Oleksandr Dubinsky

He won the election with 40.95% of the votes cast and became a People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the 9th convocation.

Member of the "Servant of the People" party.

Oleksandr Anatoliiovych Dubinsky (Олекса́ндр Анато́лійович Дубі́нський; born 18 April 1981) is a Ukrainian politician, journalist and blogger, who serves as a member of the Verkhovna Rada since 2019.

He is also a presenter of the "Money" TV show on the 1+1 channel.

Dubinsky was initially a member of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's Servant of the People party, and was elected Deputy Chair of the Committee on on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy.

Dubinsky's and his party's ties to Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky have come under media scrutiny, as have his opposition to the more radical elements of Ukrainian nationalism.

In January 2021, an investigation was opened into Dubinski for tax evasion and obtaining property in an illegal manner.

He was subsequently expelled from his party.

A separate investigation was opened in August 2023, with him being accused of travelling to Spain for a holiday under false pretences amidst the war in his country.

In November 2023, Dubinsky was detained and charged with treason, being accused of "operating at the behest of Russian intelligence when they aligned with efforts by (former US President Donald Trump's lawyer) Rudolph W. Giuliani to tie the (incumbent US President Joe) Biden('s) family to corruption in Ukraine".

Dubinski has denied the charges against him, and has described the investigations as politically-motivated.

Dubinsky was born on 18 April 1981 in Kyiv.

From 2004 to 2009 he worked at the Economic News newspaper ("Ekonomichni vidomosti" in Ukrainian) as an economic journalist.

From May 2009 to May 2010 he worked as Editor-in-Chief of Weekly.ua.

Since 2009 he has been blogging on Ukrayinska Pravda.

At some point, Ukrayinska Pravda's editorial staff began to warn that the journalist was biased.

In 2010, he became a producer for the Journalistic Investigations Department on 1+1 TV channel.

According to Media Detector, when Oleksandr Dubinsky started working as the head of the Journalistic Investigations department in 2010, he became a clear and consistent advocate of 1+1 channel's owner Ihor Kolomoisky.

Since 2012, Dubinsky has directed the program Ukrainsky Sensatsii (literally Ukrainian Scoops) since its launch on 1+1.

He also served as the show's producer, as well as that of the Secret Materials show on 1+1.

In 2014, he was the host of the "Money" show.

Dubinsky's last blog post on Ukrayinska Pravda was published in mid-2015.

In April 2017, he launched his personal blog site Dubinsky.Pro.

Since May 2017, he has been actively blogging on YouTube.

He studied at the 187th school in Kyiv and later graduated from the National University of Food Technologies, majoring in accounting and auditing, and the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute as an electrical engineer.

For instance, some productions of Ukrainsky Sensatsii have signs of political put-up job, particularly the edition of 23 March 2019 called "50 Shades of Poroshenko" where then President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko was accused of creating a criminal group in Moldova and involvement in the murder of his brother Mykhailo.

Solomiia Vitvitska, a journalist at 1+1, called such investigations "strange" and assured that the TSN studio is not related to them.

During the 2019 presidential election, Dubinsky released a lot of critical materials about Poroshenko and only one about Yulia Tymoshenko.

At the same time, he devoted positive coverage of Volodymyr Zelensky.

In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election he ran in constituency 94 located in Kyiv Oblast (Vasylkiv and Obukhiv cities, Vasylkiv and Obukhiv raions) representing Zelensky's Servant of the People party as a political neophyte.

The Vidsich (Response) movement opposed Dubinsky within the Red Lines campaign.

At the end of 2019, Dubinsky, who is considered to lead "Kolomoyskyi's influence group in the Ukrainian parliament" and who, on assignment of the oligarch, "joined the public campaign ... aimed at shifting responsibility for interfering in the 2016 US elections from Russia to Ukraine" met with Rudy Giuliani, who was looking for compromising material on Joe Biden.

In the October 2020 Ukrainian local elections Dubinsky headed the Servant of the People electoral list for deputies of the Kyiv Oblast Council.

Although the party won 22 seats he did not take up his mandate.

He was the deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy.

In May 2020, fellow People's Deputy Andrii Derkach had released audio recordings which claimed to disclose the influence of former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on former President Poroshenko.

On 11 January 2021 the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control put Dubinsky on its sanction list because for being part of a "Russia-linked foreign influence network" associated with fellow People's Deputy Andrii Derkach and alleged interfering in the 2020 United States presidential election.

On 19 January 2021 the Prosecutor General of Ukraine opened a criminal case against Dubinsky regarding the legalization of criminally obtained property and non-payment of taxes according to a statement filed by Ukraine's Anti-Corruption Action Center.

On 1 February 2021 Dubinsky was expelled from the Servant of the People's parliamentary faction.

On 14 March 2021 Dubinsky was removed as chairman of the Servant of the People Kyiv regional organization.