Alexander Valentinovich Turchinov — Ukrainian statesman, Acting President of Ukraine (February 23 to June 7, 2014), Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (February 26 to June 7, 2014). Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (since December 16, 2014).
Head of the Popular Front faction in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (since November 27, 2014). Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (from February 22 to November 27, 2014), was a longtime friend and "right hand" of Yulia Tymoshenko. After her arrest in 2011, he took over the leadership of the BYuT. On August 27, 2014, he left the Batkivshchyna and moved to the People's Front.
Member of the Verkhovna Rada in 1998-2007 and since 2012. From February to September 2005, he was the head of the Security Service of Ukraine. From May to November 2007, he was First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. From December 2007 to March 2010 he was the First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine.
Family of Alexander Turchinov
The parents of Alexander Turchinov separated early and Alexander was raised by his mother.
Father - Valentin Ivanovich Turchinov. He worked all his life in the sports club "Lokomotiv", was the master of sports of the Soviet Union in volleyball.
Mother - Valentina Turchinova. According to some reports, part of the business of Alexander Turchinov is recorded on it.
Education of Alexander Turchinov
In 1986 he graduated with honors from the technological faculty of the Dnepropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute. Received a specialty in the processing of metals under pressure. Doctor of Economics, Professor. Author of a number of monographs and scientific articles. Has a dozen copyright certificates. Once he said that as soon as a normal leader comes to power in Ukraine, he would immediately leave politics for the sake of science. In the meantime, he remains one of the most quoted Ukrainian politicians.
Career of Alexander Turchinov
After graduation, he worked for a short time as a roller and foreman at the Kryvorizhstal Iron and Steel Works. As he himself recalled: “After the institute, they predicted a scientific perspective for me. And none of the teachers expected that I would voluntarily go to work at Kryvorizhstal. Roller. Any young specialist was first taken to a working position ... "
1987-1990 - Secretary of the district committee of the Komsomol, head of the department of agitation and propaganda of the Dnepropetrovsk regional committee of the Komsomol.
According to media reports, in 1989 A. Turichnov supported the start-up entrepreneur Yulia Tymoshenko in the creation of the youth center "Terminal" under the auspices of the Dnepropetrovsk regional committee of the LKSMU, in which she took the position of commercial director.
He acted as one of the coordinators of the Democratic Platform in the CPSU, which advocated the renewal, decentralization of the Communist Party, for which he lost his party card and plunged into business.
- In 1990, with partners, he created and headed the Ukrainian branch of the IMA-Press news agency, which published books and newspapers.
- In 1991, he headed the Institute of International Relations, Economics, Politics and Law, which he himself created.
- 1992-1993 - Chairman of the Committee for denationalization and demonopolization of production of the Dnepropetrovsk Regional State Administration.
- 1993 - Adviser on macroeconomic issues to Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma, whom he met at the time when he was in charge of the Dnepropetrovsk giant plant Yuzhmash. Vice President of the Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (USPP).
- After the resignation of Leonid Kuchma from the post of head of government (September 1993), he took the position of General Director of the Institute of Economic Reforms, Head of the Shadow Economy Research Laboratory of the Institute of Russia of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
- In 1994, Turchynov created the All-Ukrainian Association Hromada. The name of this political force, for many, is primarily associated with the odious prime minister of the times of Kuchma-President Pavel Lazarenko, although he joined it and headed it only in 1997. And shortly before that, Yulia Tymoshenko appeared in Hromada - then one of the leaders of the corporation Unified Energy Systems of Ukraine, which supplied Russian natural gas. VO "Hromada" supported Leonid Kuchma in the presidential elections. Since then, Turchinov and "Lady Yu" have been inseparable in politics.
- In 1998, he first became a people's deputy (later he received a mandate four more times: in 2002, 2006, 2007 and 2012). He entered the parliament on the Gromada list, although he was soon expelled from his own offspring due to an intra-party split. In the Verkhovna Rada, he headed the budget committee. At the same time, he initiated a radical budget reform, the redistribution of public funds in favor of local government, the healthcare system, the educational and coal mining industries. Wrote a program de-shadowing the national economy.
The new political project of Turchynov and Tymoshenko was the All-Ukrainian Association of Batkivshchyna (established in July 1999). Soon Tymoshenko became vice-premier for the fuel and energy complex in the government of Viktor Yushchenko, and A. Turchynov actually headed Batkivshchyna.
In January 2001, Tymoshenko was dismissed and then arrested. A tough confrontation with L. Kuchma begins (both in parliament as part of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc faction, and on the streets of Ukrainian cities: the actions “Ukraine without Kuchma” and “Arise, Ukraine!”, the creation of the National Salvation Forum - up to the “orange revolution” 2004-2005).
2005 - Turchynov headed the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). He made an attempt to reform the SBU, creating on its basis two structures with one subordination - national intelligence and the national bureau of investigation.
September 2005 - submitted a resignation letter in protest against the dismissal of Yulia Tymoshenko's comrade-in-arms from the post of Prime Minister of Ukraine.
May - October 2007 - First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC).
In December 2007 appointed First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine.
In 2008, after the Verkhovna Rada made a decision on the re-election of the mayor of the capital and deputies of the Kyiv City Council, they started talking about Turchynov as a possible candidate for the post of the capital's mayor from BYuT. At the same time, the potential candidate himself said that he did not want to be the mayor of Kyiv, but if the party says “We must!”, then he will run. The party still said "We must!". As a result, he took second place, leaving Leonid Chernovetsky ahead.
After Viktor Yanukovych became president in 2010 as a result of regular elections, and the Tymoshenko government was dismissed, Turchynov lost his post as first deputy prime minister of Ukraine.
Since December 2012 - People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 7th convocation from the Batkivshchyna party (No. 4 on the list). Member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Informatization and Information Technologies. First Deputy Head of the Batkivshchyna Party. Since July 2013, he headed the central headquarters of the Batkivshchyna VO.
After the resignation of V. Rybak from the post of Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada on February 22, 2014, Turchynov was elected Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
It is worth noting that in the entire history of Ukraine's independence, the new speaker Oleksandr Turchynov was elected by the maximum number of votes - his candidacy was supported by 288 people's deputies.
After the appointment of Turchinov to the post of Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, the parliament assigned him functions of the President of Ukraine. 282 people's deputies voted for the corresponding resolution No. 4204.
As acting President, in accordance with the Constitution of Ukraine, Turchynov assumed the duties of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Personal life
Wife - Turchinova Anna Vladimirovna (born 1970) - Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages of the National Pedagogical University named after Mikhail Dragomanov. Owns part of the business of Alexander Turchinov, is engaged in figure skating.
Student Anna met her future husband at Dnepropetrovsk University while Alexander was working in the regional committee of the Komsomol. “He took me first of all because, unlike many gentlemen and admirers who tried to court me, he was the only one whom I could not push around. I quickly realized that I was dealing with a smart man who was stronger than me. So, we must capitulate, ”recalls Anna (“Zerkalo Nedeli”, March 5, 2005).
Son Cyril (born 1994), entered the law faculty of the Kyiv National Economic University. Vadim Hetman, and in the fourth year he transferred to the Academy of Labor, Social Relations and Tourism. In the summer of 2014, after receiving a master's degree, he wrote an application and went to serve in the National Guard.
Creativity, hobbies of Alexander Turchinov
In 2004, Alexander Turchinov made his debut as a novelist, publishing the psychological thriller Illusion of Fear, and then the script for the film of the same name. The book tells the story of a businessman who is forced to defend his business in the difficult conditions of the gangster 90s). “The desire to get rid of “unnecessary, paralyzing, unjustified fear,” as Alexander Valentinovich himself said, was the main reason that made him sit down to write a book. Then he wrote the documentary and biographical story "The Testimony" and the mystical thriller "The Last Supper".
In December 2012, Alexander Turchinov presented another book - "The Advent". As A. Turchynov said, this book is not a prophecy, although some real events in Ukrainian politics are traced in the plot. “This is an attempt to build a model of our society with you and see how this model works in the short term,” he explained.
Alexander Turchinov claims that the best vacation for him is a change of occupation. “A short rest is like a shot from a pistol – and there is no fatigue,” he says. However, he considers the main rest for himself not for the body, but for the soul. This gives me only the church, which I go to most often, - says Alexander Valentinovich.
Religious views of Alexander Turchinov
Baptized in 1999. According to A. Turchynov, he is an evangelical Christian, a Baptist, and is also the leader of the Ukrainian branch of the Church of Christ: “I am a volunteer who went into politics because I did not see the possibility of developing Ukrainian science without major political changes, and, the least interested in the career of an official ... I preach in the church, and for me the pastoral ministry would be more interesting than working as a prime minister. At the same time, he himself emphasized that, despite the sermons he read, he was not a pastor. To the question: “If you turned to the opposition with a sermon, what would you say?” Turchinov answered this way: “... a person who believes in God is not afraid of death. Just as death is for us, believing Christians, it is the gateway to meeting our Creator. When there is faith, fear disappears. Go forward together and win” (“Facts”, February 2, 2004).
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Turchinov Alexander Valentinovich - Ukrainian politician and statesman, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (since December 16, 2014).
Head of the Popular Front faction in the Ukrainian parliament (since November 27, 2014). Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (February 22 - November 27, 2014), temporarily Acting President of Ukraine (February 23 - June 7, 2014), Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (February 26 - June 7, 2014).
He was a longtime friend and colleague of Yulia Tymoshenko. After her arrest in 2011, he took over the leadership of the BYuT. On August 27, 2014, he left the Batkivshchyna and joined the People's Front.
Member of the Verkhovna Rada in 1998-2007 and since 2012. From February to September 2005, he was the head of the SBU (Security Service of Ukraine, - ed.). From May to November 2007, he was First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.
Biography
Family: Married.
Anna Turchinova
The politician is married and has a son, Kirill (born in 1994). He entered the Faculty of Law of the Kyiv National Economic University, and in the fourth year he transferred to the Academy of Labor, Social Relations and Tourism. In the summer of 2014, after receiving a master's degree, he wrote an application and went to serve in the National Guard.
Anna Vladimirovna Turchinova (b. 1970) graduated from the Romano-Germanic faculty of the Dnepropetrovsk University, she is the head of the Department of Foreign Languages at the National Pedagogical University named after. Dragomanova, candidate of pedagogical sciences. He is engaged in figure skating.
Student Anna met her future husband Alexander Turchinov at Dnepropetrovsk University. We met while Alexander Valentinovich was working in the regional committee of the Komsomol. “He took me first of all because, unlike many gentlemen and admirers who tried to court me, he was the only one whom I could not push around. I quickly realized that I was dealing with a smart man who was stronger than me. Which means , we must capitulate," recalls Anna ("Zerkalo Nedeli", March 5, 2005).
The parents of Alexander Turchinov separated early and Alexander was raised by his mother Valentina Ivanovna. During his school years, he played for the regional volleyball team.
Education: Higher.
- 1986 - graduated from the Dnepropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute with honors.
- As a second-year student, he was rewarded as a commander of a construction team with a trip as part of the delegation of the Central Committee of the Komsomol to India and Ceylon.
Career:
- After high school, he worked for a short time as a roller and foreman at the Kryvorizhstal Iron and Steel Works, and then switched to Komsomol work.
As he himself recalled: “After the institute, they predicted a scientific perspective for me. And none of the teachers expected that I would voluntarily go to work at Kryvorizhstal.
- 1987-1989 - Secretary of the district committee and head of the propaganda department of the Dnepropetrovsk regional committee of the LKSMU. He acted as one of the coordinators of the Democratic Platform in the CPSU, which advocated the renewal, decentralization of the Communist Party, for which he lost his party card.
- 1990 - created with partners and headed the Ukrainian branch of the IMA-Press news agency, which published books and newspapers.
- 1991 - headed by him the Institute of International Relations, Economics, Politics and Law, created by him.
- 1992-1993 - headed the economic committee of the Dnepropetrovsk Regional State Administration.
- 1993-1994 - Advisor on economic issues to the Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma, whom he met at the time when he was in charge of the Dnepropetrovsk giant plant Yuzhmash.
- 1994 - created the All-Ukrainian Association "Gromada" (VO "Gromada"), which later in 1997 was headed by Pavlo Lazarenko. VO "Hromada" supported Leonid Kuchma in the presidential elections.
- 1998 - elected as a people's deputy of Ukraine on the list of the Gromada party; after the departure of Yulia Tymoshenko to the government - the head of the Budget Committee of the Verkhovna Rada.
- 1999 - as a result of a conflict with Lazarenko, the All-Ukrainian Association "Batkivshchyna" (VO "Batkivshchyna") is created, which has been headed by Yulia Tymoshenko since the day of its foundation, and Oleksandr Turchynov was her deputy.
- 2002 - Elected People's Deputy of Ukraine on the list of the BYuT bloc.
- 2004 - during the presidential elections - one of the deputy heads of Viktor Yushchenko's election headquarters.
- In early 2005, after Viktor Yushchenko's victory in the presidential election, Oleksandr Turchynov was appointed head of the Security Service of Ukraine. As part of the general reform of the country's administrative apparatus, he was given the task of reforming the SBU, creating on its basis two structures with one subordination - national intelligence and the national bureau of investigation. It was planned to transfer counterintelligence and all issues affecting national security to the jurisdiction of the National Bureau of Investigation.
- 09.2005 - in connection with the resignation of Yulia Tymoshenko from the post of Prime Minister of Ukraine and because of the unwillingness to cooperate with the corrupt environment of Viktor Yushchenko, Turchynov also resigned from his post and headed the election headquarters of the BYuT bloc. In the 2006 parliamentary elections, he was re-elected to the Verkhovna Rada. In the Verkhovna Rada of the 5th convocation, he was deputy head of the BYuT faction.
- May 23, 2007 - by decree of President Yushchenko, he was appointed First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council.
- 09/30/2007 - was re-elected a people's deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the BYuT faction.
- December 19, 2007 - appointed First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine.
- 2008 - participated in the elections of the mayor of Kyiv and took second place.
- Since November 2012, People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the VII convocation, No. 4 on the party list of the All-Ukrainian Union "Batkivshchyna".
- Since July 2013, he has headed the central headquarters of the Batkivshchyna Military District.
- After the resignation of Volodymyr Rybak from the post of Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada on February 22, 2014, Turchynov was elected Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. 288 deputies voted for his appointment.
- 02/26/2014 - Turchynov, in accordance with the Constitution of Ukraine, signed a resolution on assuming the duties of the President of Ukraine. As acting The President, in accordance with the Constitution of Ukraine, assumed the duties of Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
- 06/07/2014 - transferred powers to the president elected during the elections, Petro Poroshenko.
- 08.2014 - together with Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Arsen Avakov and a number of others, he left the political council of the Batkivshchyna party due to disagreements. After that, the Popular Front party was organized, before that he was the first deputy head of the All-Ukrainian association "Batkivshchyna" and the head of the Central Headquarters of the party. During the parliamentary elections, the party took first place on party lists. In the Verkhovna Rada of the VIII convocation, he became the head of the Popular Front faction.
- On May 17, 2019, Oleksandr Turchynov resigned from the post of Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine in connection with the termination of the powers of President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.
- On May 19, 2019, Petro Poroshenko fired Oleksandr Turchynov from the post of Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council.
Titles, awards:
- In 1995 he defended his Ph.D. thesis "Methodological support and mechanism for reforming and optimizing taxation in modern economic conditions." In 1997 he defended his doctoral dissertation "Shadow economy (research methodology and mechanisms of functioning)". Author of more than 100 scientific papers and monographs devoted to the study of corruption, the shadow economy, totalitarianism.
In 2006, in the "Top 100" of the most influential people in Ukraine, which is annually determined by the magazine "Korrespondent", Oleksandr Turchynov took 25th position.
In 2007, in the "Top 100" of the most influential people in Ukraine of the magazine "Korrespondent", Oleksandr Turchynov took 29th position.
On October 31, 2014, at the awarding ceremony for the participants in the special operation of the Ukrainian security forces in the Donbass, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Arsen Avakov, awarded Oleksandr Turchynov with an automatic carbine for services to the ministry. The Minister expressed the hope that he would provide assistance to the Ministry in the future.
operational business
"I am a volunteer who went into politics because I did not see the possibility of developing Ukrainian science without serious political changes, and, believe me, I am least interested in the career of an official. And moreover, I am an evangelical Christian, a Baptist, I preach in the church, and for pastoral ministry would be more interesting for me than being prime minister"- said Alexander Turchinov. ("Facts", February 2, 2004).
"You can step back from some positions and ambitions, but you can't step back from principles", - says Alexander Valentinovich ("Glavred", February 7, 2006).
Turchynov - head of the SBU
In May 2005, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko threatened to involve the SBU (when Turchynov was the head of the service) in an investigation into the causes of the gasoline crisis in Ukraine.
Case of Mogilevich
On July 27, 2005, Oleksandr Turchinov announced that he had circumstantial evidence that the RosUkrEnergo company, Gazprom's intermediary in transporting Turkmen gas through Russia, was indirectly controlled by Semyon Mogilevich, an economist from Kyiv, who has been associated with Russian organized crime groups since the early 1970s. , who emigrated to Israel in 1990 and then moved to Hungary and has citizenship of Russia, Ukraine, Israel and Hungary. Mogilevich is wanted by the FBI for alleged involvement in stock fraud, racketeering, fraud and money laundering, financing the transport of weapons and drugs. Gazprom and Raiffeisen Investment claimed that Mogilevich had nothing to do with RUE.
After that, a conflict arose with President Yushchenko. Turchynov resigned, in December 2010 he once again recalled her reasons.
| "Viktor Yushchenko should have fulfilled his promise" Bandits should be in prison! " RosUkrEnergo". It was we who then opened a criminal case regarding serious abuses of both officials, and those who simply used the opportunity provided by officials in order to withdraw billions from the Ukrainian economy. And as soon as we approached those who should answer, unfortunately ", then I had a conflict with Viktor Yushchenko, who already began to like Mr. Firtash, as Mr. Kuchma liked him before, and now Yanukovych likes him. And that is why I resigned from the post of head of the SBU. And that is why the resignation of the government of Yulia Tymoshenko actually took place in 2005," the politician noted. |
wiretapping
Having assumed the post of chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine, Turchynov took up "wiretapping".
In 2006, on the eve of the parliamentary elections, the head of the BYuT campaign headquarters, Turchynov, was accused of "wiretapping" when he was chairman of the SBU. The Prosecutor General's Office even opened a criminal case on the fact of wiretapping of senior officials. He took the case as a political provocation: “You know, the Security Service does carry out certain operational and technical measures. But I can assure you that during my leadership of the Security Service, all these activities were carried out within the limits of the law and the Constitution. And what is happening today , this is a poorly rehearsed performance, which actually has the name "Pre-election campaign, typical" ("1 + 1", March 11, 2006). . The matter did not develop further.
Since March 2006, Turchynov and his former deputy in the SBU Andrey Kozhemyakin (also a deputy on the BYuT list) have been involved by the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine as a witness in criminal cases on the fact of the destruction of the materials of the SBU operational-search file on the activities of businessman Semyon Mogilevich and on the fact of illegal wiretapping of conversations Correspondent of the newspaper "Segodnya" Alexander Korchinsky.
In April 2012, the General Prosecutor's Office announced that it was checking information about the illegal allocation of apartments to journalists by Oleksandr Turchynov when he was the head of the Security Service of Ukraine. "Fatherland" called the accusations of the Prosecutor General's Office political persecution...
Professor, writer, preacher
Doctor of Economic Sciences, professor, author of eight monographs, more than a hundred scientific papers devoted to the study of the emergence of corruption, the shadow economy, the genesis of totalitarian tendencies in modern society. PhD thesis - "Methodological support and mechanism for reforming and optimizing taxation in modern conditions" was written in 1995. Doctoral dissertation - "Shadow economy (research methodology and mechanisms of functioning)" - in 1997.
As a novelist, Alexander Turchinov made his debut in 2004, publishing the thriller Illusion of Fear. The book tells the story of a businessman who is forced to defend his business in the difficult conditions of the gangster 90s. "The desire to get rid of" unnecessary, paralyzing, unjustified fear, "as Alexander Valentinovich himself said, was the main reason that made him sit down to write a book. The book" The Illusion of Fear "uses many quotes from the Bible and illustrations - fragments from paintings of medieval Dutch In total, he wrote and published three books: the psychological thriller The Illusion of Fear, the documentary and biographical story The Testimony, and the mystical thriller The Last Supper.
According to Alexander Valentinovich's own words, he is an evangelical Christian, a Baptist, but he was also called a Lutheran in the press. At the same time, he himself emphasized that, despite the sermons he read, he was not a pastor.
On December 26, 2012, Oleksandr Turchinov presented in Kyiv his book "The Coming", published in Russian with a circulation of 7,770 copies. The presentation took place in the bookstore "Syaivo knigi".
Turchinov confessed that he had been writing this book for three years. "It was difficult for me to write this book, for about three years, although, usually, I wrote very quickly, on vacation. I don't consider myself a writer, it's more of a hobby for me," he added.
As A. Turchynov said, this book is not a prophecy, although some real events in Ukrainian politics are traced in the plot. "This is an attempt to build a model of our society with you and see how this model works in the short term," he explained.
According to him, the former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko was one of the first to read the book "The Coming". The book was given to her by her defender, People's Deputy Sergei Vlasenko.
"Yulia (Tymoshenko) reported that she had read the book in one day, she really liked it, although she said that she did not agree with some things," the author said.
Turchynov hopes that his book will be in demand. At the same time, he is not sure that opponents will be interested in his work. “Apparently, they don’t read much. I have a suspicion that they are unlikely to read it. But I don’t know readers among our opponents, and there are a lot of writers who get good fees…” A. Turchinov said .
Exit from "Batkivshchyna"
At the end of August 2014, information appeared about that. that there was a major split in the Batkivshchyna party. Almost all key politicians have decided to leave the party. This was announced by the Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov. He wrote that the controversy arose when discussing the formation of the party's list for the upcoming parliamentary elections.
He said that as part of the discussion, it was proposed that the list of the united "Batkivshchyna" in the elections be headed by our candidate for the post of prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Given that, of course, Yulia Tymoshenko would remain the leader of the party.
At the same time, Avakov said that he insisted on the unity of all democratic forces.
He made a proposal to create a broad association of democratic forces on the basis of "Batkivshchyna", to come up with the initiative to sign a coalition agreement in "Batkivshchyna" with the parties "Solidarity", "Blow" and "Svoboda" in order to declare the principle of "undefeated", coordination and support during the electoral process, and, accordingly, the formation of a coalition in the new parliament.
After Tymoshenko refused to put these proposals of Turchynov to a vote, he left the meeting of the political council. He was supported by a significant number of members of the political council of the Batkivshchyna, as a result, only half of the participants remained at the meeting.
Oleksandr Turchinov is the head of the central headquarters of the Popular Front party.
The top ten candidates included Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Advisor to the Interior Minister Tatiana Chornovil, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Turchynov, ex-secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Andiy Parubiy, commander of the Myrotvorets special battalion Andriy Teteruk, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, ex-deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Victoria Syumar, Batkivshchyna deputies Vyacheslav Kirilenko and Lilia Grinevich, as well as the commander of the Dnepr-1 volunteer battalion Yuri Bereza.
Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, Acting President of Ukraine and Commander-in-Chief and Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine
It is worth noting that in the entire history of Ukraine's independence, the new speaker Oleksandr Turchynov was elected by the maximum number of votes - his candidacy was supported by 288 people's deputies.
After the appointment of Turchynov to the post of speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, the parliament entrusted him with the functions of the president of Ukraine. 282 people's deputies voted for the corresponding resolution No. 4204.
Acting Turchynov worked as President of Ukraine until the presidential elections and the inauguration of President Petro Poroshenko.
December 16, 2014 - by decree of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, Oleksandr Turchynov was appointed to the post of Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.
Speaker BP
During Turchinov's work as the speaker of the country's parliament on March 11, 2014, the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the Sevastopol City Council under the conditions of actual occupation by the Russian Federation with the participation of the so-called. "little green men" - Russian military personnel - adopted a declaration of independence of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, and on March 18, 2014 they signed an agreement on the entry of the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol into the Russian Federation as subjects of the Russian Federation.
March 28, 2014 Turchynov, in response to the assault on the Rada by the "Right Sector", which took place the day before, said that the Verkhovna Rada is the foundation of legitimate power in Ukraine, and that it can only be changed through elections, and all other methods are illegal and unconstitutional .
And about. President of Ukraine and Commander-in-Chief
On February 22, 2014, the Verkhovna Rada adopted a resolution "On the self-removal of the President of Ukraine (Viktor Yanukovych, who fled to Russia - ed.) from the exercise of constitutional powers and the appointment of early elections of the President of Ukraine." By this resolution, the Verkhovna Rada scheduled early presidential elections for May 25, 2014.
On February 23, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Turchynov signed a resolution on assuming the duties of the President of Ukraine, referring to Article 112 of the Constitution of Ukraine (as amended on December 8, 2004).
On February 27, 2014, Oleksandr Turchynov signed a Decree on the appointment of Arseniy Yatsenyuk as head of government.
February 26, 2014 as well. about. President of Ukraine A. Turchynov in accordance with paragraph 17 of Part 1 of Art. 106 and Art. 112 of the Constitution of Ukraine assumed the duties of Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As well as. about. On April 14, 2014, the President of Ukraine signed Decree No. 405/2014 on the implementation of the decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine to conduct a large-scale anti-terrorist operation against separatists encroaching on the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
Recent events
On November 27, 2014, Oleksandr Turchynov announced the termination of the powers of the Verkhovna Rada of the 7th convocation and left the post of Speaker of the Rada. The deputies saw off Turchinov with applause and chanting "Well done!"
December 16, 2014 - by decree of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, Oleksandr Turchynov was appointed to the post of Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.
As noted in Zerkalo Nedeli, the amendments to the Law "On the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine", which were recently adopted in the first reading, significantly expand the powers of not only the body itself, but also its newly appointed secretary Oleksandr Turchynov. The position can become comparable in weight to the president, prime minister and speaker.
If earlier the National Security and Defense Council only considered issues related to the sphere of security and defense and submitted relevant proposals to the president, now he is also authorized to make decisions. And these decisions concern draft state programs, doctrines, directives, decrees, and laws.
If in the previous version the Security Council exercised current control over the activities of executive authorities in the field of national security and defense, then according to the new version, it will have to coordinate and control the activities of these bodies. In addition, he must coordinate and control the activities of executive bodies in the field of combating corruption, ensuring public order and combating crime. "According to the innovations, the apparatus of the National Security Council becomes a legal entity, and its work is carried out in accordance with the special regulations of the National Security and Defense Council, approved by the Decree of the President," the article says.
It is indicative, especially considering Russia's military aggression against Ukraine, that Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized the position of the Ukrainian leadership, in particular, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksandr Turchynov, for their readiness to fight until the terrorists are completely destroyed.
A little earlier, Turchynov said that Ukraine was ready to wage war until the complete liberation of its territory: “The ceasefire regime, which is constantly violated by Russian terrorist groups, can at any moment develop into a new violent confrontation. Russia can unleash a full-scale continental war. And this can happen in any time".
Only a naive person believes in Turchynov's sincerity, only a fool believes in decency... Turchynov skillfully converts his invaluable experience of political struggle into positions, influence and financial position. It has long been noticed that when Yu. Tymoshenko is "sitting", the rates of A. Turchinov increase sharply.
Ex-First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, ex-head of the Security Service of Ukraine, "gray eminence" of the BYuT, one of the most quoted Ukrainian politicians... There is no doubt: A. Turchynov is one of the most experienced politicians in Ukraine, capable of multi-level and multi-way combinations, of any alliances with any people.
Turchinov skillfully converts the truly invaluable experience of the political struggle into positions, influence and financial position. It has long been noticed that when Yu. Tymoshenko is "sitting", the rates of A. Turchinov increase sharply. But it is impossible to imagine Turchynov as an independent politician. At the same time, political maneuvering and survival in the Ukrainian political freak show has long become an end in itself.
REFERENCE. Alexander Valentinovich Turchinov was born on March 31, 1964 in the city of Dnepropetrovsk. After graduating from school, A. Turchinov worked as a roller operator at the Kryvorizhstal plant. He entered the technological faculty of the Dnepropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute (graduating with honors in 1986). 1987-1990 - Secretary of the district committee of the Komsomol, head of the department of agitation and propaganda of the Dnepropetrovsk regional committee of the Komsomol.
According to media reports, in 1989 A. Turichnov supported the start-up entrepreneur Yulia Tymoshenko in the creation of the youth center "Terminal" under the auspices of the Dnepropetrovsk regional committee of the LKSMU, in which she took the position of commercial director.
1990 - Editor-in-chief of "UNA-press APN", the Ukrainian branch of the Russian news agency "IMA-Press" (publishing books and periodicals).
1991 - Director of the Institute of International Relations, Economics, Politics and Law.
1992-1993 - Chairman of the Committee for denationalization and demonopolization of production of the Dnepropetrovsk Regional State Administration.
1993 - Advisor on economic issues to the Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma (they have known each other since the time of the management of the last Yuzhmash plant, Dnepropetrovsk) on macroeconomic issues. Vice President of the Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (USPP).
After the resignation (September 1993) of L. Kuchma from the post of head of government, he took the post of director general of the Institute of Economic Reforms, head of the shadow economy research laboratory of the Institute of Russia of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
1994 - created the All-Ukrainian Association "Hromada", which later became the party of Pavel Lazarenko, the odious prime minister during the presidency of L. Kuchma (P. Lazarenko joined it and headed it in 1997). Yulia Tymoshenko also joined Gromada, at that time one of the leaders of the United Energy Systems of Ukraine corporation (UESU), which supplied Russian natural gas.
1998 - people's deputy (also became a deputy in 2002 and 2006). Passed to the parliament on the list of "Hromada"; in the Verkhovna Rada headed the Budget Committee. He initiated the budget reform, the redistribution of public funds in favor of local government, the health care system, the educational and coal mining industries. The author of the program de-shadowing the economy of Ukraine.
1999, July: after a breakdown in relations with P. Lazarenko, he created the All-Ukrainian Association "Batkivshchyna" (the new political project of A. Turchynov and Y. Tymoshenko was headed by the latter). Important: Yulia Tymoshenko soon became Vice-Premier for the Fuel and Energy Complex in Viktor Yushchenko's government; "Batkivshchyna" was actually headed by A. Turchinov.
opposition activity. In January 2001 Yulia Tymoshenko was dismissed and then arrested. A tough confrontation with L. Kuchma begins (both in parliament as part of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc faction, and on the streets of Ukrainian cities: the actions “Ukraine without Kuchma” and “Arise, Ukraine!”, the creation of the National Salvation Forum - up to the “orange revolution” 2005-2005).
2005 - headed the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). He made an attempt to reform the SBU, creating on its basis two structures with one subordination - national intelligence and the national bureau of investigation. It was planned to transfer counterintelligence and all issues affecting national security to the jurisdiction of the National Bureau of Investigation.
On July 27, A. Turchinov announced that he had indirect evidence that the RosUkrenergo company, Gazprom's intermediary in transporting Turkmen gas through Russia and Ukraine, is controlled by an international criminal authority, one of the leaders of an organized criminal community in the post-Soviet space, an FSB agent who emigrated to Israel in 1990 and then moved to Hungary and has citizenship of Russia, Ukraine, Israel and Hungary. S. Mogilevich is wanted by the FBI for alleged participation in fraud with shares, racketeering, fraud and money laundering, financing the transportation of weapons and drugs. Lives without problems in Moscow.
September 2005 - submitted a resignation letter in protest against the dismissal of Yulia Tymoshenko's comrade-in-arms from the post of Prime Minister of Ukraine. May - October 2007 - First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC). December 2007 - March 2010 - First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine.
Business. A. Turchinov was involved in the creation of the Institute of Economic Reforms LLC, the XXI Century Information Technologies CJSC, Farmakor LLC (engaged in the repair and maintenance of vehicles), ZET LLC, Europa-X LLC, Editorial Newspaper LLC Evening News, VV LLC, SVV LLC. Through relatives, A.Turchinov controls Janus Real Estate Agency LLC and Garant-Service LLC.
Income. 2006: A.Turchynov declared income in the amount of UAH 185,900. The income of family members amounted to UAH 17,443. According to the declaration, family members (at that time - the first vice-premier) had a total of 200 thousand hryvnias in bank accounts. The family owned a 100 sq m apartment (Kyiv) and a Nissan Patrol car. 2007: A. Turchynov declared UAH 761 thousand 67. income. The income of family members amounted to UAH 23.6 thousand (salary).
Scientific activity. In 1995, A. Turchinov defended his Ph.D. thesis in economics on the topic "Methodological support and mechanism for reforming and optimizing taxation in modern conditions." In 1997 - a doctoral dissertation on the topic "Shadow economy (research methodology and mechanisms of functioning)". Author of a number of monographs and scientific articles. Owner of 12 copyright certificates. Professor. He argued that as soon as a normal leader comes to power in Ukraine, he will immediately quit politics for the sake of science.
The media wrote about the scientific inconsistency of the works of A. Turchinov, emphasizing that A. Turchinov's doctoral dissertation is a collection of compiled publications in the newspaper "VV", published by the BYuT with the money of the "parity fund".
Creation. Author of the thriller The Illusion of Fear (2004), the script for the film of the same name, and the fiction book The Last Supper. Neither the book nor the film were successful with the public and were almost unanimously ridiculed by critics.
Religious views. Baptized in 1999. According to A. Turchynov, he is an evangelical Christian, a Baptist, and is also the leader of the Ukrainian branch of the Church of Christ: “I am least interested in the career of an official ... I preach in the church, and for me pastoral ministry would be more interesting than work as prime minister." At the same time, he himself emphasized that, despite the sermons he read, he was not a pastor. To the question: “If you turned to the opposition with a sermon, what would you say?”, Turchinov answered this way: “... a person who believes in God is not afraid of death. Just as death is for us, believing Christians, it is the gateway to meeting our Creator. When there is faith, fear disappears. Go forward together and win” (“Facts”, February 2, 2004).
Family: wife Anna graduated from the Romano-Germanic faculty of Dnepropetrovsk University; teaches English at the Drahomanov Pedagogical University (Kyiv). Son Cyril.
Scandals
A.Turchinov (as well as Yu.Tymoshenko) is accused of ties with ex-premier P.Lazarenko. Turchinov himself refutes these rumors: “The opposition has an indifferent attitude towards Pavel Ivanovich. His influence on the political situation ended with the 1998 elections. Everybody. He cannot influence. These are the myths that were inflated by official propaganda, that he can influence something, he has secret ties with the opposition ... It was very difficult for us to part with him, it was a serious conflict that arose even before he left Ukraine . ...
We had political contradictions with him, there was a competitive situation in that party environment. We fought to lead the party, he did not want to give it up and expelled us. But we never shot him in the back. And we don’t have such deviations as beating a lying person” (“Ukrainskaya Pravda”, August 7, 2003).
2003 The GPU appealed to the Verkhovna Rada with a proposal to give consent to bring to criminal responsibility the BYuT deputies A. Turchinov and Stepan Khmara. They were charged with three articles of the Criminal Code: "Seizure of state or public buildings", "Threat to law enforcement officers" and "Exceeding power or official authority with the use of weapons and insulting law enforcement officers."
It was about the penetration of people's deputies on June 20-21, 2003 into the territory of the Lukyanovsky pre-trial detention center, where they “insulted and beat the staff” (the version of the ex-Deputy Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. The Parliament did not satisfy the request of the then Prosecutor General Svyatoslav Piskun, without giving consent to the involvement of A. Turchynov and S. Khmara to criminal liability.
On September 13, 2003, the tax authorities detained Ruslan Lukenchuk, A. Turchynov's assistant, near the office of the Batkivshchyna party. He was charged with involvement in an illegal conversion center. Prosecutor General S. Piskun then stated that the detention of A. Turchinov's assistant was part of a planned process of measures to initiate a criminal case. It was, according to him, about hundreds of thousands of illegally converted dollars, which the person contributed to the office of the Batkivshchyna party. This incident has not received legal development.
The collapse of the Gongadze case. 2006 With the advent of A. Turchinov to the post of chairman of the SBU, the highly professional investigative group of the SBU, which had been investigating the case of G. Gongadze since 2002, was disorganized. This was announced on April 26, 2006 at a press conference by Roman Shubin, First Deputy Head of the Main Investigation Department of the GPU.
According to R. Shubin, A. Turchinov also ordered not to report operational data on the case of G. Gonadze to the SBU investigation team. R. Shubin also said that the SBU investigation team headed by the SBU deputy chairman A. Kozhemyakin actually disrupted the special operation to extradite General Alexander Pukach, since the SBU investigation team did not have the authority to negotiate with the Israeli side on the extradition of A. Pukach.
According to R. Shubin, “...the SBU investigation team went to Israel without evidence and invitations from the Israeli side, as a result, this led to an uncontrolled expansion of the circle of people who have information regarding the evidence base in the case against General A. Pukach.”
Illegal wiretapping of journalist Alexander Korchinsky. This fact was made public at a press conference by Viktor Shokin, Deputy Prosecutor General. According to him, on June 25, 2005, the SBU opened an operational-search case, which included wiretapping of A. Korchinsky's phone. V. Shokin noted that the decision to establish an ORD is made personally by the head of the body, that is, the head of the SBU in 2005, A. Turchinov.
A.Korchinsky's phone was tapped until July 12, 2005, when the search warrant was closed. The interception was carried out under a court order, which was issued before December 25, 2005, and therefore such a short period of the ORD was unprecedented. The ORD was launched against unidentified persons of the Prosecutor General's Office, who allegedly informed A. Korchinsky about the whereabouts of the murderer of journalist G. Gongadze A. Pukach, and A. Korchinsky himself, who disseminated this information by publishing it in the Segodnya newspaper.
V. Shokin noted that at the same time, A. Korchinsky was charged with abuse of his official position by a law enforcement officer, while he is not one, and such an accusation was necessary in order to have the right to start an operational search. Thus, the OSA was initiated by falsifying documents. According to V. Shokin, after the closure of the ORD, his materials were destroyed. (Explanation: in June 2005, the Segodnya newspaper, citing an unnamed source, disseminated information that the wanted General Pukach had been found in Israel).
Destruction of the "case of Mogilevich". Since March 2006, A. Turchynov and Andriy Kozhemyakin, Turchynov's former deputy in the SBU (also a member of the BYuT), were called by the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine as witnesses in criminal cases on the fact of the destruction of the materials of the SBU operational-search file on the criminal activities of criminal authority S. Mogilevich and on the fact of illegal wiretapping of the correspondent of the newspaper "Segodnya" Alexander Korchinsky (read about the latter above - "A").
Recall: on September 8, 2005, the materials of the 20-volume operational-search file, which was conducted by the SBU for 12 years, about the activities of the international mafia S. Mogilevich, were destroyed. As an official investigation later established, the materials were destroyed in accordance with all the rules of office work.
In 2007, the Court of Appeal of the Kyiv Region closed the court proceedings in the case of the illegal destruction of the “Mogilevich case”. Moreover, the decision was made at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, which withdrew its appeal. At the same time, the Prosecutor General apologized for the actions of his deputy Viktor Shokin, who initiated the initiation of the case.
In the expert community, a version was expressed that the destruction of the archives of the SBU on S. Mogilevich was carried out by A. Turchinov and A. Kozhemyakin in the last days of their tenure in the SBU on the direct instructions of Yu. Tymoshenko. Which, in turn, was addressed with this request by the top leadership of Russia.
Fearing that the dossier on S. Mogilevich, the technical executor of many projects of the special services of the Russian Federation in Europe and the United States, could get to the special services of Western states. According to this version, the case itself was not destroyed, but handed over to the Russian special services. It is this circumstance that explains the closure of the criminal cases against A. Turchinov and A. Kozhemyakin, carried out with the assistance of the pro-Russian Prosecutor General Alexander Medvedko.
Himself said
About myself. "I'm one of those people who don't go to the doctor until they're taken to the hospital." (proUA, October 20, 2006).
“I am a volunteer who went into politics because I did not see the possibility of developing Ukrainian science without serious political changes, and, believe me, the career of an official interests me least of all. Moreover, I am an evangelical Christian, a Baptist, I preach in the church, and for me pastoral ministry would be more interesting than working as a prime minister,” he says (Facts, February 2, 2004).
About the Ukrainian authorities: “I think that every citizen whom you ask: “What epithet are you ready to prepare for the government to characterize it?”, he will say: “Criminal”. (Radio Liberty, July 8, 2004).
About moods in the Ukrainian society. "I don't know soldiers who are ready to die for the money stolen by Kuchma and Yanukovych." ("Ukrainian Truth", November 30, 2004).
On personnel in law enforcement agencies. “I believe that it is necessary to appoint those people who have experienced firsthand how painful it is when a power machine steps over you.” ("Capital News", January 18, 2005).
About SBU. “I am not ready to give an unambiguous answer to what extent the SBU is able to ensure the reliable storage of state secrets today.” ("Zerkalo Nedeli", February 19, 2005).
The entire career of A. Turchinov as a politician is exclusively a battle for power. Which became an end in itself both for him and for his "host" - Yulia Tymoshenko.
The union of deeply vicious people, ready to betray their closest allies and fraternize with yesterday's enemies, cost Ukraine dearly. Perhaps even independence.
Egor Karnaukhov, "Argument"
(Ukrainian Oleksandr Valentinovich Turchynov, born March 31, 1964, Dnepropetrovsk) - Ukrainian politician and statesman, since February 22, 2014 he has been the chairman. Since February 23, 2014, by the decision of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, he has been acting President of Ukraine. Since February 26, 2014 - Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Dossier
Turchinov Alexander Valentinovich: biography
Education
In 1986 he graduated with honors from the technological faculty of the Dnepropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute.
Doctor of Economics, Professor.
Career
- He worked at the Krivorozhstal plant.
- 1987-1990 - secretary of the district committee of the Komsomol, then head of the department of agitation and propaganda of the Dnepropetrovsk regional committee of the Komsomol. He acted as one of the coordinators of the Democratic Platform in the CPSU, which advocated the renewal and decentralization of the Communist Party.
- 1990-1991 - editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian branch of the news agency Una-press APN.
- 1991 - Head of the Institute of International Relations, Economics, Politics and Law.
- 1992 - Head of the Committee for Denationalization and Demonopolization of Production of the Dnepropetrovsk Regional State Administration.
- 1993 - Advisor to the Prime Minister of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma on economic issues.
- 1994 - created the All-Ukrainian Association "Gromada" (VO "Gromada"), which later in 1997 was headed by Pavlo Lazarenko. VO "Hromada" supported Leonid Kuchma in the presidential elections.
- 1998 - elected as a people's deputy of Ukraine on the list of the Gromada party; after leaving the government - head of the Budget Committee of the Verkhovna Rada.
- 1999 - as a result of a conflict with Lazarenko, the All-Ukrainian Association "Batkivshchyna" (VO "Batkivshchyna") is created, which has been headed by Yulia Tymoshenko since the day of its foundation, and Oleksandr Turchynov is her deputy.
- 2002 - re-elected People's Deputy of Ukraine on the list of the BYuT bloc.
- 2004 - during the presidential elections - one of the deputy heads of Victor's election headquarters.
- On February 22, 2014, he was elected Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 288 deputies voted for him out of 333 present in the meeting room.
- In early 2005, after the victory of Viktor Yushchenko in the presidential elections, he was appointed head of the Security Service of Ukraine.
- In September 2005, in connection with the resignation of Yulia Tymoshenko from the post of Prime Minister of Ukraine, Turchynov also resigned from his post and headed the election headquarters of the BYuT bloc. In the 2006 parliamentary elections, he was re-elected to the Verkhovna Rada. In the Verkhovna Rada of the 5th convocation, he was deputy head of the BYuT faction.
- On May 23, 2007, by decree of President Viktor Yushchenko, he was appointed First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council.
- On September 30, 2007, he was elected a People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the BYuT faction.
- On December 19, 2007 he was appointed First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine.
- In 2008, he participated in the election of the mayor of Kyiv and took second place.
- In 2004 he published a book - a thriller "The Illusion of Fear", and a script for the film of the same name.
Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
- During the political crisis in Ukraine in 2013-2014 and the resignation of Vladimir Rybak on February 22, 2014, he was elected Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. 288 deputies voted for his appointment. One of the first to welcome this election was US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt.
- During the presidency of Turchinov, on March 11, 2014, the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic and the Sevastopol City Council adopted a declaration of independence of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, and on March 18, 2014, they signed an agreement on the entry of the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol into the Russian Federation as subjects of the Russian Federation .
- On March 18, 2014, People's Deputy Anatoly Gritsenko suggested that Turchynov resign. According to Gritsenko, Turchynov cannot cope with the role of the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and this is not his calling. In addition, Gritsenko reminded Turchynov that Turchynov promised to leave politics after the release of Yulia Tymoshenko from prison, but did not keep his word.
- March 28, 2014 Turchynov, in response to the assault on the Rada by the Right Sector, which took place the day before, said that the Verkhovna Rada is the foundation of legitimate power in Ukraine, and that it can only be changed through elections, and all other methods are illegal and unconstitutional .
Acting President of Ukraine
On February 23, 2014, the Verkhovna Rada conferred presidential powers on Oleksandr Turchynov until the presidential elections in May 2014.
Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Army
On February 26, 2014, Turchynov assumed the duties of Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Army. As the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Army, he conducted a "large-scale anti-terrorist operation." On April 14, Turchynov signed Decree No. 405/2014 on conducting a large-scale anti-terrorist operation using the army against citizens of the East who do not agree with the new Ukrainian government. As a result, the advance detachment of the 25th airborne assault brigade of the airborne regiment was sent to the inhabitants of Kramatorsk, but after being surrounded by unarmed residents of Ukraine, the soldiers gave them their weapons and equipment (six BMD vehicles) and were fed by the inhabitants of the southeast.
Personal life
Family
Married. Turchinova's wife Anna Vladimirovna (1970) - Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages of the National Pedagogical University named after Mikhail Dragomanov. Son Cyril (1994) - student.
Religion
He is a parishioner of the Protestant Church "Word of Life".
Turchinov Alexander Valentinovich- Ukrainian political and statesman. Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine from December 16, 2014 to May 19, 2019. Acting President of Ukraine from February 23 to June 7, 2014. Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from February 23 to June 7, 2014. Head of the Popular Front faction in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from November 27 to December 16, 2014. Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (from February 22 to November 27, 2014). He was a longtime friend and “right hand” of Yulia Tymoshenko. After her arrest in 2011, he took over the leadership of the BYuT. On August 27, 2014, he left the Batkivshchyna and moved to the People's Front. Member of the Verkhovna Rada in 1998-2007 and from 2012 to 2014. From February to September 2005, he was the head of the Security Service of Ukraine. From May to November 2007, he was First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. From December 2007 to March 2010 he was the First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine.
Biography
Turchinov Alexander Valentinovich, 03/31/1964, born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR.
Relatives. Wife - Anna Vladimirovna Turchinova (dev. Beliba; born April 1, 1970) - Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages of the National Pedagogical University named after Mikhail Dragomanov.
Son - Kirill Aleksandrovich Turchinov (August 28, 1992), - activist of the NGO "People's Front of Youth", (2014-2016) - served in the National Guard of Ukraine, graduate student of the Institute of Legislation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, graduated from the law faculty of KNEU named after. Hetman, in 2013 he transferred to the magistracy of the Kyiv Academy of Labor, Social Relations and Tourism, in 2014 he became a graduate student of the Institute of Legislation of the Verkhovna Rada, in 2018 he defended his dissertation on the topic “Constitutional and legal regulation of the activities of political parties in the electoral process” and became a candidate of legal Sciences, wrote a fantasy novel about the superpowers of a person "Electi" under the pseudonym Alex Kirillov.
Awards. Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class (May 2, 2018). Award weapons - Alfa 3541 revolver caliber .357 Magnum (April 30, 2014), Fort-226 submachine gun (March 30, 2015), Mauser C96 pistol with 105 rounds (handed over by Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak on February 22, 2016 ), self-loading pistol PSM-05 (October 31, 2014).
State. According to the data of the electronic declaration, in 2016 Oleksandr Turchynov earned UAH 512,807 in salary, he received UAH 1.7 million in interest from bank deposits, another UAH 22.8 thousand were income from the alienation of securities and corporate rights. Turchynov had 49.8 thousand hryvnias, 810.4 thousand dollars and about 10 thousand euros in bank accounts. In cash, Turchynov declared 735,000 dollars, 55,000 euros and 320,000 hryvnias. The declaration also included a collection of old Bibles, 12 paintings, and copyrights for books and films. The wife declared 447.5 thousand hryvnias of income for 2016.
Education
Graduated with honors from the Technological Faculty of the Dnepropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute (1986).
Labor activity
- After graduation, he worked in the Dnepropetrovsk regional committee of the LKSMU, was the secretary of the district committee and head of the propaganda department. He acted as one of the coordinators of the Democratic Platform in the CPSU, in connection with which he was expelled from the party.
- From 1990 to 1991, he headed the Ukrainian branch of the IMA-Press news agency.
- From 1993 to 1994 he was an adviser to the President of Ukraine on economic issues.
- In 1998 he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada on the list of the Gromada electoral association. He was a member of the Batkivshchyna faction, was its deputy chairman.
- In 2005 Turchinov A.V. headed the SBU for some time.
- In 2007, he was First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC).
- From 2007 to 2010, he served as First Deputy Prime Minister.
- On February 22, 2014, as a result of a coup d'etat, he was elected chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, and the next day he became acting president of Ukraine. In June of the same year, he transferred the powers of the head of state to P. A. Poroshenko.
- Since December 2014, he has been the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council.
Relations/Partners
Tymoshenko Yulia Vladimirovna- People's Deputy of Ukraine. A. Turchynov is the main ally of Y. Tymoshenko, as well as the first deputy head of the Batkivshchyna party and the head of the Central Headquarters of the BYuT.
Gritsenko Anatoly Stepanovich- politician and statesman. In June 2012, A. Hrytsenko's party "Civic Position" became part of the united opposition "Batkivshchyna", the head of the election headquarters of which is A. Turchynov.
Avakov Arsen Borisovich- Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. Oleksandr Turchynov is sure that Avakov won the elections in Kharkiv.
Tyagnibok Oleg Yaroslavovich- political figure. Opposition representatives A. Yatsenyuk, O. Tyahnybok and A. Turchynov united before the 2012 parliamentary elections.
Boyko Yury Anatolievich- politics, energy. The head of the Ministry of Fuel and Energy, Yuriy Boyko, got confused in his testimony. This was stated by the first deputy chairman of the Batkivshchyna party Oleksandr Turchynov.
Royal Natalia Yurievna- People's Deputy of Ukraine. A. Turchinov called N. Korolevskaya "an unsuccessful project of opponents."
To information
The "godfather" of Alexander Valentinovich Turchinov as a politician is the former prime minister Pavel Lazarenko. True, for unknown reasons, Turchinov himself denies this, as his longtime colleague denies the obvious. Yulia Timoshenko. But if there is still logic in denial on the part of Yulia Vladimirovna (perhaps she fears that this format of relations, given the whole range of their ties with Lazarenko, will definitely look like incest), then denial on the part of Alexander Valentinovich has no logic at all. It is unlikely that the format of their relationship with Lazarenko was as complex as in the case of Lazarenko and Tymoshenko, although, as they say, anything can happen.
In 2003, Turchynov first gained all-Ukrainian fame when the Prosecutor General's Office appealed to the Verkhovna Rada with a request to agree to bring him to criminal responsibility along with another deputy from the BYuT Stepan Khmara. They were charged with committing crimes under three articles of the Criminal Code at once: “Seizure of state or public buildings”, “Threat to law enforcement officers” and “Exceeding power or official authority with the use of weapons and insulting law enforcement officers”, since they entered the territory of the Lukyanovsky pre-trial detention center, where staff were insulted and beaten. Alexander Valentinovich indignantly rejected all accusations, calling the prosecutor's presentation a provocation. Parliament also denied the request of the then Attorney General Svyatoslav Piskun, without giving consent to bringing Turchinov and Khmara to criminal responsibility.
In the same 2003, the tax authorities detained one of Alexander Valentinovich's assistants near the office of the Batkivshchyna party. Ruslan Lukenchuk, who was charged with involvement in an illegal conversion center. At the same time, Prosecutor General Piskun stated that the detention of Turchynov's assistant was part of a planned process of measures to initiate a criminal case. It was, according to him, about hundreds of thousands of illegally converted dollars, which came to the office of the Batkivshchyna party. But the investigation dragged on, and after coming to the highest government post Viktor Yushchenko and completely disappeared. Indeed, under him, Alexander Valentinovich himself became a "punishing sword", heading a very serious institution, known by the abbreviation SBU.
With the advent of Turchynov to this post, the highly professional investigative group of the SBU, which was investigating the murder of a journalist, was disorganized. George Gongadze since 2002. Alexander Valentinovich also gave a strict instruction not to report operational data on the Gongadze case to the SBU investigation team. The very same investigation team, headed by the deputy chairman of the SBU Andrey Kozhemyakin actually thwarted a special operation to extradite a general from Israel Alexander Pukach.
In 2005, the SBU opened an operational-search case (ORD), which included tapping the journalist's phone Alexander Korchinsky. At the same time, the decision to open an operational-search activity was made personally by Turchinov, and the case itself was opened with blatant violations of all the rules, including the forgery of documents. In general, Alexander Valentinovich was distinguished as chairman of the SBU by extreme unscrupulousness and uncleanliness. It got to the point that he bugged the country's top leadership and seized documents with subsequent destruction, which spoke of Yulia Tymoshenko's connections with a criminal businessman Semyon Mogilevich. Therefore, it can be considered a miracle that Turchinov got away with all this.
Alexander Valentinovich considers himself a Baptist. In fact, the Faith Movement, to which he belongs, was founded by a notorious Nigerian Sundayem Adelaja and it has nothing to do with Protestantism, to which Baptism belongs. The Faith Movement has a special teaching, which, according to authoritative experts, cannot be called Christian. In fact, it represents the occult, which is only covered by Christianity.
Turchinov's penchant for the occult is also confirmed by the fact that he loves the number seven. He published his book "The Coming" with a circulation of 7,770 copies, and his car AudiQ7 (such a car in the minimum configuration costs at least 80 thousand dollars) has the number AA 7777 TO (Turchinov Oleksandr).
