Turchinov post now. Alexander Turchinov. Skeletons in the closet of the "bloody pastor" of Ukraine. Turchinov Alexander Valentinovich: biography

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

Former First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, ex-head of the SBU, "gray eminence" BYuT, one of the most quoted Ukrainian politicians ... Undoubtedly: A. Turchynov is one of the most experienced politicians in Ukraine, capable of multi-level and multi-way combinations, to any alliances with any people.

Turchinov skillfully converts the truly invaluable experience of political struggle into positions, influence and financial position. It has long been noticed: when Yulia Tymoshenko is "sitting", A. Turchinov's rates increase sharply. But it is impossible to imagine Turchinov 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 Krivorozhstal plant. He entered the technological faculty of the Dnepropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute (graduated 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 young entrepreneur Yulia Tymoshenko in the creation of the Terminal youth center under the auspices of the Dnepropetrovsk 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 information agency IMA-Press (publishing of 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 Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration.

1993y. - Adviser on economic issues to Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma (they have known each other since 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 position of General Director of the Institute of Economic Reforms, head of the laboratory for research of the shadow economy at the Institute of Russia of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

1994 - created the All-Ukrainian Association "Gromada", 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 she was one of the leaders of the United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU) corporation, which supplied Russian natural gas.

1998 - People's Deputy (also became a Deputy in 2002 and 2006). Passed to parliament on the list of the "Gromada"; in the Verkhovna Rada, he headed the Budget Committee. He initiated the implementation of the budget reform, the redistribution of public funds in favor of local government, the health care system, educational and coal mining industries. The author of the program to de-shadow the Ukrainian economy.

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

Opposition activities. In January 2001, Tymoshenko was dismissed and then arrested. A tough confrontation begins with L. Kuchma (both in the parliament as part of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc faction, and on the streets of Ukrainian cities: the actions "Ukraine without Kuchma" and "Rise, 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 - the 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, an intermediary for Gazprom in transporting Turkmen gas through Russia and Ukraine, is controlled by an international criminal authority, 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 involvement in stock fraud, racketeering, fraud and money laundering, financing the transportation of weapons and drugs. He lives in Moscow without any problems.

September 2005 - filed a letter of resignation in protest against the dismissal of his colleague Yulia Tymoshenko from the post of Prime Minister of Ukraine. May - October 2007 - First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDCU). 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, Information Technologies of the XXI Century CJSC, Pharmakor LLC (engaged in the repair and maintenance of vehicles), ZET LLC, Europe-X LLC, Newspaper Editorial Office LLC Vechernie Vesti, VV LLC, SVV LLC. Through relatives A. Turchinov controls LLC "Real estate agency" Yanus "and LLC" Garant-service ".

Income. 2006: A. Turchinov declared income in the amount of 185 thousand 900 UAH. The income of family members amounted to UAH 17 443. According to the declaration, family members (at that time - First Deputy Prime Minister) have a total of UAH 200 thousand in bank accounts. The family owned a 100 sq m apartment (Kiev) and a Nissan Patrol car. 2007: A. Turchinov declared 761 thousand 67 UAH. income. Family members' incomes amounted to UAH 23.6 thousand (wages).

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

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

Religious views. Baptized in 1999. According to A. Turchynov's own words, he is an evangelical Christian, a Baptist, is also the leader of the Ukrainian branch of the Church of Christ: “I am least of all interested in the career of an official ... I preach in the church, and for me the 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 is not a pastor. To the question: “If you turned to the opposition with a sermon, what would you say?” Turchinov replied: “... a person who believes in God is not afraid of death. Just as death for us, believing Christians, is the gateway to a meeting with our Creator. When there is faith, fear disappears. Walk forward together and win ”(Facts, February 2, 2004).

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

Scandals

A. Turchinov (as well as Y. Tymoshenko) is accused of having links with ex-Prime Minister 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 mythologemes that were fanned by official propaganda that he could influence something, he has secret ties with the opposition ... We parted with him very hard, 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 do not have such deviations as hitting a lying person ”(“ Ukrainska Pravda ”, August 7, 2003).

2003 year. The GPU appealed to the Verkhovna Rada with a proposal to give consent to bring to criminal responsibility the deputies of BYuT A. Turchinov and Stepan Khmara. They were charged with three articles of the Criminal Code: "Seizure of state or public buildings", "Threats to law enforcement officers" and "Exceeding authority 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 Lukyanovskiy SIZO, where they "insulted and beat the staff" (the version of ex-Deputy Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. Parliament did not satisfy the request of the then Prosecutor General Svyatoslav Piskun, without consenting to involve A. Turchinov and S. Khmara to criminal responsibility.
On September 13, 2003, at the office of the Batkivshchyna party, the tax authorities detained Ruslan Lukenchuk, A. Turchinov's assistant. He was charged with involvement in an illegal conversion center. At the time, Prosecutor General S. Piskun said that the arrest 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 a person brought to the office of the Batkivshchyna party. This incident did not receive any legal development.

Collapse of the Gongadze case. 2006 year. With the arrival 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 destroyed. 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 disclose operational data on G. Gonadze's case to the SBU investigation team. R. Shubin also said that the SBU investigation team, headed by Deputy Chairman of the SBU A. Kozhemyakin, actually thwarted the special operation to extradite General Alexander Pukach, since the SBU investigation team had no authority to negotiate with the Israeli side on A. Pukach's extradition.
According to R. Shubin, "... the SBU investigation team went to Israel without evidence and invitations from the Israeli side, as a result of which it led to an uncontrolled expansion of the circle of persons who possess 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 provided for wiretapping of A. Korchinsky's phone. V. Shokin noted that the decision to establish an ORD according to the law is taken 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 ORD was closed. The wiretapping was carried out under court sanction, which was issued before December 25, 2005, and therefore such a short period of the ORD was unprecedented. The ORD was instituted in relation to unidentified persons of the Prosecutor General's Office, who allegedly informed A. Korchinsky about the whereabouts of the killer of journalist G. Gongadze A. Pukach, and A. Korchinsky himself, who disseminated this information by publishing it in the newspaper Segodnya.
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, and such an accusation was necessary in order to have the right to start an ORD. Thus, the ORD was instituted by forging 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, circulated information that the wanted General Pukach had been found in Israel).

Destruction of the "Mogilevich case". Since March 2006, A. Turchinov and Andrey Kozhemyakin, former deputy of Turchinov in the SBU (also a BYuT deputy) were involved by the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine as witnesses in criminal cases on the fact of the destruction of materials from the SBU operational-search case on the criminal activities of the criminal authority S. Mogilevich and the fact of illegal wiretapping of the correspondent of the newspaper "Segodnya" Alexander Korchinsky (read about the latter above - "A").
Let us remind you: on September 8, 2005, the materials of the 20-volume operational-search case, which had been conducted by the SBU for 12 years about the activities of the international mafioso S. Mogilevich, were destroyed. As the official investigation later established, the materials were destroyed in accordance with all the rules of office work.
The Court of Appeal of the Kiev region in 2007 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 General Prosecutor'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 Y. Tymoshenko. To which, in turn, the top leadership of Russia addressed this request.
She feared that the dossier on S. Mogilevich, the technical executor of many projects of the Russian special services in Europe and the United States, could go to the special services of Western states. According to this version, the case itself was not destroyed, but transferred 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 admitted to the hospital." (proUA, October 20, 2006).
“I am a volunteer who went into politics, because I did not see the possibility of Ukrainian science development without serious political changes, and, believe me, I am least interested in the career of an official. Moreover, I am an evangelical Christian, a Baptist, I preach in a church, and I would be more interesting as a pastor than being 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).

On the mood 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 the security forces should be placed on precisely those people who have felt how painful it is when a power machine steps over you." ("Capital News", January 18, 2005).

About the SBU. "I am not ready to give an unequivocal answer to what extent the SBU is today capable of ensuring the reliable storage of state secrets." (Mirror of the Week, February 19, 2005).
The entire career of A. Turchinov as a politician is solely a battle for power. Which became an end in itself both for him and for his "presenter" - Yulia Tymoshenko.
The alliance 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"

Former NSDC Secretary

Education

Born in Dnepropetrovsk on March 31, 1964. In 1986 he graduated with honors from the Technological Faculty of the Dnepropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute.

In 1995 he defended his Ph.D. thesis "Methodological support and mechanism of reforming and optimization of taxation in modern economic conditions", and in 1997 - his doctoral dissertation "Shadow economy (research methodology and functioning mechanisms)".

A family

He is married to Anna Turchinova (born 1970), who is the head of the Department of Foreign Languages \u200b\u200bat the Mikhail Dragomanov National Pedagogical University.

Son Kirill (born 1992) is an activist of the People's Front of Youth NGO, 2014-2016 - a soldier of the National Guard of Ukraine, a graduate student of the Institute of Legislation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, graduated from the Vadim Hetman Kiev National Economic University.

Career

After graduating from the institute, he worked for a short time as a rolling mill operator and foreman at the Krivorozhstal steel plant.

In 1987 he switched to party work - became the secretary of the district committee of the Komsomol, then - the head of the department of agitation and propaganda of the Dnepropetrovsk regional committee of the Komsomol. However, after that he acted as one of the coordinators of the Democratic Platform in the CPSU, which demanded decentralization of the Communist Party. For this Turchinov was deprived of his party card.

In 1990-1991. worked as the chief editor of the Ukrainian branch of the news agency Una-press APN.

In 1991, he headed the Institute of International Relations, Economics, Politics and Law, which he himself created. The next year, he headed the Committee for Denationalization and Demonopolization of Production of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration.

Since 1993, he was an adviser to Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma on economic issues, and vice-president of the Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. Turchinov met the future president while he was in charge of the giant Dnepropetrovsk plant Yuzhmash.

When Kuchma resigned in the fall of the same year, he took up the post of Director General of the Institute of Economic Reforms, head of the shadow economy research laboratory at the Institute of Russia of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Political career and rapprochement with Tymoshenko

In 1994, he created the All-Ukrainian Association "Gromada", which supported Kuchma in the presidential elections. However, the association was not too active, while Turchinov combined its chairmanship with scientific work.

By 1997, he met and became close to - since that time he has been on her team. It was even rumored that Turchinov agreed to give up the post of chairman of the Gromada to Lady "Yu", but soon after that the organization was headed by Pavlo Lazarenko, who had resigned from the post of prime minister.

In 1998, Turchinov entered the Verkhovna Rada on the list of the Gromada party, but due to a conflict with Lazarenko, he left the party leadership in March 1999, and in May - the faction itself.

Together with Tymoshenko, in July of the same year, he created the All-Ukrainian Union "Batkivshchyna" party, whose leader was Tymoshenko herself, and her deputy, respectively, Turchynov.

After Tymoshenko left for the post of deputy prime minister, he headed the Batkivshchyna faction and the budget committee. In this position, he initiated a number of changes, in particular, a cardinal budgetary reform, the health care system, the educational and coal mining industries, and wrote a program to shade the national economy.

After the transition of "Batkivshchyna" into opposition in the summer of 2000, he became one of the founders of the National Salvation Forum.

Following the results of the parliamentary elections in 2002, he became a people's deputy on the list of the BYuT bloc.

During the 2004 presidential campaign, he was deputy head of the election headquarters of Viktor Yushchenko and one of the main leaders of the Maidan - he coordinated civil protest actions. After Yushchenko's victory in the elections in early 2005, Turchinov was appointed head of the Security Service of Ukraine. In this position, he initiated an investigation into the activities of the gas mafia in Ukraine. However, in September 2005, after Tymoshenko's resignation from the post of prime minister, Turchinov left his post, having written a letter of resignation.

In view of the upcoming parliamentary elections, he heads the pre-election headquarters of the BYuT bloc, in 2006 he goes to the Verkhovna Rada and becomes the deputy head of the BYuT faction.

In the same year, together with the former deputy of the SBU, the Prosecutor General's Office was involved as a witness in the case of the destruction of materials about the activities of businessman Semyon Mogilevich and the wiretapping of the correspondent of the newspaper "Segodnya" Alexander Korchinsky.

In May 2007, President Viktor Yushchenko appointed Turchinov as First Deputy Secretary of the NSDC.

At the elections in September 2007, he again went to the Rada from the BYuT faction, and in December he was appointed First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine.

In 2008 he took part in the mayoral elections in Kiev - he took second place.

In March 2010, he served as Acting Prime Minister for a week (March 3-11), after the victory in the presidential election, Viktor Yanukovych lost his post in the Cabinet of Ministers, as he was dismissed.

In the 2012 parliamentary elections, he passed to the Rada under the fourth number on the electoral list of the Batkivshchyna VO, is a member of the Committee on Informatization and Information Technologies, the first deputy chairman of the Batkivshchyna party, the chairman of the Central Headquarters of the Batkivshchyna Party.

22 February 2014 elected for position chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Ukraine. C 23 february, after the escape of Viktor Yanukovych, appointed acting The President Of Ukraine, prior to the election of the head of state in the early elections on May 25, 2014. From February 25 Turchinov authorized to sign the laws Of Ukraine until the election of a new President. From 26 february - Supreme Commander-in-chief Armed Forces Ukraine.

In September 2014 at the convention.

In 2014, in early elections to the Verkhovna Rada, he ran on lists under No. 3. Since October, People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the VIII convocation.

On May 17, 2019, Oleksandr Turchinov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, resigned in connection with the termination of the powers of President Petro Poroshenko.

On May 19, President Petro Poroshenko dismissed Turchynov from the post of Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

Creation

Alexander Turchinov is the author of a number of fiction books, the most famous of which are "The Illusion of Fear", "Testimony", "The Last Supper", "The Coming". In 2008, a film of the same name was shot based on the thriller Illusion of Fear, which was even nominated by Ukraine for the Oscar in the Best Foreign Film nomination.

Biography

Born on March 31, 1964 in Dnepropetrovsk. Alexander Valentinovich began his career as a rolling mill operator at the Krivorozhstal plant. In 1986 he graduated with honors from the Technological Faculty of the Dnepropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute. In 1987-1990, Turchinov worked as a secretary of the district committee of the Komsomol, head of the agitation and propaganda department of the Dnepropetrovsk regional committee of the Komsomol. At the same time, he was one of the coordinators of the Democratic Platform in the CPSU.

In 1990-1991, Alexander Valentinovich was at the head of IMA-PRESS and the Institute of International Relations, Economics, Politics and Law. In 1992 he was appointed chairman of the Committee for Denationalization and Demonopolization of Production of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration. A year later, he is an adviser to Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma on macroeconomic issues. He was vice-president of the USPP, a member of the Council of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine. After Kuchma's resignation from the post of head of government, he was director general of the Institute of Economic Reforms, head of the laboratory for research of the shadow economy at the Institute of Russia of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

In the parliamentary elections of 1998, he was elected People's Deputy of Ukraine on the list of the Hromada party (No. 12). By the way, from 1993 to 1997, Alexander Valentinovich was at the head of the Political and Economic Council of the Community. After Pavel Lazarenko was elected leader of the party, he became chairman of the Central Coordination Council of the Community. In the shadow government of the party, which was headed by Yulia Timoshenko, Alexander Turchinov served as Minister of Economy. In 1999, after Yulia Tymoshenko was appointed Deputy Prime Minister for the Fuel and Energy Complex, Alexander Turchinov headed the parliamentary budget committee. Since March 1999 - an authorized representative of the Batkivshchyna faction.

In the 2002 parliamentary elections, he received a deputy mandate from the BYuT list (No. 2). He was one of the founders of the unification of the democratic opposition forces in Ukraine and the creation of the National Salvation Forum (FNP), which organized the action Ukraine without Kuchma. As Alexander Valentinovich says, Leonid Kuchma tried to put him in prison three times. During the 2004 presidential elections, he was one of the deputy head of the electoral headquarters of Viktor Yushchenko. On February 4, 2005, he was appointed Chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine. He was a member of the NSDC. On September 8, 2005, he resigned due to his unwillingness to cooperate with the corrupt circle of Viktor Yushchenko.

In the 2006 parliamentary elections, he was the head of the electoral headquarters of the Yulia Tymoshenko bloc. Elected People's Deputy of Ukraine on the BYuT list (No. 2). Then he was elected as a deputy of the Kiev Regional Council. In 2006, Oleksandr Turchynov took the 25th position in the Top-100 of the most influential people in Ukraine, which are annually determined by the magazine Korrespondent. On May 23, 2007, Oleksandr Turchynov was appointed First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. Commenting on this appointment, Alexander Valentinovich said: I did not dream of this position, except for problems, I received nothing (Mignews, May 30, 2007).

In the 2007 parliamentary elections, he received a deputy mandate on the BYuT list (No. 2). In 2007, Oleksandr Turchynov took the 29th position in the Top-100 of the most influential people in Ukraine by the Korrespondent magazine. On December 18, 2007, the Verkhovna Rada appointed Turchynov as First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine. In 2007, in the rating of the Focus magazine, the 200 most influential Ukrainians took 27th place. In 2008, in early elections, he was elected to the Kyiv City Council on the BYuT list (No. 2), but refused the mandate. He ran for mayor of Kiev. I got the second result - 19.13%.

Ukrainian politician. 11th Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC).
Doctor of Economics, Professor

Biography

Alexander Turchinov was born in Dnepropetrovsk on March 31, 1964. Childhood and adolescence were spent in his hometown.

Education

In 1986 he graduated with honors from the Technological Faculty of the Dnepropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute.

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

A family

Married to Anna Turchinova (b. 1970), who heads the Department of Foreign Languages \u200b\u200bat the National Pedagogical University. M. Dragomanova. The Turchinovs have a student son, Kirill (born in 1992).

Business and political activities

Career

After graduating from the institute, for some time (not for long) he worked as a rolling mill operator and foreman at the Krivorozhstal metallurgical plant. I was attracted by party work - soon became the secretary of the district committee of the Komsomol (1987-1989), then - headed the department of agitation and propaganda of the Dnepropetrovsk regional committee of the Komsomol.

1990 - jointly with the partners headed the Ukrainian department of the information agency "IMA-Press" (books and newspapers).
1991 - founded the Institute of International Relations, Economics, Politics and Law, and he himself headed it.
1992-1993 - Head of the Economic Committee of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration.
1993-1994 - Adviser on economic issues to Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma (they met when Leonid Danilovich was in charge of the Dnepropetrovsk giant Yuzhmash plant).
In 1994, Turchynov created the All-Ukrainian Association "Gromada", which supported Kuchma in the presidential elections. However, the association was not active enough, and Turchinov combined the chairmanship of the organization with scientific work.
In 1997 he met Yulia Tymoshenko and became a member of her team.
1998 Turchynov entered the Verkhovna Rada on the list of the "Gromada" - for the first time he became a people's deputy of Ukraine. Due to the conflict with Pavel Lazarenko, in March 1999 (at that time Lazarenko was the head of the "Gromada") he left the party leadership, and in May - the faction itself.
Together with Lady "Yu" in July of the same year he created the party "All-Ukrainian Association" Batkivshchyna ", the leader of which was Tymoshenko herself (now headed), and her deputy - Turchinov.
After Tymoshenko left for the post of Deputy Prime Minister, he headed the Batkivshchyna faction and the Budget Committee. In this position, he initiated a number of changes, in particular, a cardinal budgetary reform, the health care system, the educational and coal mining industries, and wrote a program to shade the national economy.
After the transition of "Batkivshchyna" into opposition in the summer of 2000, he became one of the founders of the National Salvation Forum.
2002 - for the second time he was elected People's Deputy of Ukraine on the list of the BYuT bloc.
During the 2004 presidential campaign, he was deputy head of the election headquarters of Viktor Yushchenko and one of the main leaders of the Maidan - he coordinated civil protest actions. After Yushchenko's victory in the elections in early 2005, Turchinov was appointed head of the Security Service of Ukraine. In this position, he initiated an investigation into the activities of the gas mafia in Ukraine.
And already in September 2005 (after Tymoshenko's resignation from the post of prime minister) Turchinov, having written a letter of resignation, leaves his post.
2005 - headed the Security Service of Ukraine (by decree of President Yushchenko), but did not stay as the chief SBU officer for long: seven months later he resigned as soon as Yulia Tymoshenko was fired from the post of prime minister.
May 23, 2007 - Appointed First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council.
2007 - re-elected as a people's deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the BYuT faction. In December, he was appointed First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine.
2008 - took part in the elections for the post of the mayor of Kiev. As a result of the vote, the Kievites gave him second place.
Since November 2012, People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the VII convocation, No. 4 in the party list of the VO "Batkivshchyna".
Since July 2013, he has headed the central headquarters of the Batkivshchyna Military District.
On February 22, 2014 he was elected Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Elected and. about. President of Ukraine pending the establishment of the results of the presidential re-election in May 2014.
In September 2014, at the congress he was elected chief of staff of the People's Front political party.
Since November 2014 - People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the VIII convocation. Head of the parliamentary faction.
Since December 16, 2014 - Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

Creation

Alexander Turchinov is the author of a number of fiction books. The most famous: "The Illusion of Fear", "Testimony", "The Last Supper", "Coming". In 2008, a film of the same name was shot based on the thriller Illusion of Fear, which was even nominated by Ukraine for the Oscar in the Best Foreign Film nomination.

Hobbies

He does not have any specific hobby. And he talks about this himself. He just loves to work, but rests in spirit, attending church regularly.

Loud scandals

On the eve of the parliamentary elections (2006), the head of the BYuT election headquarters, Turchinov, was accused of wiretapping (when he was the chairman of the SBU). The General Prosecutor's Office even opened a criminal case into the wiretapping of senior officials. He took it as a political provocation: "You know, the Security Service does indeed carry 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 law and the Constitution." They did not give further action.

In April 2012, the Prosecutor General's Office announced the verification of information about the illegal allocation of apartments to journalists by Oleksandr Turchynov, when he was chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine. "Batkivshchyna" called the accusations of the Prosecutor General's Office political persecution.
... In 2014, the 21-year-old son of the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Alexander Turchinov, Kirill, received a summons to the military enlistment office. Of course, the influential politician used his connections, as a result of which the military commissar and two employees of the military registration and enlistment office, who sent the summons, were suspended from work, the Kharkov news agency reported.

There are undoubtedly many ambiguous or mysterious personalities in Ukrainian politics. Some of them are more suspicious, some less. In the biographies of almost each of them there are facts that incriminate them in certain frauds or even crimes. The current secretary of the NSDC, the first and only acting secretary, is no exception. President of Ukraine, ex-chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, ex-head of the SBU and people's deputy of the III-VIII convocations Oleksandr Turchynov. During his career, he went through many departments and political positions, pulled off a bunch of cunning machinations and schemes, but was never caught "hot". He was called the "Bloody Pastor", but he continued to do his "great work." What secrets are hidden in the past of Alexander Valentinovich?

"Student, Komsomol member, athlete and just ..."

Alexander Turchinov was born in 1964 in Dnepropetrovsk. His father Valentin Ivanovich was the USSR master of sports in volleyball and played sports all his life. Alexander Valentinovich was a talented child, just like his father was involved in volleyball (he headed the school team), studied diligently (for one five). After school, Turchinov studied at the Dnepropetrovsk Technological University. During his studies, he actively wrote scientific works, he was even promised a career as a great scientist. However, he surprised everyone - right after university he went to work at the Krivorozhstal plant. Even in his student years, Alexander Valentinovich tested his strength in the political sphere - he was an active member of the communist construction detachments. For these merits, he was even awarded a trip to India, unattainable for ordinary residents of the union.

Feeling that participation in the Komsomol and political life of the country gives many privileges, in parallel with work at the plant, he began his own career as part of one of the district Komsomols of Dnipropetrovsk. For persistence and hard work Turchinov, as a result, was appointed head of the department of agitation and propaganda of the Dnipropetrovsk regional committee of the All-Union Lenin Communist Youth Union (Komsomol). By the way, in those years it was headed by Serhiy Tigipko, the future oligarch, minister of social policy and deputy prime minister of Ukraine under the government of Mykola Azarov.

With the collapse of the USSR, Turchinov retired from political affairs, starting to master the field of journalism. Until 1991, he was the editor-in-chief of the UNA-press APN division in Ukraine. By the way, it was on his initiative that this branch of the foreign publication was opened. Further, he returned to scientific activity, creating and heading the Institute of International Relations, Economics, Politics and Law. He wrote about a hundred scientific papers on the shadow economy and totalitarian control systems, at least that's what they write in his official biography. This is very strange, because the journalists were unable to find them. What really exists is small brochures in which Alexander Valentinovich is a co-author, but none of his "epoch-making" work has been found.

Coming to "big politics"

Over time, Turchinov decided to return to politics. In 1992, after the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration was headed by Pavel Lazorenko, Alexander Valentinovich was appointed head of the committee on demonopolization and denationalization of production. This appointment became his starting point for a great political career, because immediately after that he was appointed an advisor to Leonid Kuchma on macroeconomics (and behind the scenes - a business partner), and also entered the leadership of the Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. At the same time, together with Pavel Lazarenko, he was engaged in the creation of the VO "Gromada", the chairman of which he was appointed.

After Leonid Kuchma resigned from the post of Prime Minister, Turchinov retired from politics and returned to scientific work, taking the post of general director of the Institute for Economic Reforms. In 1997 he defended his doctoral dissertation. The topic of his research was the same "Shadow Economy".

Turchinov first became a people's deputy in 1998 on the lists of the Gromada party, whose head was then Lazarenko, and his future ally Yulia Tymoshenko then held the post of deputy chairman of the council of the same party. Rumor has it that Turchinov and Tymoshenko began to “be close friends” back in 1989 (and they might even have common children), when Yulia Vladimirovna was just starting her entrepreneurial activity. After all, it was under the patronage of the Dnepropetrovsk Regional Committee of the LKSMU (in which Turchynov worked) that Tymoshenko was engaged in the creation of the Terminal youth center.

After Pavel Lazarenko fled Ukraine, criminal prosecution began after him on charges of “financial abuse”. Alexander Valentinovich, together with Yulia Vladimirovna, left the Gromada party and created Batkivshchyna. In it, Turchinov was assigned the role of deputy head of the party, and Tymoshenko became its leader.

For the second time, Turchynov became a people's deputy in the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc party, dealing with issues related to the state budget in the Verkhovna Rada. In 2003, the Prosecutor General's Office accused Turchinov and his BYuT colleague Stepan Khmaru under three articles of the Criminal Code. According to the information of the investigation, the people's deputies entered the Lukyanovskoye SIZO at the end of June 2003, where they “began to insult and beat law enforcement officers” (then Viktor Shokin, who served as deputy head of the GPU, insisted on this version. forgot about it without making any statements).

An activist for the Orange Revolution. SBU-shnik, BYuTovets

During the Orange Revolution, he also did not sit idly by - he was in charge of the campaign headquarters of Viktor Yushchenko in Donetsk, Lugansk, Sumy and Kirovograd regions. In addition, at the last stage of the elections, he was the so-called “financial controller”, with the right to sign financial documents ”. His efforts were not in vain - after Yushchenko's appointment as president, he became the head of the SBU (by the way, he was the first civilian to be given such an honor).

After his arrival at the "office" the main operatives immediately quit, taking with them "flash drives" with various data. It was the information from these "flash drives" that became the headache of the Yushchenko regime, since it turned out that both Yushchenko and all his associates were by no means "white and fluffy", but on the contrary - the main corruption schemes and criminals under Kuchma were controlled by the "new Yushchenko team" , and they did not go anywhere, but on the contrary, they were built into the new system, but under the leadership and cover of Turchinov.

He served in this position for seven months, having resigned after the departure of Yulia Tymoshenko from the post of prime minister. How is this interconnected, you ask? It's very simple: being the head of the SBU, on the orders of Turchinov, documents from the department's archives were destroyed, according to which Yulia Tymoshenko is closely associated with the well-known crime boss Semyon Mogilevich. This became known after the publication on Wikileaks of the correspondence of the then Interior Minister Yuri Lutsenko with the US Ambassador. In it, he reported that Prosecutor General Medvedko ordered the arrest of Turchinov for the destruction of documents that incriminate Tymoshenko in illegal activities. During the chairmanship of Alexander Turchinov in the SBU, the SBU investigation team was actually destroyed, which was investigating the death of Georgy Gongadze (the operatives controlling the investigation of the "Tarashchansky body" quit immediately after the arrival of Turchinov, and the rest of the "small fry" - after the arrival of "Ken" Khoroshkovsky). On the personal instruction of Alexander Valentinovich, this group simply stopped receiving any information on this case (there was no one from whom). At the same time, the Prosecutor General's Office accused this group of disrupting the operation to extradite the main suspect in the case of General Alexei Pukach. Having fulfilled his mission in the SBU, Turchinov left to conquer other peaks.

In the parliamentary elections in 2006 and 2007, Alexander Valentinovich headed the electoral headquarters of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. As a people's deputy of the V convocation, he served as the leader of the BYuT faction. And after Yulia Vladimirovna was appointed prime minister, he became her right hand, taking the post of first deputy prime minister. He held this position right up to the defeat of Yulia Tymoshenko in the presidential elections in 2010 and the arrival of Viktor Yanukovych as President of Ukraine. After the arrest of Yulia Vladimirovna in 2011, he headed the opposition forces, which united on the basis of the Batkivshchyna party. In the party, he was always responsible for intelligence activities and the so-called "black cash". Having passed to the Verkhovna Rada once again, he actively criticized the current government, not particularly standing out from the opposition crowd.

Recent events

During the Euromaidan, he was wounded by a fragment of a flash-noise grenade thrown by the Berkut soldiers during one of the next assaults. After the "overthrow" of Yanukovych, he was appointed speaker of parliament and was temporarily elected as acting prime minister and president of Ukraine. He performed these duties until the end of the presidential elections. By the way, being the “acting” president of Ukraine, he “gave a debt” to the oligarchs who supported Euromaidan, appointing them to the post of governor of the Donetsk region (Serhiy Taruta - ISD) and the Dnepropetrovsk region (Igor Kolomoisky - Privat).

After a loud quarrel in the Batkivshchyna party, together with Arsen Avakov, Arseniy Yatsenyuk and several other like-minded people, he left the party. I went to the elections to the Verkhovna Rada of the VIII convocation together with the People's Front party, which took first place according to party lists.

In mid-December 2014, by order of Petro Poroshenko, he was appointed head of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. At the same time, amendments were made to the legislation, according to which the powers of the NSDC secretary were significantly expanded, and this position, with the arrival of Turchinov, in terms of the weight of powers became in fact comparable to the positions of the president or prime minister.

Is business a woman's business?

Like most of the ruling elite of Ukraine, Turchynov's business is officially registered not with him, but with his family members. The assets of Alexander Valentinovich are owned by the female part of his family - his wife Anna Turchinova, mother Valentina Turchinova and mother-in-law Tamara Beliba. Oddly enough, most of the business is framed specifically for his mother-in-law (apparently he really respects her). They own the Institute of Economics and Law, which is engaged in research and constantly receives financial influence from unknown investors. The Turchinov couple themselves also include: the company "Imkotel" - engaged in wireless communications and the Internet (its main shareholder is the aforementioned "Institute of Economics and Law"), the company "Kinotur" - is engaged in mastering films (owner Tamara Beliba), and the company Ekonomiks Institutas , engaged in the construction of data centers abroad (in particular in Lithuania).

Declaration of income of Alexander Turchinov

Alexander Valentinovich himself says that in comparison with other citizens of Ukraine, he is a rather rich man (although according to the declaration he lives only on the salary of the people's deputy). If we recall the topic of his doctoral dissertation ("Shadow Economy"), it is not at all surprising that he is directly or indirectly involved in the creation of the companies "Europa-X", "Pharmacor", "ZET", "VV", "SVV", newspapers "Evening News", as well as real estate agencies "Janus".

Real "Pastor"

Oleksandr Turchynov is a pastor of a Baptist parish and one of the heads of the “Church of Christ” branch in Ukraine. It is noteworthy that when he came to the post of the head of the SBU in 2005, one of his first orders was to stop all investigations related to the activities of the “Church of Christ”. This is very strange, because in most cases such organizations are excellent places for laundering huge funds. This church uses the Hope Worldwide Charitable Foundation for such operations. By the way, Turchinov's friend Timoshenko is also called one of the church members, although she for some reason hides such facts. Ukrainian and Russian conspiracy theorists associate the activities of this church with the intelligence activities of the United States, in particular, attributing to her cooperation with the CIA.

An incredible number of materials have been written about Alexander Turchinov, according to various versions he is called: an American agent, a homosexual, a thief, a swindler, Tymoshenko's lover, a "gray eminence", "a bloody Pastor", and many other pleasant or not very words. Yes, many of these words are conjectures that have no official confirmation, but no one can deny that there were many "dirty deeds" in his life. And until his criminal activity is officially proven, he will, because of the backs of Ukrainian politicians, what he pleases, or what his patrons whisper in his ear, be it the American special services, freemasons, the world government or others forces hidden from the eyes of ordinary Ukrainians.

And at the end - a very important question: did not Turchinov throw away his "creator" and "patron" Pavel Ivanovich Lazarenko, who became very quiet after the Euromaidan? After all, the main witnesses in the case of Pavel Ivanovich were precisely Boris Filatov and those close to Gennady Korban. Now Filatov has become the head of the Dnipropetrovsk region. And Mr. Kolomoisky said 6 years ago - "Sort it out for yourself, I have no complaints against Pavel Ivanovich." And not so long ago Filatov and Korban "squeezed" from Lazarenko the Astoria-Lux hotels and Evropeyskiy Hotel in Dnepropetrovsk. And for Pavel Ivanovich his mother-in-law Tamara Tsikova solved the issues. She applied for legal services to Maksim Lavrynovych, the son of the then Minister of Justice Alexander Lavrynovych, who had an office on Lev Tolstoy Street in Kiev. It was only on those days that Gennady Korban also visited Lavrynovych's office ... And a few days later, Vyacheslav Braginsky, who was associated with Korban, the head of the Ukraine-Canada company, died from a strange gas pipeline explosion in Dnepropetrovsk. Lazarenko's "squeezed out" assets were registered for this company. Just a couple of days before the explosion, the shares and shares of the main structures of Braginsky were transferred to other legal entities controlled by Korban and, they say, Lavrinovich.

... And Turchinov was in power. And he knew that Tsikova even met with Yulia Timoshenko with a request for help.

Yes, it is difficult to assume that Turchinov was not aware of these "showdowns". Couldn't Turchinov solve Lazarenko's problems while holding such a position? Or didn't you want to compete? And why is the topic of Lazarenko's return to his homeland so quiet now?