Vladimir Gorbulin and Evgeniy Marchuk

Left - Vladimir Gorbulin, right - Evgeny Marchuk. On Wednesday, November 10, 1999 The Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma appointed E. Marchuk on the post of the Secretary of the Committee of National Security and Defense of Ukraine. According to him , V. Gorbulin, who till the present time occupied the aforesaid post, will occupy the other position. E. Marchuk was born in 1941 in the Kirovogradska oblast. He graduated from the Kiriovograd-based Teacher-training University in 1963, profession -- teacher of Ukrainian and German language and literature. From 1991 - he is the State Minister on the questions of National Security and Extraordinary Situations of Ukraine, in 1991-1994 - the Chairman of Security Service of Ukraine, from 1994 - vice-Prime Minister, from the March of 1995 - acting as the Prime Minister of Ukraine, from August of 1996 till May of 1996 - the Prime Minister. In 1999 he was nominated for President by the All-Ukrainian Political Association "National Solidarity", according to the results of voting, he gathered 8.13%of votes in the first round of elections. Photo by UNIAN