Volodymyr Radchenko

Volodymyr Ivanovich Radtschenko ( Ukrainian Володимир Іванович Радченко ; born October 23, 1948 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian intelligence officer and politician.

Life

Volodymyr Radchenko grew up in Kiev and graduated in 1971 from studying chemical engineering at the Kiev Technological Institute for Light Industry . He then attended an officers school of the KGB and made a career there. From September 1972 to March 1982 he was with the KGB in Kiev, most recently as head of the KGB of the USSR in Kiev and the Kiev Oblast and from March 1982 to October 1990 he was head of the KGB of the USSR in the Rivne Oblast . After the collapse of the Soviet Union , he continued to work in the intelligence service, including for the successor organization of the KGB in Ukraine, the Sluschba bespeky Ukrajiny (SBU).

In 1994 Radchenko switched to politics and was Interior Minister of Ukraine in the Massol cabinet from July 28, 1994 to July 3, 1995 . From July 3, 1995 until April 22, 1998 he was the head of the Ukrainian domestic intelligence service SBU. He held this office again from February 10, 2001 to September 2, 2003. He was then from September 2, 2003 to January 20, 2005 Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine and from January 12, 2007 to May 25, 2007 Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine in the second Yanukovych cabinet .

On July 5, 1995, Radchenko was promoted to Colonel General and in 1998 to General of the Army of Ukraine. Volodymyr Radchenko received numerous honors, including the Bogdan Khmelnitsky Order, 3rd Class, awarded by President Leonid Kuchma in 1998 . Radchenko is married and has a son and a daughter.

Web links

• Biography Volodymyr Radchenko on "Official Ukraine Today" (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ biography Volodymyr Radchenko on file.liga.net; accessed on March 10, 2016 (Ukrainian)