Vitaly Zhuravsky

Vitaly Stanislavovych Zhuravsky (; born May 8, 1955) is a Ukrainian politician. He served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine in the Verkhovna Rada from 1998 to 2002 and from 2012 to 2014 as a member of the Party of Regions from the Zhytomyr region.

Early life Zhuravskyi was born on 8 May 1955 in the village of Khoroshiv, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. In 1980, he graduated from the University of Kyiv, and afterwords started working as a journalist for Mashinostroitelnyk until 1988. The law was withdrawn due to the controversy surrounding it after a 349-0 vote canceled its first reading, which then Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland, welcomed as he stated it interfered with freedom of expression. On 27 February 2014, after the events of Euromaidan, he left the Party of Regions for the reminder of his term as an MP and joined Economic Development, which was led by Anatoliy Kinakh.

On September 16, 2014, a video circulated online purporting to show Zhuravsky being thrown into a garbage bin by an angry mob outside of the parliament buildings.

Post-political career After 2014, he started working as the Head of the Methodology Sector of the Institute of Legislation of the Verkhovna Rada, which he did until 2022. In 2022, he was appointed a professor at Kyiv International University.