At the time, he was also an MP for the fraction of Viktor Yushchenko's Our Ukraine bloc (which was his second term in the Parliament; the first one had been between 1998 and 2002 ).
Damals war er auch Abgeordneter von Viktor Yushchenkos Fraktion Block Unsere Ukraine (es war seine zweite Amtszeit im Parlament; die erste war von 1998 bis 2002 ).