Roman Zvarych

Roman Mykhailovych Zvarych (; born 20 November 1953) is a Ukrainian politician. A former United States citizen, he was one of the first people to relinquish that citizenship in order to take up Ukrainian citizenship after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Early life Zvarych was born in Yonkers, New York to Soviet émigré parents who came to the United States during World War II. In 1976 he earned a B.A. with honors from Manhattan College in Bronx, New York.

Emigration to Ukraine and political career Zvarych moved to Ukraine in 1991 with the intention of pursuing an academic career, but soon after became involved in politics. He renounced his U.S. citizenship in 1995. Along with fellow politician Ivan Lozowy this made him one of the first former Americans to renounce U.S. citizenship in favour of Ukrainian citizenship.

Zwarych ran in the 1994 election for a single-mandate seat representing a district of Kyiv in the Verkhovna Rada, and received 70% of the vote but was not elected due to his failure to meet the voter turnout threshold of 50% mandated by the electoral law at the time. He was eventually elected in the 1998 election from a party-list proportional seat. But the party only won 63 seats on the electoral list; hence he was not (re-)elected into parliament. He returned to the Verkovna Rada nevertheless on 15 March 2018 to take the place of Valery Pakzkan after the latter's election as head of the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine.