What is Oleksandr Shevchenko?
[[File:Oleksandr Oksentiyovych Shevchenko.jpg|thumb|Shevchenko in February 2014.]] '''Oleksandr Oksentiyovych Shevchenko''' ({{Lang-uk|Олександр Оксеньтійович Шевченко}}; 26 June 1937 &ndash; 15 January 2016) was a [[Ukrainians|Ukrainian]] scientist, judge, politician, and teacher. He was the deputy of the [[Svoboda (political party)|Svoboda]] party from 2012 to 2014. He was later a member of the [[Petro Poroshenko Bloc]] until 15 September 2015. He supported the [[Right to keep and bear arms|right to bear arms]] and was against the [[death penalty]]. He was born in [[Simferopol Raion]], [[Crimea]], [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]], [[Soviet Union]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://glavcom.ua/articles/8069.html|title=Олександр Шевченко: Як тільки Ізраїль нападе на Іран, Росія окупує Україну|work=Glavcom|language=uk|date=14 September 2012|access-date=16 January 2016|archive-date=17 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017085932/http://glavcom.ua/articles/8069.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Shevchenko died on 15 January 2016 at the age of 78.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://news.liga.net/ua/news/politics/8412888-pomer_kolishn_y_narodniy_deputat_oleksandr_shevchenko.htm|title=Помер колишній народний депутат Олександр Шевченко|work=liga.net|language=uk|date=15 January 2016|access-date=16 January 2016}}</ref> ==References== {{Commons category|Oleksandr Oksentiyovych Shevchenko}} {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Shevchenko, Oleksandr}} [[Category:1937 births]] [[Category:2016 deaths]] [[Category:Ukrainian academics]] [[Category:Historians]] [[Category:Judges]] [[Category:Ukrainian politicians]] [[Category:Ukrainian scientists]] [[Category:People from Crimea]] {{Bio-stub}}