Vasyl Durdynets Василь Васильович Дурдинець |
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Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine on matters of State Security and Emergencies | |
In office 3 July 1995 – 18 June 1996 |
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Prime Minister | Yevhen Marchuk |
First Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine | |
In office 18 June 1996 – 30 July 1997 |
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Prime Minister | Pavlo Lazarenko |
Preceded by | Pavlo Lazarenko |
Succeeded by | Anatoliy Holubchenko |
Acting Prime Minister of Ukraine (ex officio) | |
In office 2 July 1997 – 30 July 1997 |
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President | Leonid Kuchma |
Preceded by | Pavlo Lazarenko |
Succeeded by | Valeriy Pustovoitenko |
Director of the National Bureau of Investigations | |
In office July 1997 – March 1999 |
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President | Leonid Kuchma |
Preceded by | Oleh Lytvak |
Succeeded by | office dissolved |
Minister on matters of Emergencies and population security from consequences of the Chernobyl Disaster | |
In office 22 March 1999 – 30 November 2002 |
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Prime Minister |
Valeriy Pustovoitenko Viktor Yushchenko Anatoliy Kinakh |
Preceded by | Valeriy Kalchenko |
Succeeded by | Hryhoriy Reva |
6th Ambassador of Ukraine to Hungary | |
In office 2 December 2002 – 15 July 2003 |
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Preceded by | Orest Klimpush |
Succeeded by | Yuriy Mushka |
4th Ambassador of Ukraine to Slovenia | |
In office 2 December 2002 – 15 July 2003 |
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Preceded by | Orest Klimpush |
Succeeded by | Ivan Hnatyshyn |
People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
1st convocation | |
In office 15 May 1990 – 10 May 1994 |
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Constituency | Communist Party of Ukraine, Kirovohrad Oblast, District No.230 |
2nd convocation | |
In office 10 May 1994 – 3 September 1996 |
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Constituency | Independent, Kirovohrad Oblast, District No.229 |
Personal details | |
Born |
Romočevica, Czechoslovakia (now Romochevytsia, Mukachevo Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine) |
27 September 1937
(Maj. Gen. Ret.) Vasyl Vasylovych Durdynets (Ukrainian: Василь Васильович Дурдинець, b. 27 September 1937) is a Ukrainian statesman and diplomat. He served as Acting Prime Minister of Ukraine during a short period in July 1997.
Vasyl Durdynets was born into peasant family in Czechoslovakia before World War II. In 1960 he graduated the Law faculty of Ivano Franko Lviv State University. In 1958 through 1970 Durdynets was an active member of the Komsomol of Ukraine (1958-1966) and Komsomol (1966-1970) in Lviv, Moscow, and Kiev. In 1970 he became a staff member of the Lviv regional committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.
In 1978 Durdynets was appointed as a deputy and in 1982 he became the first deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, holding the post until February 1991. In March 1990 he was elected as a parliamentary to the Verkhovna Rada (first convocation) as member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union winning the 230th electoral district in Bobrynets, Kirovohrad Oblast. At the first (12th) convocation, Durdynets headed the parliamentary commission on matters of defense and state security and was a non-affiliated member of parliament. Since 29 January 1992 in Verkhovna Rada Durdynets served as vice-speaker (first deputy head).
To the next convocation Durdynets was reelected as non-affiliated at the 229th electoral district in the same city. At the second convocation Durdynets was a leader of deputy group "Center" and the parliamentary commission on fight with organized crime and corruption. Simultaneously he also served as the first deputy chairman of the Presidential coordination committee in fight with corruption and organized crime.