Hennadiy Hennadiyovych Moskal ( uk, Геннадій Геннадійович Москаль; born 11 December 1950) is a Ukrainian politician and the former governor of
Zakarpattia Oblast
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(22 July 2015) He was previously appointed governor of the
Luhansk Oblast
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while the
War in Donbas
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was ongoing in Luhansk Oblast.Donetsk airport shelling violates east Ukraine truce
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(30 September 2014)Poroshenko appoints Moskal as Luhansk regional governor
Kyiv Post
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History
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(18 September 2014)
Moskal also has acted as Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine and is a Merited Jurist of Ukraine (1997)./(website has automatic
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Gennadiy Gennadiyovych Moskal was born on 11 December 1950 in Zadubrivka,
Zastavna Raion
Zastavna Raion ( uk, Заставнівський район) was an administrative raion (district) in the southern part of Chernivtsi Oblast in western Ukraine, on the Romanian border. Most of its territory lied in the historical region of Buko ...
,
Chernivtsi Oblast
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into a family of public servants. His father, Gennady Hadeyovych Hayfulin (or Hayfullin), was an ethnic
Tatar
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. His mother, Stepaniya Pavlivna Moskal, was an ethnic Ukrainian. Although it is uncommon,
Eastern Slavic naming customs
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allow the mother's last name to become the last name of the child instead of the father's last name.
In 1975, Moskal started working as detective of Soviet police ( Militsiya) in Chernivtsi, where he advanced from inspector to Militsiya Lieutenant General. During working in the structures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs he was the Deputy Chief of Militsiya in
Chernivtsi oblast
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.
* 1978–1992 – Chief of criminal investigation department of Chernivtsi Oblast militsiya (with breaks)
** 1983–1986 – Deputy chief of militsiya in the Lenin district of Chernivtsi
* 1992–1995 – Chief of criminal militsiya in
Chernivtsi Oblast
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* 1995–1997 – Chief of militsiya in
Zakarpattia Oblast
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.
* 1997–2000 – Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Chief of militsiya in
Crimea
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* 2000–2001 – Internal Affairs, Chief of militsiya in Dnipropetrovsk region
* June 2001 – September 2002 – Governor of
Zakarpattia Oblast
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* 2002–2005 – Chairman of State Committee on Nationalities and Migration
* February 2005 – November 2005 – Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Chief of criminal militsiya
* November 2005 – April 2006 – Governor of
Luhansk region
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* 2006 – the Permanent Representative of President of Ukraine in Crimea
* 9 January 2007 – appointed the Deputy Chairman of the
Security Service of Ukraine
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(SBU) by Presidential Decree.
* April 2007 – May 2007 – Deputy Secretary of RNBU
Verkhovna Rada
In autumn 2007, Gennady Moskal was elected People's Deputy of Ukraine from
Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc
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(under No. 41). In Verkhovna Rada, he performed duties of the 1st Deputy Chairman of the committee to combat organized crime and corruption.
At the time of elections in 2007, Moskal was the president of Kyiv law firm "Protection".
On 19 August 2009, Gennady Moskal was re-appointed the Chief of the Internal Affairs Department in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, yet in order to keep the parliamentary mandate, he resigned on 15 December 2009; on 16 December 2009, he was reinstated in the former position by the government. On 3 February 2010, President Viktor Yushchenko sent an inquiry to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine on the legality of coordinating both positions by Moskal; after that, Moskal has resigned in Crimea.
Moskal joined the party
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Fatherland
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Ukrayinska Pravda
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(11 June 2013) On 25 August 2014 Moskal was expelled from Fatherland because he had supported, and campaigned for,
Petro Poroshenko
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Yulia Tymoshenko
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.
In the
2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election
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Moskal did not get elected (as an independent candidate) after losing in single-seat constituency 106 in
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Petro Poroshenko
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appointed Moskal
Luhansk Oblast
Luhansk Oblast ( uk, Луга́нська о́бласть, translit=Luhanska oblast; russian: Луганская область, translit=Luganskaya oblast; also referred to as Luhanshchyna, uk, Луга́нщина) is the easternmost oblast ...
Governor. At that time Luhansk Oblast was one of the front-lines of the
War in Donbas
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.
Awards
* 1997 – Honoured lawyer of Ukraine
* Honoured lawyer of AR Crimea
* Order of Merit, III and II grades
* Award "Nominal firearm"
* 2002 – Winner of the All-Ukrainian program "Leaders of the Regions"
Family
Gennady Moskal is married. He has one daughter and two grandchildren.