Editing Valeriy Borzov (section)

==Political career==
Borzov's political career started during the 1970s as a member of the [[Komsomol of Ukraine]]. In 1980–1986 he was one of the secretaries of the Central Committee of the Ukrainian Komsomol. From 1991 to 1998, Borzov  served as the president of the Ukrainian Olympic Committee. He has been a member of the [[International Olympic Committee]] since 1994. He has also held a Youth and Sports cabinet minister position with the [[Government of Ukraine]] from 1990 till 1997. From 1998 until 2006, he was a member of the [[Ukrainian parliament]].<ref>{{cite web | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090420192813/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bo/valery-borzov-1.html | archive-date=20 April 2009 | url=http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bo/valery-borzov-1.html | title=Valery Borzov | last= | first= | website=Sports Reference | date= | accessdate=7 December 2021 }}</ref>

Soon after being elected to the party list for [[People's Movement of Ukraine]] (commonly abbreviated as Rukh) in 1998 he changed from the Rukh faction to the faction "Reforms Center" in 1998–1999. Yet after dissolution of the parliamentary faction of [[Hromada (political party)|Hromada]], in 1999 Borzov became one of the first who joined the newly created parliamentary faction [[Batkivshchyna]] in [[Verkhovna Rada]], with which he stayed almost to the end of the third parliamentary convocation. In 2001, Borzov joined the [[Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united)]]. He stayed with the same party for the next elections in 2002, and eventually became a member in 2003.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://memim.com/valeriy-borzov.html | title=Valeriy Borzov | last= | first= | website=Memim Encyclopedia | date= | accessdate=10 December 2021 }}</ref>