Volodymyr Ariev

Volodymyr Ihorovych Ariev (; born 31 March 1975) is a Ukrainian politician, journalist, film director, author of the investigative TV-series "Restricted Area", Member of Verkhovna Rada since 2007, Chair of Ukrainian delegation in Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in 2015–2019, PACE Vice-President (2015, 2018), President of PACE Committee for Culture, Education, Science and Media (2016–2017). Ariev is in the rank of Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador.

Biography Volodymyr Ariev was born in Kyiv on 31 March 1975.

Education 1992, Nature and Science Lyceum in Kyiv 1994, student of BBC World Service school, Kyiv

Career February 1993 – October 1994, assistant reporter, stringer of Ukrainian and Russian BBC services, (Kyiv) October 1994 – January 1996, special correspondent, host of "Vikna-novyny" news program, "Internews" January 1996 – May 1996, special correspondent, information agency "Vikna" May – November 1996, host of the news block in "Good Morning Ukraine!", UT-1 channel November 1996 – September 2003, special correspondent, Information and Analytical service, TV channel Inter 2002, journalist of , 1+1 Studio March 2003 – March 2004, independent journalist and author of the program "Non-province"(STB), freelance writer at weekly "Zerkalo Nedeli" ("Mirror Weekly"); special correspondent at JSC Television Information Agency "Profi TV" Third term in MP office 8th Verkhovna Rada since November 2014, was re-elected in constituency 218, Kyiv for Petro Poroshenko Bloc. Ariev was elected to parliament 4th time for European Solidarity in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election as number 17 of its election list. Ariev's daughter Yaryna Arieva was elected (at the age of 20) to the Kyiv City Council for European Solidarity in the 2020 Ukrainian local elections.

Filmography Donetsk mafia. Reloaded. "Zmina" Studio, 2007. Kyiv tragedy, 1960th. 2008 The Secrets of the Black Sea. 2009 Ukraine: from democracy to chaos. Co-production, Grain de Sables (France), 2012

Awards Awardee of V.Marchenko Prize for the best media coverage of the human rights theme (2004) Awardee of О. Krivenko Prize "For progress in journalism" (2005) Honored Journalist of Ukraine Winner of the national prize "TV-triumph" (2005, 2006)

Family Ariev is married to Natalka Fitsych (b. 1977), editor-in-chief of the production company "Restricted Area". They have a daughter Yaryna (b. 2000).