Anatoliy Stepanovych Hrytsenko ( uk, Анатолій Степанович Гриценко; born 25 October 1957) is a

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politician,

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of the

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, former

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, member of the Our Ukraine political party and leader of the

Civil Position Civil Position or Civic Position ( uk, Громадянська позиція) is a political party in Ukraine registered in March 2005. It is led by former Minister of Defence Anatoliy Hrytsenko. History Mighty Ukraine The party was registered i ...

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Education

Hrytsenko graduated from Kyiv Higher Military Aviation Engineering School on 23 June 1979. On 10 December 1984 he was awarded a

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(Ph.D.) degree from Kyiv Higher Military Aviation Engineering School. And in 1993 Hrytsenko graduated from the

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of the

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. On 6 June 1994 he graduated from the Resident Program of the U.S. Air War College And on 30 October 1995 Hrytsenko graduated from the Academy of the

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. Hrytsenko is author of more than 100 scientific papers published in

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Army career

Hrytsenko served 25 years in the

, in combat units, as teacher at the military college and in staff positions in the

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. Hrytsenko's rank was colonel. From December 1999 till 2004 he worked as a military consultant in various firms. In February 2000 Hrytsenko served as Freelance Consultant on the Committee on National Security and Defence of the

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(Ukraine's parliament) and in November 2000 as a member of the Public Council of Experts on domestic issues of the

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Political career

In 2004 Hrytsenko worked in the election headquarters (for the

2004 Ukrainian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 31 October, 21 November and 26 December 2004. The election was the fourth presidential election to take place in Ukraine following independence from the Soviet Union. The last stages of the election ...

) of

Viktor Yushchenko Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko ( uk, Віктор Андрійович Ющенко, ; born 23 February 1954) is a Ukrainian politician who was the third president of Ukraine from 23 January 2005 to 25 February 2010. As an informal leader of th ...

and took an active part in the writing his election program.

Minister of Defence

Hrytsenko became

in the First Tymoshenko Government in February 2005, he continued this position in the Yekhanurov Government. On 4 August 2006 he was appointed again as head of the Ministry of Defence in the government of

Viktor Yanukovych Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych ( uk, Віктор Федорович Янукович, ; ; born 9 July 1950) is a former politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 until he was removed from office in the Revolution of Di ...

on the quota of President Yushchenko. As Minister of Defense, Hrytsenko took up the issues of financing and reforming the

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. In 2005, for the first time in recent years, the army was fully funded. In 2006, its budget grew by 51% and reached ₴8.9 billion. Compared to 2004, in 2005 combat training indicators increased by an average of 40-50%. In 2007, when Hrytsenko was the Minister of Defense, a military hospital in

Dnipropetrovsk Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper Rive ...

was sold to a private company. After that, the former military facility was given to the Russian

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, which later received direct control over this hospital.

Petro Poroshenko Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko ( uk, Петро́ Олексі́йович Пороше́нко, ; born 26 September 1965) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician who served as the fifth president of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. Poroshenko ser ...

's commissioner for the peaceful settlement of the conflict in Donetsk and Lugansk Oblasts stated that "Today, in fact, the hospital where our guys are being treated belongs to the invader country." In October 2014, this information was confirmed by

Valeriy Heletey Valeriy Viktorovych Heletey ( uk, Валерій Вікторович Гелетей) (born on 28 August 1967) is a Ukrainian Colonel General who served as Minister of Defense from 3 July to 14 October 2014.early 2007 parliamentary elections he was elected into the

(Ukraine's parliament) as number 4 on the party list of the pro-president Yushchenko

Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc The Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc ( uk, Блок Наша Україна–Народна Самооборона, ''Blok Nasha Ukrayina-Narodna Samooborona'', NUNS; until 2007 named Our Ukraine Bloc) was an electoral alliance active in ...

. Although this bloc was part of the Second Tymoshenko Government

Yuriy Yekhanurov Yuriy Ivanovych Yekhanurov ( uk, Юрій Іванович Єхануров, ; born August 23, 1948) is a Ukrainian politician who was Prime Minister of Ukraine from 2005 to 2006 and Minister of Defense from 2007 to 2009. Background and professi ...

became Minister of Defense in this cabinet. In January 2010 Hrytsenko became party leader of ''

''.Hritsenko will go on at the head of the party renamed?

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(February 12, 2010) Hrytsenko was a candidate for

in the

2010 Ukrainian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 17 January 2010. As no candidate received a majority of the vote, a run-off election was held between Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych on 7 February. On 14 F ...

s, and in the election he received 1.2% of the votes (finishing ninth). In the second round he called on voting against both candidates (

Yulia Tymoshenko Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko ( uk, Юлія Володимирівна Тимошенко, ; Hrihyan ();Viktor Yanukovych Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych ( uk, Віктор Федорович Янукович, ; ; born 9 July 1950) is a former politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 until he was removed from office in the Revolution of Di ...

). ''Civil Position'' gained one seat in the

Ternopil Ternópil ( uk, Тернопіль, Ternopil' ; pl, Tarnopol; yi, טאַרנאָפּל, Tarnopl, or ; he, טארנופול (טַרְנוֹפּוֹל), Tarnopol; german: Tarnopol) is a city in the west of Ukraine. Administratively, Ternopi ...

city council during the 2010 Ukrainian local elections. Anatoliy Hrytsenko 2012

During the

2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election The Ukrainian parliamentary election of 2012 took place on 28 October 2012.Batkivshchyna The All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" ( uk, Всеукраїнське об'єднання "Батьківщина", translit=Vseukrains'ke obiednannia "Bat'kivshchyna") referred to as Batkivshchyna (), is a political party in Ukraine led by Peo ...

.,Список депутатів нової Верховної Ради

(11 November 2012)Hrytsenko refused to sign statement of opposition
,

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(13.11.2012) but he later resigned from Rada because of disagreements with the faction.

Since 2014 unsuccessful attempts to get elected

Hrytsenko was one of the candidates for presidency in the

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TV channel and conducted by GfK Ukraine on 6–8 May, 5.6 per cent of the surveyed planned to vote for him. In the election he received 5.48% of the vote, ranking him in 4th place.
Results election of Ukrainian president
Телеграф (29 May 2014) In the 2014 parliamentary election Civil Position took part on a joint list with members of the Democratic Alliance. For elections in single member constituencies, both parties participated separately. In the election the alliance failed to clear the 5%

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(it got 3.1% of the votes) and also both parties did not win a constituency seat and thus no parliamentary seats. On 4 April 2018,

National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine ( uk, Національне Антикорупційне Бюро України, ''НАБУ'') or NABU is a Ukrainian law enforcement anti-corruption agency which investigates corruption in Ukraine ...

(NABU) informed that the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor Office initiated a criminal proceeding based on results of state financial audit of "Viysktorhservis" consortium. Representatives of public organizations called on the Prosecutor General to check these facts. Hrytsenko's Civil Position nominated Hrytsenko as a candidate in the

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on 11 January 2019. Hrytsenko's candidacy was supported by the

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, Native Land,

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, and

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. On 1 March (2019) fellow candidates

Andriy Sadovyi Andriy Ivanovych Sadovyi ( uk, Андрій Іванович Садовий, ''Andriy Ivanovych Sadovyi'') is a Ukrainian politician. He is the mayor of Lviv, the administrative center of the Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine, former leader of the ...

and

Dmytro Gnap Dmytro Volodymyrovych Hnap ( uk, Дмитро Володимирович Гнап, Dmytro Volodymyrovych Hnap; born 19 December 1977) is a Ukrainian journalist at Slidstvo.Info and Hromadske.TV. His work focuses on corruption and crime. Biograp ...

withdrew from the election and urged (their) voters to support Hrytsenko. On 7 March

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stepped out of the election also in favor of Hrytsenko. During the 2019 presidential election campaign Hrytsenko proposed to create a Ukrainian

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and to legalize firearms (including registration of all firearms). In the election Hrytsenko did not proceed to the second round of the election; in the first round he placed fifth with 6.91% of the votes. In the

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Civil Position gained 1.04% of the national vote and no parliamentary seats.

Awards

* Honorary weapon –

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pistol (25 October 2007)

Earnings

According to the declaration, in 2016, Hrytsenko earned UAH 150 thousand. He has four apartments in Kyiv (with an area of 56.2 m², 80.2 m², 32.9 m² and 110.3 m²), a car

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, as well as 106,000 euros in bank accounts.

Personal life

* From 1978 to 2002, he was married to Lyudmila. The couple had two children. ** Olexiy (born 1979) graduated from the

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, he was a forward and then vice president of the Berkut Hockey Club, director of business development at the ''Enran Telecom'' research and production company, and first deputy head of the Youth Union of Our Ukraine party. In 2006, ''Enran Telecom'' (in which Olexiy Hrytsenko was working at the moment) became one of the co-executives of the project to create a unified automated system for managing of administrative and business processes in the

. About a UAH 100 million was allocated for the implementation of the project. ** The eldest daughter Svetlana (born 1982) graduated from school with a gold medal, received a bachelor's degree in international economics from the

Kyiv National Economic University The Kyiv National Economic University ( uk, Київський національний економічний університет імені Вадима Гетьмана, lit=Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economic University) is a self-govern ...

and a master's degree in international business from

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. Svetlana worked as an expert at the Ukrainian Centre for Economic and Political Studies (UCEPS) and in the election headquarters of

, then became the press secretary of the Berkut Hockey Club and the project manager for the Kyiv office of ''The PBN Company''. * Anatoliy Hrytsenko is married to Yulia Volodymyrivna Mostova, a chief editor of well known Ukrainian newspaper ''

Dzerkalo Tyzhnia ''Dzerkalo Tyzhnia'' ( ua, Дзеркало тижня), usually referred to in English as the ''Mirror Weekly'', was one of Ukraine's most influential analytical weekly-publisher newspapers, founded in 1994.Oleksandr Razumkov. Hrytsenko and Mostova had to celebrate the wedding seven times, most recently in June 2003, together with the then-future Ukrainian President

and his wife Kateryna Chumachenko. On 6 March 2016, the couple

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in the

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. ** Hrytsenko and Mostova have a daughter Anna (born 2004), also Mostova have a son Hlib (born 1999) - the youngest son of Razumkov.

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