Mykola Malomuzh
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Mykola Malomuzh Микола Маломуж | |
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 Mykola Malomuzh in 2014 | |
| 2nd Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine | |
| In office 3 April 2005 – 18 June 2010 | |
| Preceded by | Oleh Syniansky |
| Succeeded by | Hryhoriy Illyashov |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 23, 1955 Skalyvatka, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukrainian SSR |
| Alma mater | University of Kyiv |
Mykola Hryhorovych Malomuzh (Ukrainian: Микола Григорович Маломуж) (born September 23, 1955, in Zvenyhorodka Raion, Cherkasy Oblast) is a Ukrainian politician. Malomuzh served as head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine (2005–2010),[1] General of the army of Ukraine (2008-2010) and was Adviser to the President of Ukraine (2010–2014).[2][3][4]
In the 2014 Ukrainian presidential election Malomuzh received 0.13% of the vote.
Malomuzh was born on 23 September 1955 in the village of Skalyvatka, which was part of the Zvenyhorodka Raion in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union.[5] After graduating from secondary school, he joined the Soviet Army and was stationed in a uchebka (training camp) in Moscow that was specifically designed to train to protect the Supreme commander-in-chief's headquarters in the event of a nuclear war.[6] He returned to Ukraine in 1975, going to Zvenyhorodka and then Kyiv, where in 1982 he received a degree in law with honors from the University of Kyiv.[6]
In December 1983, he joined the KGB in a managerial position, before eventually switching to the field of countering international terrorist groups.[6] He is most remembered in this position for allegedly keeping the file that then Head of the Ukrainian KGB, Nikolai Golushko, was going to take to Russia with a list of undercover spies from the country, although this hasn't been confirmed.[6]
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