Yulia Marushevska

Yulia Marushevska (Ukrainian: Юлія Марушевська, born 2 October 1989) is a Ukrainian activist and civil servant. A graduate student in literature and history, she appeared in a short video, entitled I Am a Ukrainian, which went viral after being posted in February 2014. In the spring of 2014, she gave talks about the cause of Ukrainian freedom in the United States and Canada and was interviewed by news media from dozens of countries. In June 2015, a 24-year-old Marushevska joined the Odesa Oblast government team led by Mikheil Saakashvili, a former President of Georgia who was appointed a Governor of the Oblast. Marushevska was then appointed chief of Odesa Customs in October 2015 and resigned from that post in November 2016 because she felt the then Groysman government made custom reforms no longer possible.