Anatoliy Hrytsenko | |
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Munich Security Conference, 4 February 2006
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People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
Assumed office 15 December 2012 |
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Minister of Defence of Ukraine | |
In office 4 February 2005 – 18 December 2007 |
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Prime Minister |
Yulia Tymoshenko Yuriy Yekhanurov Viktor Yanukovych |
Preceded by | Oleksandr Kuzmuk |
Succeeded by | Yuriy Yekhanurov |
Personal details | |
Born |
Zvenyhorodka Raion, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukrainian SSR |
25 October 1957
Political party | Civil Position |
Spouse(s) | Yuliia Volodymyrivna Mostova Liudmyla Mykhailivna (divorced) |
Children | Oleksii (1979) Svitlana (1982) Hanna (2004) Hlib Rozumkov (1998, stepson) |
Residence | Kyiv |
Website | grytsenko.com.ua |
Anatoliy Stepanovych Hrytsenko (Ukrainian: Анатолій Степанович Гриценко; born 25 October 1957) is a Ukrainian politician, independentmember of the current Ukrainian parliament, former Minister of Defence, member of the Our Ukraine political party and leader of the Civil Position party.
Hrytsenko graduated with honours from Kyiv Higher Military Aviation Engineering School on 23 June 1979. On 10 December 1984 he was awarded a Candidate of Sciences (Ph.D.) degree from Kyiv Higher Military Aviation Engineering School. And in 1993 Hrytsenko graduated from the Defense Language Institute of the United States Department of Defense. On 6 June 1994 he graduated from the Resident Program of the U.S. Air War College And on 30 October 1995 Hrytsenko graduated from the Academy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Hrytsenko is author of more than 100 scientific papers published in Ukraine, Belgium, the Netherlands, United States, Germany and Switzerland.
Hrytsenko served 25 years in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, he served in combat units, as teacher at the military college and in staff positions in the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.