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Serhiy Ionushas

Ukrainian lawyer and politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ65198485
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Serhiy Kostiantynovych Ionushas (Ukrainian: Сергій Костянтинович Іонушас; born 18 October 1979) is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine on the proportional list of Servant of the People since 2019. He is also head of the Verkhovna Rada Law Enforcement Committee and the Legal Reform Commission. Prior to his election, he was a lawyer.

Early life and career

Serhiy Kostiantynovych Ionushas was born in the city of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) on 18 October 1979.

Ionushas obtained a law degree with honours from the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University. He also studied in the Ukrainian Institute of Industrial Property where he obtained master's degree with honours. His specialisation at the institute was intellectual property. Ionushas also studied at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Institute of International Relations under the program "Legislative stages in Ukraine: Kyiv and selected regions", and graduated with a specialisation in European Law.

Following his graduation, Ionushas worked as a legal executive. He is a member of Ukrainian Bar Association and the Ukrainian Lawyer' Association, and has authored publications and reports on copyright protection and industrial property.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Serhiy Ionushas” is ukrainian lawyer and politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Serhiy, Ionushas and Ukrainian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1979-10-18. For this dossier, Serhiy, Ionushas and Ukrainian is the immediate research focus.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q65198485. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1979 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from Serhiy Ionushas” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.