Turchinov Alexander Valentinovich: biography, personal life, political career. Alexander Turchinov. Skeletons in the closet of the "bloody pastor" of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov biography

Oleksandr Turchynov is a Ukrainian politician and public figure. The pinnacle of his political biography was 2014, when he simultaneously headed the government, led the army and acted as President of Ukraine.

Childhood and youth

Alexander Valentinovich Turchinov was born on March 31, 1964 in the city of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, Ukrainian by nationality. Alexander's father, Valentin Ivanovich Turchinov, master of sports in volleyball, worked at the Lokomotiv sports club. The parents divorced and the mother Valentina Ivanovna was mainly engaged in raising her son (yes, this is not a mistake, the Turchinovs-senior are really namesakes).

The boy studied well at school, played volleyball and played for the national team of the Dnepropetrovsk region. Having entered the technological faculty of the metallurgical institute in his native city, he also studied diligently and was engaged in social work. In his second year, he was awarded a trip to India and Ceylon for the successful leadership of a student construction team.

The teachers offered an excellent student to build a scientific career, but the young technologist chose a job in his specialty. In 1986, Alexander joined the Kryvorizhstal Iron and Steel Works, where he worked for a year as a roller operator before becoming a foreman in production. In 1987-1990, he made a career in the Komsomol: he led the district committee, then the propaganda department of the regional committee.

Politics

After being expelled from the ranks of the communists, he joins the Democratic Revival Party of Ukraine. In the early 90s, she covered the changes taking place in the country by publishing newspapers and magazines. He studies the opening opportunities in the economy, international law, and heads the regional committee for the demonopolization of production.

In 1993 he moved to Kyiv, becoming an adviser, at that time - to the Prime Minister. In 1994, he created the All-Ukrainian Association "Hromada", which helped Leonid Kuchma become President of Ukraine. In 1998, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada, but in 1999 he left Hromada for the sake of an alliance with the All-Ukrainian Association Batkivshchyna in the format.

In the early 2000s, Alexander Valentinovich performed in a strong bond with Yulia Vladimirovna. Their political alliance helps win the fight for the presidency.

The newly elected president appoints Turchynov as head of the Security Service of Ukraine. In 2007, he became a member of the leadership of the National Security Council, and also became Deputy Prime Minister. In 2010, he served as Acting Prime Minister for a week.

On February 22, 2014, he was elected Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. According to the Constitution, he assumed the functions of the President, who prematurely terminated the performance of his duties. On June 7 of the same year, he handed over the post to the newly elected president. During the same period (from February to June) he leads the army and creates the National Guard of Ukraine.

During the reign of Turchinov, the process of decommunization of the country began. An anti-terrorist operation has been launched in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions and state control over part of these regions has been restored.

The Verkhovna Rada adopted laws that became the basis for the introduction of a visa-free regime with the European Union. The reform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with the recertification of employees has begun. A constitutional reform was launched in the direction of decentralization of power.

In 2014, Turchynov, together with the commanders of volunteer battalions, joined the Military Council, which develops recommendations to improve the country's defense capability.

This time he came to the Rada as a deputy from the Popular Front. On December 15, 2014, he was appointed Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council. In February 2015, under his leadership, the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine went on the offensive near Mariupol and occupied five settlements.

Personal life

The politician's wife, Anna Vladimirovna Turchinova (nee Beliba), is six years younger than her husband. Candidate of Sciences, since 2006 he has been the head of the Department of Foreign Languages ​​at the National Pedagogical University named after M. P. Dragomanov. He enjoys figure skating. Son Kirill Turchinov was born in 1992, graduated from KNEU, in 2014 he joined the National Guard created by his father and served for two years. Active representative of the "People's Front of Youth".

In 1999, Alexander Turchinov was baptized, becoming a member of the Evangelical Church of Christian Baptists. He heads the Ukrainian branch of the "Church of Christ", preaches, but is not a pastor. According to him, pastoral ministry is more interesting to him than a political career. Turchinov is not offended by the nickname "Bloody Pastor", by which he is widely known on the Internet.

Alexander Turchinov now

Photos of Turchynov do not disappear from news feeds. As Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, he participates in Council meetings and meets with representatives of friendly countries. In February 2018, Oleksandr V. met with the ambassadors of France, Japan and Great Britain and discussed the prospects for cooperation between Ukraine and these states in the defense industry. Supervised the tests of the Alder cruise missile.

Oleksandr Turchynov testifies during the trial of fugitive ex-president Viktor Yanukovych, recounting events four years ago. The politician gives interviews, publishes on the page in

Only a naive person believes in Turchynov's sincerity, only a fool believes in decency... Turchynov skillfully converts his invaluable experience of political struggle into positions, influence and financial position. It has long been noticed that when Yu. Tymoshenko is "sitting", the rates of A. Turchinov increase sharply.

Ex-First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, ex-head of the Security Service of Ukraine, "grey eminence" of the BYuT, one of the most quoted Ukrainian politicians... There is no doubt: A. Turchynov is one of the most experienced politicians in Ukraine, capable of multi-level and multi-way combinations, of any alliances with any people.

Turchinov skillfully converts the truly invaluable experience of the political struggle into positions, influence and financial position. It has long been noticed that when Yu. Tymoshenko is "sitting", the rates of A. Turchinov increase sharply. But it is impossible to imagine Turchynov as an independent politician. At the same time, political maneuvering and survival in the Ukrainian political freak show has long become an end in itself.

REFERENCE. Alexander Valentinovich Turchinov was born on March 31, 1964 in the city of Dnepropetrovsk. After graduating from school, A. Turchinov worked as a roller operator at the Kryvorizhstal plant. He entered the technological faculty of the Dnepropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute (graduating with honors in 1986). 1987-1990 - Secretary of the district committee of the Komsomol, head of the department of agitation and propaganda of the Dnepropetrovsk regional committee of the Komsomol.

According to media reports, in 1989 A. Turichnov supported the start-up entrepreneur Yulia Tymoshenko in the creation of the youth center "Terminal" under the auspices of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Committee of the LKSMU, in which she took the position of commercial director.

1990 - Editor-in-chief of "UNA-press APN", the Ukrainian branch of the Russian news agency "IMA-Press" (publishing books and periodicals).

1991 - Director of the Institute of International Relations, Economics, Politics and Law.

1992-1993 - Chairman of the Committee for denationalization and demonopolization of production of the Dnepropetrovsk Regional State Administration.

1993 - Advisor on economic issues to the Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma (they have known each other since the time of the management of the last Yuzhmash plant, Dnepropetrovsk) on macroeconomic issues. Vice President of the Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (USPP).

After the resignation (September 1993) of L. Kuchma, from the post of head of government, he took the post of director general of the Institute for Economic Reforms, head of the shadow economy research laboratory of the Institute of Russia of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

1994 - created the All-Ukrainian Association "Hromada", which later became the party of Pavel Lazarenko, the odious prime minister during the presidency of L. Kuchma (P. Lazarenko joined it and headed it in 1997). Yulia Tymoshenko also joined Gromada, at that time one of the leaders of the United Energy Systems of Ukraine corporation (UESU), which supplied Russian natural gas.

1998 - people's deputy (also became a deputy in 2002 and 2006). Passed to the parliament on the list of "Hromada"; in the Verkhovna Rada headed the Budget Committee. He initiated the budget reform, the redistribution of public funds in favor of local government, the healthcare system, the educational and coal mining industries. The author of the program de-shadowing the economy of Ukraine.

1999, July: after a breakdown in relations with P. Lazarenko, he created the All-Ukrainian Association "Batkivshchyna" (the new political project of A. Turchynov and Y. Tymoshenko was headed by the latter). Important: Yulia Tymoshenko soon became Vice-Premier for the Fuel and Energy Complex in Viktor Yushchenko's government; "Batkivshchyna" was actually headed by A. Turchinov.

opposition activity. In January 2001 Yulia Tymoshenko was dismissed and then arrested. A tough confrontation with L. Kuchma begins (both in parliament as part of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc faction, and on the streets of Ukrainian cities: the actions “Ukraine without Kuchma” and “Arise, Ukraine!”, the creation of the National Salvation Forum - up to the “orange revolution” 2005-2005).

2005 - headed the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). He made an attempt to reform the SBU, creating on its basis two structures with one subordination - national intelligence and the national bureau of investigation. It was planned to transfer counterintelligence and all issues affecting state security to the jurisdiction of the National Bureau of Investigation.

On July 27, A. Turchinov announced that he had indirect evidence that RosUkrenergo, Gazprom's intermediary in transporting Turkmen gas through Russia and Ukraine, is controlled by an international crime boss, one of the leaders of an organized criminal community in the post-Soviet space, an FSB agent who emigrated to Israel in 1990 and then moved to Hungary and has citizenship of Russia, Ukraine, Israel and Hungary. S. Mogilevich is wanted by the FBI for alleged participation in fraud with shares, racketeering, fraud and money laundering, financing the transportation of weapons and drugs. Lives without problems in Moscow.

September 2005 - submitted a resignation letter in protest against the dismissal of Yulia Tymoshenko's comrade-in-arms from the post of Prime Minister of Ukraine. May - October 2007 - First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC). December 2007 - March 2010 - First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine.

Business. A. Turchinov was involved in the creation of the Institute of Economic Reforms LLC, the XXI Century Information Technologies CJSC, Farmakor LLC (engaged in the repair and maintenance of vehicles), ZET LLC, Europa-X LLC, Editorial Newspaper LLC Evening News, VV LLC, SVV LLC. Through relatives, A.Turchinov controls Janus Real Estate Agency LLC and Garant-Service LLC.

Income. 2006: A.Turchynov declared income in the amount of UAH 185,900. The income of family members amounted to UAH 17,443. According to the declaration, family members (at that time - the first vice-premier) had a total of 200 thousand hryvnias in bank accounts. The family owned a 100 sq m apartment (Kyiv) and a Nissan Patrol car. 2007: A. Turchynov declared UAH 761 thousand 67. income. The income of family members amounted to UAH 23.6 thousand (salary).

Scientific activity. In 1995, A. Turchinov defended his Ph.D. thesis in economics on the topic "Methodological support and mechanism for reforming and optimizing taxation in modern conditions." In 1997 - a doctoral dissertation on the topic "Shadow economy (research methodology and mechanisms of functioning)". Author of a number of monographs and scientific articles. Owner of 12 copyright certificates. Professor. He argued that as soon as a normal leader comes to power in Ukraine, he will immediately quit politics for the sake of science.
The media wrote about the scientific inconsistency of the works of A. Turchinov, emphasizing that A. Turchinov's doctoral dissertation is a collection of compiled publications in the newspaper "VV", published by the BYuT with the money of the "parity fund".

Creation. Author of the thriller The Illusion of Fear (2004), the script for the film of the same name, and the fiction book The Last Supper. Neither the book nor the film were successful with the public and were almost unanimously ridiculed by critics.

Religious views. Baptized in 1999. According to A. Turchynov, he is an evangelical Christian, a Baptist, and is also the leader of the Ukrainian branch of the Church of Christ: “I am least interested in the career of an official ... I preach in the church, and for me pastoral ministry would be more interesting than work as prime minister." At the same time, he himself emphasized that, despite the sermons he read, he was not a pastor. To the question: “If you turned to the opposition with a sermon, what would you say?” Turchinov answered this way: “... a person who believes in God is not afraid of death. Just as death is for us believing Christians, it is the gateway to meeting our Creator. When there is faith, fear disappears. Go forward together and win” (“Facts”, February 2, 2004).

Family: wife Anna graduated from the Romano-Germanic faculty of Dnepropetrovsk University; teaches English at the Drahomanov Pedagogical University (Kyiv). Son Cyril.

Scandals

A.Turchinov (as well as Yu.Tymoshenko) is accused of ties with ex-premier P.Lazarenko. Turchinov himself refutes these rumors: “The opposition has an indifferent attitude towards Pavel Ivanovich. His influence on the political situation ended with the 1998 elections. All. He cannot influence. These are the myths that were inflated by official propaganda, that he can influence something, he has secret ties with the opposition ... It was very difficult for us to part with him, it was a serious conflict that arose even before he left Ukraine . ...
We had political contradictions with him, there was a competitive situation in that party environment. We fought to lead the party, he did not want to give it up and expelled us. But we never shot him in the back. And we don’t have such deviations as beating a lying person” (“Ukrainskaya Pravda”, August 7, 2003).

2003 The GPU appealed to the Verkhovna Rada with a proposal to give consent to bring to criminal responsibility the BYuT deputies A. Turchinov and Stepan Khmara. They were charged with three articles of the Criminal Code: "Seizure of state or public buildings", "Threat to law enforcement officers" and "Exceeding power or official authority with the use of weapons and insulting law enforcement officers."
It was about the penetration of people's deputies on June 20-21, 2003 into the territory of the Lukyanovsky pre-trial detention center, where they "insulted and beat the staff" (the version of the ex-Deputy Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. The Parliament did not satisfy the request of the then Prosecutor General Svyatoslav Piskun, without giving consent to the involvement of A. Turchynov and S. Khmara to criminal liability.
On September 13, 2003, the tax authorities detained Ruslan Lukenchuk, A. Turchynov's assistant, near the office of the Batkivshchyna party. He was charged with involvement in an illegal conversion center. Prosecutor General S. Piskun then stated that the detention of A. Turchinov's assistant was part of a planned process of measures to initiate a criminal case. It was, according to him, about hundreds of thousands of illegally converted dollars, which the person contributed to the office of the Batkivshchyna party. This incident has not received legal development.

The collapse of the Gongadze case. 2006 With the advent of A. Turchinov to the post of chairman of the SBU, the highly professional investigative group of the SBU, which had been investigating the case of G. Gongadze since 2002, was disorganized. This was announced on April 26, 2006 at a press conference by Roman Shubin, First Deputy Head of the Main Investigation Department of the GPU.
According to R. Shubin, A. Turchinov also ordered not to report operational data on the case of G. Gonadze to the SBU investigation team. R. Shubin also said that the SBU investigation team headed by the SBU Deputy Chairman A. Kozhemyakin actually disrupted the special operation to extradite General Alexander Pukach, since the SBU investigation team did not have the authority to negotiate with the Israeli side on the extradition of A. Pukach.
According to R. Shubin, “...the SBU investigation team went to Israel without evidence and invitations from the Israeli side, as a result, this led to an uncontrolled expansion of the circle of people who have information regarding the evidence base in the case against General A. Pukach.”

Illegal wiretapping of journalist Alexander Korchinsky. This fact was made public at a press conference by Viktor Shokin, Deputy Prosecutor General. According to him, on June 25, 2005, the SBU opened an operational-search case, which included wiretapping of A. Korchinsky's phone. V. Shokin noted that the decision to establish an ORD, according to the law, is made personally by the head of the body, that is, the head of the SBU in 2005, A. Turchinov.

A.Korchinsky's phone was tapped until July 12, 2005, when the search warrant was closed. The interception was carried out under a court order, which was issued before December 25, 2005, and therefore such a short period of the ORD was unprecedented. The ORD was launched against unidentified persons of the Prosecutor General's Office, who allegedly informed A. Korchinsky about the whereabouts of the murderer of journalist G. Gongadze A. Pukach, and A. Korchinsky himself, who disseminated this information by publishing it in the Segodnya newspaper.
V. Shokin noted that at the same time, A. Korchinsky was charged with abuse of office by a law enforcement officer, while he is not such, and such an accusation was necessary in order to have the right to start an operational search. Thus, the OSA was initiated by falsifying documents. According to V. Shokin, after the closure of the ORD, his materials were destroyed. (Explanation: in June 2005, the Segodnya newspaper, citing an unnamed source, spread the information that the wanted General Pukach had been found in Israel).

Destruction of the "case of Mogilevich". Since March 2006, A. Turchynov and Andrey Kozhemyakin, Turchynov's former deputy in the SBU (also a member of the BYuT), were called by the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine as witnesses in criminal cases on the fact of the destruction of the materials of the SBU operational-search file on the criminal activities of criminal authority S. Mogilevich and on the fact of illegal wiretapping of the correspondent of the newspaper "Segodnya" Alexander Korchinsky (read about the latter above - "A").
Recall: on September 8, 2005, the materials of a 20-volume operational-search file, which was conducted by the SBU for 12 years, about the activities of the international mafia S. Mogilevich, were destroyed. As an official investigation later established, the materials were destroyed in accordance with all the rules of office work.
In 2007, the Court of Appeal of the Kyiv Region closed the court proceedings in the case of the illegal destruction of the “Mogilevich case”. Moreover, the decision was made at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, which withdrew its appeal. At the same time, the Prosecutor General apologized for the actions of his deputy Viktor Shokin, who initiated the initiation of the case.
In the expert community, a version was expressed that the destruction of the archives of the SBU on S. Mogilevich was carried out by A. Turchinov and A. Kozhemyakin in the last days of their tenure in the SBU on the direct instructions of Yu. Tymoshenko. Which, in turn, was addressed with this request by the top leadership of Russia.
Fearing that the dossier on S. Mogilevich, the technical executor of many projects of the special services of the Russian Federation in Europe and the United States, could get to the special services of Western states. According to this version, the case itself was not destroyed, but handed over to the Russian special services. It is this circumstance that explains the closure of criminal cases against A. Turchinov and A. Kozhemyakin, carried out with the assistance of the pro-Russian Prosecutor General Alexander Medvedko.

Himself said

About myself. “I belong to the category of people who do not go to the doctor until they are taken to the hospital.” (proUA, October 20, 2006).
“I am a volunteer who went into politics because I did not see the possibility of developing Ukrainian science without serious political changes, and, believe me, the career of an official interests me least of all. And what's more - I'm an evangelical Christian, a Baptist, I preach in the church, and for me pastoral ministry would be more interesting than working as a prime minister," he says ("Facts", February 2, 2004).

About the Ukrainian government: “I think that every citizen whom you ask: “What epithet are you ready to prepare for the government to characterize it?”, He will say: “Criminal.” (Radio Liberty, July 8, 2004).

About moods in the Ukrainian society. "I don't know soldiers who are ready to die for the money stolen by Kuchma and Yanukovych." ("Ukrainian Truth", November 30, 2004).

On personnel in law enforcement agencies. “I believe that it is precisely those people who should feel how painful it is when a power machine steps over you.” ("Capital News", January 18, 2005).

About SBU. “I am not ready to give an unambiguous answer to what extent the SBU is able to ensure the reliable storage of state secrets today.” ("Zerkalo Nedeli", February 19, 2005).
The entire career of A. Turchinov as a politician is exclusively a battle for power. Which became an end in itself both for him and for his "host" - Yulia Tymoshenko.
The union of deeply vicious people, ready to betray their closest allies and fraternize with yesterday's enemies, cost Ukraine dearly. Perhaps even independence.

Egor Karnaukhov, "Argument"

Ukraine in recent years is of interest to many people around the world. And among political figures, Alexander Valentinovich Turchinov has recently attracted a lot of attention. In the past, the Deputy Prime Minister of the government, who once took third place in the mayoral elections of the capital, for a long time held a leading position in the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. In the 2000s, he repeatedly connected his life with national security. In addition, this person has published more than a hundred scientific papers, mainly focused on the study of the shadow economy and corruption.

Family

The future politician was born on March 31, 1964 in the Ukrainian SSR in the city of Dnepropetrovsk. Turchinov's nationality is Ukrainian. The father of the politician devoted his whole life to working in the Lokomotiv sports club, Valentin Ivanovich received the title of master of the USSR in sports in volleyball. Turchinov's mother's name is Valentina, some sources report that the son recorded most of his business in her name. Turchinov's parents raised their son, endowing him with a character that allowed him to reach great heights in his career.

Alexander's wife's name is Anna Vladimirovna, she is 6 years younger than him. Anna is a candidate of pedagogical sciences, at the moment she is the head of the department of foreign languages ​​at the Drahomanov Pedagogical University. Turchinov's wife is the owner of part of his business. In 1994, their son Cyril was born in their family, now he is studying at the Academy of Labor. An interesting fact is also that most of the business of Alexander Turchinov is recorded on his mother-in-law, Tamara Beliba. In addition, some sources report that people know a fake surname - Turchinov. The real name of the politician is Kogan, but for some reason he decided to hide this fact.

Activities after school

The first job of the future politician was the position of a roller operator, which he received at the Kryvorizhstal plant. After some time, Alexander Valentinovich Turchinov decides to study at the technological faculty of the Metallurgical Institute in Dnepropetrovsk. Turchinov's biography indicates that the political activity of this person began in 1987, when he became secretary of the district committee of the Komsomol in his native city. Career growth led him to the Dnepropetrovsk regional committee, to the position of head of the agitation and propaganda department.

At that time, he became the coordinator of democracy in the CPSU. There is evidence that in 1989 he met Yulia Tymoshenko and helped her create the Terminal youth center and become its commercial director. All this took place under the auspices of the regional committee of the Komsomol.

The nineties

You can be amazed at how Turchinov moved up the career ladder for a long time. Ukraine all this time was the main and invariable field of his activity. In 1990, Alexander became editor-in-chief at the UNA-press news agency APN. A year later, he heads the Institute of International Affairs. And a year later, he is entrusted with chairing the denationalization and demonopolization committee in the regional administration.

As Turchinov's biography testifies, in 1993 his political activity was gaining serious momentum, he became an adviser to the then head of government and advised him on macroeconomics. Then he becomes vice-president of the Union of Entrepreneurs of Ukraine.

Scientific activity

Turchinov's biography also suggests that politics was not the only field of activity of Alexander Valentinovich. After Kuchma retired, Alexander got the post of general director of the Institute for Economic Reforms. Then he began to manage the laboratory, which he studied. By 1995, Alexander defended his dissertation and became a candidate of economic sciences, and two years later he successfully defended his doctoral thesis on the topic “Shadow Economy”.

"Community"

It is believed that the founders of the Gromada party were Turchynov and Lazarenko. It is worth noting that in 1993 Alexander became the head of the political and economic council of this association. After the arrival of Lazarenko to the leadership of the party, Turchynov gets the post of chairman of the central coordination council. Then Yulia Timoshenko, a newcomer to the party, became his deputy.

There is evidence that Turchinov was the Minister of Economy in the shadow government of Hromada, under the leadership of Yulia.

1998 was a very significant year for Turchynov and Tymoshenko, because then they were elected from the party to become people's deputies. A year later, Tymoshenko takes the post of vice-premier of the fuel and energy complex, and Alexander becomes the head of the parliamentary committee dealing with the country's budget. As soon as the leader of the Gromada was arrested and a criminal case was opened against him, Tymoshenko and Turchynov quickly left their posts.

"Fatherland"

After the completion of the activities of the "Hromada" Tymoshenko and Turchynov create a new party, which is called "Fatherland". This event took place in 1999. Alexander in this party gets the role of deputy leader. Thanks to the successful development of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, Turchynov again became a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada in 2002.

Then the media said that he was the founder of the democratic opposition and the founder of the FNP.

Problems with the prosecutor's office

In 2003, the Prosecutor General's Office wrote an appeal to the Verkhovna Rada so that they would be allowed to bring Turchynov and another BYuT figure to criminal responsibility. The charges were based on the fact that these two seized state and public buildings, threatened law enforcement officers, and also used weapons and exceeded their official powers.

These charges were built after in June 2003 in Kyiv the territory of the pre-trial detention center was completely penetrated with the aim of demanding the release of former members of the management of the United Energy Systems of Ukraine corporation. At that time, the current Prosecutor General stated that Turchynov and Khmara had caused bodily and psychological harm to the staff. But the case did not get a turn, as Turchinov denied the accusations, calling them a common provocation.

Elections of 2004 and Turchinov's place in VR

During the election period in 2004, Turchynov, whose real name is sometimes the cause of heated discussions, was in the headquarters of Viktor Yushchenko, holding the post of deputy leader. In his responsibility were Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Kirovohrad, Luhansk, Sumy and A year after Yushchenko nevertheless made his way to the presidency, Turchinov got the post of head of the SBU. Turchynov's biography also contains information that in the autumn of the same year, protesting against the resignation of Tymoshenko, he left this post and headed the BYuT campaign headquarters.

As deputy head of the faction, he became one of the deputies in the bloc in the parliamentary elections. And when Yushchenko decided to terminate the powers of the parliament, accusing him of illegitimacy and making unconstitutional decisions, Turchynov got the post of deputy secretary of the SBU.

The struggle for the post of mayor of Kyiv

As soon as Turchynov managed to regain his seat in parliament after the 2007 elections, he immediately left the post of deputy secretary and began to represent the interests of Yulia Tymoshenko in Verkhovna Rada. After the creation of a coalition between Yulia and Yushchenko, Tymoshenko managed to take the post of prime minister. In addition, Tymoshenko did everything to nominate Alexander for the post of mayor of Kyiv. Thus, in 2008 Turchinov became a candidate for this post. He had many rivals, about 70 people, but, according to analysts, only Klitschko and the former mayor should have been seriously afraid of him. At that time, politicians called these elections the dirtiest and most expensive in the history of independent Ukraine. But despite pursuing an aggressive policy, Turchynov did not win, and the former politician, Chernovetsky, became mayor. After that, Alexander refused a seat in the Kiev council, as, in fact, Tymoshenko. And in 2010, Turchynov left BP.

Election 2012

In the elections in 2012, Turchynov again joined the opposition team, created on the basis of Tymoshenko's party, becoming the fourth in the list of contenders for parliament. As a result of the elections, the "Dnepropetrovsk clan", as the media then called Turchynov and Tymoshenko, took second place for the right to be in parliament.

Earnings policy

According to Turchynov himself, he is richer than other citizens of Ukraine. Officially, he lives on the salary of a people's deputy, and also constantly receives royalties for his scientific work. But there is also evidence that he is involved in the creation of many enterprises that bring him a good profit. Among them there are even newspapers and an institute. By the way, in addition to scientific works, he also published a fiction book, his thriller is called "The Illusion of Fear."

Faith and religion

Oleksandr Turchynov has stated in some interviews that he is an evangelical Christian and a Baptist. He says that career and politics are less interesting to him than religion. According to some reports, he preaches in the church, although he is not a priest. In the media, he is most often called a Lutheran. In addition, there are rumors that he has connections with Protestant circles.

Turchinov Alexander Valentinovich - Ukrainian politician and statesman, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (since December 16, 2014).

Head of the Popular Front faction in the Ukrainian parliament (since November 27, 2014). Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (February 22 - November 27, 2014), temporarily Acting President of Ukraine (February 23 - June 7, 2014), Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (February 26 - June 7, 2014).

He was a longtime friend and colleague of Yulia Tymoshenko. After her arrest in 2011, he took over the leadership of the BYuT. On August 27, 2014, he left the Batkivshchyna and joined the People's Front.

Member of the Verkhovna Rada in 1998-2007 and since 2012. From February to September 2005, he was the head of the SBU (Security Service of Ukraine, - ed.). From May to November 2007, he was First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

Biography

Family: Married.

Anna Turchinova

The politician is married and has a son, Kirill (born in 1994). He entered the Faculty of Law of the Kyiv National Economic University, and in the fourth year he transferred to the Academy of Labor, Social Relations and Tourism. In the summer of 2014, after receiving a master's degree, he wrote an application and went to serve in the National Guard.

Anna Vladimirovna Turchinova (b. 1970) graduated from the Romano-Germanic faculty of the Dnepropetrovsk University, she is the head of the Department of Foreign Languages ​​at the National Pedagogical University named after. Dragomanova, candidate of pedagogical sciences. He is engaged in figure skating.

Student Anna met her future husband Alexander Turchinov at Dnepropetrovsk University. We met while Alexander Valentinovich was working in the regional committee of the Komsomol. “He took me first of all because, unlike many gentlemen and admirers who tried to court me, he was the only one whom I could not push around. I quickly realized that I was dealing with a smart man who was stronger than me. Which means , we must capitulate," recalls Anna ("Zerkalo Nedeli", March 5, 2005).

The parents of Alexander Turchinov separated early and Alexander was raised by his mother Valentina Ivanovna. During his school years, he played for the regional volleyball team.

Education: Higher.

• 1986 - graduated from the Dnepropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute with honors.
• As a second-year student, he was rewarded as a commander of a construction team with a trip as part of the delegation of the Central Committee of the Komsomol to India and Ceylon.

Career:

• After high school, he worked for a short time as a roller and foreman at the Kryvorizhstal Iron and Steel Works, and then switched to Komsomol work.

As he himself recalled: “After the institute, they predicted a scientific perspective for me. And none of the teachers expected that I would voluntarily go to work at Kryvorizhstal.

• 1987-1989 - Secretary of the district committee and head of the propaganda department of the Dnepropetrovsk regional committee of the LKSMU. He acted as one of the coordinators of the Democratic Platform in the CPSU, which advocated the renewal, decentralization of the Communist Party, for which he lost his party card.
• 1990 - created with partners and headed the Ukrainian branch of the IMA-Press news agency, which published books and newspapers.
• 1991 - headed by him the Institute of International Relations, Economics, Politics and Law, created by him.
• 1992-1993 - headed the economic committee of the Dnepropetrovsk Regional State Administration.
• 1993-1994 - Advisor on economic issues to the Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma, whom he met at the time when he was in charge of the Dnepropetrovsk giant plant Yuzhmash.
• 1994 - created the All-Ukrainian Association "Gromada" (VO "Gromada"), which later in 1997 was headed by Pavlo Lazarenko. VO "Hromada" supported Leonid Kuchma in the presidential elections.
• 1998 - elected as a people's deputy of Ukraine on the list of the Gromada party; after the departure of Yulia Tymoshenko to the government - the head of the Budget Committee of the Verkhovna Rada.
• 1999 - as a result of a conflict with Lazarenko, the All-Ukrainian Association "Batkivshchyna" (VO "Batkivshchyna") is created, which has been headed by Yulia Tymoshenko since the day of its foundation, and Oleksandr Turchynov was her deputy.
• 2002 - Elected People's Deputy of Ukraine on the list of the BYuT bloc.
• 2004 - during the presidential elections - one of the deputy heads of Viktor Yushchenko's election headquarters.
• In early 2005, after Viktor Yushchenko's victory in the presidential election, Oleksandr Turchynov was appointed head of the Security Service of Ukraine. As part of the general reform of the country's administrative apparatus, he was tasked with reforming the SBU, creating on its basis two structures with one subordination - national intelligence and the national bureau of investigation. It was planned to transfer counterintelligence and all issues affecting state security to the jurisdiction of the National Bureau of Investigation.
• 09.2005 - in connection with the resignation of Yulia Tymoshenko from the post of Prime Minister of Ukraine and because of the unwillingness to cooperate with the corrupt environment of Viktor Yushchenko, Turchynov also resigned from his post and headed the election headquarters of the BYuT bloc. In the 2006 parliamentary elections, he was re-elected to the Verkhovna Rada. In the Verkhovna Rada of the 5th convocation, he was deputy head of the BYuT faction.
• May 23, 2007 - by decree of President Yushchenko, he was appointed First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council.
• 09/30/2007 - was re-elected a people's deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the BYuT faction.
• December 19, 2007 - appointed First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine.
• 2008 - participated in the elections of the mayor of Kyiv and took second place.
• Since November 2012, People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the VII convocation, No. 4 on the party list of the All-Ukrainian Union "Batkivshchyna".
• Since July 2013, he has headed the central headquarters of the Batkivshchyna Military District.
• After the resignation of Volodymyr Rybak from the post of Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada on February 22, 2014, Turchynov was elected Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. 288 deputies voted for his appointment.
• 02/26/2014 - Turchynov, in accordance with the Constitution of Ukraine, signed a resolution on assuming the duties of the President of Ukraine. As acting The President, in accordance with the Constitution of Ukraine, assumed the duties of Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
• 06/07/2014 - transferred powers to the president elected during the elections, Petro Poroshenko.
• 08.2014 - together with Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Arsen Avakov and a number of others, he left the political council of the Batkivshchyna party due to disagreements. After that, the Popular Front party was organized, before that he was the first deputy head of the All-Ukrainian association "Batkivshchyna" and the head of the Central Headquarters of the party. During the parliamentary elections, the party took first place on party lists. In the Verkhovna Rada of the VIII convocation, he became the head of the Popular Front faction.
• On May 17, 2019, Oleksandr Turchynov resigned from the post of Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine in connection with the termination of the powers of President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.
• On May 19, 2019, Petro Poroshenko fired Oleksandr Turchynov from the post of Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council.

Titles, awards:

• In 1995 he defended his Ph.D. thesis "Methodological support and mechanism for reforming and optimizing taxation in modern economic conditions." In 1997 he defended his doctoral dissertation "Shadow economy (research methodology and mechanisms of functioning)". Author of more than 100 scientific papers and monographs devoted to the study of corruption, the shadow economy, totalitarianism.

In 2006, in the "Top 100" of the most influential people in Ukraine, which is annually determined by the magazine "Korrespondent", Oleksandr Turchynov took 25th position.

In 2007, in the "Top 100" of the most influential people in Ukraine of the magazine "Korrespondent", Oleksandr Turchynov took 29th position.

On October 31, 2014, at the ceremony of awarding the participants of the special operation of the Ukrainian security forces in Donbass, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Arsen Avakov, awarded Oleksandr Turchynov with an automatic carbine for services to the ministry. The Minister expressed the hope that he would provide assistance to the Ministry in the future.

operational business

"I am a volunteer who went into politics because I did not see the possibility of developing Ukrainian science without serious political changes, and, believe me, I am least interested in the career of an official. And moreover, I am an evangelical Christian, a Baptist, I preach in the church, and for pastoral ministry would be more interesting for me than being prime minister"- said Alexander Turchinov. ("Facts", February 2, 2004).

"You can step back from some positions and ambitions, but you can't step back from principles", - says Alexander Valentinovich ("Glavred", February 7, 2006).

Turchynov - head of the SBU

In May 2005, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko threatened to involve the SBU (when Turchynov was the head of the service) in an investigation into the causes of the gasoline crisis in Ukraine.

Case of Mogilevich

On July 27, 2005, Oleksandr Turchinov announced that he had circumstantial evidence that the RosUkrEnergo company, Gazprom's intermediary in transporting Turkmen gas through Russia, was indirectly controlled by Semyon Mogilevich, an economist from Kyiv, who has been associated with Russian organized crime groups since the early 1970s. , who emigrated to Israel in 1990 and then moved to Hungary and has citizenship of Russia, Ukraine, Israel and Hungary. Mogilevich is wanted by the FBI for alleged involvement in stock fraud, racketeering, fraud and money laundering, financing the transport of weapons and drugs. Gazprom and Raiffeisen Investment claimed that Mogilevich had nothing to do with RUE.

After that, a conflict arose with President Yushchenko. Turchynov resigned, in December 2010 he once again recalled her reasons.

wiretapping

Having assumed the post of chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine, Turchynov took up "wiretapping".

In 2006, on the eve of the parliamentary elections, the head of the BYuT campaign headquarters, Turchynov, was accused of "wiretapping" when he was chairman of the SBU. The Prosecutor General's Office even opened a criminal case on the fact of wiretapping of senior officials. He took the case as a political provocation: “You know, the Security Service is indeed carrying out certain operational and technical measures. But I can assure you that during my leadership of the Security Service, all these activities were carried out within the limits of the law and the Constitution. And what is happening today , this is a poorly rehearsed performance, which actually has the name "Pre-election campaign, typical" ("1 + 1", March 11, 2006). . The matter did not develop further.

Since March 2006, Turchynov and his former deputy in the SBU Andrey Kozhemyakin (also a deputy on the BYuT list) have been involved by the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine as a witness in criminal cases on the fact of the destruction of the materials of the SBU operational-search file on the activities of businessman Semyon Mogilevich and on the fact of illegal wiretapping of conversations Correspondent of the newspaper "Segodnya" Alexander Korchinsky.

In April 2012, the General Prosecutor's Office announced that it was checking information about the illegal allocation of apartments to journalists by Oleksandr Turchynov when he was the head of the Security Service of Ukraine. "Fatherland" called the accusations of the Prosecutor General's Office political persecution...

Professor, writer, preacher

Doctor of Economic Sciences, professor, author of eight monographs, more than a hundred scientific papers devoted to the study of the emergence of corruption, the shadow economy, the genesis of totalitarian tendencies in modern society. Candidate's dissertation - "Methodological support and mechanism for reforming and optimizing taxation in modern conditions" was written in 1995. Doctoral dissertation - "Shadow economy (research methodology and functioning mechanisms)" - in 1997.

As a novelist, Alexander Turchinov made his debut in 2004, publishing the thriller Illusion of Fear. The book tells the story of a businessman who is forced to defend his business in the difficult conditions of the gangster 90s. "The desire to get rid of" unnecessary, paralyzing, unjustified fear, "as Alexander Valentinovich himself stated, was the main reason that made him sit down to write a book. The book" The Illusion of Fear "uses many quotations from the Bible and illustrations - fragments from paintings of medieval Dutch In total, he wrote and published three books: the psychological thriller The Illusion of Fear, the documentary and biographical story The Testimony, and the mystical thriller The Last Supper.

According to Alexander Valentinovich's own words, he is an evangelical Christian, a Baptist, but he was also called a Lutheran in the press. At the same time, he himself emphasized that, despite the sermons he read, he was not a pastor.

On December 26, 2012, Oleksandr Turchinov presented in Kyiv his book "The Coming", published in Russian with a circulation of 7,770 copies. The presentation took place in the bookstore "Syaivo knigi".

Turchinov confessed that he had been writing this book for three years. "It was difficult for me to write this book, for about three years, although, usually, I wrote very quickly, on vacation. I don't consider myself a writer, it's more of a hobby for me," he added.

As A. Turchynov said, this book is not a prophecy, although some real events in Ukrainian politics are traced in the plot. "This is an attempt to build a model of our society with you and see how this model works in the short term," he explained.

According to him, the former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko was one of the first to read the book "The Coming". The book was handed over to her by her defender, People's Deputy Sergei Vlasenko.

"Yulia (Tymoshenko) reported that she read the book in one day, she really liked it, although she said that she did not agree with some things," the author said.

Turchynov hopes that his book will be in demand. At the same time, he is not sure that opponents will be interested in his work. “Apparently, they don’t read much. I have a suspicion that they are unlikely to read it. But I don’t know readers among our opponents, and there are many writers who receive good fees…” A. Turchinov said .

Exit from "Batkivshchyna"

At the end of August 2014, information appeared about that. that there was a major split in the Batkivshchyna party. Almost all key politicians have decided to leave the party. This was announced by the Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov. He wrote that the controversy arose when discussing the formation of the party's list for the upcoming parliamentary elections.

He said that as part of the discussion, it was proposed that the list of the united "Batkivshchyna" in the elections be headed by our candidate for the post of prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Despite the fact that Yulia Tymoshenko would, of course, remain the leader of the party.

At the same time, Avakov said that he insisted on the unity of all democratic forces.

He made a proposal to create a broad association of democratic forces on the basis of "Batkivshchyna", to come up with the initiative to sign a coalition agreement in "Batkivshchyna" with the parties "Solidarity", "Blow" and "Svoboda" in order to declare the principle of "undefeated", coordination and support during the electoral process, and, accordingly, the formation of a coalition in the new parliament.

After Tymoshenko refused to put these proposals of Turchynov to a vote, he left the meeting of the political council. He was supported by a significant number of members of the political council of the Batkivshchyna, as a result, only half of the participants remained at the meeting.

Oleksandr Turchinov is the head of the central headquarters of the Popular Front party.

The top ten candidates included Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Advisor to the Interior Minister Tatiana Chornovil, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Turchynov, ex-Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Andrey Parubiy, commander of the special battalion "Peacemaker" Andriy Teteruk, Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov, ex-deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Victoria Syumar, Batkivshchyna deputies Vyacheslav Kirilenko and Lilia Grinevich, as well as the commander of the Dnepr-1 volunteer battalion Yuri Bereza.

Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, Acting President of Ukraine and Commander-in-Chief and Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

It is worth noting that in the entire history of Ukraine's independence, the new speaker Oleksandr Turchynov was elected by the maximum number of votes - his candidacy was supported by 288 people's deputies.

After the appointment of Turchynov to the post of speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, the parliament entrusted him with the functions of the president of Ukraine. 282 people's deputies voted for the corresponding resolution No. 4204.

Acting Turchynov worked as President of Ukraine until the presidential elections and the inauguration of President Petro Poroshenko.

December 16, 2014 - by decree of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, Oleksandr Turchynov was appointed to the post of Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

Speaker VR

During Turchinov's work as the speaker of the country's parliament on March 11, 2014, the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the Sevastopol City Council under the conditions of actual occupation by the Russian Federation with the participation of the so-called. "little green men" - Russian military personnel - adopted a declaration of independence of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, and on March 18, 2014 they signed an agreement on the entry of the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol into the Russian Federation as subjects of the Russian Federation.

March 28, 2014 Turchynov, in response to the assault on the Rada by the "Right Sector", which took place the day before, said that the Verkhovna Rada is the foundation of legitimate power in Ukraine, and that it can only be changed through elections, and all other methods are illegal and unconstitutional .

And about. President of Ukraine and Commander-in-Chief

On February 22, 2014, the Verkhovna Rada adopted a resolution "On the self-removal of the President of Ukraine (Viktor Yanukovych, who fled to Russia - ed.) from the exercise of constitutional powers and the appointment of early elections of the President of Ukraine." By this resolution, the Verkhovna Rada scheduled early presidential elections for May 25, 2014.

On February 23, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Turchynov signed a resolution on assuming the duties of the President of Ukraine, referring to Article 112 of the Constitution of Ukraine (as amended on December 8, 2004).

On February 27, 2014, Oleksandr Turchynov signed a Decree on the appointment of Arseniy Yatsenyuk as head of government.

February 26, 2014 as well. about. President of Ukraine A. Turchynov in accordance with paragraph 17 of Part 1 of Art. 106 and Art. 112 of the Constitution of Ukraine assumed the duties of Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As well as. about. On April 14, 2014, the President of Ukraine signed Decree No. 405/2014 on the implementation of the decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine to conduct a large-scale anti-terrorist operation against separatists encroaching on the territorial integrity of Ukraine.

Latest events

On November 27, 2014, Oleksandr Turchynov announced the termination of the powers of the Verkhovna Rada of the 7th convocation and left the post of Speaker of the Rada. The deputies saw off Turchinov with applause and chanting "Well done!"

December 16, 2014 - by decree of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, Oleksandr Turchynov was appointed to the post of Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

As noted in Zerkalo Nedeli, the amendments to the Law "On the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine", which were recently adopted in the first reading, significantly expand the powers of not only the body itself, but also its newly appointed secretary Oleksandr Turchynov. The position can become comparable in weight to the president, prime minister and speaker.

If earlier the National Security and Defense Council only considered issues related to the sphere of security and defense and submitted relevant proposals to the president, now he is also authorized to make decisions. And these decisions concern draft state programs, doctrines, directives, decrees, and laws.

If in the previous version the Security Council exercised current control over the activities of executive authorities in the field of national security and defense, then according to the new version, it will have to coordinate and control the activities of these bodies. In addition, he must coordinate and control the activities of executive bodies in the field of combating corruption, ensuring public order and combating crime. "According to the innovations, the apparatus of the National Security Council becomes a legal entity, and its work is carried out in accordance with the special regulations of the National Security and Defense Council, approved by the Decree of the President," the article says.

It is indicative, especially considering Russia's military aggression against Ukraine, that Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized the position of the Ukrainian leadership, in particular the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksandr Turchynov, for their readiness to fight until the terrorists are completely destroyed.

A little earlier, Turchynov said that Ukraine was ready to wage war until the complete liberation of its territory: “The ceasefire regime, which is constantly violated by Russian terrorist groups, can escalate into a new violent confrontation at any moment. Russia can unleash a full-scale continental war. And this can happen in any time".