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Mykola Bagrayev
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Mykola Bagrayev

Ukrainian businessman (born 1964)

Mykola Georgiyovich Bagrayev (Ukrainian: Микола Георгійович Баграєв; Iron Ossetic: Багъӕраты Георгийы фырт Никъала; born 19 June 1964) is a Ukrainian businessman in the fields of media and show business and a social activist. He is best known as the founder of the Tavria Games, an international music festival, and the Chernomorki Games, a national charitable festival for children.2

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Born Jun 19, 1964.1

About

He established the radio broadcasting group TAVR Media, and also played a key role in the creation of the Ukrainian music television channels M1 and M2. Bagrayev is a co-founder of TicketsBox, a ticket distribution platform, and has ownership interests in the advertising company RTM-Ukraine and the technical production firm Profi Group. Between 2000 and 2002, he served on the National Council of Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine. During this time, the Council created the Teletriumph Awards, Ukraine's only national television awards, of which Bagarev is a co-founder. He was elected as a member of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) for four consecutive terms, from 2002 to 2014, and was active on the Committee on Freedom of Speech and Information Policy.

In response to the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Mykola Bagrayev’s media enterprises discontinued the use of Russian content early on—well before the enactment of Ukraine’s Law No. 2310-IX on June 19, 2022, which imposed restrictions on the public use of music from the aggressor state. On February 27, 2022, Russian Radio Ukraine was officially shut down. Shortly afterward, a new station, Radio Bayraktar was launched. Within just three months, Radio Bayrakta” emerged as one of Ukraine’s most popular FM broadcasters.

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Companies

Early life and education

  • 1987Kherson State Agrarian and Economic University3
  • 2005Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman3

Career

Occupation: entrepreneur, social activist.10

  • 2012 to 2014People's Deputy of Ukraine5 9
  • 2007 to 2012People's Deputy of Ukraine5 8
  • 2006 to 2007People's Deputy of Ukraine5 7
  • 2002 to 2006People's Deputy of Ukraine5 6
  • Date not recordedFounded TAVR Media4

Personal life

  • BornJun 19, 1964, Digora11
  • CitizenshipUkraine, Soviet Union12

Politics

February 1998 – October 2000 – Secretary of Presidential Expert Council of Manufacturers and Entrepreneurs.

June 2000 – May 2002 – Member of the National Presidential Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine.

June 2002 – April 2006 – Secretary of Verkhovna Rada Committee on freedom of speech and information.

June 2006 – June 2007 – Chairman of the Subcommittee on electronic media and ICT systems, Verkhovna Rada Committee on freedom of speech and information.

Since December 2007 – Member of Verkhovna Rada Committee on freedom of speech and information.

Since May 2006 – Member of the fraction of Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc.

December 2007 – March 2010 – Advisor to the Prime Minister of Ukraine (as a public service).

Member of the Committee of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine.

Member of the Group for Interparliamentary Relations with Russia.

Mykola Bagrayev was the People's Deputy of Ukraine in the 4th, 5th, and 6th convocations of Verkhovna Rada. Although elected for the pro-European Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko (and at the time member of the All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland") in March 2012, he became a member of the faction of the pro-Russian Party of Regions in March 2012, despite having been one of the architects of Yulia Tymoshenko's election campaign during the Ukrainian presidential elections of 2010.

In 2012 he was re-elected into parliament on the party list of the Party of Regions (number 51 on the list).

Bagrayev was among MPs from the ruling Party of Regions and the Communist Party who voted in favour of ten Ukrainian anti-protest laws restricting freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. This was described in the media and by experts as "draconian," with Timothy Snyder claiming that they effectively established the nation as a dictatorship.

Bagrayev did not stand in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.

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Awards

  • Date not recordedHonored Art Worker of Ukraine13
  • Date not recordedOrder of Merit (Ukraine), 2nd class13
  • Date not recordedOrder of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class13

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