Yevhen Marchuk

Jewgjen Kyrylowytsch Marchuk (Ukrainian Євген Кирилович Марчук, scientific transliteration Jevhen Kyrylovyč Marčuk; born January 28, 1941 in Dolyniwka, Kirovohrad Oblast ) was from March 6, 1995 to May 27, 1996 Prime Minister of Ukraine.

Yevhen Marchuk closed in 1963 to study at the Pedagogical Institute of Kirovohrad from. He then worked in the KGB of the Ukrainian SSR (USSR ) in the Intelligence Division and Counter-Enlightenment. Until the political changes in the Soviet Union, he rose to the rank of general of the KGB. From 1990 until 1991 Marchuk was Minister of Defence, National Security and Civil Protection of the USSR. Marchuk was one of the few higher cadres of the KGB, who faced a Ukrainian independence positive. The KGB of the USSR depended until collapse of the Soviet Union directly to the leadership in Moscow.

In the first years of the independent Ukrainian state, from 1991 to 1994, he was Chairman of the Sluzhba bespeky Ukrajiny ( German Security Service of Ukraine ), the successor organization of the KGB of the USSR.

In 1994 Marchuk again in the government and was first deputy prime minister. In March 1995, he was initially provisional prime minister. During the year he was officially appointed in this position and remained Prime Minister of Ukraine until 27 May 1996. Also in 1995 he was first in the Verkhovna Rada, elected the Parliament of Ukraine. He represented a constituency here in the Poltava Oblast. In 1998 he again reached a mandate on the list of the United Social Democratic Party of Ukraine.

In 1999 Marchuk as a candidate in the election for President of Ukraine in part and retired in the first round with a little over 8 % of the vote from. After the ballot, he was appointed by the re-elected President Leonid Kuchma in the Office of the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council. In 2003, he joined the government and spent a year re- Defense Minister of Ukraine.