Mykhailo Brodskyy

{{short description|Ukrainian politician}}

{{For|the American writer|Michael Brodsky}}

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Mykhailo Yuriyovych Brodsky ({{langx|uk|Михайло Юрійович Бродський}}) (born April 5, 1959 in Kyiv) is a Ukrainian politician who was the leader of the Party of Free Democrats{{cite news |last1=Neef |first1=Christian |last2=Schepp |first2=Matthias |title=Disillusionment in Ukraine: The Sad End of the Orange Revolution |url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,671561-3,00.html |access-date=30 April 2025 |work=Der Spiegel |date=14 January 2010 |language=en}} and businessman.

==Biography==

He was a national deputy (member of Parliament) of Ukraine from 1998 to 2002 during the third convocation, where he was on the Committee on Legislative Support of Law Enforcement and Combating Organized Crime and Corruption. He was a chair of the publishing house "Kyivskie Vedmosti" in 1998, but lost control of it after being jailed on corruption charges.{{cite news |title=Political Pulse: Presidential field takes shape |url=http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/52694/ |access-date=30 April 2025 |work=Kyiv Post |date=12 November 2009}} He was chairman of the "Yabluko" ("Apple") Party in from June 2002 to 2005.{{cite news |title=Бродський Михайло Юрійович |url=https://lb.ua/file/person/1480_brodskiy_mihaylo_yuriyovich.html |access-date=30 April 2025 |work=LB |date=14 November 2023}} Brodsky was a self-nominated candidate in the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election.{{cite web |last1=ПроКом |first1=ТОВ НВП |title=Results of voting in Ukraine |url=https://www.cvk.gov.ua/pls/vp2004/wp300ee26d.html |website=www.cvk.gov.ua |access-date=30 April 2025}} His main policies for the election was being in opposition to "oligarchs", and declared when registering that he was running for president in 2004 to bar then Prime Minister of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, from power as he viewed him as corrupt during Yanukovych's leadership when he was Governor of Donetsk Oblast.{{cite news |title=Бродський Михайло Юрійович. |url=https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/918420.html |access-date=30 April 2025 |work=Радіо Свобода |date=1 July 2004 |language=uk}}

Brodskyy allied himself with Yulia Tymoshenko before and during the Orange Revolution (in 2006 he was elected as a deputy of the Kyiv City Council representing the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc), but broke with her before the snap parliamentary elections of September 2007.

In 2007, he publicly accused Tymoshenko of trying to bribe judges of the Constitutional Court and of selling places on election lists.{{cite news |title=Михайло Бродський |url=http://www.radiosvoboda.org/content/backgrounderfullpage/1891584.html |access-date=30 April 2025 |work=Радіо Свобода |date=2 December 2009 |language=uk}}

Brodskyy was a candidate for President of Ukraine in the 2010 Ukrainian presidential elections nominated by the Party of Free Democrats,{{cite web|url=http://www.ukranews.com/eng/article/228249.html|title=Leader Of Free Democrats Party Brodskyi Applies To CEC To Register Him Candidate For President|work=Ukrainian News|publisher=UkraNews|accessdate=20 October 2009|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091031232654/http://www.ukranews.com/eng/article/228249.html|archivedate=31 October 2009}}{{cite web|url=http://cvk.gov.ua/news/news_02112009.htm|title=CEC registered two more candidates for the President UKRAINE|work=Central Election Commission of Ukraine|publisher=Central Election Commission of Ukraine|accessdate=2 November 2009|archive-date=14 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814044741/http://cvk.gov.ua/news/news_02112009.htm|url-status=dead}} during the election he received 0.06% of the votes.{{cite web |title=Інавгурація Президента України ВІКТОРА ЯНУКОВИЧА 25 лютого 2010 року |url=https://www.cvk.gov.ua/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2010_1_Visnik_Cvk.pdf |website=www.cvk.gov.ua |access-date=30 April 2025}}

From 2010 to 2014, Brodskyy headed the State Committee of Ukraine on Regulatory Policy and Entrepreneurship in the Azarov Government.{{cite news |title=Михайло Бродський обіцяє підтримати підприємців, а потім збільшити їм податки |url=http://www.radiosvoboda.org/content/article/1993956.html |access-date=30 April 2025 |work=Радіо Свобода |date=26 March 2010 |language=uk}}{{cite news |title=Щоби звільнити Бродського, Кабмін ліквідує ціле відомство |url=https://lb.ua/news/2014/10/01/281136_uvolit_brodskogo_kabmin.html |access-date=30 April 2025 |work=LB |date=1 October 2014}}