Vasyl Tsushko Василь Цушко |
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Vasyl Tsushko
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Minister of Economics | |
In office March 11, 2010 – December 10, 2010 |
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Preceded by | Bohdan Danylyshyn |
Succeeded by | Post dismissed |
Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine | |
In office December 1, 2006 – December 18, 2007 |
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Preceded by | Yuriy Lutsenko |
Succeeded by | Yuriy Lutsenko |
Personal details | |
Born |
Nadrichne, Tarutyne Raion, Odessa Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
February 1, 1963
Political party | Socialist Party of Ukraine |
Relations | Son and daughter |
Occupation | Politician |
Vasyl Petrovych Tsushko (Ukrainian: Василь Петрович Цушко; born February 1, 1963 in Nadrichne, Tarutyne Raion, Odessa Oblast) is a Ukrainian politician former Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, appointed on quote of the Communist Party, and former Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.
From July 2010 to August 2011 he was the party-leader of the Socialist Party of Ukraine.
Vasyl Tsushko was born in the small village of Nadrichne, Odessa Oblast in the Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine); he is of mixed Ukrainian-Moldovan ancestry and is fluent in Romanian language. In 1982, Tsushko finished the Izmail Vocational school of Mechanics and Electronics of Agriculture. From 1983-1985, Tsushko served in the Soviet Army. After completing the army course, he went to study at the economic faculty at the Odessa Agriculture Institute, from which he graduated in 1988.
Tsushko is married and has a son and daughter. He is interested in historical literature.
From 1998-1996, Tsushko was the head of two soviet farms. From 1994-2002, Vasyl Tsushko served as a national deputy of the second, third, and fourth convocations of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament). In 2005, he graduated from the National University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, with the qualification of a lawyer. From May 1997, he was a member of the Socialist Party of Ukraine and the first Vice-president of the Committee of Bank and Financing of Ukraine. He was chosen as the head of the Odessa Oblast Government Administration on February 3, 2005.