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Kostiantynivka

Kostiantynivka is an industrial city in the Donetsk Oblast of eastern Ukraine, on the Krivoy Torets River, the center of Kostiantynivkyi Raion . It's also known as Kostyantynivka or Konstantinovka. It developed in the Soviet era into a major centre for the production of iron, zinc, steel and glass...

, in the Ukrainian SSR

Ukrainian SSR

The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic or in short, the Ukrainian SSR was a sovereign Soviet Socialist state and one of the fifteen constituent republics of the Soviet Union lasting from its inception in 1922 to the breakup in 1991...

 of the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

) is since 7 November 2011 the Ukrainian

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

 Minister of Internal Affairs

Biography

Police Major General Vitaliy Zakharchenko graduated on the Riga

Riga

Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 702,891 inhabitants Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states, one of the largest cities in Northern Europe and home to more than one third of Latvia's population. The city is an important seaport and a major industrial, commercial,...

 branch of the Minsk Higher School of Interior of the USSR in 1991. He had began his career in the police of the Donetsk Oblast

Donetsk Oblast

Donetsk Oblast is an oblast of eastern Ukraine. Its administrative center is Donetsk. Historically, the province is an important part of the Donbas region...

 in July 1981. From May 2008 to June 2010 he held leading positions in the State Tax Administration in Poltava Oblast

Poltava Oblast

Poltava Oblast is an oblast of central Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Poltava.Other important cities within the oblast include: Komsomolsk, Kremenchuk, Lubny and Myrhorod.-Geography:...

. President Viktor Yanukovych

Viktor Yanukovych

Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych is a Ukrainian politician who has been the President of Ukraine since February 2010.Yanukovych served as the Governor of Donetsk Oblast from 1997 to 2002...

 appoints Zakharchenko as head of the State Tax Administration of Ukraine on December 25, 2010. On 7 November 2011 Yanukovych apomted Zakharchenko Minister of Internal Affairs; replacing Anatolii Mohyliov

Anatolii Mohyliov

Anatolii Volodymyrovych Mohyliov is the Prime Minister of Crimea since November 8, 2011 and former Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs.-Biography:...

 who was appointed the new Prime Minister of Crimea

Prime Minister of Crimea

The Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea is the head of government of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, located in the southern region of Ukraine. Sometimes referred as the Premier-Minister of Crimea, out of brevity, the position's official name is the...

; simultaneously Yanukovych appointed Oleksandr Klymenko as head of the State Tax Administration of Ukraine.

According to Ukrainian media Zakharchenko is a close friend of President Yanukovych' son Viktor Yanukovych

Viktor Viktorovych Yanukovych

Viktor Viktorovych Yanukovych is a Ukrainian politician, and son of the current leader of the influential Party of Regions. Yanukovych became a People's Deputy of Ukraine in the Verkhovna Rada at age 24, in May 2006 joined the same party as his father...

. Since he is an officer of the Interior Ministry he is not allowed to be member of a political party.