a beautiful display case with flowers, looked around, liked it, went in and asked for the director. And then I told him that I can do this, this and this, and I want to work for them. He was taken aback by such insolence, but took the job. This was my first and last hired job. And we had to do a lot, even despite the position of manager: we packed the flowers ourselves, and collected the bouquets, and agreed on delivery." At the same time, from 1999 to 2003, she headed the representative office of the Danish investment holding Dannmar Scandinavia Aps in Ukraine. In 2003, she became the founder and until 2010 the general director of the group of companies "FIM Consulting" (“Finance, Investments, Management Consulting”), which worked in the market of residential, commercial and industrial real estate, as well as the restaurant business, among its assets there were more than a dozen commercial and residential real estate located in Kyiv Oblast. Over time, FIM became the management company Dannmar Scandinavia Aps, implementing a broad investment program in Ukraine,

In 2012, she declared almost 7 million hryvnia of income, 63 million hryvnia in her accounts, owns Land Rovers produced in 2008 and the BMW 85z produced in 2004. In 2013, Focus magazine estimated her fortune at $35 million; she took 190th place in the ranking of "200 richest people in Ukraine". Oleksiy Poroshenko (father of Petro Poroshenko), who was considered Kalietnik’s main competitor in the election race, withdrew his candidacy even before the elections. Having become a member of the Communist Party of Ukraine and joining its parliamentary faction, she became the only member of the faction elected from a majoritarian constituency. In May 2014, she left the Communist Party.

Personal life Kalietnik lives in a country house in the Kyiv neighborhood of Koncha-Zaspa. Divorced, she has a daughter, Olha (b. 1993), who studies in London. She is a believer, regularly reads the Bible and prays.