Viktor Baloga

Date of Birth: 15.06.1963

Place of Birth. Education. Native of the village of Zavidovo in the Mukachevo district of Transcarpathia. In 1984, he graduated from the Lviv Commercial Economics Institute.

Business and Politics. After his military service, he worked as a leading goods expert, deputy chairman of the Kosino Agricultural Consumer Cooperative in Berehove, leading goods expert in Mukacheve in the consumer collective system. From 1992 to 1997, Baloga was the CEO of Ray-Promin, then until March 1998, he was the director of LLC Barva.

In the spring of 1998, still a member of the SDPU(o), Baloga won the mayoral elections in Mukacheve. From May 1999 to June 2001, he was the governor of Transcarpathia. However, the friendship with the United 'Esdeks' and the governorship did not last long. A sharp conflict with his first deputy Ivan Rizak, also an influential member of the SDPU(o), led to the split from the party of Viktor Medvedchuk.

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In April 2002, the non-partisan Baloga was elected as a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. In parliament, he joined the opposition faction Our Ukraine and worked in the Committee on Economic Policy, Property, and Investments. After Viktor Yushchenko won the presidential elections in February 2005, Baloga returned in March 2005 as the 'Orange' governor of Transcarpathia.

On September 27, 2005, he was appointed Minister of Emergencies and Protection of the Population from the Consequences of the Chernobyl Disaster in the government of Yuri Yekhanurov. On August 4, 2006, he was reappointed by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine as the head of the Ministry of Emergencies, this time in the government of Viktor Yanukovych. A month later, Yushchenko appointed Baloga as the head of the presidential secretariat.

On May 19, 2009, he was dismissed from his position as head of the secretariat.

On November 12, 2010, he was appointed by presidential decree of Yanukovych as the head of the Ministry of Emergencies and Protection of the Population from the Consequences of the Chernobyl Disaster. On December 9, 2010, he was appointed head of the Ministry of Emergencies formed during the optimization of the central executive system. He was retired in December 2012.

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