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Ukrainian politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oleh Borysovych Rybachuk (Ukrainian: Олег Борисович Рибачук; born 22 April 1958) is a Ukrainian politician and public figure.
Oleh Rybachuk | |
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Олег Рибачук | |
State Secretary of Ukraine (the Chief of Staff to the President of Ukraine) | |
In office September 7, 2005 – September 16, 2006 | |
President | Viktor Yushchenko |
Preceded by | Oleksandr Zinchenko |
Succeeded by | Viktor Baloha |
Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine on European Integration | |
In office February 4, 2005 – September 7, 2005 | |
President | Viktor Yushchenko |
Prime Minister | Yulia Tymoshenko |
Personal details | |
Born | Oleh Borysovych Rybachuk April 22, 1958 Pohrebyshche, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
Citizenship | Ukraine |
Oleh Rybachuk graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (1975-1980) with a degree in English and French languages and earned the second higher education diploma at the Finance and Credit Faculty of Kyiv National Economic University (1993-1996) with a qualification in economics. In 1997, studied at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service United States.
According to PandoDaily's investigation, which was initially based on Marcy Wheeler's speculations, Oleh Rybachuk's New Citizen, “Center UA”, “Chesno,”, “Stop Censorship” and several others interlocked organisations were financed by Pierre Omidyar via USAID.[2] The Financial Times claimed that the former had “played a big role in getting the protest up and running.”[2]
Due to the information of The Washington Times anonymous source within the British intelligence, published in November 2018, Rybachuk was an agent of the Soviet and later Russian Main intelligence directorate (GRU).[3] Rybachuk himself doesn't deny contacts with KGB during the Soviet times. He told about them in the end of 2017 in an interview, explaining that in the Soviet Union there was no possibility to work abroad with no special services connection all the while.[4] He disowns his accusation for the Russian special services performance and says that the respective information diffusion in Ukrainian news media is a special-order campaign designed by the Executive Office of the President against him.[5]
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