Oles Dovhyi

Biography

Oles Dovhyi was a People’s Deputy of Ukraine of the VIII and IX convocations. In the Verkhovna Rada, he did not join any faction and served as the head of the subcommittee on medical insurance of the Committee on Public Health, Medical Assistance, and Medical Insurance. On June 19, 2025, he resigned from his parliamentary powers and announced his retirement from politics. Oles Dovhyi is one of the key figures from the team of former Kyiv Mayor Leonid Chernovetskyi (2006–2012), whose tenure in power resulted in the egregious looting of Kyiv.

Timeline of Key Events

2025

He missed votes on bills concerning the ban on the symbols of the aggressor country (#7214), the decolonization of geographical names (#7253), the restoration of transparency in parliamentary committees (#11321), the liquidation of the Kyiv District Administrative Court (#5369), urban planning reform (#5655), and the cancellation of the Commercial Code (#6013). He missed 71% of votes during his nearly six years of work in the Verkhovna Rada. He did not participate in another 8% of votes, despite being registered, according to monitoring by the CHESNO Movement.

In the same year, he resigned from his parliamentary powers and declared that he would no longer run for office. Before relinquishing his mandate, he transferred a portion of his assets to his common-law wife.

The Dovgiy Family Office website featured an updated biography of Oles Dovhyi. Among other things, it is noted that he was awarded the Order of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, the Order of Andrew the First-Called (1st class), and the Order of Merit (3rd class). However, several episodes from his past, specifically his seven-year tenure in the Kyiv administration alongside Leonid Chernovetskyi, have disappeared. As have many traces of his political career in open sources.

Information regarding his position during the first months of the full-scale war is virtually non-existent. Instead, there is a series of image-building materials about the Dovgiy Family Office and self-presentation on Facebook, which became active in the spring of 2024, including active volunteering and charitable work, as well as photographing with military personnel who are public opinion leaders.

According to sources from the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia publication, Oles Dovhyi continues to influence political processes in Kyiv through structures of the “European Solidarity” party. This refers to the former deputy head of the Kyiv City State Administration, Volodymyr Prokopiv, the “overseer” of the faction, Oleksii Zasenko, and former MP Serhii Berezenko, who works with him on veteran projects. All of them are, one way or another, connected to Denys Komarnytskyi (another member of the Chernovetskyi team, and former head of the Chernovetskyi Bloc faction in the Kyiv City Council)—now a suspect in a NABU criminal investigation following the well-known “Clean City” operation.

2023

He supported the bill “On the legalization of medical cannabis,” which allowed the production of medical cannabis in Ukraine. The adoption of the law was advocated by the NGO “Patients of Ukraine.”

In the same year, he supported the bill regarding the prohibition of religious organizations in Ukraine connected to the Russian Federation.

2019

He was elected a People’s Deputy of Ukraine in electoral district #102 (Kirovohrad region). In the Verkhovna Rada, he did not join any faction and served as the head of the subcommittee on medical insurance of the Committee on Public Health, Medical Assistance, and Medical Insurance.

2018

He was among the biggest absentees from Verkhovna Rada sessions.

2017

He received a notice of suspicion from the Prosecutor’s Office due to decisions regarding the illegal transfer of over a thousand hectares of capital land in 2007–2009 into private ownership, including the “Zhukiv Island” reserve. The Verkhovna Rada stripped him of parliamentary immunity and gave its consent to bring him to criminal liability.

In the same year, the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, headed at that time by Nazar Kholodnytskyi (who failed to keep the institution independent from the government), closed the proceedings against Oles Dovhyi due to insufficient evidence collected.

2014

He was elected a People’s Deputy of Ukraine in electoral district #102 (Kirovohrad region) as a non-partisan self-nominated candidate. During the election campaign, according to observers from “Opora,” he gifted tonometers to veterans at meetings with voters, violating election campaigning laws.

He joined the “Volia Narodu” (Will of the People) parliamentary group and was deputy head of the Committee on Economic Policy. Although Dovhyi was not a member of the “Petro Poroshenko Bloc” (PPB) faction and was not elected to the Verkhovna Rada representing that party, it is important to understand that, despite his public background as a “Chernovetskyi man” and his status as a majoritarian MP, Oles Dovhyi had quite close relations with the “European Solidarity” faction. In particular, he actively contacted Serhii Berezenko, who oversaw capital issues during Petro Poroshenko’s presidency. At that time, Vitali Klitschko was the mayor of Kyiv, and his “right hand” was Vadym Stolar, who developed corruption schemes involving land and communal property, which had been established during Chernovetskyi’s tenure. In this context, the connection between Dovhyi—who knows a lot—and the Poroshenko team appears quite logical.

Individual journalistic investigations and comments from MPs and experts mentioned certain political contacts or informal relations between Dovhyi and the Poroshenko entourage—for example, regarding the distribution of districts, when in 2019 there was no strong PPB competitor in Dovhyi’s district, which was interpreted by some political observers as possible informal “neutrality” or unequal competition.

Dovhyi, as Secretary of the Kyiv City Council (2006–2011), participated in the preparation of decisions regarding land transfers, some of which were subsequently linked by journalists to the entourage of Petro Poroshenko and Ihor Kononenko (first deputy head of the PPB faction). Dovhyi himself insisted that as Secretary of the Kyiv City Council, he only followed regulations during the consideration of land issues and did not influence the final decisions.

Activists and individual MPs from the PPB in previous convocations criticized the political influence of the “old Kyiv guard” (to which Dovhyi belonged) and even blocked the Verkhovna Rada rostrum due to Dovhyi’s inclusion on the parliamentary agenda.

2012

He resigned as Secretary of the Kyiv City Council and became a member of the Kyiv City Council Commission on Budget and Socio-Economic Development.

Throughout his six years of work in the Kyiv City Council under Chernovetskyi, together with faction leader Denys Komarnytskyi, the deputy head of the Kyiv City State Administration for Economics and Finance Denys Bass, Chernovetskyi’s advisor Serhii Berezenko, Kyiv City Council deputy brothers Viacheslav and Oleksandr Suprunenko, and the mayor’s son Stepan Chernovetskyi, he formed a “young assault team” that ensured controversial votes in the Kyiv City Council.

2011

According to a Dzerkalo Tyzhnia investigation into the activities of the “young Chernovetskyi team,” more than 2,211.62 hectares of land were leased out (to out-of-town students, “dummy” cooperatives, and other straw men and shell companies); 280 hectares of land were sold (without tender, usually at a discounted price and through insider auctions); about 700 objects were removed from communal ownership through organized court decisions, additional share issues, and companies affiliated with the “aliens”; and all investment-attractive sites and objects were bought up by intermediaries for pennies.

2008

He was re-elected as a deputy from the Leonid Chernovetskyi Bloc and as Secretary of the Kyiv City Council in early elections to the Kyiv City Council.

2006

He was elected a deputy of the Kyiv City Council from the Leonid Chernovetskyi Bloc and became deputy head/Secretary of the Kyiv City Council.

2001

He earned his first million dollars at the age of 21 while working in the family business. His father, Stanislav Dovhyi, was a People’s Deputy of Ukraine of the IV, V, and VI convocations and Minister of Science and Technology of Ukraine (1998–1999).

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