Oleksandr Sin

Template:Infobox officeholder Oleksandr Sin (Template:Lang-uk, Template:Lang-ru; born on April 12, 1961 in Ordzhonikidze, Ukrainian SSR<ref name=Major>Template:Ru icon Dossier from information agency "ЛIГАБiзнесIнформ"</ref>) is an Ukrainian politician who was Mayor of Zaporizhia from late 2010 till late 2015.<ref>Why has Ukraine become disillusioned with the Orange Revolution?, BBC News (9 March 2011)</ref>

Biography

Sin is ethnically Korean.<ref>Template:Uk icon «Хочу збудувати громадянське суспільство в Запоріжжі» – мер Сін, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (29 November 2010)</ref> In 1983 Sin graduated from the Physics Department of the Kiev State University, in 2001 he graduated as economist in Zaporizhia State Engineering Academy, in 2005 he graduated as a state management magister in National Academy of Public Administration, Office of the President of Ukraine.<ref name=Major/><ref name=Command_of_Artemenko>Template:Uk icon У великій залі облдержадміністрації голова облдержадміністрації Юрій Артеменко представив свою команду активу області, Zaporizhia regional state administration (March 16, 2005)</ref> After a career in the Soviet industry he became deputy mayor of Zaporizhia from 1994 till 1999 and till 2006 in the city's administration.<ref name=Major/> From 2006 till his election as Mayor Sin held various high post in the Zaporizhzhya Regional State Administration.<ref name=Major/>

In October 2010 Sin was elected Mayor of Zaporizhia as a candidate of Batkivschyna.<ref>Tymoshenko's Sin leads in Zaporizhia mayor's race, Kyiv Post (October 31, 2010)</ref> In December 2010 Sin left this party "so that no political context is a source of provocations and insinuations about me. I am grateful to the party, that it supported my decision".<ref>Zaporizhia mayor leaves Batkivschyna Party, Kyiv Post (December 6, 2010)</ref>

In March 2012 Sin joined the Party of Regions.<ref>Template:Uk icon Мер Полтави вступив у Партію регіонів The mayor of Poltava joined the Party of Regions, The Ukrainian Week (21 July 2012)</ref>

The Party of Regions expelled Sin, since they said he was responsible for "policy failure and the collapse of the urban economy", on 24 February 2014.<ref>Template:Uk icon Mayor Zaporozhye excluded from the Party of Regions, UNIAN (24 February 2014)</ref> The same day Sin refused to resign from his post at the request of protesters of Euromaidan Zaporizhia,<ref>Template:Uk icon Zaporizhia Mayor refused to resign at the request of Maidan, UNIAN (24 February 2014)</ref> who were occupying the Zaporizhia Oblast regional state administration building at that time.<ref>Template:Uk icon Template:Cite web</ref>

Sin unsuccessfully stood for re-election as a nonpartisan politician<ref>Template:Uk icon In Zaporizhia registered 22 candidates for mayor, Слово і Діло (2 October 2015)</ref> in the 2015 mayoral election, receiving 9% of the vote in the first round of the election.<ref>http://zpinfo.com.ua/en/pomoshchnik-vladimira-buryaka-nam-vse-ravno-kto-budet-nashim-opponentom-vo-2-ture&page=2</ref><ref>http://zpinfo.com.ua/en/podvedeny-itogi-vyborov-v-zaporozhskoy-oblasti</ref><ref>http://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ukrnews/1903688-local-elections-exit-polls-results-for-main-regions.html</ref><ref>http://elections.rbc.ua/ukr/news/rezultaty-vyborov-mera-zaporozhya-2015-itogi-1445790419.html</ref> He was succeeded by Volodymyr Buriak.<ref>Template:Uk icon CVU Chairman: Klitschko won the most votes among the mayors of cities, Espreso TV (18 November 2015)
SUMMARY: Klitschko in the lead of Kyiv mayoral election, Filatov likely to become Dnipropetrovsk mayor – exit polls, Interfax-Ukraine (16 November 2015)</ref>

External links

• Template:Ru icon Dossier from information agency "ЛIГАБiзнесIнформ"
• Template:Uk icon О.Сін:"Завдання мера - консолідація політичних і бізнес-еліт", РБК-Украина (15 November 2010)