Bear Alexander

Date of birth: 25.07.1955

Place of birth. Education. He was born in the village of Iskrovka in the Achtyrka district of the Zaporizhia region. In 1980, he graduated from the Law Faculty in Kharkiv.

Career. From 1980 to 1992, Medvedko was an assistant, senior assistant prosecutor of Druzhkivka in the Donetsk region, and senior investigator of the same prosecutor's office.

From 1992 to 1999 - prosecutor of Kostiantynivka in Donetsk.

From 1999 to 2001 - head of the department for the supervision of the legality of operational investigative activities, of investigations and pre-investigation proceedings of the Donetsk regional prosecutor's office. Then for another year - First Deputy Prosecutor of Luhansk Oblast.

In July 2002, he was appointed Deputy Attorney General of Ukraine (Svyatoslav Piskun). He resigned from this position after Gennady Vasiliev was appointed Attorney General. And again, in December 2004, he took the position after Piskun returned to the position of Attorney General following a court decision about the illegality of his dismissal by President Leonid Kuchma. And in November 2005, Medvedko himself became Attorney General after another scandal involving Piskun's dismissal (this time by President Viktor Yushchenko), who was unable to regain his lost position in court and was subsequently successfully elected to Parliament in 2006 according to the list of the Party of Regions.

On November 3, 2010, he was dismissed by order of President Viktor Yanukovych.

On November 12, 2010, he was appointed first deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine by presidential decree.

In April 2014, he was dismissed from the National Security and Defense Council by the acting president of Ukraine, Alexander Turchinov.

Reviews and scandals. Under Medvedko, as under Piskun, the Attorney General's Office was not known for the resolution of particularly high-profile crimes and their transfer to court and concrete court decisions. For example, the circumstances of the poisoning of Yushchenko and the death of former Interior Minister Yuri Kravchenko remain unknown, as do the names of the customers of the murder of Georgy Gongadze, the organizers of the attack on people near the Central Election Commission and the installation of a parallel server to manipulate election results during the 2004 presidential election.

Previous dissatisfaction with the Attorney General's Office and its chief was regularly expressed by then-Interior Minister Yuri Lutsenko. In his opinion, it is precisely the prosecution that blocks the investigation of the most resonant criminal cases, as these touch the interests of the powerful. Among Medvedko's opponents is also former Defense Minister Anatoliy Hrytsenko, who believes that the Attorney General's Office conducted a political reckoning against an inconvenient politician with its investigations against the Ministry of Defense (in November-December 2006) and forgot about the real fight against corruption.

According to observers, dissatisfaction with the Attorney General's Office and its head also grew at the Presidential Office of Ukraine at that time. In the spring of 2007, the measure was full - at the peak of the conflict between the 'anti-crisis' and Yushchenko, who decided to dissolve the Parliament of the V Congress and concluded that Medvedko was not an ally for him in this fierce struggle. According to one version, at that time, the president had established full control over the Attorney General's Office through the Party of Regions (in particular through Renat Kuzmin - a native of Donetsk and deputy attorney general who led the investigative work). At the end of April, the dissatisfaction of the bank coincided with the 'miracle' decision of the Shevchenko District Court in Kyiv to reinstate Piskun as Attorney General (in this context, the shocked parliamentary majorities even wanted to establish a special investigative commission). On April 26, Yushchenko presented the collective of the Attorney General's Office with a 'new old' boss. However, the Attorney General could not find a common language with the team of the head of state three times. On May 24, Yushchenko dismissed Piskun and transferred the powers of the Attorney General to the deputy attorney general - the prosecutor of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Viktor Shemchuk. Then followed the famous storming of the Attorney General's Office building by members of the Berkut special unit led by Interior Minister Vasili Tsushko - 'as a sign of support' for the Piskun coalition. The last one did not return to the coveted chair. Already on June 1, after negotiations with Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, Yushchenko reinstated Medvedko as Attorney General by his decree, conditional on the fact that the investigative agency of Attorney General Shemchuk would oversee it. At the same time, Piskun stated that he would not challenge the president's decision, but expressed confidence that he would soon return to the stolen position.

Despite Piskun's plans and promises, as well as the attempts of Yulia Tymoshenko's parliamentary faction to shake Medvedko's post as Attorney General in the winter of 2008, Alexander Ivanovich's status did not change. He gained more enemies - in particular, MP Davit Zhvania, whom the Attorney General's Office tried to catch in the illegal acquisition of Ukrainian citizenship. There were also allegations against the agency on Borisoglebskaya Street in the capital that it participated in political power struggles and had no results in the fight against corruption and in resolving high-profile crimes (in particular, the poisoning of Yushchenko, the murder of Gongadze, etc.).

Family. Medvedko is married. He has a daughter.

22.07.2022