Mykhaylo Svystovych

Since 2010, Mykhaylo Svystovychis activist of civic movement "Vidsich".

Has no affiliation with any political party; at the 2006 elections he was elected as a deputy of the Kyiv Oblast regional council as a part of the list of Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc.

His wife, Myroslava, was Irpin Mayor in 2006–2007.

In December 2000, after the death of his friend Georgiy Gongadze, he left his job at the bank and intensified his efforts in civic and community activities. He was one of the initiators of the movement "Ukraine without Kuchma" and was a member of the committee "For Truth!".

Since 1997 – worked as a head of currency operations Joint Stock Commercial Bank "Alliance".

Since 1996 – worked as a deputy head of currency department of "Gradobank".

1993 — worked in financial department of the state administration of Moscow district of Kyiv.

He is one of the founders of Ukrainian Students Union (USS) that conducted the student hunger strikes in 1990, member of "revolution on granite". During the "August Coup" he was organizing protests, later he joined the Ukrainian Republican Party, which was later renamed to the URP "Sobor".

At 1987 he joined the environmental protection squad called "Lenin Watch" (sector of fight against poaching), then — Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian language organization and also People's Movement of Ukraine.

Mykhaylo Bohdanovych Svystovych (Ukrainian: Михайло Богданович Свистович ; born December 11, 1968 in Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv region) — Ukrainian social activist and member of "Vidsich" civil movement, editor of "Maidan" magazine and economist.