was headed by Viktor Medvedchuk. As a nonpartisan candidate he took part in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election in Ukraine's 122nd electoral district, around the city of Yavoriv in Lviv Oblast. He finished second, with 36.55% of the vote (the winner, of Fatherland, received 55.87%). In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Kozak became a people's deputy representing Opposition Bloc (he was number 14 on its election list). And after the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election for Opposition Platform — For Life (this time as number 10 of its election list, in the same election Medvedchuk was elected to parliament for the same party). Taras Kozak is a member of political organization "Ukrainskiy vybor" led by Viktor Medvedchuk. In 2018 Kozak voted against the Law on Recognition of Ukrainian Sovereignty over the Occupied Territories of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts. At the end of 2018 Kozak official acquired several important Ukrainian television media such as (from Yevhen Muraev) and 112 Ukraine. In June 2019 Kozak also bought television channel . After acquiring of ZIK by Kozak, journalists en masse left the company in protest. After the acquisition of ZIK TV channel, the CEO left and most of the other employees resigned. The reason was the person of the new owner. The activities and rhetoric of the deputy, the party and the media holding are considered to be very biased and pro-Russian. In July 2019, employees of the ZIK TV channel, a number of newspapers, NGOs and institutions, a coalition of NGOs "Reanimation Package of Reforms" (more than 70 organizations), as well as public figures, journalists and public opinion leaders called on the state to take measures to prevent monopolization of media space by pro-Russian forces. In October 2019 Kozak was questioned by the Security Service of Ukraine because of a July 2019 proposed TV linkup between NewsOne and the Russian TV channel Rossiya 1, which is banned in Ukraine. According to ewsOne the linkup was cancelled "because of direct threats of physical reprisals leveled at the channel, journalists, and their families." Kozak took part in a fraudulent scheme to sell anthracite from the Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic under the guise of coal from South Africa. In a 2020 electronic declaration, Kozak hid his wife's oil business in Russia. The People's Deputy is also involved in the case of tax evasion by Tedis company. On 2 February 2021 the National Security