Brodska Svitlana Mykolaivna
Brodska Svitlana Mykolaivna is a wife of a politician Mykhailo Brodsky. The latter was a deputy of the third convocation of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, a president nominee in 2004 and 2010.Brodska co-owns LLC “Veneto Group”, a manufacturer and distributor of orthopaedic mattresses, furniture and textiles.Besides, Svitlana has founded LLC “Dendi UA”. The company’s main activity is wholesale trade of household goods. She is a founder and owner of TV and radio broadcasting company LLC “Indivision”.
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Furniture | ‘Veneto Group’, a company that manufactures and sells orthopaedic mattresses, furniture and textiles. Svitlana Brodska co-owns it. Mykhailo Brodsky has announced that he gave the Veneto shop to his wife in one of his interviews to Facty (Facts
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Svitlana Brodska is the second wife of the politician Mykhailo Brodsky. Her husband was a deputy of the third convocation of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, president nominee in 2004 and 2010.
For some time he was a close associate of Yulia Tymoshenko and a part of the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko (BYT), but later he became her opponent. As headlines show, Brodsky and Tymoshenko has explicitly been showing antagonism between each other since then.
Mykhailo Brodsky has long been engaged in business. He was twice awarded as a “Person of the year” in the nomination “Entrepreneur of the year” in 1996 and 1997.
On May 3, 2003 he became a director-consultant of a Ukrainian-Italian company “Veneto”. They own it together with his wife Svitlana Brodska.
Mykhailo Brodsky has two sons from his first marriage: Rostyslav Mykhailovych and Yuri Mykhailovych Brodsky. They are co-founders of “Zolota seredyna” (The golden mean) company together with Svitlana Brodska. “Obozrevatel” (Obzerver) website is also related to the company and therefore belongs to the Brodskys.
Mykhailo and Svitlana have a common daughter Anna Brodska, born in 2004.
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Headlines
Brodsky is offended at Tymoshenko but will protect Kyiv citizens. Retrieved from: http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2008/03/25/3401032/ (04.09.2016).
Brodsky has completely split with Tymoshenko and gave her 10 days. Retrieved from: http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2006/08/21/3147872/ (04.09.2016)
Children of Tihipko counting father’s face, and Brodsky’s wife is bearing him. Retrieved from: http://tabloid.pravda.com.ua/focus/4afa71c183865/ (05.09.2016)
Brodsky put his wife to sell mattresses and his son – cakes. Retrieved from: http://tabloid.pravda.com.ua/person/4a5dd967ca724/ (05.09.2016).
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Since there are no regulations for online media registration, it is extremely difficult to identify ownership structure of a particular media outlet. In our research, we managed to link Zolota seredyna and Obozrevatel through data provided in the Unified Public Register of Court Decisions. The research revealed that in all cases concerning Obozrevatel, Zolotaya Seredyna performed as the defendant on the Obozrevatel’s side. Followed by a research in the Public Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs, we could trace that Obozrevatel belongs to Svitlana Brodska and sons of her husband – Rostyslav and Yuri.
In a private conversation with MOM researchers through Facebook, Mykhailo Brodsky confirmed that his family has been owning Obozrevatel for 12 years. He also said that they owned “Vykka” TV-channel in Cherkassy as well.
Besides family ties, Svitlana and Mykhailo Brodsky have business relation: from May 3, 2003 Mykhailo is director-consultant of Ukrainian-Italian company “Veneto”. His wife Svitlana co-owns the company. In his interview with Tabloid Ukrayinska Pravda Mykhailo Brodsky announced that he had presented a Veneto shop to his wife Svitlana.
Sources
Unified Public Register of Court Decisions. Retrieved on August 2016 from http://www.reyestr.court.gov.ua/
Unified state register of the Ministry of justice of legal entities, individual enterpreneurs and civic formations . Retrieved on August 2016, from https://usr.minjust.gov.ua/
Veneto Group Registration Information. Youcontrol Website. Retrieved from: https://youcontrol.com.ua/catalog/company_details/39457891 (03.09.2016).
Mykhailo Brodsky Biography. Radio Svoboda (Radio Freedom). Retrieved from: www.radiosvoboda.org/a/1891584.html (03.09.2016).
Brodsky put his wife to sell mattresses and his son – cakes. Retrieved from: http://tabloid.pravda.com.ua/person/4a5dd967ca724/ (05.09.2016).
