He is best known as a self-nominated candidate in the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election, for which he changed his second name to Protyvsikh (ukr.
[3] Vasyliy Humenyuk completed a law degree at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv after serving in the Soviet army.
[2] Protyvsikh changed his surname to “express the opinions of all those citizens that are against all candidates and the disorder that Ukraine currently finds itself in”.
[7] Protyvsikh claims "friends from around the world" assisted him in obtained the ₴2.5 million deposit needed for his registration as presidential candidate.
Protyvsikh considered Yulia Tymoshenko his main opponent in the presidential elections.