He is a former political prisoner of the Kremlin; following
Russia's attempted annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula he was arrested on January 29, 2015, and charged with organization of a rally in support of the
territorial integrity of Ukraine that took place in
Simferopol on February 26, 2014. He was freed on October 25, 2017. In the
2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Chiygoz was elected to the Ukrainian parliament as a deputy for the party
European Solidarity. Head of the Subcommittee on Ethnic Policy, Rights of Indigenous Peoples and National Minorities of Ukraine of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Human Rights, De-occupation and Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories in Donetsk and Luhansk Regions and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the City of Sevastopol, National Minorities and International Relations[20]. Currently, in 2024, he is living in Turkey with his family. == References ==