Volodymyr Radchenko
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Volodymyr Radchenko | |
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Володимир Радченко | |
National Security and Defense Council | |
In office 2 September 2003 – 20 January 2005 | |
Preceded by | Yevhen Marchuk |
Succeeded by | Petro Poroshenko |
Head of the Security Service of Ukraine | |
In office 10 February 2001 – 2 September 2003 | |
Preceded by | Leonid Derkach |
Succeeded by | Ihor Smeshko |
In office 3 July 1995 – 22 April 1998 | |
Preceded by | Valeriy Malikov |
Succeeded by | Leonid Derkach |
Minister of Internal Affairs | |
In office 21 July 1994 – 3 July 1995 | |
Preceded by | Andriy Vasylyshyn |
Succeeded by | Yuriy Kravchenko |
Personal details | |
Born | General of the Army | 23 October 1948
Volodymyr Ivanovych Radchenko (
Biography
Early career and education
In 1971 he graduated from Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design with the specialty of chemical engineer. He served in the KGB of the Soviet Union since that year. In 1972, Radchenko finished the higher courses of the KGB of the USSR in Minsk. Since September of that year, he worked in the KGB directorate for Kyiv and the Kyiv Oblast. He held supervisory positions and eventually became the chief of a department. From March 1982 until October 1990 — he served in the KGB directorate in the Rivne Oblast in the same positions. In 1986 he graduated from the Higher Red Banner School of the KGB. In 1990, as a supporter of the idea of an independent Ukraine, Radchenko was removed from active service and placed in the reserves.
Service in independent Ukraine
In the summer of 1991,
In early July 1994 Radchenko was selected by the
In April 1998, Volodymyr Radchenko wrote a letter of resignation due to personal reasons and became the first deputy of the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, Volodymyr Horbulin. After the Cassette Scandal, President Kuchma again selected Radchenko to be the Head of the Security Service of Ukraine, for the second time. He replaced Leonid Derkach. From February 2001 until September 2003, he held that position. Radchenko was considered to be a professional, not involved with any criminal-finance groups.
From September 2003, he had been the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (the position was vacant since the end of June of that year since the appointment of Yevhen Marchuk as the
From August 2006, he was an adviser of the SBU head, and in November of that year
Death
He died on 4 January 2023, at the age of 74.[1]
Personal life
Radchenko had a wife and two children.