Vladimir Radchenko

Date of Birth: 23.10.1948

Vladimir Ivanovich Radchenko - General of the Army of Ukraine (since 2001). Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (1994-1995). Head of the Security Service of Ukraine (1995-1998, 2001-2003). Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (2003-2005). Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine (12.01.-25.05.2007).

Place of Birth. Education. Native of Kyiv. In 1971, he graduated from the Kyiv Technological Institute of Light Industry with a degree as 'Chemical Engineer-Technologist'. A year later, he graduated from the Higher Courses of the KGB of the USSR in Minsk. Later, in 1986, he completed advanced training at the Higher Red Banner School of the KGB of the USSR.

Career. During the Soviet period, the future high-ranking 'security officer' of Ukraine and General of the Army rose from a simple operative of the Committee for State Security to the deputy head of the department of the KGB of the USSR in the Rivne region. The collapse of the Soviet Union did not end Vladimir Radchenko's career. Then, in the early 90s, many intelligence officers in the post-Soviet space actively transitioned to the security services of emerging private economic structures that sprouted like mushrooms after rain or joined the ranks of numerous organized crime groups. Vladimir Radchenko continued his work in the newly created Ukrainian Security Service. He was head of the department in Ternopil region, head of the SBU department for combating corruption and organized crime, deputy head of the security service.

In 1994, he had to change his profession somewhat: Vladimir Radchenko was appointed Minister of Internal Affairs. A year later, he returned to the SBU, but this time as Chairman. He held this position for nearly three years. In April 1998, President Leonid Kuchma appointed Vladimir Radchenko as First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. And in February 2001, he was reappointed head of the Security Service. His second attempt to hold this position lasted until September 2003. Subsequently, Leonid Kuchma wanted Vladimir Radchenko to be Secretary of the Security Council, a position he had to yield to 'orange' Petro Poroshenko in January 2005.

Work in Yanukovych's team. After Vladimir Radchenko left the post of Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, he was hardly heard from. He was somewhat publicly remembered by Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, who appointed him as an advisor on a public basis on November 1, 2006. In December, after the resignation of SBU head Igor Drizhchany, some politicians speculated that President Viktor Yushchenko would appoint Vladimir Radchenko to the vacant position. As a figure who was 'equally removed from all political forces'. According to observers, however, the chances of such an appointment were extremely low. Viktor Yanukovych's team had already twice laid out its own plans for the head of the SBU at that time. These were confirmed by Vladimir Radchenko's appointment to a position that had not previously existed in the Ukrainian government - Deputy Prime Minister overseeing all security structures at once. This position seemed to have been created as a counterpoint to the Secretary of the Security Council, held at that time by the pro-presidential Vitali Hayduk. However, Vladimir Radchenko worked for less than half a year in Yanukovych's government. He was dismissed on May 25 by the parliamentary majority at the height of a political crisis characterized by a sharp power struggle between the ruling coalition on one side and the president and parliamentary opposition on the other. The official reason for the dismissal was a statement from the deputy prime minister that he had written 'at his own request' supposedly due to a 'recurrence of an old illness'. According to another version, as the newspaper Ukrainska Pravda wrote, 'the fate of Radchenko was predetermined by his habit of not getting involved in a global political conflict'. On that day, the free cabinet was replaced by the former Minister of Defense, another man from 'Kuchma's camp', Alexander Kuzmuk.

Awards. Over the years, Vladimir Radchenko received a number of various awards, including the 'Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky' III class. President Leonid Kuchma awarded him personal firearms twice.

Income Declaration. The total declared combined income for 2006 amounted to 405.4 thousand Hryvnias. According to the information submitted before his appointment as Deputy Prime Minister, the salary was 117.16 thousand Hryvnias, dividends, interest, and royalties amounted to 108.3 thousand Hryvnias. The family income totaled 288.5 thousand Hryvnias, including 270.5 thousand Hryvnias from dividends, interest, and royalties. Vladimir Radchenko owns a plot of 0.55 hectares, a garage (20 sqm), and a Honda car with an engine capacity of 2 liters. The family owns a plot (0.19 hectares), an apartment (169 sqm), a garage (20 sqm), and a Toyota car with an engine capacity of 4 liters. Vladimir Radchenko personally had 1,146,000 Hryvnias in bank accounts and other financial institutions, and his family had 2,439,714 thousand Hryvnias. There were no investments in the share capital of companies by Vladimir Radchenko or his family.

Family. The General is married. His wife - Valentina Vyacheslavovna - is a candidate of chemical sciences and a lecturer. The couple has a son and a daughter.

Death. He passed away on January 4, 2023. Buried in Kyiv at the Baikove cemetery.

12.10.2023