Ihor Vasylovych Drizhchany ( uk, Ігор Васильович Дріжчаний, born 19 October 1961 in
Kyiv
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,
Ukrainian SSR
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) is a
Ukrainian
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politician, and former Head of the
Security Service of Ukraine
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.
Biography
His career began in 1983, in the Office of Prosecution of the
Ukrainian SSR
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...
. In April 2002, Drizhchany was promoted to deputy
Prosecutor General of Ukraine
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.
In February 2004, he became deputy Head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), responsible for legal issues of the service. On September 8, 2005, Drizhchany was promoted to head of the Service.
Lieutenant General of Justice.
He was dismissed by parliament in December 2006.
Valentyn Nalyvaichenko
Valentyn Oleksandrovych Nalyvaichenko ( uk, Валенти́н Олекса́ндрович Налива́йченко; born 8 June 1966; Zaporizhia) is a Ukraine, Ukrainian diplomat and politician.
On 24 February 2014, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrai ...
became acting chief and remained in that position owing to the feud between
President
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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
Prime Minister
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Yulia Tymoshenko
Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko ( uk, Юлія Володимирівна Тимошенко, ; Hrihyan ();[Valeriy Khoroshkovsky
Valeriy Ivanovych Khoroshkovsky ( uk, Валерій Іванович Хорошковський, born 1 January 1969 in Kyiv) is a Ukrainian businessman, former head of the Security Service of Ukraine, former Minister of Finance, and former Firs ...]
was appointed First Deputy Chief of the SBU.
[ ] On March 11, 2010 Khoroshkovsky was appointed head of the SBU by the Ukrainian Parliament.
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References
External links
Head of Service page at SBU's Official web site''Igor Drizhchany's Complex Inheritance''
1961 births
Politicians from Kyiv
Living people
Directors of the Security Service of Ukraine
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