Anton Yatsenko

Anton Volodymyrovych Yatsenko (Ukrainian: Антон Володимирович Яценко; born 13 July 1977) is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine representing Ukraine's 200th electoral district as an independent since 2012, having previously been a member of the Party of Regions.

[1] Yatsenko ran in the 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election as the 79th candidate on the party list of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc.

[2] In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Yatsenko ran for re-election in the 200th electoral district, this time as an independent.

[4] In the Verkhovna Rada, he joined the pro-Russian Revival faction, and became one of the party's more prominent members, serving on its presidium and becoming its deputy chair in 2018.

He was also head of the subcommittee on legislating administrative offences within the Verkhovna Rada Law Enforcement Committee.

According to anti-corruption non-governmental organisation Chesno, the majority of Yatsenko's funding came from relatives, particularly his wife, father-in-law, and sister.

[2] Yatsenko has faced controversy for a history of making sexist remarks, such as a claim that an employee of the Uman City Council only got her job because of her physical appearance.

The Pecherskyi District Court in Kyiv, hearing the case, subsequently ordered Yatsenko to pay ₴5,000 to Hervas for "moral damages" on 24 January 2020.