Leader of the All-Ukrainian Union "Svoboda" party, People's Deputy of Ukraine Oleh Tyahnybok was offered 500 thousand US dollars to leave the "Our Ukraine" faction. He stated this on May 16 in Lutsk during a meeting with the city's public.\nHe never said who specifically offered him this sum. However, he reported that he had been offered money to leave the faction more than once. 500 thousand dollars is the largest sum that was offered to him for leaving the "Our Ukraine" faction during the formation of the pro-presidential majority in the Verkhovna Rada. Also, according to Oleh Tyahnybok, similar offers were made to him after the voting in the parliament walls for introducing amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine.\nThe leader of the "Svoboda" VO himself explains such offers by the fact that "neither he nor his relatives are engaged in business," which ruled out the possibility of administrative pressure on him. Therefore, according to Oleh Tyahnybok, they tried to bribe him.\n\nReference: Tyahnybok Oleh Yaroslavovych was born on November 7, 1968, in Lviv, in a family of medical workers. Education - higher. In 1993 he graduated from the medical faculty of the Lviv State Medical Institute. In 1999 he defended a law diploma at Lviv State University named after I. Franko.\nHe was a member of the cells of the Society of Ukrainian Language, Rukh, one of the founders of the Student Brotherhood of the Lviv Medical Institute, which he headed in March 1990. Chairman of the Student Brotherhood of Lviv city (1991-1994). Participant and one of the leaders of student hunger strikes in 1990 and 1992 in Kyiv.\nDeputy of the Lviv Regional Council of the II-nd convocation (1994-1998). People's Deputy of Ukraine of the III-rd (1998-2002) and IV-th (from 2002) convocations. Member of the Committee on Budget Issues of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.\nPresident of the Federation of Ukrainian Combat Hopak.\nMember of the SNPU since 1991. Chairman of the Lviv Regional Organization (1995-1998), Chairman of the Kyiv City Organization (1998-2003), member of the Committee of Authorized Representatives (from 1995-2004). In February 2004, at the IX congress after the renaming of the SNPU into the "Svoboda" VO, he was elected party chairman.\nMarried. Together with his wife Olha, they are raising three children.