Nikolay Bagrayev member of political party Party of Regions
Politics
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.Nikolay 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.He founded the group of companies representing Ukraine in the media music channels M1, M2, and "ТАВP Media," which includes Russkoe Radio Ukraina, Khit FM, Kiss FM, Radio Roks, Radio Melodiya, and Radio Relax.
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