Volodymyr Chemerys

Volodymyr Chemerys
Володимир Чемерис
Chemerys in 2006
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office
11 May 1994  12 May 1998
Preceded byViktor Pynzenyk
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
(Viktor Pynzenyk in the 117th district)
ConstituencyLviv Oblast, Frankivskyi District
Personal details
Born (1962-10-19) 19 October 1962
Konotop, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Political partyIndependent
Other political
affiliations
Ukrainian Republican Party (1994)

Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Chemerys (Ukrainian: Володимир Володимирович Чемерис; born 19 October 1962) is a Ukrainian human rights activist and politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Lviv's Frankivskyi District from 1994 to 1998 as an independent. He was later the leader of Ukraine without Kuchma, a 2000–2001 series of protests against President Leonid Kuchma, and was briefly arrested in 2022 for expressing support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.