Anatoly Hryzenko

Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
	Анатолій Степанович Гриценко
Transl. :	Anatoly Stepanovyč Hrycenko
Transcr. :	Anatoly Stepanovych Hryzenko
Cyrillic ( Russian )
	Анатолий Степанович Гриценко
Transl .:	Anatoly Stepanovič Gricenko
Transcr .:	Anatoly Stepanovich Gritsenko

Anatolij Stepanowytsch Hryzenko (born October 25, 1957 in Bahachivka , Cherkassy Oblast , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian military and politician.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1974, Hryzenko studied at the University of Air Force Engineers in Kiev , which he graduated in 1979 as a graduate engineer. After graduation, he embarked on a 25-year military career, during which he held posts with the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces . Hryzenko also lectured at the Kiev Military College.

In 1993 he graduated from the Department of Defense's Foreign Language Institute and a year later from Air University at Maxwell Air Force Base, USA . In 1995 he graduated from the Academy of Armed Forces of Ukraine.

After retiring from active service, Hryzenko headed the analytical service of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine . Since 1999 he has been president of the Razumkov Center for Political Studies. Hryzenko holds a doctorate in engineering (ktn, kandydat technitschnych nauk ) and a colonel in the Air Force a. D.

In 2004, Hryzenko was on the electoral staff of the presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko , where he is said to have analytically supported the election campaign because of his experience in opinion research at the Razumkov Center.

After Yushchenko's election victory, Anatoly Hryzenko, Minister of Defense of Ukraine, was appointed to the cabinet of Yulia Tymoshenko and then to that of Yuri Yekhanurov .

In terms of defense policy, Hryzenko focused on rapprochement with the North Atlantic Alliance and wanted to put the Ukrainian armed forces on a reform course (first steps: cutting compulsory military service from 18 to 12 months and reducing the number of troops) in order to prepare them for the country's eventual membership of NATO . This policy was largely supported by incumbent President Yushchenko and Foreign Minister Tarasyuk . Since the appointment of Hryzenko, contacts between Ukraine and NATO have intensified considerably.

When a pro-Russian government under Viktor Yanukovych was formed after the parliamentary elections in 2006 , Hryzenko remained in office because the Ukrainian constitution states that the post of defense minister is assigned by the president, but he was unable to continue his policy of rapprochement with NATO as before. After the parliamentary elections in 2007 he was replaced by the former Prime Minister Yuriy Jechanurow . Hryzenko was a presidential candidate in Ukraine's 2010 and 2014 presidential election .

In connection with the annexation of the Crimean peninsula , Hryzenko was placed on a list of undesirable people in Crimea by the local parliament .

He is chairman of the Ukrainian Civic Position party and stood with it in the parliamentary elections in Ukraine in October 2014. In the 2019 presidential election in Ukraine , he finished fifth in the first ballot on March 31, 2019.

Anatoly Hryzenko is married to the journalist Yulia Mostova .

literature

• Taras Kuzio : Presidential Candidates 5: Anatoliy Grytsenko. Description of the candidate for the 2010 presidential election . In: Ukraine Analyst, Vol.2, No.3, October 15, 2009, available online , PDF file, 1.2 MB (English)

Web links

Commons : Anatolij Stepanowytsch Hryzenko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Personal website (Ukrainian)
• Anatolij Hryzenko on Facebook (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The list of persons whose stay at the territory of the Republic of Crimea is undesirable ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Parliament of Crimea, as of April 1, 2014, accessed on April 2, 2014 (English / Russian)  
2. ↑ official website of the party bourgeois attitude ( memento of the original from March 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 19, 2014  
3. ↑ Results of the presidential elections in Ukraine 2019. Online voting in Ukraine-Pravda on March 31, 2019; accessed on March 31, 2019 (Ukrainian)