Vladimir Anatoliyevich Bidyovka (Ukrainian: Володимир Анатолійович Бідьовка, Russian: Владимир Анатольевич Бидёвка; born 7 March 1981) is a politician from the Donbas region, who served as Chairman of the People's Council of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) from 2018 to 2023.
[1] Prior to the war in Donbas, during which he supported the DPR independence, he served as a lawmaker in the Verkhovna Rada between 2012 and 2014.
[4] After failing to gain a seat in the 2014 parliamentary election in Ukrainian-controlled areas of the Donetsk Oblast, he moved to regions controlled by the Donetsk People's Republic, which had broken away from Ukraine earlier that year.
[5] As the European Union opposed the self-proclaimed republic's independence claim, Bidyovka was placed on the list of persons designated by the European Union as being involved in illegal elections and had financial sanctions imposed against him.
[6][7] Following the DPR's annexation by Russia amidst its invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent elections the following year, Bidyovka was replaced as Chair of the now-regional council by Artem Zhoga.