Ihor Kalietnik (born 16 July 1972) is a Ukrainian politician, former first deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada.
Biography
Born in 1972 in village of Klembivka, Yampil Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast, Kalietnik graduated the Vinnytsia Agrarian University in 1993 as agronomist. From 1995 to 2005 he worked for the Ukrainian customs across the country. In 2001 Kalietnik graduated the law school of Kyiv University and in 2004 the Odesa Law Academy to receive title of the Candidate of Judicial Sciences.
On 22 November 2012 he resigned as the head of Customs Service and again was reelected on party list to the Ukrainian parliament at the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election now as a member of the Communist Party of Ukraine. In 2012-2014 Kalietnik served as the first deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada. After the events of Euromaidan he resigned as the first deputy chairman and in June 2014 left the ranks of Communist Party of Ukraine.