Valery Ivashchenko

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Valery Volodymyrovich Iwaschtschenko ( Ukrainian Вале́рій Володи́мирович Іва́щенко ; born July 30, 1956 in Zaporizhia , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian politician. He was Deputy Minister of Defense from October 2007 to June 2009 and Acting Minister of Defense from June 5, 2009 to March 2010.

Ivashchenko graduated from the Mozhaisky Academy of Military Spaceflight in Leningrad with an engineering degree . He served in the Soviet Army at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, among other places . Since 1993 he was employed in the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. In 2005, President Viktor Yushchenko appointed him Deputy Head of the Security and Defense Policy Department of the Ukrainian Presidential Office . In 2007 Ivashchenko was appointed Deputy Minister of Defense. After Minister Yuri Yekhanurov was removed from office on June 5, 2009 by the Ukrainian parliament , Ivashchenko served as defense minister until March 2010.

Ivashchenko was arrested in August 2010. The Ukrainian military prosecutor accused him of abuse of office in connection with the rehabilitation of a state ship repair plant in Feodosia . On April 12, 2012, he was sentenced to five years imprisonment by a district court in Kiev . The USA and the European Union criticized the judgment and spoke of "selective justice". A European Parliament mission under the leadership of the former Polish President Aleksander Kwaśniewski investigated several trials and convictions in Ukraine (including those against Ivashchenko and against Yulia Tymoshenko and Yuriy Lutsenko ) and criticized the Ukrainian judiciary in the process. On August 14, 2012, an appellate court reduced Ivashchenko's sentence to a one-year prison sentence, which was suspended.

Ivashchenko fled to Denmark , and in February 2013 he declared that the Danish government had granted him and his wife political asylum .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Will Fitzgibbon: Ex-minister Ivashchenko's son: 'This is about revenge'. Kyiv Post , September 2, 2011, accessed March 6, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Ex-defense minister of Ukraine Ivashchenko sentenced to five years in prison. Kyiv Post , April 12, 2012, accessed March 6, 2013 .
  3. ↑ US, EU condemn ex-Ukraine defense minister's jailing. eubusiness.com, April 13, 2012, accessed March 6, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Konrad Schuller : Selective Justice and Inhuman Treatment. FAZ , October 30, 2012, accessed on March 6, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Ivaschenko claims he and his wife got refugee status in Denmark. Kyiv Post , February 23, 2013, accessed March 6, 2013 .


personal data
SURNAME Ivashchenko, Valery
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ivashchenko, Valery Volodymyrovich (full name); Іва́щенко, Вале́рій Володи́мирович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian politician, Minister of Defense of Ukraine
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Zaporizhia , Ukrainian SSR