Oleksandr Turchynov reported that he is a pastor, the Associated Baptist Press and the European Baptist Federation report that he is an elder and occasional lay preacher at his Kiev church, the Word of Life Center, which is a member of the Evangelical Baptist Union of Ukraine. In social networks he received the nickname "Bloody Pastor". He treats with irony to this nickname: "I think this nickname is much better than what the Ukrainians gave to Putin". Also, Turchynov is occasionally considered by some media as the "Consigliere of Yulia Tymoshenko". Oleksandr Turchynov Oleksandr Valentynovych Turchynov (; born 31 March 1964) is
Oleksandr Bilash Andriyivna, was a solo singer at rural gatherings. After studying for a year in the Kiev music school for adults, Oleksandr traveled to the city of Zhytomyr where he entered the second year of the Viktor Kosenko Music School. In 1951, Bilash had successfully passed the entrance examinations for entry into the faculty of Composition of the Kiev State Conservatory (now The Tchaikovsky National Academy of Music). He studied composition with the outstanding Ukrainian composer and teaching professor Mykola Vilinsky. Oleksandr Bilash graduated from the Kiev State Conservatory in 1957. From 1956–1961 Bilash worked as an Instructor of music theory