Mykhailo Markovych Dobkin is a Ukrainian politician, former governor of Kharkiv Oblast, former mayor of Kharkiv, and a former deputy of the Ukrainian parliament.
Dobkin in 2008
Mykhailo Dobkin with Ukrainian actor Bohdan Stupka
Billboard of Mykhailo Dobkin during the protests in Donetsk
Mykhailo Dobkin in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
From the end of February 2014, in the aftermath of the Euromaidan and the Revolution of Dignity, which resulted in the ousting of Russian-leaning Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, demonstrations
Mykhailo Dobkin
…start of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the 5th service of the FSB was negotiating with Dobkin about the possibility of creating the so-called "Kharkov People’s Republic" in the Kharkiv Oblast. Dobkin is married and has four children; a son and three daughters…
Euromaidan demonstration in Kyiv, January 2014
Anti-Maidan in Kyiv, 14 December 2013
Russian "little green men" during the seizure of Perevalne military base, 9 March 2014
Pro-Russian protest in Donetsk, 6 April 2014. Pictured are flags of the Donetsk People's Republic, the Russian Empire, and the Eurasian Youth Union.