Vjačeslav Kyrylenko

Biography During his studies at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Kyrylenko was one of the initiators of a political student strike at the October Revolution Square in Kyiv, the so-called Revolution on Granite which was held from October 12 to 17, 1990, which eventually led to the resignation the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Ukraine Vitaly Masol. and became a member of the People's Movement of Ukraine. ). The alliance lost 9 seats but its percentage of total votes slightly improved.

In 2008 Kyrylenko was replaced as head of Our Ukraine party of its Honorary President Viktor Yushchenko. In December Kyrylenko resigned from the post as head of Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc in protest against the reformation of the coalition that supported the second Tymoshenko Government with Bloc of Lytvyn. In November 2009 Kyrylenko started to cooperate with the Party of Social Protection

In November 2009 Kyrylenko was awarded the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise V degree.

Kyrylenko was placed at number 4 on the electoral list of Batkivshchina during the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election.

Kyrylenko was instrumental in the attempt to repeal the national 2012 Law "On the Principles of State Language Policy". On 23 February 2014, the second day after the flight of Viktor Yanukovich, while in a parliamentary session Kyrylenko moved to include in the agenda a draft that would repeal this legislation. The motion was carried with 232 deputies voting in favour, the draft was included into the agenda, immediately put to a vote and approved with the same 232 voting in favour. Repeal of the 2012 Law was met with great disdain in Crimea and Southern and Eastern Ukraine provoking waves of anti-government protests, ultimately culminating with the Crimean crisis. The acting President Oleksandr Turchinov announced on February 28, 2014 that he won't be signing the law into action, but this reaction came too late to curb the unfolding crisis.

In September 2014 Kyrylenko became a founding member of his new party People's Front.

Family Kyrylenko is married to Kateryna Mykhailivna who is a philosophy lecturer at the Kyiv National University of Culture and the Arts.