Volodymyr Radchenko
| Volodymyr Radchenko Володимир Радченко |
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| Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine | |
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In office 12 January 2007 – 25 May 2007 |
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| President | Viktor Yushchenko |
| Prime Minister | Viktor Yanukovych |
| Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council | |
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In office 2 September 2003 – 20 January 2005 |
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| Preceded by | Yevhen Marchuk |
| Succeeded by | Petro Poroshenko |
| Head of the Security Service of Ukraine | |
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In office 10 February 2001 – 2 September 2003 |
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| Preceded by | Leonid Derkach |
| Succeeded by | Ihor Smeshko |
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In office 3 July 1995 – 22 April 1998 |
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| Preceded by | Valeriy Malikov |
| Succeeded by | Leonid Derkach |
| Minister of Internal Affairs | |
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In office 21 July 1994 – 3 July 1995 |
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| Preceded by | Andriy Vasylyshyn |
| Succeeded by | Yuriy Kravchenko |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
23 October 1948 Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Spouse(s) | Valentina Vycheslavovna |
| Children | 2 (Viktor and Elena) |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |
 Soviet Union Ukraine
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| Service/branch |
 KGB SBU
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| Years of service | 1972 - 2003 |
| Rank |
 General of the Army
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Volodymyr Ivanovych Radchenko (Ukrainian: Володимир Іванович Радченко) (born 23 October 1948) is a Ukrainian politician and General of Army of Ukraine. Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (1994–1995). Head of the Security Service of Ukraine (1995–1998, 2001–2003). Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (2003–2005). Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine (12 January — 25 May 2007).
In 1971 he graduated from the Kiev Technological Institute of Light Industry 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 Kiev and the Kiev 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.
In the summer of 1991, Colonel V. Radchenko was returned to active service and in July of the year became the deputy head of the KGB directorate in the Rivne Oblast, promoted to major general. From January 1992 he was the chief of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) regional directorate in the Ternopol Oblast. From August 1993, Radchenko was the chief of the SBU Directorate for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime. Since March 1994 he was the deputy head of the SBU and chief of Directorate for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime, promoted to lieutenant general. He was considered to be a protege of Yevhen Marchuk.
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