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Oleksandr Moroz speaking during his presidential campaign of 2004.
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Moroz (Ukrainian: Олександр Олександрович Мороз, born 29 February 1944, in Buda, Taraschanskyi Raion of the Kiev Oblast) is a Ukrainian statesman and politician. He was the Speaker of Verkhovna Rada (parliament) of Ukraine two times: 2006 through 2007, and previously in 1994 through 1998. Moroz is one of the founders and long-term chairman of the Socialist Party of Ukraine, an influential party which, however, has lost the recent parliamentary election entirely and gained no seats in parlement.
After graduating from the local school in 1960 Oleksandr Moroz graduated from the Agricultural Academy of the UkrSSR becoming a mechanical engineer. Then he worked in many careers, including as a teacher and engineer for twelve years, and joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, moving from the First Secretary of local Regional Committee of the CPSU to the position of the Head of the Kiev Oblast Committee and the Oblast Trade Union Committee. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1972 to 1991.