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Churiy's term in office expires on July 10, 2020.
Chairman of the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), Bohdan Danylyshyn, says the Council has refused to reappoint Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Oleh Churiy for a new term.
"Today, July 6, 2020, an extraordinary meeting of the NBU Council was held, were the submission of [the former] NBU Governor Yakiv Smolii on the [re]appointment of Oleh Churiy to the position of Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine was considered. The Council refrained from [re]appointing Churiy to the position," he wrote on Facebook on Monday.
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Churiy's term in office expires on July 10, 2020. According to the law on the National Bank, he will be able to hold his current position until his successor takes office.
Churiy has served as the NBU Deputy Governor since June 2015. Prior to that, he was the Director of the NBU Open Market Operations Department. The official manages open market operations, currency regulation, and activities of the National Bank's Depository.
As UNIAN reported earlier, on July 1, 2020, Smolii submitted to the Ukrainian president a resignation letter, explaining his move by a long-standing systematic political pressure, which he said made it impossible for him to effectively fulfill his duties.
On July 3, the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, supported the motion by President Volodymyr Zelensky to dismiss Smolii from the post of NBU Governor. First Deputy Governor of the NBU Kateryna Rozhkova has assumed duties of acting NBU Governor until the new chief is appointed.