Syvkovych Volodymyr
Biography of Volodymyr Sivkovych
Date of birth: 17.09.1960
Volodymyr Leonidovych Sivkovych – a pro-Russian Ukrainian politician accused of treason, was a member of parliament of the IV, V, and VI convocations. Vice Prime Minister responsible for the power bloc in the first government of Mykola Azarov from March 11 to October 13, 2010. Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine from October 2010 to December 2013. Member of the Party of Regions.
Place of Birth. Education. Born in the village of Ostraya Mohyla, Stavishchensky District, Kyiv Region. In 1982, he graduated from Kyiv Higher Military Communications School with a specialty in radio engineering. In 2000, he graduated from Kyiv National Economic University (International Economics), and in 2005, from Kyiv University of Law, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (lawyer).
Career. After graduating from the military school, Sivkovych served in the KGB and SBU (until 1992). After being discharged to the reserve, he worked in commercial structures: headed the JSC Airline VITA, PrJSC M.F.S., and held the position of chairman of the administrative council of JSC International Media Center - STB.
Political Career. In 2002, he became a member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for the first time. He was a member of the factions United Ukraine, Regions of Ukraine, and Labor Ukraine. He headed the subcommittee on security and the activities of the defense-industrial complex, military-technical cooperation of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security and Defense.
Since 2000, Sivkovych has been in the governing bodies of the party Forward, Ukraine! and Labor Ukraine.
In 2005, during the parliamentary election campaign following the split of the 'laborists' (a significant part of the party supported the position of the leader - Valeriy Konovalyuk, who replaced Serhiy Tyhipko, former head of the National Bank of Ukraine and owner of the TAS financial group as the head), Sivkovych became a member of the Party of Regions. In 2006, he entered the parliament on the list of this political force. In the Verkhovna Rada of the V convocation, the politician held the position of deputy chairman of the Committee on Law Enforcement. He often chaired various parliamentary temporary investigative commissions or was part of them. One of them (the matter was in late 2006) - on checking facts of 'corrupt actions, abuse of office by certain officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine'. It concerns the scandal that ended with the resignation of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Yuriy Lutsenko, who, in turn, called the actions of the ruling coalition that initiated the investigation a political reprisal against him. Previously, for example, there was a commission to establish the circumstances of the poisoning of presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko or a commission to investigate facts of pressure on MPs by state bodies. In 2009, in the Verkhovna Rada IV convocation, deputies again entrusted Sivkovych to head the commission investigating the poisoning of Yushchenko and establishing those guilty of delaying the case.
From March to October 2010 - Vice Prime Minister in the government of Mykola Azarov. He dealt with issues of the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and other power structures. He fell under the reduction of the Cabinet of Ministers when the Constitution was returned to the 1996 edition, according to which the government should have three vice prime ministers and one first vice prime minister.
Since October 2010, he has been the deputy secretary of the NSDC (Raisa Bohatyryova first, then Andriy Klyuyev).
On February 28, 2014, by the decree of the Acting President of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov, he was dismissed from the position of deputy secretary of the NSDC.
Since June 10, 2020, Volodymyr Sivkovych has been internationally wanted.
On July 23, 2022, the State Bureau of Investigation announced that Sivkovych was suspected of treason. The SBI claims that Volodymyr Sivkovych is one of the coordinators of the intelligence-pyrotechnic group created by the 5th service of the FSB of Russia under the leadership of Ihor Chumakov, head of the 9th ('Ukrainian') department of the FSB operational information department.
In August 2022, the State Bureau of Investigation completed a remote investigation against Volodymyr Sivkovych regarding the dispersal of protesters on Independence Square in November 2013. The investigation established that Sivkovych was 'the inspirer and organizer' of the violent dispersal of students.
Views and assessments. Sivkovych is a frequent participant in political talk shows on television. He is considered one of the unofficial speakers of the Party of Regions. He is against Ukraine joining NATO, strongly criticized Lutsenko's activities as a politician and head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, accused the President's Secretariat of Yushchenko of 'destroying' the SBU, and advocated limiting the 'unreasonably growing' powers of the apparatus of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.
Public activity. Former president of the Judo Federation of Ukraine.
Awards. Honored Lawyer of Ukraine (2010).
Family. The politician is married. Sivkovych's younger son, Viktor (born 1984), died in a car accident in July 2009. The politician has an older son, Oleksandr (born 1982).
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