Poland under the Kirkland program, she researched Poland's experience of decentralization. In April 2016, Vereshchuk became President of the International Center for Baltic and Black Sea Studies and Consensus Practices. She headed it until 2019. Since September 2017, she is a PhD (docent) of the Department of Political Sciences of the National Pedagogical Drahomanov University. In 2019, Vereshchuk was elected a People's Deputy of Ukraine in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election for Servant of the People as number 29 on its election list. In parliament she became Chairperson of the Sub-committee on National Security and Defense of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence. From 4 September to 15 November 2019, she was a representative of the government at the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament). She relinquished these duties in November 2019. Vereshchuk was the candidate of Servant of the People for the post of Mayor of Kyiv in the 2020 Kyiv local election set for 25 October 2020. The Kyiv City Territorial Election Commission announced on 6 November that in the election she had received 39,321 votes, securing fifth place and losing the election to incumbent mayor Klitschko who was re-elected in the first round of the election with 50.52% of the votes, 365,161 people had voted for him. On 4 November 2021, Vereshchuk was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister for Reintegration of Temporary Occupied Territories. Political positions In 2013, before the Revolution of Dignity, Vereshchuk stated that she wished Ukraine had a President akin to Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia. She claimed she would vote for him because "He does good for Russia. He is acting in the interests of his country." In 2018 Vereshchuk spoke out against the lionizing of Ukrainian nationalist idol Stepan Bandera by "Manipulative politicians who wear embroidered shirts." She claimed that "it should be understood that this historical figure will never find a place in the Ukrainian pantheon of heroes." Prior to becoming the candidate of Servant of the People for the post of Mayor of Kyiv in the 2020 Kyiv local election Vereshchuk stated that then incumbent mayor Vitaly Klichko was "a good mayor." After her nomination, she insinuated that Klichko should "have better understood both the people and their troubles." Announcements In June 2022 about the receipt of Russian passports by Ukrainians:«Every receipt of a passport of the state-aggressor by a Ukrainian should be considered