Dmytro Dobkin
Ukrainian politician
Dmytro Markovych Dobkin (Ukrainian: Дмитро Маркович Добкін; born 8 January 1974) is a Ukrainian politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 2012 to 2019, representing the Party of Regions and later the Opposition Bloc. He is a younger brother of politician Mykhailo Dobkin.
Biography
Dobkin was born on 8 January 1974 in Kharkiv, which was located within the Ukrainian SSR at the time of his birth. After graduating from secondary school, he became an entrepreneur, working within the company "Progress-90" and then as the Director of Ukrtorginvest LLC and Nika LLC. In 2002, he graduated from the Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs and received the qualification to be a lawyer. He then returned to his business work, becoming director of Orbita Plus LLC, until he was elected a deputy of the Kharkiv Oblast Council.
In 2005, Dobkin was elected a member of the 5th Kharkiv Oblast Council. He was re-elected in 2010. In the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Dobkin was elected a People's Deputy of Ukraine from the Party of Regions in Ukraine's 178th electoral district. According to the voting results, he won with 65.59% of the votes. He attempted to run again in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election for the 9th convocation in the 178th electoral district, this time representing the Opposition Bloc, but lost the election with 16.43% of the vote to a candidate from the Servant of the People party.
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