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Vitali Klitschko

Mayor of Kyiv,

Ukraine

Vitaliy Klitschko is the current mayor of Kyiv, Ukraine, and a dedicated social activist. In 2003, he and his brother Volodymyr founded their own philanthropic organization, the Klitschko Brothers Foundation. Mr. Klitschko began his political career in March 2006, when he ran simultaneously for Verkhovna Rada and the Kyiv City Council as the head of the Pora-PRP Bloc (the union of the PORA and the Reform and Order parties). The election results allowed him to become the bloc group leader at the Kyiv City Council. In April 2010, Klitschko became the Party Leader for UDAR (Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reforms). After the parliamentary elections in 2012, Vitali Klitschko’s UDAR entered the Parliament.