14:03 17.05.2013

Yaroslav Romaniuk elected as chairman of Supreme Court of Ukraine

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Acting Chairman of the Supreme Court of Ukraine Yaroslav Romaniuk was elected as the chairman of the court on Friday.

A total of 28 of the 46 judges of the Supreme Court voted for Romaniuk, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent reported.

Seventeen judges voted for another candidate, Viktor Kryvenko.

Thus, the plenum has ruled to elect Romaniuk as the chairman of the Supreme Court of Ukraine for five years.

Romaniuk, born in 1961, a native of Lviv region, worked as investigator, judge of Brody District Court in Lviv Region, a judge of the Court of Appeals in Lviv region, and from 2005 a judge of the Supreme Court of Ukraine.

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