`The Armenian delegation tried to prevent hearings`, he said in his post.

`The PACE adopted my report on the freedom of speech. It was a gesture.

`Yesterday Armenians followed me with cognac in their hands in Strasbourg. They thought that their cognac would make me refuse to recognize Nagorno-Karabakh as a part of Azerbaijan. Today they have claimed that my grandmother is Azerbaijani. Now I am sure that if you want to look ridiculous, you should call adviser form the Armenian parliament`, Aryev noted in his post.


DOSSIER

Volodymyr Ariev is a Ukrainian journalist, film director, author of the project "Restricted Area". He also is the People`s Deputy of Ukraine of the 6th, 7th and 8th convocation, chairman of Ukrainian delegation in Parliament Assembly of Council of Europe, PACE Vice-President (2015), President of PACE Committee for Culture, Education, Science and Media

Career

February 1993 - October 1994, assistant reporter, stringer of Ukrainian and Russian BBC services, (Kyiv)

October 1994 - January 1996, special correspondent, host of "Vikna-novyny" news program, "Internews"

January 1996 - May 1996, special correspondent, information agency "Vikna"

May - November 1996, host of the news block in "Good Morning Ukraine!", UT-1 channel

November 1996 - September 2003, special correspondent, Information and Analytical service, TV channel Inter
2002, journalist of TSN, 1+1 Studio

March 2003 - March 2004, independent journalist and author of the program "Non-province"(STB), freelance writer at weekly "Zerkalo Nedeli" ("Mirror Weekly"); special correspondent at JSC Television Information Agency "Profi TV"[1]

March 2004 - December 2005, - Director and author of the program "Closed Zone", "Channel 5"

2007 - 5 Kanal stopped collaboration with Volodymyr Ariev producer center due to he ran for People`s Deputy.
People`s Deputy of the 6th Verkhovna Rada since November 2007, was elected by the lists of "Our Ukraine - People`s Self-Defense Bloc"

People`s Deputy of the 7th Verkhovna Rada since November 2012, was elected in constituency 218, Kyiv for Batkivshchyna.

People`s Deputy of the 8th Verkhovna Rada since November 2014, was re-elected in constituency 218, Kyiv for Petro Poroshenko Bloc.

Since 2015 Chairman of Ukrainian delegation to PACE

PACE Vice-President (2015)

Since 2016 President of PACE Committee for Culture, Education, Science and Media

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