| CEC Registers Hrytsenko As Presidential Candidate |
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23/10/2009 15:13 (29 Day 00:08 minutes ago) | ||||
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The FINANCIAL -- The Central Electoral Commission (CEC) has registered Parliamentary Deputy Anatolii Hrytsenko of the Our Ukraine -People's Self-Defense bloc as a self-nominated presidential candidate.
All the 15 members of the CEC that attended the relevant meeting approved the relevant decision.
The CEC also registered Denys Buhai as Hrytsenko's authorized representative.
Hrytsenko, 51, graduated from Kyiv's military aviation engineering school in 1979, the foreign language institute of the United States Defense Department in 1993, the strategic operations faculty of the United States Air Force University in 1994, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces Academy in 1995.
In his 25-year military career, Hrytsenko served in the combat forces, taught at a military academy, held posts in the Defense Ministry, and headed the department of military security and military development at the scientific research center of the Armed Forces' general headquarters.
He headed the analytical service of the National Security and Defense Council after his military career.
He became the president of the Oleksandr Razumkov Ukrainian Center for Economic and Political Studies in December 1999.
He became a consultant to the parliament's committee for national security and defense in February 2000 and a member of the presidential public council of experts on internal policy in November 2000.
Hrytsenko worked in President Viktor Yuschenko's election campaign headquarters in 2004 and actively participated in the drafting of Yuschenko's election program.
Hrytsenko held the post of defense minister three times: he was appointed as defense minister in the government led by Yulia Tymoshenko in February 2005, in the government led by Yurii Yekhanurov, and in the government led by Viktor Yanukovych in August 2006.
He was elected into the parliament as No. 4 on the Our Ukraine -People's Self-Defense bloc's list of parliamentary candidates in the 2007 early parliamentary elections.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, campaigning in the 2010 presidential elections began on October 19.
The presidential elections are scheduled for January 17, 2010.
Hrytsenko submitted his registration documents to the CEC on October 21.
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