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Nikolai Golushko

Nikolai Mikhailovich Golushko (Russian: Никола́й Миха́йлович Голу́шко; Ukrainian: Микола Михайлович Голушко; born 21 June 1937) is a former minister and KGB officer.

Biography

He was born to a family of Grey Klin Ukrainians. In 1959 he graduated from the law faculty of Tomsk university. He worked in KGB from 1963 on (for many years as an officer in the Fifth department,[1] that aimed at suppressing 'ideological diversions' and political dissent).

From 1987 to 1991 Golushko was the chairman of the Committee for State Security of the Ukrainian SSR (KDB).[2] He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1963 to 1991. Following August 1991 independence of Ukraine Golushko stayed on as chairman of the newly formed Security Service of Ukraine for four months before moving to Russia.[2]

From 1992 first deputy of the minister of security of the Russian Federation. From July to December 1993 Golushko as acting minister of security of the Russian Federation. From December 1993 to February 1994 he was the director of the Federal Service of Counter-intelligence of the Russian Federation. According to Yevgenia Albats, Golushko was forced to step down in 1994, after he had refused Yeltsin's request to bar State Duma from granting amnesty to the October 1993 rebels.[3]

Golushko's military rank is Colonel General.

References

  1. ^ Yevgenia Albats KGB: State Within a State, 1995. p.350
  2. ^ a b (in Ukrainian) Ukrainian intelligence services. Victory and defeat of the last century, Radio Svoboda (14 January 2018)
  3. ^ the newly elected parliament had granted amnesty to the leaders of the October 1993 rebellion. - Albats, p. 357. (For the same reason, the prosecutor general Kazannik resigned in 1994.)

Bibliography

Government offices
Preceded by Director of the Committee for State Security
of the Ukrainian SSR
1987-1991 		Succeeded byas Director of the Security Service of Ukraine
Preceded by Minister of security (Acting)/Director of the Federal Security Service
1993-1994 		Succeeded by
Quelle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Holushko