During his five-year political career, Mykola Tyshchenko, a member of the Ukrainian parliament, has been at the center of various scandals and public debates. His name has often appeared in the headlines regarding conflict situations and outbursts of emotion in the Ukrainian parliament.
People's Deputy Mykola Tyshchenko has once again become the hero of the news after the scandal involving the beating of a military man in the Dnipro. During his time under the dome of the Rada, he has mastered the lifestyle of a tumbleweed - living in apartments and driving other people's cars.
Short dossier
Before the Verkhovna Rada, he owned a chain of restaurants and hosted the TV show “Revizor.” In 2019, he was elected a deputy for the 219th district (Svyatoshynskyi district of Kyiv) from the “Servant of the People” party.
In January 2023, Tyshchenko was expelled from the Servant of the People faction and party, removing the deputy head of the faction from the key position. He was also removed from the leadership of the Transcarpathian regional organization of Servant of the People.
Currently, he is the Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Transport and Infrastructure. Non-partisan.
Efficiency
In 2022, Tyshchenko took up the TSK on forest, water resources, and environmental inspection. He proposed that the Armed Forces of Ukraine protect forests and mountains during the war.
However, the reports did not garner any votes.
At the end of 2022, I voted for urban planning reform (#5655). I voted against opening the register of declarations.
Did he get poorer/richer?
Tyshchenko's declarations are a separate art form of finding loopholes in the legislation. Recently, journalist Mykhailo Tkach of the "UP" traveled with the People's Deputy around Uzhhorod for several days and saw a pile of undeclared property:
- electric car Mercerdes-Benz V250 (registered to another person);
- He also did not declare his wife (because he was divorced, which allows him to exclude her property and income from the document). But they were seen together.
- residence (undeclared) in the apartment of the most expensive residential complex in Uzhgorod of Alla Baranovskaya's ex-wife;
- perhaps a hidden business.
His ex also gave him UAH 12 million after the divorce. The gift arrived on February 15, 2024, and the couple divorced at the end of 2023.
Tyshchenko also used an apartment and parking spaces in the elite residential complex “PecherSKY” in the capital free of charge.
Although we shouldn't expect any special sensations from Tyshchenko's declaration (because he doesn't declare much), let's still look at how the state of his financial affairs has changed.
At the start of his entry into the Rada in 2019, Tyshchenko declared:
- wife's apartment in Kyiv;
- land plot of 1000 m2 in Kyiv for wives
- The couple used two parking spaces free of charge belonging to a relative of Vitaly Sitak, a business partner in the restaurant business.
- free use of Sitak's apartment in Kyiv and his father's apartment.
He also pointed out his wife's collection of handbags and jewelry: Dior, Prada, Chanel, Balenciaga, Celine, Bottega Veneta, Yves Salomon, Valentino, Yves Saint Laurent, Hermes, a Cartier ring and bracelet, several Rolex watches, including 3 of Tyshchenko's own. The deputy also kept up with the times and had Breguet, Bovet 1822, Patek Philippe, Hublot, and Audemars Piguet watches.
During Tyshchenko's time in the Rada, his wife moved to a Mercedes-Benz E400 (UAH 1.3 million), and since 2020 she has also acquired non-residential premises in Kyiv (jointly with Volodymyr Sitak and Gennady Dmitriev, with an area of 283.5 sq m). She is the owner of beauty salons in Kyiv and Uzhhorod.
The deputy's savings also increased: he already had 242 thousand euros (in 2019 — 11 thousand), 41.5 thousand dollars (compared to 38.5 thousand before). His wife kept 9.15 million hryvnias in cash (in 2019 — 980 thousand hryvnias) and 290 thousand dollars.
Reputation in the media
Tyshchenko is lucky to get into scandals. There are so many of them that we will simply list them point by point:
- Tyshchenko's sister appears in investigations into the Podilsko-Voskresensky bridge;
- compared Ukraine to a rubber doll;
- Covid party;
- Velour's work during lockdown;
- distributed lemons to people who lost their homes in Poznyaki;
- called the Chernobyl disaster a holiday;
- flight to Transcarpathia at the beginning of the invasion;
- poor-quality bulletproof vests for SRO;
- gave away an “ambulance” from himself, which was actually bought by a metropolitan developer;
- reported the capture of Lebanon by the Ukrainian Armed Forces instead of Lyman.
- a trip to Thailand in the midst of war;
- tore Goncharenko's pants;
