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Oleksandr Danchenko

Ukrainian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ20066733
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Oleksandr Ivanovych Danchenko (Ukrainian: Олександр Іванович Данченко, born November 14, 1974) is a Ukrainian politician. He was elected to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) in the October 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, appearing 10th on the party list of Self Reliance. Formerly the CEO of a telecom provider Data Group, in 2014-2019 headed the Parliamentary Committee for Informatization and Communications. He failed to win reelection in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.

Early life

Born in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, he attended school No. 108 in Kyiv, where he graduated with a silver medal. In 1997, he graduated from National Technical University of Ukraine 'Kyiv Polytechnic University', the faculty of Construction and Technology of Radio-electronic Devices. Later he received MBA degree from International Institute of Management in Kyiv (in 2007) and attended the Institute of Administrative Management (TEMIS) in Canada.

Career in business

Danchenko started his career in 1995, obtaining the post of technical director in the company "UkrTraks". In 1998 became the CEO of the satellite communication company CTC.

Starting 2001 he was the CEO of the telecommunication company Datastat.

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The public source identifies “Oleksandr Danchenko” as ukrainian politician. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Oleksandr, Danchenko and Ukrainian.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974, 2014, 2019, 1997—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1974-11-14. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Oleksandr, Danchenko and Ukrainian providing the first useful test.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20066733. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1974, 2014, 2019 and 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from Oleksandr Danchenko” 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.