Serhiy Rakhmanin

Serhiy Ivanovych Rakhmanin (; born 17 April 1969) is a Ukrainian journalist and politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine on the proportional list of the Holos party since 2019. Prior to his election, he was the deputy chief editor at Dzerkalo Tyzhnia and a reporter for other Ukrainian news programmes.

Early life and journalist activities Serhiy Ivanovych Rakhmanin was born 17 April 1969 in the city of Kharkiv, in eastern Ukraine. He began working as a journalist at a young age, working as an editor for the Kyiv-based Young Guard newspaper from 1983 to 1987. He became a freelance correspondent for the newspaper in 1989, and a correspondent in 1991, continuing for a year.

Rakhmanin studied at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv's journalism faculty from 1986 to 1993. Following his graduation, he served as a conscript in the Ukrainian Ground Forces. He was deputy chief editor for the Russian-language Kievskiye Vedomosti from 1992 to 1998, having previously worked at the Ranok journal briefly in 1992. Oleksandr Martynenko, and ), 1999 (along with Mostova and Viacheslav Pikhovshek), and 2001 (along with Volodymyr Katsman and Andriy Tsaplienko). Rakhmanin was additionally a runner-up to the Georgiy Gongadze Award for journalism in 2019, losing to Vakhtang Kipiani.

From 2014 to 2019 Rakhmanin was host of the "Game of Hopscotch" news programme on ZIK. In 2018 he also joined The New Voice of Ukraine'''s radio service.

Rakhmanin discovered an audio surveillance device in the offices of Dzerkalo Tyzhnia in December 2017. The discovery came two months after the Ukrainska Pravda'' newspaper had previously discovered their offices had been bugged for over a year.

Political career Following the adoption of the law "On the Principles of State Language Policy" in 2012, Rakhmanin participated in a hunger strike as part of the protests against the bill. During his hunger strike, Rakhmanin suffered a heart attack. Rakhmanin was successfully elected into the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament). He also stated doubts that the Battle of Bakhmut could end in Ukrainian victory, while noting that the battle could be used to inflict as many casualties and materiel losses on Russia as possible.

Personal life Rakhmanin is married to Kira Yuriivna Ivashova, and the couple has two daughters; Varvara (born 1996) and Yustyna (born 2005).