Ruslan Stefanchuk

Ruslan Stefanchuk
Ruslan Stefanchuk
Руслан Стефанчук
	Stefanchuk in 2022
Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 8 October 2021
Preceded by	Dmytro Razumkov
First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada
	In office; 29 August 2019 – 8 October 2021
Chairman	Dmytro Razumkov
Preceded by	Iryna Herashchenko
Succeeded by	Oleksandr Kornienko
Representative of the President to the Verkhovna Rada
	In office; 21 May 2019 – 7 October 2021
Preceded by	Iryna Lutsenko
Succeeded by	Fedir Venislavskyi
Personal details
Born	Ruslan Oleksiyovych Stefanchuk; 29 October 1975 (age 48); Ternopil, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union; (now Ukraine)
Political party	Servant of the People
Education	Khmelnytskyi Institute of Regional Administration and Law; Khmelnytskyi National University

Ruslan Oleksiyovych Stefanchuk (Ukrainian: Руслан Олексійович Стефанчук; born 29 October 1975^[1]) is a Ukrainian politician, lawyer and Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (since October 2021).^[2]^[3]

Stefanchuk was touted as the ideologue of Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s election campaign in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election.^[4] He was elected to the Ukrainian parliament as a member of the Servant of the People party (placed 2nd on the party list) in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.^[5]

On the morning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Stefanchuk was rushed to the Mariinskyi Palace, amid reports of assassination attempts on Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as his role meant he would have to take command of the country had the president been killed.^[6]