Юрій Плаксюк

Yuri Oleksandrovych Plaksiuk is a Ukrainian poet, writer and journalist. He was born on 2 November 1952 in the village of Poninka, in the Polonsky district, Khmelnitsky Oblast, Ukraine. In 1978 Plaksiuk graduated from the Faculty of Journalism at the Kyiv State University. He worked in Ukrainian radio and TV, in the Kyiv district committee of the Communist Party, the Information Service of the President of Ukraine and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Between 1997–2000 he was Director General Broadcasting Company ICTV. From 2000 to 2003 and from 2005 to 2010 he was Chairman of the National Committee for Television and Radio. He has the title of "Honored Worker of Ukraine".